After tallying all the votes both here on FA and Twitter, the winner is MORTON! 🐭🥳

A big thanks to everyone who voted, you all play a big role in helping to shape this Choose Your Own Adventure!

Here’s the first chapter as well as the next poll for Chp. 2. down in the comment section below.

And don’t worry about our two sore losers, Barry and Leon, they both will play big roles in this story as well. And like last time, you guys get to vote and see what’ll happens next. 😉

Chp 1:

Morton jumped out of his sleep as his alarm clock blared with the numbers 7:30 flashing on the screen, signaling that it was time to get up. The Mouse groggily felt around his nightstand until he found the snooze button and then continued until his paws came upon a large pair of glasses. Morton adjusted the spectacles onto his muzzle and then blinked a few times as his vision began to clear.

He dragged himself out of bed and into the bathroom to prepare for the long day ahead of him. After freshening himself up, he started to meticulously fasten the bowtie around his neck, then he paused for a moment and took a long hard look at himself in the mirror, letting out a heavy sigh.

Damn, he was pathetic, no wonder jerks like Barry, a massive Bear more than twice Morton’s size who was also the school’s Star Linebacker, were able to take advantage of him so easily. When he had first started college, he had been a starry-eyed naïve youngster, eager to show the world his talents in math, science, and engineering.

Then reality set in, and it turned out that nobody cared about stuff like that. At first, Morton found himself very isolated and alone, but then other students did start to notice his talents, and he had begun to hope again that it would open up doors for him.

Unfortunately, for one the very few times in his life, Morton’s theory proved to be completely wrong, as once his peers took note of Morton’s intellect, they started asking him to help them with their assignments and when asking didn’t work, they started threatening him with bodily harm, threats that they were very serious about carrying out.

Now Morton, one of the most academically gifted students on campus, found himself helping dumb jocks and bullies excel in their classes while he could barely keep up with his own course load. The school only seemed to exacerbate this problem as they viewed Morton’s high grade point average as an excuse to help bolster their failing students’ test scores.

This would present the image that Furlong University was a haven of higher learning, where even the dumbest student could excel. Unfortunately, this also meant that Morton was required to interact with muscle-bound meatheads like Barry on a regular basis in tutoring sessions that the school forcibly imposed onto both of them.

While Morton had honestly tried to help the lumbering lummox improve his study skills at the beginning, after a couple of heavy-duty noogies and swirlies the Mouse’s spirit was broken. What were supposed to be tutoring sessions had become Morton simply handing over finished copies of Barry’s assignments to him. Oddly enough, Barry would look over and make “corrections” to his work, often switching out correct answers for wrongs ones instead.

At first, Morton wondered if Barry made these changes in order to deliberately introduce errors to the work, so as it make it more believable that he had completed the assignment. However, much to Morton’s chagrin, he eventually realized that Barry actually thought he was improving upon the assignments, despite not even having a rudimentary understanding of the material.

Ironically, these forced tutoring sessions also held the only highlight to Morton’s otherwise miserable college experience. Her name was Bonnie, the head cheerleader and in Morton’s opinion, the most beautiful Rabbit to ever grace the halls of Furlong U.

She like everyone else Morton was forced to tutor was struggling with a few of her classes, but unlike the rest of them, she was actually trying to improve in her studies and was the only student on campus who treated Morton with kindness and affection.

Typically Morton would deal with students like Barry who needed the most help first, and then Bonnie would end up arriving later on after she had finished up her cheerleading practice. Spending just five minutes with her was enough to make up for an entire day spent with all the rest of the dumb jocks he had to deal with.

The only other time that Morton spent with Bonnie was in Developmental Psychology class. Morton had very little personal interest in the subject and his only reason for taking the course initially was because it was a requirement for his major, but after discovering that Bonnie was also in the same class as him, it quickly became his favorite. He was particularly looking forward to today’s lecture because according to the syllabus, the class was to be split into groups for a major project, and he would do anything to be partnered with her.

Morton, despite his crippling shyness and timidity, had even considered seeing Bonnie outside of tutoring. After all, Morton prided himself on his ability to gather data and find the best solutions. After having spent enough time with Bonnie, Morton felt confident that if he collected enough data on what her personal interests entailed, he could then successfully formulate a dating experience that she would thoroughly enjoy and win her affection.

Just the thought of it caused his cheeks to flush bright red and him to grow hot underneath the collar. Suddenly Morton’s phone began to emit a loud jingle and vibrate profusely, snapping him out of his wistful daydreams back to reality, as he clumsily stumbled across the room.

He reached his nightstand and picked up his phone, which read on the front of its screen, “Hey Morty, come meet me on campus in about 15 min, I got a favor to ask u.” Morton looked at the message confused for a moment before checking to see who it was from.

He was shocked to see that it had been sent by Leon, a lithe but muscular Lion who was also the Captain of the Wrestling Team. This only perplexed Morton even further, as he and Morton rarely interacted nowadays. Previously like many of his other classmates, Leon had asked Morton to help him with a couple of assignments, but he was nowhere near as bad as Barry or the other students Morton had been forced to take on in the school mandated tutoring sessions.

This didn’t mean that Morton had a particularly fond opinion of the buff Lion either, as aside from being a talented wrestler, he was also known on campus as a notorious womanizer who went through girls like Morton went through tissues during allergy session. What could Leon possibly want from Morton, and why in 15 minutes?

A wave of realization suddenly swept over Morton as he checked the time at the top of his smartphone. His eyes almost burst straight through his thick glasses as he realized he was going to be late in dropping off Barry’s homework before class. The combination of self-pitying, daydreaming, and confusion had taken a huge chunk of time from his normally efficient morning routine.

Scrambling to collect all of Barry’s completed assignments as well as his own, he threw everything into his bag, along with a simple but nutritious granola bar for his breakfast and rushed out the door. As the meek Mouse sped along to the campus, his mind was also racing through the different options he had been presented with so far.

Should he head straight over to Barry’s room to avoid the Bear’s wrath, should he head straight to his Developmental Psychology class with Bonnie, or should he satisfy his curiosity and see what Leon could possibly want from him?

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