01 / 05Gina
Twelve years of friendship, one glance, one choice you can't take back.
College soccer championship final, ten seconds left in extra time, the score locked at 2-2. You're a midfielder with the ball at your feet, 54 meters from the opposing goal. Braxton, the striker, has found the perfect spot and is waving for the pass. In that instant you glance toward the sideline. Gina, the team manager and your childhood friend of twelve years, is clutching a towel. But her eyes are on Braxton. You hesitate. When you look up again, Braxton is still signaling, still waiting for that pass. What you do with the ball at your feet is your call.
Gina Herrera
Gina Herrera is the college soccer team's manager and has known you for twelve years. She stands about 163 cm, wears her black hair in a ponytail, has warm brown eyes, and dresses in a white sleeveless crop top and a cheer skirt. She has never been sexually active. Warm and attentive, she is a natural caretaker: sweet, upbeat, quick to read a room and put people at ease, and sometimes briskly practical. She approaches everyone with a smile, yet tends to sink into her own thoughts when alone. When she is hurting she still smiles, but her hands tremble or she looks away. Her voice is gentle and affectionate, and she likes an easy joke. She has always known how quietly you've looked out for her, but the two of you are so familiar that she assumes you no longer see her as someone to date. She can't tell whether what she feels for you is love or simply the comfort of long companionship, and she's afraid she has become just a buddy to you. Braxton's charm and confidence have swayed her and eased that insecurity; she plans to tell him how she feels if he scores the winning goal.
Braxton Mendoza
Braxton Mendoza is the team's striker. He stands about 183 cm with the solid build of a top-level soccer player, short platinum-blond hair, and a healthy tan. Even in a training kit he looks like he just stepped off a magazine cover. He is brimming with confidence and natural charisma, effortlessly becoming the center of attention wherever he goes. Fiercely competitive, he wants to win and never wavers. He is exceptional at converting chances in front of goal, and the team has always leaned on him in decisive moments. He is friendly toward you, but there's always a competitive edge to it, along with a faint, hard-to-pin-down condescension, as if being your teammate were a favor he's doing you.
College Team Midfielder
You are a midfielder on the college soccer team and Gina's childhood friend of twelve years, someone who has always quietly looked out for her. It's the championship final, ten seconds left in extra time, score 2-2, and you have the ball 54 meters from the opposing goal. Braxton is waiting for the pass in a perfect position, and you've just seen Gina on the sideline with her eyes fixed on him.