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diff --git a/game/script/4.anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy b/game/script/4.anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy
index fe21ce6..a15d94d 100644
--- a/game/script/4.anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy
+++ b/game/script/4.anon-needs-help-during-music-period.rpy
@@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ label chapter_4:
     "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}"
     pause .5
 
+    label templabel:
     scene bandroom
     show fang unimpressed flip at sright
     show anon neutral:
@@ -1140,6 +1141,7 @@ label chapter_4:
     with Dissolve(1)
     pause .5
 
+    label phonepeek:
     "Fang’s password is{cps=*.1}...{/cps}"
 
     "Wait,{w=.4} only the ‘one’ key is smudged?"
@@ -1148,11 +1150,65 @@ label chapter_4:
     pause .5
 
     "Ah,{w=.4} the messenger app."
-    #TODO: IMPLEMENT MESSAGING GUI
-    #do we even have time for this?
-    #maybe this will be a post release update
-    #lmao as if
-    #--refer to Writer1 for the entirety of the texting part as he wants it to be more interactive.
+
+    transform cursortransform:
+        xalign 0.55
+        block:
+            yalign 0.2
+            pause .25
+            easein_cubic 1 yalign 0.75
+            pause .5
+            repeat
+
+    image cursor = At("pointer", cursortransform)
+
+    screen prompt():
+        fixed:
+            add "cursor"
+
+    screen mousedetect():
+        transform: # thanks based nutbuster
+            zoom 0.8
+            rotate 12.5
+            mousearea:
+                ypos -50
+                area(0.225, 0, 795, 1100)
+                # xalign 0.5 yanchor 0 ypos 0
+                hovered Hide("prompt")
+                unhovered Show("prompt")
+
+    screen textscroll():
+        # kick the player back out in X seconds in case they can't find the 'close' button
+        # timer 10.0 action Return() 
+        add "black"
+        timer 2 action(Show("mousedetect"), Show("prompt"))
+        
+        transform: # thanks based nutbuster
+            zoom 0.8
+            rotate 12.5
+            viewport:
+                xalign 0.51 yanchor 0 ypos -50 xysize(795, 1100)
+                child_size(795, 7650)
+                draggable True
+                arrowkeys True
+                # edgescroll(400, 800)
+
+                add "texts"
+                yinitial 1.0
+
+                frame:
+                    xalign 0.53 ypos 100
+                    button:
+                        text "CLOSE" style "button_text":
+                            xalign 0.5
+                        xsize 500
+                        action (Hide("mousedetect"), Hide("prompt"), Hide("textscroll", transition=Dissolve(1.0)), Return())
+        add "fang phone"
+
+    call screen textscroll with dissolve
+
+    pause 1
+
     "{cps=*.1}...{/cps}There’s surprisingly not a lot."
 
     "Seems they interact mostly in person."