“Stay. Please. Stay.”

This route is slower. It involves quiet nights in the empty gym, where he shoots free throws and you sketch. The romantic climax isn’t a kiss at a party. It’s a scene where Justin has a panic attack before a championship game, and the PC sits with him, counting breaths, not saying a word. Post-game, he finds the sketch you left behind: a drawing of him not shooting a basket, but sleeping on a bus, finally at peace.

This storyline thrives on mutual respect morphing into mutual obsession. The GB fandom has dubbed this the “Tape Burn” route, referencing the heat of two tapes overwriting each other. The second major arc positions the PC as a non-athlete—often a team artist, a photographer, or a music student assigned to document the season for a school project. Here, Justin is not threatened by your skill (since you don’t play), but he is terrified of your gaze. You see him. Not the stats, but the exhaustion behind his eyes.