Jumping from shit to very much okay.

The next day, you pack your things, which amount to only two boxes for clothes and other things, and move to the hotel. Your room is… fine. It’s a 5-star hotel compared to the shed, but it’s really nothing fancy.

At school, every other student still hates you, but somehow, that’s no longer such a bad thing.

You now believe the Affection Multiplier is the real deal, and with such an amazing gift, something else was given to you, something that makes you WANT to go to school every day.

Whenever you look at the app and see these progress bars, you feel this need to fill them completely. You’ve never been one to aim for 100% completion in video games, but you want to at least reach your own set goals.

Your first two goals are to take Ms. Campbell’s and Ms. Owens’ progress bars to 100 and to take everyone else’s to at least a positive score. Your teachers are the two with highest progress, so it makes sense to start there.

What’s more, the AMA had another, probably unintended side effect: a huge confidence boost. Knowing how much a person likes you is incredible information to have for dealing with people, and having immediate feedback on how your actions are taken by others is yet another benefit.

With a new resolution to make everyone like you and everything in your favor, you start to become a bit bolder. Ms. Campbell and Ms. Owens are already fond of you, but going further might be difficult. However, how do you change the opinion of people who dislike you? With the help of the Affection Multiplier and some advice from Jesus.

No, seriously, it’s working.

You decide to put into practice the saying of “turning the other cheek” by answering hate with kindness. Whenever you get insulted for being in the way of someone, you politely apologize and move out of the way with a smile, whenever someone laughs at you, you laugh with them, when you bumped into a girl and she slapped you on the face for accidentally touching her butt, you literally turned to other cheek, asking to be slapped again for your bad awareness.

This would’ve been unbearable if not for the Affection Multiplier. You can see scores going from -30 to -12 in a couple of days, and while doing it is hard, seeing progress in the form of numbers is encouraging. Besides, there are others things to distract you.