Lewis joins her and they reminisce a little bit.

(A/N: Apparently Nova has a cousin named Tycho. Don’t you love references to family members and the in-game family tree is empty except for our gal. She must be estranged from her ENTIRE family for some unknown reason. 😆)

Nova puts away the pizza while Lewis does dishes. He must really be desperate to stay the night. Not one snarky comment. No calling her tuna head. Weird.

Lewis: Ummm … what are you doing, Nova? ~ Nova: (in a sing song voice) Nothing!

Nova pokes the doll to see if it works. It does. 😈

With a big sigh and mentally hoping she isn’t making a mistake, Nova lets Lewis stay the night. She plonks down a sleeping bag in the living room for him to use.

Lewis will need to entertain himself because Nova has a few work projects she needs to finish before tomorrow.

Kyle pops by and introduces himself to the fly buzzing around his honey.

Nova thanks him for stopping by. She feels bad that she isn’t able to spend time with him but Kyle understands.

She heads off to bed feeling like the treasure a dragon is protecting. Hope this dream doesn’t become a nightmare.

End of Day 9

Here is a running list for the day:

• Get promoted to Development Captain (completed)
• Wait for call about lay-off rumors … (completed)
• Optional: Get Distracted with a Hobby (removed when promotion happened)
• Be Friendly or Mean to Lewis (completed)
• Decision: Invite Lewis to Stay or Kick Lewis Out (completed)
• Optional: Reconnect with Lewis (completed)
• Optional: Call to Meal (completed)
• Optional: Flirt with Lewis (Ugh, no!; removed when stay the night happened)
• Optional: Bind Voodoo doll to Lewis (completed)
• Optional: Instill Lewis with False Confidence (completed)
• Optional: Poke or Cuddle Voodoo doll (completed)
• End of Phase: Go to Sleep (completed)
• Become Friends with Lewis ⬅ better this than going the romance route (removed but not sure which completed task affected this)
• End of Phase: Go to Sleep (completed)
• Get promoted to Startup Entrepreneur or eSports Gamer

Day 9, part 1 => Stuck in Their Shadow <= Day 10, part 1