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weeb-writor · 3 years ago

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Bittersweet Arguments

Heyo! Today I have a Cove x Reader! He is from a visual novel called Our Life: Beginning and always. Its available on Steam and itch.io for free! But I do encourage you all to get the dlc is it is more than worth it. It is inclusive of all race, sexual orientation and pronouns/gender. Also all the characters are just amazing and loveable. I could go on and on about this game but let me shut up so you all can read^^

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Cove Holden x GN!Reader

You and cove get into a bad argument and picking up the pieces is hard.

Word Count: 2.4k(not beta read)

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“Cove hasn't talked to you…yeah I’m just worried, they haven't gone more than a week without speaking since they met. They’re going on week 3 soon… yeah I know… yeah… alright I let you know what I can find out.” Ma said, hanging up with a sigh. You rounded the corner glancing at her as you plopped down on the sofa.

“We're not 8 any more, you don't have to call Cliff anytime we get in a fight.” you said with a chuckle.

“Honey, that's the thing, you and cove have never fought. We called about Lizzie plenty of times but you… it's just parents being parents. We're just worried.” She said stroking your hair. You grasped her hand and gave it a squeeze before you got up.

“Don’t be.” You said as you went up to your room. Well you were packing so really it was just a room with a bed. You plopped down face first into it. You just laid there mind racing a mile a minute. The fight, the disagreements, the tears played over and over again. It was simple at first and then it wasn't. Then it was yelling, arms flailing, and angry tears. What would happen next? It was a fear you thought that was already put to rest but it came again, and again, and again. Each time it was more and more muddled. What would happen to you both? How would long distance work? Were you supposed to tell your parents about your engagement? Who would come visit who? How often? No matter what question it was, the answer always resulted in more questions.

To you it was like Cove didn't trust you, like he didn't believe you loved him enough to do anything to make it work. For Cove you were… well you don't know. He was silent about the issue of the future. It was like you were discussing it with yourself as if there isn't another person in the relationship. It was frustrating, it made you angry at him and at yourself for being angry at him. You grabbed your pillow which had become a bucket for your tears and you cried and screamed into it. Over time your tears and screams died down and you drifted into not a peaceful sleep but a painful one. When you woke up you stumbled down stairs in a trance and nearly rounded the corner before you heard it. You stopped in your tracks immediately and sunk to the floor. It was him, your love, the neighborhood boy, Cove Holden.

“How are they?” He spoke quietly.

“I can't lie to you and say they're fine but they are resting right now.” Mom said with a sigh.

“Tha… T-That’s fine but what about eating, drinking, packing, and leaving the house?” He stuttered nervously. You wanted to laugh. It was so Cove to still be nervous talking to someone he knew essentially his whole life.

“Yes, of course. We’ve made sure, nothing to worry about.” At that you heard a sigh of relief come from the green haired boy.

“Okay, okay good. Um could you just let me know if they need anything.” His voice was shaky like he wanted to cry.

“They need you, kid.” Your mom said slowly. There was a long silence at this. Was it actually long or were you just anxious you weren’t sure.

“...I need them more.” He said in a barely intelligible whisper. Goodbyes were said and stayed on the floor even as you heard mom coming your way. When she was in your sight her eyes widened but more in worry than surprised. You tilted your head at her and that’s when you felt it. Tears were cascading from your eyes. You wiped them away in surprise and rose to your feet.

“Im fine.” You said before jogging to your room where you curled into a ball as if to shield you from the impending doom. From this position you watched the sunset and the moon rise, almost unblinking. You felt tears soak your pillow, you had begun crying without realizing again.

This couldn't go on, you had to talk to Cove.

Muscle memory had kicked in from the one time you had snuck into Cove’s room and boom. You were sitting on his bedside stroking his hair as he slept. Just like you it seemed his sleep was anything but peaceful. His brow was creased and you couldn’t help but thumb along it prompting him to wake up. His eyes shot open and he blinked a while before he sighed.

“Are you gonna be a dream or a nightmare.” he said softly.

“I'm in your nightmares?” You said glancing to the side. At this he shot up. Tears pulled in his eyes as he held his hand out to you. As soon as his fingers brushed your face he let out a quiet sob.

“So dream or nightmare then?” You said with watery eyes.

“An absolute dream.” He said with a firmness in him that was rare.

“Cove I don't want to talk about it right now, can we sleep...together.”

“Yes!” he shouted quietly, immediately making space for you under his blankets. You moved with equal amount of eagerness and soon for the first time in a while you felt truly at peace.

“Can...can I hold you.” You didn't say anything to his request, just moved closer and grabbed onto his nightshirt. Instantly you both fall into a deep peaceful sleep.

“Hey kid, I wanna talk…” Cliff trailed off awkwardly as he locked eyes with you. Cove was fast asleep, head in your lap and arms squeezing you. You smiled and put your finger to your lips. Cliff got the signal and walked out with a smile. Cove slept for 30 minutes more before his icy blue eyes met yours.

“Uh, wanna eat? I got all the ingredients for…” he didn’t need to finish the red flush of his face said enough. He was eating your favorite and you were eating his. You let off a quiet laugh.

“I’m feeling more peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwiches. Maybe some fruit.” You smiled down at him. His eyes lit up and you were dragged into the kitchen and now you both were about done making the sandwiches.

“What are you glaring at my sandwiches for?” You jokingly accused him.

“There isn’t enough honey on it, honey.” He said poking your forehead. You laughed and he laughed and then you both went to sit at the table. Mr. Holden was there too and made moves to get up but was stopped by the both of you shouting no. Awkwardly he sat back down.

“So, how’s packing coming? Coves been putting it off, so much.” He asked you gently.

“I’m pretty much done! Nothing in my room but a bed now.” You said with a smile.

“That’s great, still planning on leaving for college?” He asked with caution.

“Yeah, that’s the plan. I’m going to miss having you around.” You said with a small smile. The impromptu breakfast was over soon after this and you were left alone with cove again. Questions about the future loomed over you and this time you were going to get answers.

“Can... we talk?” You said staring at him with determination.

“Yes..” he trailed off

“No Cove, can we really talk? Like talk things out, like argue and come to a consensus.”

“Yes but I just don’t... want us to fight” he said playing with his hands.

“Arguments are normal cove, hell they’re healthy even. The unhealthy part is what you do during the argument and what you do after. Of course, we could try just talking first.” You smiled at him hoping to ease his nervousness.

“So you mean to say storming off to your son's room and pacing isn't a healthy way of closing an argument?” He said with a joking tone.

“Well if we ever get to the talk about the future, maybe one day you could see just how healthy it is…” You trailed off looking at him hopefully. Cove let out one of his cute squeaks as he flushed red. He raked his fingers through his hair before he grabbed your hand and pulled you to the sofa.

“Let's… talk then.” he said, glancing at you and then away.

“Alright, Cove, I'm going far away. What you are asking to do is impractical, I'm asking you not to do it.” You said seriously.

“It's 36 hours by car on the fastest route and 3 hours and 29 minutes by plane, it's not impractical, it's totally possible.” He said with unusually fierce eyes.

“Sure but you want to do it every two weeks, twice a month! It's not safe for you to drive that long. Think of the money it’ll cost to fly or put gas in your car. Also you'll have your own bills now, your own place. It's not all that possible.” You spoke firmly.

“Doesn't matter… i'll make it possible and safe. If I need to, I'll stay with my dad for a while. Moving out isn’t that big of a deal” He said not backing down

“No Cove, do you hear yourself? You’ve wanted to move out and be in your own place for a while. What happened to the boy who wanted to do everything the way he wanted without listening to set rules or a predetermined plan?”

“This isn't someone's predetermined plan for me, it's what I want.”

“What about what I want?” you said softly

“Is what you want… not to be around me? Or am I too.. too clingy for you? Cause if so I promise I won't intrude too much.. And I’ll give you space-”

“No! Its nothing like that! You are never gonna be too clingy for me, you could get clinger if you wanted. I just want you to be safe, okay?” You said cutting that thought off immediately

“I promise I will be then.” He said hesitantly.

“Baby, the whole action of it isn't safe physically or financially for either of us right now. I'm not saying you can't come but what about once every month or even better ill come back here every break I have. They aren't frequent but I'd be with you for a while.”

“It's not enough!” He said, raising his voice at you. It's the first time he’d ever done it but you didn't respond, you just blinked at him and waited for him to continue.

“I need to see you more than that.. I just have to.” He said, looking away from you.

“Why? We’ve spent weeks apart before. Every summer you leave and we come out of it fine, it's the same.”

“No its not the same, at all.” He spoke firmly as his eyes got misty but he pressed on. “When I went with my mom I knew where you were, what you were most likely doing. It was routine, sunset bird is our place. Even if something new comes along I'm never out of the loop… but when you leave you’ll be in a new place with different people and new things you can experience. You’ll be in a place with all four seasons, they get snow! I won't know what you're doing any more and we might not even be on the same wavelength any more. You’ll make new friends and meet people who won't be afraid to lay in bed with you or stutter a lot or make weird noises. You’ll be changing and I’ll still be the same 8 year old cry baby you met on the poppy hill… you’ll leave and then you’ll disappear.” He said scrubbing at his tears. You stared at him before you started to laugh. You laughed so hard you started to cry.

“Let me get this straight, you want to come visit me so often because you're afraid I'll become this social butterfly and find better people than you, Miranda, and Terri? Me?” You were overcome with laughter again and paused to catch your breath. “I’m overly honest, pushy, a little demanding, and have “strange” interests. When have you ever known me to be easy to make friends with or be sociable with any other than you? You know I knew I was gonna marry you from the moment I laid eyes on you at the ripe age of 8? I wish some dumb college kid would try to change my plans i’d kill them… nothing is gonna take me away from you and I will always come home. Home, cove holden, is wherever you are.” Cove was hugging you in a second crying into your neck.

“I quite like your squeaks and weird noises by the way.” You could feel his face heat up in your neck as he laughed.

“Every break?”

“Every break longer than 2 days.”

“At my place… the whole time?”

“Duh I said I was going home.”

“Alright then, we agree. I want to come spend a break with you though, want to see your place.” He said squeezing you tighter.

“Of course… Also one last thing we need to put to bed.” Cove let out a groan at your words.

“Nothing bad at all. Just this.” You reached into your back pocket and pulled out a black velvet box. You handed it to cove as his eyes watered again.

“I know I already proposed but I wanted to get you something regardless. Its also so all these single people keep their grubby little paws off my love.” He blushed at you and whispered your name the way he always did when he was feeling embarrassed or overwhelmed. He opened it as tears fell down his face.

“Theres two?”

“Yeah look at the inside of the bands.” Each one was engraved with your respective nicknames for each other.

“Were engaged we minus well look the part. This way everybody at my college knows I managed to lockdown the most amazing guy to ever grace sunset bird.” You said kissing his nose. He wasted no time putting his on and handing you yours.

“I love you.” He said, eyes no longer misty.

“I love you so much, Cove.” You echoed his sentiment.

“Wanna go to our hill, we have a lot to make up for. I’ve missed you so much.” He said, grabbing your hand. You nodded and you both turned to leave. You both quickly made eye contact with Clifford Holden who was misty eyed. You gathered he had been there for a while.

“Sho...Should I pretend i didn't just see or hear that as well?” He said his hand on his neck.

#cove holden #our life: beginnings & always #cove #cove holden x reader

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sleeping-graves · 4 years ago

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What is this emotion? (Cove Holden x Reader Angst)

You wondered, is this what heartbreak feels like?

You were still pretty young so of course you were inexperienced with emotions and still developing with them but this was a feeling you for sure have never felt before.

Dread was piling up in your stomach. Your mind was a fuzzy mess. Shock and despair was taking over.

But you couldn’t display it. No.

Not in front of your best friend, Jamie.

What they just said kept infiltrating your mind.

“Cove and I are finally together!” they said with such a giddy smile and tone.

The destruction that was your mind was trying to keep up with multiple things at once, trying to keep yourself together and understanding what was going on.

Jamie, you and Cove were the best of friends for the longest time. You had met them when your parents made you connect with the other kids of the area since kids were pretty rare to move in so they wanted to make sure you’d at least have a friend or 2. The two were already in good standing with each other and welcomed you into their friend group. More Jamie than Cove, who was a little more cold towards you but you understood since you were a stranger to him at the time. You noticed how friendlier he was to Jamie and you wanted to eventually get on those terms with him.

Couple years go by and you three are inseparable. You all have been through thick and thin regarding young childhood, been to each other's aid and such. The amount of trust and attachment grew over time, although for you and Cove, something else grew as well.

The feeling of love.

You at first didn't understand this feeling, your heart racing whenever he smiled at you or your cheeks heating up whenever you're near him. At first you thought it was normal friendship things until you realized you didn't have this reaction with Jamie. After a month or two of this happening you begrudgingly asked your parents about this problem you needed help with. Once they gave you the answer, your brain let all the puzzle pieces click.

No wonder just thinking about him made your young heart flutter. No wonder just him giving you a hug would make your mind fuzzy. No wonder when hanging with the group you were always a bit more excited to be with Cove then Jamie.

No wonder. You were in love with Cove.

So after finally understanding what this deep rooted emotion towards the seafoam colored hair nerd was, of course your emotions would be going through turmoil when hearing that sentence from Jamie.

You didn't want to display these feelings of hurt and shock so you hid it all behind a mask. You smiled for them.

“That's great! I'm happy for you two.” you replied, fingertips gripping at the end of your shirt. The anxiety in you was building and you tried your best to ease it by fumbling with your clothing. You didn't want to be rude and show signs of displeasure of them finally becoming a thing, as much as this was breaking your soul.

After a couple of minutes of pained conversation, they ran off to do some chores in the house, leaving you alone on the chilled beach.

Once they were out of sight, you curled into a ball near the ocean's waves lapping at the sand, hoping it would soothe you even a little bit. Then all at once, you broke.

Sobbing into your knees, the waterworks’ dam broke and all the tears spilled out. You didn't know how to comprehend heartbreak so all you can do is cry it out. Your emotions and mind were sporadic, just a jumbled mess of agony and despair. Your heart felt like it had been sliced into pieces, leaving behind shards of what you had felt for Cove.

Breathing out of control, you dug your hands into the sand to feel something, anything, other than this disgusting emotion. While the sand cooled down your shaky fingertips, it did nothing to calm your overworking brain.

This is what heartbreak felt like, and god did it feel awful.

#im sorry i put angst for such a wholesome game #our life: beginnings & always #cove holden #jamie last #reader x cove holden #reader/cove #cove holden x reader #cove holden/reader #reader/cove holden

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gb-patch · 7 years ago

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Our Life- Game Announcement

Us at GB Patch Games are ready to announce the next major project we’re working on: Our Life: Beginnings and Always! Our Life will have a Windows, Mac, and Linux version, of course. But this is also the team’s first big push to creating an Android and IOS project. The PC and mobile versions will have the exact same script, however we’ll look to already released phone games, such as Mystic Messenger by Cheritz and Cybird titles, to figure out how to better optimize an interface system for the mobile build. The PC build, shown below, will have the type of GUI arrangement we normally use in our projects, which we know isn’t perfectly suited for phone screens.

There will be a completely free-to-play base game and optional paid DLC events. We’ll put out a demo late 2017 or early 2018. The full release will be during the second half of 2018.

Feel free to join our Discord Channel to chat about OL and our other games~

Basics

A twenty dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life.

Jamie has spent the last couple weeks on a summertime high. At eight-years-old nothing is better than what feels like endless days of school-less adventures, especially when you live walking distance from the beach. While coming home under a scorching sunset one fine evening, Jamie is approached by a stranger. The man is looking for a kid who can do him a favor, and he’s even offering to pay for it. He wants Jamie to be friends with his son. The person is Mr. Holden, Jamie’s new neighbor as well as the father of the odd, and oddly named, boy Cove. Whether Jamie wants to play along or not, that weird child isn’t going anywhere. And somehow the long days of vacation finally do come to an end. Summer may not be able to last forever, but Jamie can take comfort in knowing it will come back again someday...

Time is always moving, things are forever changing. All you can do is enjoy the precious moments and build towards a future you can cherish just as much.

Our Life is built around seeing what comes of your life and your relationship with one specific character. The protagonist is highly customizable. You’ll decide their appearance, gender, personality, interests, relationships, and what becomes of them in the future. Cove is the only major love interest and he is similarly changeable, though you don’t have an exact say in his development. He’s a person of his own and there’s little way to tell how his experiences will shape him. There are a couple side romance options that take place over a shorter period of time with guys who have personalities/futures that remain consistent.

Cove

Our Life features a fair sized cast of characters to spend time with. As with most things in life, though, they come and go. There’s only one person who remains a constant: Cove Holden. Whether he’s a friend, lover, acquaintance, or something else, Cove will be around every step of the way to one degree or another.

As a child Cove is eccentric, anti-social, emotional, and an open book. He may or may not change significantly with the passage of time.

Gameplay

The only gameplay in Our Life is making choices. However, there are various unique types of choices you get to make that all work together to create a super custom experience.

Character Creation

At the start of the game you’ll design a protagonist for yourself. You’ll be able to choose their first and last names, face shape, skin tone, hairstyle, hair color, and if they have any extra details or not. At the start of each new time period you’ll have an opportunity to change your MC. You’ll be free to update what name you go by, your pronouns, your look, anything except your last name.

Opinion Deciding

After meeting Cove you’ll get to create a custom opinion on the boy that determines how the MC reacts to him. You can pick your level of Comfort around him and your level of Interest. Comfort and Interest will be combined together to describe your overall feelings. There will be multiple points in the game where you’ll have the option to alter your opinion on Cove. You can move the meter up quickly or gradually or you can leave it at the bottom for the entire time. But once you officially set your opinion, going back down to a lesser level of Comfort/Interest isn’t possible.

Initially the highest Interest can go is ‘Crush’. At 18-years-old you can go all the way up to ‘Love’.

Moment Selection

There are automatic events that always happen and always in the same order. That’s not how the entire game is, though. Much of the play time revolves around the Moment Select system. With this you can choose to watch disconnected vignettes that center on different topics. When you’ve seen all of the Moments (or all the ones you want to see), you can choose to continue with the required events.

Not every Moment is available in the free version, several are optional DLC content.

Event Choices

Lastly, there’s the classic style of VN choices: dialog/action selections. There’s a nearly constant flow of this type of choice which amount to hundreds of options in the full version of the game. Your decisions will change the course of scenes, shape your interests, determine parts of your future, and effect Cove.

And that’s it for the basic details. I hope you’ll look forward to seeing more! We’re certainly excited about this game. Thank you so much for reading this far, ahah!

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