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[color=lightsalmon]"...a game"[/color]

Elpoy had no idea how to deal with girls. He never had time to do so in his youth. He could have tried to pull off some romantic shenanigans on the girl, but he already knew he was terrible at those. 

He felt like he needed to. His classmates in grade school would always do such things.

But he couldn't. He just couldn't. Maybe he should just stay put?

[i]EDIT: Sorry for breaking the rules with the original post[/i]