Felicia Lawson, the engineer friend

(Felicia POV)

Felicia Lawson wasn't satisfied. Her program wasn't working, and she had no idea why. This wasn't something new or rare. In computing, it's quite common for things not to work and for us not to know why.

Leo tended to say when it didn't work you didn't know why, and when it did work you didn't know why either. Felicia thought.

She was going to have to go home anyway, it was almost 7pm. The problem could wait until tomorrow. Working for ASE was stimulating, and she could easily get carried away. She had to learn to balance her personal life with her work. This was very different from when she went to school, where most of the work could be done at home if she was behind.

She had to avoid being late if she wanted to have dinner with her parents. Because yes, Felicia was 24 and working as an engineer on a good salary, but she was still living with her parents. In fact, her mother and father had started talking to her about finding her own place to be a little more independent. Still, it was convenient to live with her parents. She didn't have to do her lessons or wash her clothes, take care of the bills and so on. There were obvious drawbacks. First of all, she had to share her room with her sister, which wasn't always pleasant, even if she had gotten used to it. Secondly, she wasn't always free with her schedule.

For example, when she went out to play board games with Leo and Nada, she couldn't come home too late, as this would upset her parents and sister. So, she had to look for accommodation, but clearly, she hadn't yet managed to find anything that suited her. After all, she had to admit that she hadn't yet taken the time to look in detail for a new place to live. Even when she got home at 8 p.m., she didn't feel like doing that, and weekends between cello and church were filled very quickly.

Tomorrow, she had a party planned with some friends she knew from high school and the day after that she had a board game night with Leo. Then it was strange because Leo hadn't contacted her in over a week. Usually, Leo would have to contact her again to confirm that it was still okay. Leo liked things to be organized and predictable. She remembered how easily he got annoyed when people in the class organized a meal for their class for the following day.

Leo tended to like things to be organized, which was rather strange as he was rather disorganized by nature. That didn't stop him from being a real pleasure to work with. After all, Felicia's opinion of Leo was clearly not shared by the majority of people. For most people, Leo's first impression was that he was a real asshole, whereas in reality he was a wonderful, honest, upright boy.

During their 3 years at school together, Leo hadn't really formed a real relationship with anyone apart from her and Nada. They'd done all their group work together - well, all the ones where the groups were optional. Leo's work in the imposed groups was more than complicated.

Snapping out of her thoughts, Felicia realized she was almost home. She climbed the stairs. Once again, the elevator was out of order. Why couldn't she be in a building where the elevator was working?

She finally arrived at her door and turned the key in the lock, then everything disappeared in a flash.

(Leo POV)

Leo couldn't think of an answer. But he had to answer Nola, otherwise who knew what she'd do?

"It's all right, Leo, you can leave it alone. The audience has decided to answer for you," said Nola.

The audience had decided. Who had been chosen? Ines? Was it Charles? Anyone else?

"The audience's choices were difficult to satisfy. It was hard to find the girl who ticked all the boxes. In the end I decided to save some options for later. So, I decided to go for someone Leo had a date with this week," says Nola.

"No, don't tell me you've chosen..." Leo didn't have time to finish his sentence.

"Yes, it is. Let's all give a warm welcome to Felicia Lawson," says Nola.

Suddenly Felicia appeared before them. She stood there calmly in her usual denim jacket. She seemed to have just got off work. Some might have been surprised that Felicia didn't panic or at least start asking questions, but no, that wasn't Felicia's style. Oh, not to be confused with Eric's calculating calm, Felicia's calm was deeper.

Felicia was a person of few words. She kept her cool under all circumstances. For all that, Leo decided to answer the questions she hadn't yet asked.

"Felicia, I'm sorry you got involved in all this. Please don't panic. I'll answer all your questions, but right now I'm begging you to cooperate with Nola in green right here, because if you don't, this situation could get very ugly very quickly." said Leo, trying to speak in a calm voice.

"Okay, Leo, I don't understand what's going on, but I trust you," says Felicia.

"How beautiful. Absolute trust even in this kind of circumstance is praiseworthy. So I'm delighted to announce that Felicia here joins Leo's harem and will be part of this show until she is eliminated or the game is over. Next, I'm going to explain the rules to our new contestant, but for the sake of dynamism, I'm going to leave it to each of you to take turns explaining the rules of this game in 1 minute. I suggest you follow the ranking order of the previous round. Eric, you've got one minute," said Nola.

Without wasting any time, Eric began to speak.

"We've all been kidnapped by La Leprechaun here as part of my brother Leo's harem. They have magical powers to bring us here and make us do whatever they want and they..."

"Stop. End of the minute Abigail, your turn" says Nola.

_"They transform us in different ways to try and satisfy the audience. Because it's a TV show and we're filmed all the time. The show ends when one of us wins 100 VP. We can..." _Abigail was interrupted by Nola.

"Stop. Jessica you have one minute" said the Leprechaun.

"We can earn VPs through challenges that will take place at regular intervals or by sexually satisfying Leo. But you can also lose them, and if you end up in the negative at the end of the week, you're out." says Jessica, stopping just before she's interrupted.

_"Daphne to you," _says Nola.

"We can't count on outside help to get us out of here. And if you want to know what it's like to be eliminated, look at the catgirl maid right there, she was a proud doctor just before and now it's impossible for us to consider her human." says Daphne.

"And we finish with Hanna," says Nola.

"I don't know Leo very well, but from what I understand he's not responsible for all this. But I tell myself we're lucky to have such a wonderful man like him." says Hanna.

"And thank you for that touch of optimism. I will now announce the 3 transformation themes that have been assigned by production to Felicia: 'Astronomy', 'Catholic', 'Cow'. In addition to these three themes, Leo will choose a fourth, but as last time, the audience is free to propose," says Nola.

A theme for Felicia? But what won't Nola be able to hijack sexually?

"And to keep us waiting, we're going to discover the new popularity ranking including our new recruits. Like last time, the least popular person will receive a transformation, and the most popular a reward", says Nola.

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