Best Friend

Best Friend, a character in the My Two First Loves series, is Your Character's best friend since freshman year at Eastridge High and one of your love interests. Her default name is "Ava", but the player can pick a name for her. She is first seen in Chapter 2.

Appearance
Best Friend's look is determined by the player. Regardless of the choice however, she wears golden earrings, a black long-sleeved blouse, and a red skirt with black and white stripes. For cheer, she wears a yellow, red, and white crop top and a red skirt.

Personality
She is described as being an 'intense' person, something that your character says makes sense for the captain of the cheer squad. She is popular, in-tuned to school gossip, and has the reputation of being a boy-crazy girl with a mean streak. As a freshman, she daydreamed about finding the perfect boyfriend, going to the same college as him, and living happily ever after. However as a senior, she feels lost. She would like a fresh start where her reputation would not precede her, and where she could find someone who is as crazy about her as she is about that person.

My Two First Loves

 * Chapter 2: First Day of School
 * Chapter 3: The Dangerous One
 * Chapter 4: The Cheer Squad
 * Chapter 6: Hurt/Comfort
 * Chapter 7: Red-Handed
 * Chapter 9: Trouble in Paradise (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 13: Polite Company (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 14: Just Missed It (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: Hidden Depths (Offscreen)
 * Chapter 16: Out On A Limb (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 17: The Slip
 * Chapter 18: Kiss Goodbye
 * Chapter 21: Empty Handed
 * Chapter 22: Trust Fall
 * Chapter 23: Aftermath
 * Chapter 24: The Crown Jewel
 * Chapter 26: Behind Bars (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 27: The Meeting (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 28: The Harris Boy
 * Chapter 30: Consequences
 * Chapter 33: Come Together, Fall Apart
 * Chapter 36: The Other Boy
 * Chapter 37: All of the Stars
 * Chapter 38: Decisions, Decisions
 * Chapter 39: Everything's Changed
 * Chapter 40: A New Perspective (Offscreen)
 * Chapter 42: Budding Talent
 * Chapter 43: Losing Control (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 46: New Tricks (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 47: Overexposed
 * Chapter 48: The Person He Trusts Most (Off-Screen)
 * Chapter 49: Up in the Air (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 50: What's Not Earned
 * Chapter 51: Option B
 * Chapter 52: Branching Out
 * Chapter 53: Miss Movin' On
 * Chapter 55: Friends in Low Places
 * Chapter 59: Square One
 * Chapter 60: Slippery Slopes (Physical Appearance Determinant)

Your Character
You guys are best friends since freshman year. However, you didn't tell her your feelings toward Childhood Crush. In Chapter 2, your best friend confesses she is dating him. Although you feel hurt at that moment, you still congratulate them. After Childhood Crush is tackled on the football field, she notices how close you are while tending to him. While you expect a direct confrontation, Best Friend takes a different approach and suggests you get a boyfriend yourself.

In Chapter 16, he texts you that she snapped at him for distracting her from her party preparations. If you text back that he should leave her be, you reveal that she once almost broke your arm in a similar situation.

In Chapter 17, when you arrive at her party, Best Friend is already drunk. She greets you by sloppily hugging you, laying her head on your shoulder, and saying that you are her favorite person and that she loves you. Depending on choices, she will tell you how she doesn't understand that you are still single; if she were a guy, she would be all over you. In Chapter 18, she confronts you both after the accidental kiss between you and Childhood Crush and tells you that she is done with you. Despite that, she promotes you to co-captain in Chapter 21.

When you are grounded by your father for being arrested, he tells you that you cannot perform at the Homecoming game nor can you go to the dance. Because of this, Best Friend gives Lauren the position as "Crown Jewel" in the cheer squad's performance. When you apologize again for the accidental kiss and Childhood Crush's subsequent break-up with her, she tells you that she isn't broken up about Childhood Crush. She is broken up about you going behind her back. She says it will take time for you two to mend your friendship.

When you are un-grounded and Lauren messes up the routine, you're given the position as Crown Jewel and execute it flawlessly. It leaves you unsatisfied, so you quit the cheer squad right there and then, giving up your status as co-captain. In Chapter 38, when the dance comes to a close due to a fight between Childhood Crush and Bad Boy, Best Friend drives you home and confesses to you that she has been lying to herself for a long time about what she wanted and who she was. You remember the time when you felt exhilarated that the coolest and prettiest girl wanted to be your friend and the afternoons you joked with her about ditching boys and dating each other instead. You are confused by her admission and your sudden feelings and need time to think about everything. She understands and tells you that you can call her later if you want to talk about anything.

In Chapter 51, Best Friend admits to Bayla that she realized she is in love with you. In hindsight, it was apparent from all the times she spent with you but she didn't figure it out until the party where you and Childhood Crush kissed.

Childhood Crush
She and Childhood Crush started dating during the summer break. She had started flirting with him shortly before school let out and he wanted your opinion if he should start dating her, but you were upset with him for moving and he didn't have a chance to ask you before your family left for Wyoming. In Chapter 9, Childhood Crush confesses when they are in public, she will throw herself all over him, but when they are alone, she is not in the mood to make out, which makes him ask you about her inconsistency. You can encourage Childhood Crush to talk to Best Friend about it or you surmise Best Friend is not actually into him.

In Chapter 16, he texts you that she snapped at him for distracting her from her party preparations when he tried to kiss her. In Chapter 18, after a video of you and Childhood Crush accidentally kissing during a game of Suck n Blow, she confronts you both. She admits that she hasn't trusted him from the beginning, expecting something like this. He tells her that if an accident during a game is enough for her to fly off the handle, they should call it quits; if she never trusted him, they would have never worked at all. In Chapter 22, he reveals that he has ended his relationship with Best Friend to be with you.

In Chapter 51, if she thinks about the night that you and her ex-boyfriend kissed, she realizes that she was with him because he was safe and that she felt he would comfort her and protect her, even though she knew she wasn't in love with him.

Lauren
In Chapter 4, Best Friend tells you that she and Lauren spent some time together during the summer break. According to Iris, Lauren thrives to become her new best friend, the position currently occupied by you. In Chapter 18, Lauren was the one who filmed the accidental kiss that went viral within a matter of moments and was the one who showed Best Friend the video to cause strain between the two of you.

In Chapter 21, Best Friend names you co-captain, causing Lauren to feel jealous and slighted. After Lauren drops you during the human pyramid, Best Friend is very angry with her. When you are grounded from participating in the Homecoming performance, Best Friend gives the position as "Crown Jewel" to Lauren. However, when your grounding is lifted and Lauren flubs the dismount, she takes the position away from Lauren and gives it to you. Later though, Best Friend announces Lauren as Homecoming Queen at the dance.

Chad
In Chapter 24, it is revealed that a few weeks after your fall from the pyramid, Best Friend is dating Chad. If you say that she looks sad, Iris answers that she is worried about Best Friend grimacing while kissing him. Toni adds that Best Friend has never liked him. She breaks up with him in Chapter 37, stating that she has come to a realization about herself and that she doesn't want a boyfriend now. She adds that they both deserve to be someone's first choice but he is not hers.

Bayla
Best Friend meets Bayla through the Photography Club where they hit it off. Their banter makes you feel uncomfortable and jealous but Best Friend doesn't appear to notice your discomfort. In Chapter 51, Bayla runs across Best Friend while the latter is touring colleges without you. She asks if Best Friend is interested in women or men or both, and Best Friend confides in her that she is interested in women. Best Friend says Bayla is the first person she has ever told, and Bayla tells her that she herself has been out of the closet since she was in fifth grade and barely gets any grief about it. Bayla knows that Best Friend is interested in you but can tell that you're indecisive; so she suggests that Best Friend find someone else.

In Chapter 52, when you cannot come to a decision on who you want to be with, you later discover that Best Friend and Bayla were making out behind the school bleachers.

Other Looks

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Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * She is the twentieth-fourth customizable love interest and the second customizable female-only love interest, the first one being Beautiful Contestant from the America's Most Eligible series.
 * If her default name is kept, she will share the same first name as Ava Cunningham from It Lives In The Woods and Ava Montjoy from A Very Scandalous Proposal.
 * The hairstyle of the Face 2 character model is an altered version of the hairstyle of the human Face 2 character model of the female MC from Blades of Light and Shadow and the hairstyle of the Face 3 character model is an altered version of the hairstyle of the Face 1 character model of the female Sam Dalton.
 * She drinks caramel macchiato with two shakes of cinnamon as revealed in Chapter 3.
 * In Chapter 9, Your Character mentions that she is the captain of the cheer squad.
 * The Face 2 model bears some resemblance to a version of female Crown Shield from The Royal Masquerade. The Face 3 character model resembles Eliana Flores from Sunkissed.
 * She is a playable character in the whole of Chapter 51.