This was quite wholesome! I really liked Stacy haha. I also like the use of Fungus here (I used it once upon a time). The character and background art is really good, and I like the style!
I did run into a bug multiple times with Derek not finishing his initial conversation (forcing me to restart the game). Eventually I was able to complete it though.
A quality of life feature that would be nice is if the new option for giving an inventory item could automatically appear in the dialog menu when we switch items, instead of needing to cancel and reopen the menu.