#ifof: win condition

[ineffablefool]

Win Condition

By third period on February 14th, there were girls with paper hearts strung along their arms like bracelets, and boys with stacks of them spilling from their notebooks. Aziraphale, of course, was one of those who had won nothing at all.

The entire school had been told the rules at the start of the day. Each boy had received a simple heart shape, cut from red paper, with a somewhat smaller heart removed from its center; the girls’ paper hearts were solid. Neither group was supposed to talk to the other, and a student who forgot would have to surrender his or her token and then leave the game.

Aziraphale really wasn’t sure what the goal was, other than to make it very obvious who the popular students were.

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Golly, will this school-directed Valentine’s Day game result in any confessions between young students Aziraphale and Crowley?  Truly it is a mystery!

Also featuring (in end notes) the true story of when ineffablefool’s school did this back in the 1990s, but that’s not nearly as Soft(TM).