It was a Wednesday night and Jess was bored stiff, her flatmates had gone out clubbing, leaving a mess in the kitchen and she was pissed knowing they would wake her up at 3am coming home. After doing some work on her assignment she decided to relax a bit and picked up her phone to check her messages.
She had a few voice clips from her flatmates, berating her for not joining them, she didn't know why they were still surprised. Jess was not a party kind of girl, she didn't drink, never wore revealing clothes and barely even swore. Though she appreciated being invited out every time anyway.
While going through facebook she saw another add for the new dating app everyone was going on about. She didn't get the appeal; it sounded ridiculously vain, just looking at pictures of people and then matching or trashing them. It's not like she wasn't an attractive girl (she would never say she thought she was attractive out loud, but she did), but she wanted to be appreciated for more than that.
Her last boyfriend clearly just saw her as a challenge and wanted to get underneath her conservative clothes. She tried to hide her 32E boobs and curvy hips under baggy jumpers, but it was pretty much impossible. Besides her blonde curly hair and bright green eyes tended to draw attention anyway.
Since she was bored, and no one was home anyway she downloaded the app to try it out, selecting a few pictures of herself to put on her profile. It then brought up a quiz, apparently so it could match her with her 'soul mate'. She laughed at that and filled it out.
Name: Jess
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Virgin: Yes
As soon as Jess clicked yes she registered how strange that question was, "seems a bit personal for some stupid dating app" she thought. It continues on with some less invasive questions, her city and address, phone number, etc.
"Congratulations you have registered!" came up on the screen in big red letters, "you have earned 20 points" she saw a bar increase at the top of her screen. She thought it was odd to have a points system but brushed it off, wanting to start 'playing'. It took her to a 'tasks' screen showing how to earn more points; match your first partner, send the first message, send a picture in chat, log in 5 days in a row... etc.
She skimmed over them mostly and moved onto the next screen, a quick into video showing their strange twirly logo and theme music. It was annoyingly catchy and seemed to play over in her mind. After it showed how to scroll through and judge each person it finally let her see some actual profiles.
Jess was taken aback by the first profile, it was a man, 32 (the age difference surprised her, she assumed it would show her people her age) and his first picture was him shirtless. He had a great body but she hadn't expected to see things like that. She quickly trashed him and moved on.
After a few minutes she realised a lot of the guys on here had shirtless pictures, and they were all gorgeous. She imagined what it would be like to feel their abs, none of her boyfriends had ever had them. She decided to match with one of these hunks just to see what would happen, she was just messing about anyway.
After she confirmed her screen flashed with the strange logo again and asked "send Richard your profile?" showing the images she had selected. Seeing her conservative pictures, wearing jumpers, long sleeved tops barely any skin at all was strange. She worried he wouldn't match her back if she looked like a prude, so she quickly edited her profile, and added in a picture of her on holiday in shorts and a tank top.
Once she saved she saw 15 points added to her profile, a rush of excitement coursed through her. She continued looking through some guys profiles for an hour or so, then went to bed at 11pm.
The next morning she saw a few notifications from the app on her phone. She opened it up and was immediately rewarded with 5 points for logging in two days in a row. Then she saw she had 10 new matches! She didn't remember selecting that many but they all looked hot so maybe she had.
The top one on her list however didn't have any pictures, she clicked on him curious as to how he ended up as a match. All it gave was his name; Ollie, she noticed a tag that stated his profile was premium, she had no idea what that meant, there were no ads so far so what extras would the premium offer?
She decided to message Ollie, since she had to message someone first to get some extra points, and because she was intrigued. The 20 points gave her a buzz and made her mind feel delightfully fuzzy. She got up and got dressed, choosing her slim fitting jeans and a long sleeved tight top.
Normally she would wear a big jumper or cardigan to hide her curves, but it was fairly warm today and she wanted to feel good about herself. She went to the library to continue working on her assignment, receiving a few turned heads on the way. The attention excited her and she wished she owned less stuffy clothes so she could show off some more.
After 45 minutes of work her head was killing her, she couldn't concentrate at all and had barely gotten anything done. She checked her phone and saw that Ollie was online and replying to her message.
"Where are you" It was a little strange and demanding but Ella thought he must just be being conversational.