Romance, Drama
Read Receipts
- found family
- rom-com
- Hell's Kitchen
- group chat secrets
- millennial friendship
- chosen family
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The story
Three best friends in a Hell's Kitchen walk-up have spent five years building a group chat called No Boys Allowed into the most honest place in their lives — until two of them stop being honest in it. Priya's been seeing Sam, the bartender across the street, since New Year's. Riley's been sleeping with Joss, his new bandmate, since the spring tour. Maya, the only one without a secret, notices both within a week and decides — for reasons she's still working out — to say nothing. The summer unfolds as a slow, comic, occasionally tender comedy of withheld information: rooftop hangs, double-locked phones, accidental Venmo notes, a karaoke night that nearly detonates everything. The question isn't whether the secrets come out — it's what the chat is even for when none of them can use it.
Co-stars
Priya Mehta
Junior architect at a midtown firm, racing a punishing review track
Priya is a junior architect at a Midtown firm where the review track eats her weekends and her sleep. Six months ago she told her Hell's Kitchen group chat she was 'taking a break from dating' — and she's been quietly seeing Sam, the bartender from across the street, ever since. The summer she stops being honest in the chat is the summer she has to figure out who she is when she can't talk in lists about it.
Riley Donovan
Bass player in Soft Decay; runs a sandwich shop on West 47th to pay rent
Riley plays bass in Soft Decay and runs a sandwich shop on West 47th to keep the band afloat. Joss, the new lead singer, has been crashing on his couch since the tour fell apart — the chat thinks it's platonic, but it hasn't been since the Cleveland show. He's the soft one of the group, the cook, the boy who lies not out of malice but because he can't bear to disappoint anyone.
Maya Stein
Freelance copywriter; the one who notices first and decides what to do with it
Maya is a freelance copywriter and the unofficial archivist of the No Boys Allowed group chat — sharp, observant, slightly performative about being chill. She's the only one of the three actually single this summer, and she's the first to read the patterns: Priya's Venmo note, Riley's borrowed hoodie, the way both their phones go face-down too fast. She has to figure out whether being the friend who knows everything is the same as being the friend who tells.
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Read “Read Receipts” in the Roletopia app
Play this branching story in second person, make the choices, talk to your co-stars by text or voice, and discover every ending — free to start on iOS and Android.