#friendsip

muahahaha I love this question!

This is a toughie actually because Del (i imagine) does correspondence school at the library and Wayne spends most of his time at home taking care of his dad,, but I propose a few ideas:

Wayne at the pharmacy to pick some first aid stuff. Del at the pharmacy to nick a bottle of nail polish.

Or:

Del gets a job at a convenience store near Wayne's house, and bears witness to him in nearly every single state he exists in.

Some boy her age comes in to buy beef jerky before school. Okay.

He comes back after school to buy another stick of beef jerky and bandages for his knuckles. Sure.

He comes in on the weekend to look at the comic books, but only buys the Conan ones if he has some extra money. Otherwise? Beef jerky.

And she talks to him the more he comes in, basic small talk stuff because this guy is a freak and she has nothing else to be interested in and actually he's really sweet to her. And eventually Wayne just starts coming in to pretend to look at things and talk to her because he's got a crushhh

He spies some guy being an absolute dick to her about returning an item that she's pretty sure they don't even sell. He goes outside and puts a dent in the hood of the guy's car. Del is disgusted (enamoured) with his behaviour.

Or:

Del volunteering to help pick up rubbish on the highways so that she doesn't have to be at home during the weekends. Wayne picking up rubbish on the highways because it's part of his community service hours

“friendship is a sheltering tree.”

Yes, it is :) Romance is the focus of Wayhaven, but other relationships are also very important to me during this story!

There will definitely be friendship moments with vampires you gain a good friendship with and how they view you will come into effect throughout the series.

But you don’t need to worry too much about building points or anything. I want the friendships to progress as naturally as the romances. You will be able to have conflicting views/personalities with the characters but still have a good friendship, so you don’t need to modify the way you play. It won’t be all about points, but also just the organic way friendships/bonds form between people who spend a lot of time together.

Obviously, MC’s with personalities and views that match certain characters will probably have an easier time building friendships with those characters, just like in real life :D But that doesn’t mean your cut off from being good friends with the others too. Might just take a bit more time (which over seven books, you definitely have that time, lol).