Someone is yelling at you.
You open your eyes and see your alarm clock framed in blue wallpaper. You were just surfing in Hawaii with a circus strongman, but now you’re awake. It is 7:13 am on Saturday morning, the sunlight is shafting though a gap in your curtains and your mother is yelling at you from downstairs. You can’t hear what she’s saying because the door is closed, so you pick your way across the floor of your bedroom, which is covered in clothes, and pull open the door.
“Come down and get your breakfast, honey!”
You pull on your favourite animal slippers and head downstairs. The kitchen table is a mess of plates, bowls and cutlery as well as a big box of bran cereal. There’s no sign of your father, you guess he must have left for work already. Your mother is standing next to the stove, spatula in hand.
“Don’t forget you promised to help around the house today,” she says. “What would you like to eat?”
You've just woken up and it's a wonderful day. From the moment you come downstairs to have breakfast, everything is up to you. After all, life is just a series of choices. And you're free to make whatever choice you want, right? Enter a Choose Your Own Adventure story without a choice.
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