Emma Hawkins

Emma, a character in the High School Story series, is a student at Oliver M. Berry High School. She is also one of your love interests. She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Emma has brown eyes, long blonde hair, and fair skin. She wears a white and black striped V-neck T-shirt with black pants in Book 1. In Book 2, she wears a gray hoodie with pink flowers on it and white pants. In Book 3, she wears a maroon V-neck shirt and blue shorts.

Personality
She's very kind and immediately befriends you. She is a bit shy, expressing nervousness to go to Brian's party or make other friends. She is very sensitive and her feelings get hurt easily as shown when she went to the bathroom crying after Brian called her a "loser".

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The First Day
 * Chapter 2: Party Crashers
 * Chapter 3: The Brokenhearted
 * Chapter 4: Consequences
 * Chapter 5: Tryouts
 * Chapter 6: Practice Makes Perfect
 * Chapter 7: No 'I' In 'Team'
 * Chapter 8: Tiger Spirit
 * Chapter 9: The Search
 * Chapter 10: To Catch a Culprit (Offscreen; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 11: Berry's Seven
 * Chapter 12: Rally Together
 * Chapter 13: Game Plan
 * Chapter 14: Shall We Dance?
 * Chapter 15: The Beginning

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Breaking News
 * Chapter 2: New World Order
 * Chapter 3: Under Pressure
 * Chapter 4: Carnival Kisses
 * Chapter 5: A Rock and a Hard Place (Offscreen)
 * Chapter 6: It's Complicated
 * Chapter 7: Edge of Seventeen
 * Chapter 8: Game Over
 * Chapter 9: Secrets, Lies, and Spaghetti Flies
 * Chapter 10: Coming Clean
 * Chapter 11: The Lion's Den
 * Chapter 12: Save Me, San Francisco
 * Chapter 13: The Jig is Up
 * Chapter 14: Party for the Ages
 * Chapter 15: Can I Ask You Something?

Book 3

 * Chapter 1: Up In Flames
 * Chapter 2: Friends...or Foes? (Determinant)
 * Chapter 3: The Ones Who Got Away
 * Chapter 4: Just Beachy
 * Chapter 5: Prime Location
 * Chapter 6: What Goes Around
 * Chapter 7: Open Hearts and Open Mics
 * Chapter 8: Missing in Action
 * Chapter 11: Questions and Answers
 * Chapter 12: Mall For It
 * Chapter 13: Take Me Out
 * Chapter 14: The Big Night
 * Chapter 15: The Night is Young
 * Chapter 16: School's Out!

Class Act, Book 1

 * Chapter 1: New Days (Determinant)
 * Chapter 3: Love's a Game
 * Chapter 12: Framed (Determinant)

Class Act, Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Ice To Meet You (Determinant)
 * Chapter 3: Debate Drama
 * Chapter 5: All For One, and One For All
 * Chapter 8: An Impossible Situation
 * Chapter 9: Winter Wonderful
 * Chapter 11: If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em
 * Chapter 12: Planting New Seeds
 * Chapter 13: Team Green
 * Chapter 15: New Roots  (Determinant)

Class Act, Book 3

 * Chapter 1: O' Brave New World
 * Chapter 2: Thanks, But No Thanks
 * Chapter 4: Clash of the Casts
 * Chapter 9: Race Against Time
 * Chapter 12: The Heist, London
 * Chapter 14: The Actual Tempest
 * Chapter 15: Cruise the Night Away
 * Chapter 16: Night Of Our Lives

Julia Mason
Julia Mason is Emma's mother. They are close to each other, although they don't spend much time together due to her mother's long work hours. Emma doesn't tell Julia about being bullied at school, to not burden her mother with her own problems. In Book 2, due to their financial trouble, Emma decides to work part-time to help her mother.

Father
Emma's parents are divorced, and this process was very painful to everyone, especially to Emma. In premium scene in Chapter 5 of Book 2, if you decide do help Emma sorting things, she tells you that their parents fought each other in order to be "the better parent", and her father was especially competitive in that matter. Emma isn't very close with him, because she knows that he wants to get close to her only to spite Julia. Mentioning Robin, Emma reveals that her father is a doctor.

Robin
In a premium scene in Book 2, Chapter 5, Emma reveals that she has an older sister named Robin who is living with their father. While Emma is close to Julia, Robin is their father's favorite child. It's mentioned that Robin wants to be a doctor like him. Emma supposes that their father uses Robin to hurt Julia.

Your Character
Emma is one of your character's love interests. You first meet her in Book 1, Chapter 1, by the tiger statue. If you decide to set her up with Luis, she stops being your love interest and becomes only your close friend. In Book 2, Chapter 15, you can choose to ask her if you want to be official. However, she'll cut you off and ask you the big question herself.

Caleb
Emma has a crush on Caleb at the beginning of the series and asks him out in Book 1, Chapter 5, but he doesn't feel that way. She is saddened by his reaction, but soon they start talking again, as Caleb made it clear that he still wants to be friends.

Luis
Luis has a crush on Emma and Your Character can choose to set them up is he/she is not dating her already. If all succeed, they will go to Homecoming together. In Book 2, Chapter 4, you can use singing telegrams to set them up. In Book 3, Chapter 8, Luis asks Emma to prom as friends or as a couple and she says yes. If they are dating, she will declare her love for him at this moment and he will say it back.

Trivia

 * She is the first character you meet who doesn't originate from the original HSS Prime game.
 * Before she met Your Character, she had never listened to a Beyoncé song.
 * Emma is shown on the cover of High School Story, Book 1 and High School Story, Book 2.
 * In Book 1, Chapter 14, she makes a reference to The Royal Romance by stating that she feels "More like that girl who became princess of Cordonia".
 * Until Book 3, Chapter 3, Emma was the only love interest to have an alternate love interest if your character doesn't pursue her.
 * Her birthday is August 9th.
 * She does not have any pets.
 * In Book 3, Chapter 14, if the Prom theme is superheroes, she will tell Your Character that she loves Scarlet Justice.
 * If you chose to set her and Luis up, they will be going on a road trip for the summer. Then she will spend time with her dad, something she does not enjoy.
 * Her Hogwarts House is Hufflepuff.
 * In High School Story: Class Act, Book 3, Chapter 14's premium scene, she admits to have written Harry Potter fanfiction in elementary school when she was ten years old. It starred a Mary Sue version of herself but with purple hair and eyes, who was an animagus who could turn into a wolf.
 * Her favorite food is fried chicken.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 14, at Payton's party, she and Sakura play a game on the laptop called "The Limbs", a reference to a simulating game called The Sims.
 * She is the third character (who is also a love interest) in the Choices universe to not be playersexual and instead be canonically confirmed as bisexual if the player picks a certain choice in a premium scene during High School Story Book 3.
 * She shares this title with Zig Ortega from The Freshman et al., Will Jackson from The Crown & The Flame, Lily Spencer and Kamilah Sayeed from Bloodbound, Alana Kusuma from Perfect Match, Kate O'Malley from Veil of Secrets, and Seth Levine from Red Carpet Diaries.
 * If the default names for Your Character (Hot Couture) and Main Character (My Two First Loves) are kept, they will share the same first name as Emma.