Go to the doctor

1. You wake from your deep slumber, dazed as your morning grogginess takes its course. You stumble across your apartment bedroom to the bathroom, tripping over clothes and schoolbooks. You look in the mirror and notice that you aren’t looking too great. Your skin is pale, slightly damp, and you are starting to feel a little queasy. You remember you’ve not felt well the past couple days, and you consider stopping into the clinic one block over. However, you do have a lot of schoolwork to do, and might have some friends over later. What do you do? Go to the doctor Stay home – you’ll be fine

2. As you fill out the paperwork for the doctor’s office, you tick off the boxes with your symptoms. You have frequent night sweats, have recently acquired a pale complexion, and frequently have a fever. The doctor examines you, and requests blood work to determine the exact cause of your symptoms. Refuse Accept

3. You decide that being home sounds like a more exciting option. You grab some food and Tylenol, hoping your symptoms will subside. Finally, you sit down on your couch and think about all the things you could do on this chilly Saturday. Go to an art museum Focus on your artistic desires Have friends over Work on homework

4. There is no way you’re letting this doctor shove a needle in your arm. You thank him for his service, and decide you will just go home and take some Tylenol, hoping the fever, headache, and growing swollenness in your chest will subside. Suddenly, you remember you’ve been meaning to get milk from the grocery store to cook tonight’s dinner. Do you walk the three blocks to get the milk that you need for cooking, or do you go home – you’ll send someone out to get it later.

5. You grudgingly allow the doctor to take the required blood work, nervous as to the outcome. In three hours time, the doctor walks back in and informs you that unfortunately, you have leukemia. He claims he can give you some medication that might ease the pain, but it is terminal. He assumes you will have about two months to live. You are shocked, and accept the medication. As you walk out the door of the clinic, you can’t decide whether to feel bitter and upset that you will die soon, or live life as freely as you can because you know you don’t have much longer.

6. Enter the Passage You decide to go to the local art museum down the street. You look at all the paintings, enthused as usual. Suddenly, you accidentally nudge one of the paintings. The painting moves to reveal a secret passageway. Do you enter the passage and fulfill your curiosity, or put the painting back and mind your own business? Put the painting back and move on

7. You have school Monday, and have some serious work you need to do on your projects. You put on your pajamas, turn on some pleasant music, and curl up with your laptop to begin work. Suddenly, you hear a crash come from the bedroom of your apartment. Alarmed, you stare at your doorway, as if expecting someone to charge in with a machete. Maybe you just heard a sound effect in the music you’re listening to Continue working on homework Go investigate

8. Since you really don’t want to do the minimal amount of homework you have, and you don’t really feel like leaving your apartment, you decide to have some friends over. You call your boyfriend/girlfriend and tell them to invite a couple of people over. As you hang up, you realize how messy your apartment is. You begin to clean, when you hear a crash from your bedroom. You stop what you’re doing and stare at the door. Continue Cleaning Go investigate

9. You decide that since you are really wanting to enter the Creativity Contest that your friend is hosting, you should get to work. After all, the reward is $50,000 towards an art school of your choice. Now the question is, writing or video production?

10. The milk is undoubtedly a necessity. You take the time to walk the three blocks to the small convenient store that sells milk. As you walk to the counter to pay, you suddenly feel a hard object pressing into your back. “Do as I say, and nothing goes wrong,” the man says, his voice growly and reeking of alcohol. He shoves the gun deeper into your back. “Come with me.” Part of you knows those three years of kung fu lessons can pay off here in this convenient store, but the other part knows everyone around you is at risk. One stray bullet is all it would take. Turn around and Kung Fu the crap out of him Go along with him, keeping those in the store safe

11. It’s not so much that you choose to be bitter, more like the bitterness overtakes you like a mother eagle protecting her babies. You wander the streets. What’s the point of going home? There’s no reason to survive. You’re going to die soon. The screaming sensation echoes in your ears. “You’re going to die,” it repeatedly states. There’s no way you can stop it. You can either continue on your destination to nowhere, or retreat to your gloomy fortress. Keep walking Go home

12. You decide being bitter isn’t going to solve anything, and definitely won’t make you feel better. You take off outside, ecstatic that you have an excuse to blow all your money on things you’ve always wanted to spend it on. What will you do first? Go to Paris Go skydiving Go shopping Get married Go to China

13. You’re mischief gets the best of you. You proceed down the passage, moving the picture to cover the entrance. You break out your iPod to use as a modern-day torch. With your ear buds in, you come to a fork in this mysterious tunnel. To the left you see a bright light. It could possibly be a way out of the tunnel into a new place. To the right you see pitch black darkness, but you think you hear voices. “Follow me,” the voices say. “This way….” They drift off. • Follow the light • Follow the voices

14. You decide that the passage can only lead to trouble, so you put the painting back on the wall. As you continue through the museum, you notice a strange buzzing follows you along the wall. Perplexed, you wonder if you’re hearing things. There is a pale boy, about your age, with shoulder-length purple hair and a Depeche Mode shirt standing about five feet in front of you. “Stop it, no,” he repeats, grabbing his ears. Maybe he hears what I hear, you think to yourself. Stay the heck away – boy is CRAZY Ask him what he hears

15. You aren’t concerned at all. You go back to doing your homework, when suddenly everything goes black. When you wake up, you hear voices speaking, but you can’t see anything. “Yeah, we have them,” the voice offers. “No, they have a blindfold on.” THAT’S why I can’t see anything, you reason silently. Suddenly, your blindfold slips off and you see three men, all bearing arms. They don’t notice your blindfold is off. If you’re quiet, you might be able to sneak to the door in the back of the room. Or, you can keep still and hope to get a safer exit.

16. A little timid, you stalk towards your bedroom. You hear repeated crashes, and hesitate. You run back to the kitchen to grab a knife. As you retreat back towards your room. You stop beside the doorway and press yourself against the wall. You peek around and see a – stereotypical – man dressed in black. You turn back toward the living room. Do you run out of the apartment and call the cops, or do you attack the intruder with your butcher knife?

17. Unconcerned, you continue picking up your clothes. After all, you’re having company and no one wants to see a messy house. As you finish your cleaning, you lie down to take a brief nap. You wake up seven hours later, astonished that you slept so long. You are also upset that you have let your friends down. It’s dark in your apartment, and there is a burning, sticky sting in your mouth. You notice there’s a mess on the carpet. Do you clean the carpet, or go figure out what’s wrong with your mouth?

18. Writing is the choice for you. You begin writing and allow your emotions to pour from your mind to the paper in front of you. When you have finally finished, you go back to revise your work. You feel like you’ve read this before, but you don’t know where. Maybe I accidentally copied the idea from someone, you admit. You search through your entire collection of books and do not find anything. You think maybe you’ve written this story before, but part of your gut tells you not to look. Go with your gut Search away

19. You go to your computer and begin your production. Your idea is an ex-convict escapes jail, only to discover he is mentally unstable. You begin searching for possible replications – you don’t want to copy anyone’s idea – when suddenly your computer begins flashing random letters and numbers. “What the – “ you say out loud. You back away from the computer. Do you wait to see what happens, or call a computer programmer?

20. You completed Kung Fu classes successfully, so you feel incredibly confident as you turn around to kick the man in the stomach. Unfortunately, it seems he predicted this, and he shoots you square between the eyes. He is later arrested, so you saved the people in the store, but in the process you have sacrificed yourself.

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