"Yes I've been known to do that sometimes."

"Stop being cute, what going on in that thick skull of yours?"

He sighs. "I have not yet fully processed my feelings about all of these magic powers and was meaning to do so at lunch when I realised it was a very stupid YA protagonist who would try to do so on my own when I had so many people who could help me with that."

"...awwwwww."

"Awww cm'ere you." He scoots over to Peter to pull him into a bear hug.

"I do think it's no longer likely we're strictly YA," Vivian muses. "Given the extended digression about cock. But the power of friendship is still in play."

"That doesn't explain the face though," says Gabriel, whose own face went through a few different looks there.

(Yes, because he wanted to join in on the hug but he hesitated and then he felt too awkward to actually join and now he feels guilty. Peter knows his friends.)

"I'm kind of embarrassed about a few of my choices," he admits. "Not... exactly because they're bad..."

"Huh. Ordinarily I'd think that meant they're horny, but. See above re: cock."

"You will never see me be embarrassed about my cock."

"Please."

"How about I just let you guys go through them."

"You've been making such a thing out of not doing it I thought you were just gonna refuse out of principle."

"I asked the notebook to hide all of the pages where we discuss things because I am definitely embarrassed of all the thinking-out-loud I did there."

"Also I don't need the help pretending to know your dark secrets." Vivian makes grabby hands. "Gimme the friendbook, I wanna read your dumb horny life choices."

He opens the notebook to where the list of powers would start... and finds it blank. "Oh, I guess she hid the powers too, sec..." He asks the notebook to bring the powers back and just the powers without any of the discussion. Once he's satisfied, he offers the notebook to Vivian. "She changed A Thousand Ships, Love Interest, and Planned Parenthood and created Backchannel for me."

"Interesting names," he chuckles (because he is the kind of person who chuckles).

"Once again, you don't know the half of it. Also now that I think of it I bet if I asked I could get a power to make me a secret princess."

She reads through the Personal section. Comments, "Goddamn. I like this CYOA."

Then she reads the Power of Friendship section.

She staaaaaaaaaares at Peter when she hits I Can Fix Them.

"Peter."

"What? Oh," he says when he sees what she's looking at. Thankfully he is physiologically incapable of blushing, but not blushing is very much the thing he's doing right now. But he's good enough at reaction times to not look away guiltily or anything like that and instead he just holds Vivian's gaze. "Yes, Viv?"

"I know I was just being snippy about being too paranoid but have we considered the possibility that this is enemy action. Or, like, an ironic personal Hell. Have we considered the possibility that this notebook is Satan, the Devil, here to torment you for your sins by making you make hilariously bad romantic decisions."

"I didn't pick it!!" he says a bit too defensively for someone who hadn't been thinking of picking it.

"What? What is it?" She leans over to look.

As does Gabriel. "...you're tempted by that?"

Now it's Marcus's turn to stare at Gabriel. "Gabe, have you been, like, entirely absent for the last two or three years of this man's—or whatever he is—of Peter's absurd romantic drama."