MANIA: The Enigma of Destiny
SEASON 1 [THE UNAWARE HUMAN] CHAPTER 1 [THE THRESHOLD] PART 1 [THE CURSED LAND]
𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙐𝙉𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉]
𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙇𝘿]
𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙐𝙍𝙎𝙀𝘿 𝙇𝘼𝙉𝘿]
{𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕦𝕟𝕥 𝕓𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕣, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕨𝕟.}
𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎.
𝙸𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚙𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜—𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜.
𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚎, 𝚊 𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.
𝙰 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚠, 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚒𝚛.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎.
𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜, 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚢 -𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛, 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚘𝚞𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢.
𝙑𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙄𝘼'𝙎 𝙎𝙉𝙊𝙒𝙔 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝘿𝙄𝙎𝙀
𝚃𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝.
𝙰 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚖 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑, 𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜.
𝙰 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚎.
𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙇𝙄𝙊𝙉'𝙎 𝙈𝙊𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙉𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙄𝙏𝘼𝙇
𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎… 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎.
𝙱𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜.
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎—𝚒𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖.
𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚋𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚊𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚎—𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚊 𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚒𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚐𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚠𝚗.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚞𝚡𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚛.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎—𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐.
𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒈, 𝑰𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒕?? 𝒃𝒖𝒕...
𝚂𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎, 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢?
𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍’𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢?
𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚜𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚒𝚝?
𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐.
𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝙎𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙐𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝘿𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙔 𝘿𝙀𝙇𝙇 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙇𝘿
"𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂! 𝑨 𝒗𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒏.
𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎.
𝑳𝒖𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒔, 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅.
𝑭𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔, 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂’𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆—𝒂 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔." ✨
“𝑰𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔...
“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓, ‘𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂… 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍… 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒂—’”
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𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠—𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑—𝑙𝑢𝑥𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚. 𝑊𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑;
𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑑, 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑛𝑜 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦, 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑦.
𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚-𝑤𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛?
𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦?
𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔?
𝑨 𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝑭𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘, 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦. 𝑾ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛—𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟—𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑢𝑟.
𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆—𝑬𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒆𝒓, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒚𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓.
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒂𝒍, 𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅, 𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓—𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆, 𝒖𝒏𝒚𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉, 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.
𝑰𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍.
𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒔, 𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕.
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒄𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆
✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔… 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘, 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔. ✦
_𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅.
𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏…?
_𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓,
_𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒅
𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉—𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.
_𝓨𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔,
𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎…
𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏…?
𝑳𝒆𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅…
Alexander Acer (MC)
I'm Alexander Acer. (◠‿・)—☆
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Oh—and my father? None other than the legendary business tycoon, Ethan Acer.” 😒
She rolled her eyes, as if even his name weighed too much.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“And my mother… well, she’s no longer here.” Her gaze drifted to the window, where words failed her.
Alexander Acer (MC)
I'm the only child of my family. 😤
Alexander Acer (MC)
“My family was a tapestry woven with love and laughter in my childhood, but now soaked in tears—but I still try to hold my aching hearts together.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
But it’s okay—because finally… I’m going to Marcellia. Yes. You heard that right. Marcellia.
Alexander Acer (MC)
He-he (≧▽≦)
Alexander Acer (MC)
A place, where my dreams can be true…he-he!
Alexander Acer (MC)
And also- *got cut off*
Creek *door opening sound*
Alexander Acer (MC)
*She flinched, and quickly looks back with a frown*
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
“Young lady, your luggage is all set. We really shouldn’t dawdle now, or the flight might slip away.”
She sweetly smiles with Sugarcoated voice.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Ah! Yes-
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Alex! I'm very excited- *got cut off*
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
“Hima! How many times must I tell you—do not address the young lady by her name!” ❄️ She snapped angrily at Himawari.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
She flinched, breath hitching. “M-mom, I’m so—”
The sentence shattered before it could be finished.
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
“Shut up!” she snapped, her voice dripping with anger and venom.
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒆. 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆. 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒕? 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓—𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆. 𝑻𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒑𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒕, 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍.
Alexander Acer (MC)
*She fixes her gaze on Himawari, silence heavy between them.*
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅’𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅—𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Miss Hena!” ❄️ she sighed, casting a sharp glare.
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
"Yes, young lady?.. She flinched hearing her cold voice, quickly glancing at Alex."
Alexander Acer (MC)
"I don’t think it’s okay to speak to your daughter that way—it’s hurtful. Also, I never said or made any rule that people can’t call me by my name."
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
*Looking down while listening to her*
Alexander Acer (MC)
“She’s my darling, okay? She can call me anything—curse me too, I don’t care.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“I hope you understand human language.” ❄️ She smiled—menacing, yet somehow… oddly amusing, like danger wrapped in a joke.
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
Y-yes m…miss Alex *scared*
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
I-I'm sorry, young- *got cut off*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Not to me but to YOUR DAUGHTER!!❄️❄️
Himari kyoka (Caretaker)
"I'm sorry Hima" She was looking down while shivering
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“It’s okay, Mom.” 😊
She smiled with quiet relief, realizing her best friend had once again stepped in to save her from her mother’s harsh words.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Let's go, we are getting late Hima.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Yeah! 👍 Alex
𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐢’𝐬, 𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬.
𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧—𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥, 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
𝐇𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐢’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝?
𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝—𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭’𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫—𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲.
Alexander Acer (MC)
She shouldn't talk like this! How can she talk to her own daughter like this?? *groans frustrated*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*She was looking out of window, with unknown feeling of hurt and sorrow.*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Alexander Acer (MC)
Sometimes, I think she is not your biological mother. (￣(ｴ)￣)
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Sometimes, I same contemplate.
Alexander Acer (MC)
And- *got cut off*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
But first tell me! What have you done? 😑
Alexander Acer (MC)
What do you mean? ミ●﹏☉ミ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
😒
Alexander Acer (MC)
What can I do?😇
Don't you trust me?? *asked with fake hurtful voice*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Nope (눈‸눈)
Alexander Acer (MC)
Oh! My God, why didn't I died before hearing this. ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Melodrama 😑
Alexander Acer (MC)
You can't be my best friend. You don't trust me ಥ╭╮ಥ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Listen-
Alexander Acer (MC)
"Go away I'm not talking to you." She turned her head on other side.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Ow.....my cutie pie come here☺️
Alexander Acer (MC)
Nope, I know you will beat me. ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ *Nervous*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Alex I'm serious, tell me what lie you have told to Mr Acer.
*Intensely looking at Alexander*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Actually 😅
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
🤨
Alexander Acer (MC)
I have told him that I'm going to study 𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒖𝒎 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚 in Marcellia.😃
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Such a big name? *Stunned*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Sighed, rubbing forehead in frustration* And he agreed? *Looks at her*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Nope there is a Problem.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
What? problem
Alexander Acer (MC)
He told me he'd disinherit me if i went to Marcellia!
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*eyes widened* Wait What!!??
Alexander Acer (MC)
*nervously laughs, looking away*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
And you agreed??!! *Stunned*
Alexander Acer (MC)
*Nods slowly*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Silent*
Alexander Acer (MC)
*Silent*
[ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴀ ʟᴏɴɢ ᴘᴀᴜsᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ꜱᴇᴇᴍᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʜᴏʟᴅ ɪᴛꜱ ʙʀᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀꜱ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴜɴꜰᴏʟᴅᴇᴅ.]
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Shrugs off* No worries!
Alexander Acer (MC)
*Looks at her* huh?
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Even if your father disinherits you, your wealth remains, full bank accounts, limitless credit, black cards untouched. You are still wealthy my friend.
*patting her back, assuring her*
Alexander Acer (MC)
But he seized all my bank accounts and cut off every line of credit. I have wealth only in memory, not in reach. 🙂
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*blank expression, takes hand back * That means you are…
*Looks at her* Now broke!!
Alexander Acer (MC)
༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
So, what you are going to do now?
Alexander Acer (MC)
Well, first I'll go Marcellia at my uncle and aunt's home...
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Nods* I'm coming with you. No matter what!
Alexander Acer (MC)
*Smiles* Thanks
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
I can't imagine how much pain, you are hiding behind those smiles. 🙂
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Your own father is not understanding you.
Alexander Acer (MC)
The same goes to your mother. ^_________^
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Our lives are kinda twisted. *Chuckle*
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Driver: Young madam, we have arrived airport.
𝙰𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝, 𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚓𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍, 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍.
𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗, 𝚊 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍, 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎.
𝑨 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒍.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Oh! Ok
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Driver: Should, I take the luggages? Young madam
Alexander Acer (MC)
No, it's okay we will take it. You can go back to the villa. *Politely said*
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Driver: Safe journey, Young madam. *smile*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Same goes to you, be safe on the way back to villa. 😊
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Hurry up! Alex or we will be late. *taking luggages*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Yes, let's go 😐
unknown
B-boss as you said, my work is done. *Scared, shivering*
unknown
... *𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚*
unknown
So why don't you give me.....
Alexander Acer (MC)
*sat happily at window seat* Window, My love!!! *dramatically*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Judging her, pinched bridge of nose in irritation*
Alexander Acer (MC)
*looks at her*
Alexander Acer (MC)
See you were saying that we will be late, but we are on time. *Flexing that she is right*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Yeah... 😑 *Annoyed*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Glanced at somewhere*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Oh my lord!
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Alexander Acer (MC)
What happened?ಠಿ_ಠ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
That boy, he is so much handsome. 😳*whispers*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
See
Alexander Acer (MC)
Who? And where?
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
There, in the front seat.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Looks like, God blessed my eyes after so many days to see such a beauty.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Yeah, but why your nose is bleeding. Don't you have boyfriend? ☺️ *killer smile*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Yes, I have 😤
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
So? What do you mean, Don't tell me that you are going to tell him, (｡ŏ﹏ŏ) *shaking due to fear*
Alexander Acer (MC)
What if I say......yes *vicious smirk*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Please don't, you know how much possessive he is. *Begging*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Then, why are you checking out other boys? 😑
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
I'm checking out for you.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Really?? ^_________^
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Yes 😿 I don't want you to die single you know. (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
See, he is perfect for you.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Fine! Let me see him first.
Alexander Acer (MC)
I can't see his full face by the way, but still not bad.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
What did you say? "Not bad" ಠ‿ಠ
Alexander Acer (MC)
Ouch 🤕, why did you slapped me?
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
This is the reason, why you are still single! *frustrated voice* ಠ︵ಠ
Alexander Acer (MC)
But what can I do, I don't like blond's even a bit. ತ_ʖತ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
And why is that? 🤨
Alexander Acer (MC)
Once upon a time. When I was eight years old. *Dramatically narrating*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Smacked her*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Ouch! *makes a cry face*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Glaring* Say without putting spices
Alexander Acer (MC)
*pouts, cluntching on heart dramatically* but how will you feel my painful story?
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Raised eyebrows*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Fine, I had an insane crush on that time in Marcellia with a boy. And he was a Blondie.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Fine! I had an insane crush on a boy back then in Marcellia, and he was a blondie.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Blond 🙂
Alexander Acer (MC)
Blondie *stubbornly*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
🤨
Alexander Acer (MC)
*nervous* Ok… Blond, I had a crush on a blond hair boy.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Nods* Yeah… back then, your whole family was living in Marcellia. But after your mom’s death, your father moved here—to Paris.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Yeah, and he was a year younger than me… yet he rejected me so harshly it shattered whatever confidence I had left. ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Alexander Acer (MC)
I still can’t erase those memories… recalling them makes the hair on my arms stand on end.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
"T-thank G-God it didn’t happen to me… I-I can’t even fathom how mortifying it must be for her…" 😰
She thought, her mind a jumbled mess of imagined, embarrassing moments—Alexander’s confession and her rejection."
Alexander Acer (MC)
I just… I don’t understand—how can someone be that unbelievably arrogant at such a small age? ಥ‿ಥ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
😅 You should take rest Alex!! we talk later.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Yeah! You are right I'm exhausted right now. (^～^;)ゞ
Alexander Acer (MC)
Bye, good night.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Frown*
G-good night, but it's still daylight.
Alexander Acer (MC)
For me every time is good night.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
I still Can't believe that, my bestie is such a lazy person. 😑
unknown
So what's Your opinion boss?? you will give me or not. *looking down*
unknown
I'll give but.... *𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐬*
𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝙊𝙁 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙉𝙀 – 𝙀𝙉𝘿
PART 2 OF CHAPTER 1 [ABODE]
[𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣’𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤]
“𝔻𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕪, 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕒 𝕤𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕, 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕗𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕨𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥. 𝕀𝕥 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕦𝕟𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕟 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕒 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕝𝕖𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕖—𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕒 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕖𝕥 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕠𝕗 𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕤𝕠 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤.”
𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙐𝙉𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉]
𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙇𝘿]
𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑰𝑨 𝑵𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻𝑽𝑬𝑰𝑳 𝑨𝑬𝑹𝑶𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑴𝑬
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅. 𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓... 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓, 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉
𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒏.
𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝑹𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑨𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 .
𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕.
𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆—𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒔.
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒄, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚.
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏—𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅.
𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅… 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒏.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕, 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝑨𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒆.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕-𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
So this is Marcellia...
Alexander Acer (MC)
Yeah...
𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂, 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓.
𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍, 𝒔𝒐𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚, 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔.
𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅... 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏… 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒅.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂, 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 🕯️
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕, 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉... 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑, 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆.
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“Alex, will you stop spinning? This is an airport, not a playground.” 🙂
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Haha, as if I’m going to listen.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Really?.. *Raised eyebrows*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Ouch!!” She rubs her cheeks in pain, gasping theatrically.
“Heartless! Absolutely heartless to beat a kind-hearted little girl like me this way…” ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Unimpressed, crossing arms* 😑
Alexander Acer (MC)
She pauses, eyes shimmering with fake tragedy
“… History will remember this.” she declares dramatically. ಠ︵ಠ
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
She sighed, exhausted by Alex’s drama, and decided that ignoring her reckless behavior was the smarter choice.
“Let’s wait for them in the airport waiting area.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
*Nods* Yeah.. You're right...
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒚 𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊’𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓.
𝑨𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒔, 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈.
𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔, 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎, 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒘.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander glanced at the clock and leaned back, legs stretched out carelessly.
“They should be here soon.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“Don’t worry, they'll come in sometime… they might be a little late because of traffic,” her voice assured softly.
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒕.
𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚, 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌.
𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒅... 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒕... 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑.
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒔... 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆’𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆.
𝑹𝒊𝒊𝒏𝒈!! 𝑹𝒊𝒊𝒏𝒈!! [𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈]
Alexander Acer (MC)
She jumped slightly when cellphone rang, a small frown forming as she looked at it. “Huh?”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Oi! Hima, looks like your phone is ringing. ( ╹▽╹ )
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“Yeah, wait a sec!” She hurriedly rummaged through her purse as her cellphone rang.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Hello!
Tyler Fernandez
Hi sweetheart! *Deep and husky voice*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Oh! Tyler, Darling I missed you so much. 😩
Tyler Fernandez
“You did?”
His eyes didn’t leave Himawari’s picture, emotions crashing silently as his fingers trembled around it.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Ofcourse!...
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Don't you believe me?
Tyler Fernandez
I do trust you, but you always end up breaking it. *heavy voice*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
I'm sor- *got cut off*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Who are you talking to? *frowns*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“T-Tyler—” Her voice trembled. She shuddered, overwhelmed by the pain of knowing she had hurt the person she loved most.
Tyler Fernandez
“Give the phone to Alex,”
he said in a flat voice, unsure whether to cry or scream. He knew that if he spoke any further, he would say something he’d regret.
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙, 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Hello, young man!” She smiled widely.
Tyler Fernandez
Hi! Alex, how are you?
Alexander Acer (MC)
I'm fin- *got cut off*
Tyler Fernandez
Did you guys reached Marcellia?
Alexander Acer (MC)
Dear, Tyler! *Killer smile*
Alexander Acer (MC)
Looks like you have forgotten yesterday's beating. ☺️
Tyler Fernandez
*Remembering* 🙂
Alexander Acer (MC)
HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE TOLD YOU, TO NOT CUT ME BETWEEN I'M TALKING ಠ益ಠ
Tyler Fernandez
I-I'm s-orry *shuttering*
Tyler Fernandez
⊙﹏⊙ *Shivering*
Tyler Fernandez
C-can you hand over the phone to Hima.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Humph! Ok!!
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“Yeah, Tyler… we’ve reached Marcellia safely, so please don’t worry.”
She paused, her voice trembling just a little. “And I’m… I’m really sorry for hurting you again and again.
Alexander Acer (MC)
*She remained seated beside Himawari in silence, quietly listening to every word of their conversation.*
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Her fingers tightened, eyes sincere and warm.
“But believe me... truly... I love you, unconditionally. With no doubts, no limits.”
She said it genuinely, straight from her heart
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Clenching her fist, she stood in silence, the weight of anticipation pressing on her as she waited for his reply.*
Tyler Fernandez
“I believe you... truly. And I love you too.”
He smiled softly, his expression filled with quiet affection.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“I know. By the way, I’ll talk to you later, okay?”
Tyler Fernandez
He gave a small nod, a quiet sigh escaping him.
“Hmm… alright. Take care of yourself and call me in your free time.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Smiles* You too...
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
*Cut the call*
Tyler Fernandez
“I hope you don’t betray my trust again… because even I don’t know what I’ll become if you do.”
He stared at her picture, a storm of emotions flickering in his eyes.
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𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐫, 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞
𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡, 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧?
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐛 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞?
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝟔:𝟏𝟎 𝒂.𝒎. 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒃𝒂𝒈 𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒆 𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒋𝒂𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕... 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“Tell me,” she said slowly, dangerously calmly.
“Why you thought this was a good time to look for your other sock.”
𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉, 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅’𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I’m not looking for it. I’m sure it’ll just… appear.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“Appear?” She laughed, sharp and humorless.
“Like magic? Like the way you forgot to set the alarm? Or the way you forgot to put petrol in the car?”
𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅, 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒔. 𝑯𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“These don’t match, do they?”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
Her eye twitched.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“Those,” she said, pointing, “are slippers.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
Oh... (─.─||）
Emma Seinne Martìnez
She shut her eyes, inhaled deeply, the way people do before committing a crime.
“My Alex and her friend are landing in twenty minutes. Twenty. And I trusted you with the timing.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I was worried,” he said, fumbling with the car keys and dropping them.
“I kept thinking... what if the flight is early? What if the traffic is bad? What if—”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“What if you used your brain?”
She snapped. “Just once?”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
He bent to pick up the keys, knocked over a plant, apologized to the plant, then froze.
“Wait— did you say airport or railway station?”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
She grabbed the keys from his hand.
“You are clumsy, reckless, unbelievably stupid and I swear, if my Alex has to wait even five minutes—”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I’ll carry her luggage!” he offered desperately.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“You’ll carry my anger,” she said, yanking the door open.
“Now move before I leave you here to apologize to the furniture.”
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒔... 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅, 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒆’𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕.
𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.
Alexander Acer (MC)
"She is Himawari, I know her from the time my dad appointed her mother as our house's caretaker"
Alexander Acer (MC)
"I know she acts a little tough but her soul is a heart overflowing with kindness, a daughter who's a blessing in disguise for her cruel mother.
The memory of our first meeting still lingers, a bittersweet whisper in my mind."
Alexander Acer (MC)
*Closed eyes, remembering*
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒐𝒏, 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍.
𝑺𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒔.
𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝒂 𝒗𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔, 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈.
𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓, 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆.
𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓.
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚, 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑰𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒖𝒅.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
"Owww!" *wailed, scrambling to sit up. Her hands flew to her knee, and tears welled up in eyes*
𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒊𝒈, 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒅𝒐𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏.
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙’𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒆; 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕.
𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆, 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓.
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
あなたは不器用ですね (You are clumsy)
Alexander Acer (6 years)
??? *Frowns, looked up*
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Froze, mesmerized*
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙'𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍'𝒔 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒔.
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕, 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒘.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚-𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌. ✨
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Staring at her*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
??? *confused, tilted head*
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒋𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒆, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈—𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔. ✨
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Sighed, flicked over her head gently* おい、じろじろ見ないで！マナー違反だよ (Oi, stop staring! It's bad manners.)
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*snaps after getting that little flick on her forehead by that beautiful girl, blinks rapidly, processing*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Ouch! *rubs her forehead with a cute pout*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Raised eyebrows, crossed arms*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
what are you saying?.. *still looking at her*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*sighed* So you don't understand Japanese?
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Japanese?? *confused*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*pinched bridge of nose, annoyed* It's a language...
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Oh! So it's a language *nods, in understanding*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
Yeah, because I'm from Japan.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Smiling happily, her eyes was sparkling with excitement* Wow! You are so cool! *clapping happily*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*sighed, points at her injured knee* looks like your injured knee doesn't hurt now!
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*She blinked remembering her injured knee, looks down*
it still does… But you are so much beautIful that I forgot my pain for some time.
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Eyes widened, froze hearing her words*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*looks up, Still kinda staring*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Blushed, looks away* Stop staring! And don't go saying rubbish things.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*laughs* Ok!
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*sighed, smiles a little. Sits down near Alex, examing the scrape*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
It's not too bad! *looking at injured knee*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*nods* hm!
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
My mom has band-aids inside. Want me to get one?
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Mom! Where is your mom? *asked, looking at her*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
She is inside this big mansion! *points at the big mansion*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Looks at her pointed direction with a frown* huh?
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Oh.. It's my home.
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Shocked* A-are you, young lady mi..miss Alexander Acer??? *scared*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Frowns* Yes I am Alexander... but why are you looking scared beautiful girl?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*froze, then quickly bows* I-i'm s-sorry young lady.. I'm sorry to behave rudely.. *tears geatherd in her big innocent doe eyes*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Frowns, gently holds her, makes her properly sit* Hey, beautiful girl, don't be scared.
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Tears rolling down, sniffing*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Gently wipes her tears with small hands, gently asked* Did i hurt you?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Hurriedly shakes head*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Did i said something bad? *gently said*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Shakes head* No you didn't… *looking down*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Gently holds her head up* then, why are you scared?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
Be-because my mama said, i shouldn't talk rudely with you. *looking at her*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Listening*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to behave like a bad girl.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Gently holds her hand* It's ok, you didn't behave rudely. It's the way you are and i think you are a cool person. *Smiling*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Stunned hearing her words*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
You know what? My mom says we shouldn't try to be someone else. We should just be ourselves, or we won't be happy
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Nods slowly*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Smiles* And you were being just the way you are!
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Smiles* Thank you!
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Then give me a tight hug like my mama gives! *giggling, she opened her hands wide for big hug but—*
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙, 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒈, 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒖𝒅! 🍃
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*frowns, sits up with a big pout* She didn't even say a bye to me.
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒕.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Eyes widened*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*hugged her from back, there was some beautiful band-aids in her hand*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Smiles happily, turned around, facing her. Still a little bit surprised*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*She sat down, carefully took her leg with a gentle touch, and placed it on her lap, her movements full of concern.*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*looking at her, with a questioning look* ??
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
Will you help in treating your wound? *looks at her with smile*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Her eyes widened in realization, then she nodded with a happy smile.*
𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅-𝒂𝒊𝒅. ✨
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Hugs her* What is your name?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*hugs back* Himawari kyoka!
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*pulled back* I'm Alexander Acer! But you can call me Alex! *winks playfully*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*froze, glares* who is teaching you these things! It's bad manners, you shouldn't wink at people!
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Pouts, looking down* Sorry…
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Sighed, smiles a little* it's ok, but my mama says it's a bad thing...
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Why it's a bad thing? *Confused*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Pinched her cheeks, playfully* I don't know, but she says it's bad.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Oww! *Pouts, rubbing her cheeks* Meanie!
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Giggles*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Looks up, smiles happily* Well, what are you doing here? I never saw you…
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Smiling* My mama is looking after your one of villas in Paris, your parents appointed her to take care of that place.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Tilted head in confusion* What is a villa?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
She stretched her arms out wide, saying.
"A villa is like a super big house, but it's like for rich people, And it has a big garden and sometimes a pool too!"
Alexander Acer (6 years)
She nodded in understanding. "Oh... So what are you doing in Marcella?"
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
She Shacked her head in disagreement as little Alex mispronounced the word.
"Uh-huh!!.. It's not Marcella. It's Mercellia!"
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Pouts* Ok... Marcellia, but i still don't know how you came here?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
I don't know, your parents wanted to meet my mama for some work.
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Oh...
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Smiling*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
So, are you leaving after my parents finish talking with your mama? *sad*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Her smile faded, and her gaze dropped, allowing tears to gather like fragile pearls on the brink of falling*
𝑨𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂’𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘. ✧
Alexander Acer (6 years)
I'm going to miss you SO MUCH! *little Alex wailed, tears streaming down her face*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
Little Himawari sniffed, her eyes all red and puffy. "Me too! But I have to go with mama!"
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*She was looking down, tears were rolling down from her eyes. Maybe she was feeling attached with her new little friend and didn't want to leave her. *
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
But after I grow up I'll come to meet you, I promise! *showing pinky finger*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*Smiles, wipes own and her tears, matches pinky finger with her* Me too!
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Smiles happily*
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Wait! Can we do a 'Best Friends Forever' thing before you go? *Looking at her with hope filled eyes*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Shocked* Do you want to be my best friend?
Alexander Acer (6 years)
*nods* Can I?
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Smiles* Sure!
Alexander Acer (6 years)
Let's make a special promise stone! We each keep one, and think of each other when we look at it! *Stands up, give hands to her*
Himawari kyoka (7 years)
*Smile and holds her hand, standing up*
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒓. ✨
𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝙏𝙒𝙊 𝙊𝙁 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙉𝙀 –𝙀𝙉𝘿
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[𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣’𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤]
"𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕖𝕤
𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟 𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥.
𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕛𝕠𝕪, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕖𝕥."
𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙐𝙉𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉]
𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙉𝙀 [𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙇𝘿]
𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 [𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗢𝗦]
𝑫𝒂𝒘𝒏 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒂𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒃 𝒉𝒆𝒓.
𝑺𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒏 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓… 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉, 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒕, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍... 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕.
𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏—𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒅.
𝑨 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆… 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒄𝒆… 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒍𝒚.
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑.
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕.
𝑨 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅... 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒎𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒔𝒚.
𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚, 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒂𝒅𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈... 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚... 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒖𝒑, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓.
𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑, 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉—𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕, 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑…
…𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.
𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓… 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈.
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆... 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅-𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“Mom?” she called, her voice still laced with sleep.
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒌𝒏𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏. 𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏. 𝑵𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒕, 𝒏𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒂, 𝒏𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“Dad?” she tried again, a little louder this time..
𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔, 𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎—𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒚—𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒚. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“Oh, that’s great. That’s just amazing,” she muttered, placing her hands on her hips.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒆.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“Disappear without telling your own daughter.... very responsible, very impressive.”
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚. 𝑵𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔. 𝑵𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“So now I’m just… what? A houseplant?” she scoffed. “Water me once a day and hope I survive?”
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆.
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“No note, no message, no ‘hey sweetheart, we’re alive’... nothing. Wow. Parenting level: expert.”
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“You know what? Fine. Go wherever you want,” she said, flipping her hair back with a dramatic flick.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“It’s not like I care. It’s not like I woke up expecting basic human communication or anything.”
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“…But if they think I’m not going to interrogate them the second they come back, they are very, very wrong.”
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒅, 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚.
Rosabella Seinne Martìnez
“Unbelievable,” she muttered under her breath. “I live with actual ghosts.”
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 “𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈” 𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆.
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓, 𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎, 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 — 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.
𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔, 𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“I think,” Alexander announced solemnly, “this airport and I have formed an emotional bond.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“You’ve been here forty minutes,” Himawari replied without looking up from her phone.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Time moves differently when you’re abandoned by family.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“You weren’t abandoned. Your uncle said they were ‘five minutes away’ twenty minutes ago.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander gasped. “Exactly. Betrayal.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
She suddenly sat up. “What if they forgot what I look like?”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari deadpanned, “You video-called them yesterday.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“They might have memory loss.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“You talked for two hours.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“…Selective memory loss.”
[𝙼𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 — 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝]
𝑨 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓 𝒛𝒊𝒈𝒛𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕.
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏… 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“We were supposed to turn back there.”
She said for the fifth time, arms crossed.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I knew that,” he replied confidently, not slowing down.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“Then why didn’t you turn?”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I am testing an alternative route.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“There is no alternative route. That was the only road.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
He squinted at the GPS. “The map is confused.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“The map is not confused. You are confused.”
𝑯𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“…Why is it raining inside the car?” he muttered.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“It is not raining,” she said slowly. “You turned on the wipers.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“Oh.”
𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒍𝒚.
𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
Her aunt closed her eyes. “I raised children. I survived relatives. But teaching you directions will be my greatest challenge.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I drove perfectly last time!”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“You drove into a wedding procession.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“They appeared suddenly!”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“They were dancing for twenty minutes!”
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“No new messages. I fear they have entered another dimension.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari didn’t react. “Or traffic.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander leaned closer. “You always choose the logical explanation. Where is your sense of drama?”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“I left it at home intentionally.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander grinned. “That’s why you need me.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“I do not need you.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“You absolutely do. Who else will embarrass you in public?”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
😑
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“…You already do that.”
𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“UNCLE! ARE YOU ALIVE?”
𝑨 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“ALEXANDER! WE ARE COMING! JUST SMALL PROBLEM!”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari mouthed silently: Of course.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“What problem?” Alexander asked.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“We passed the airport.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“…How do you pass an airport?”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“It moved.”
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
From the background, Emma’s voice snapped, “THE AIRPORT DID NOT MOVE. YOU MISSED THE TURN AGAIN.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I was observing scenery!”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“You were waving at cows!”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“They waved first!”
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Auntie, please save us,” she said between giggles.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“I am trying,” Emma replied. “We will be there in ten minutes. If he listens to directions.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“I always listen!”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“You argue with directions!”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander wiped tears from laughing. “I missed them so much.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari shook her head. “Your family explains a lot about you.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Excuse me. I am perfectly normal.”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“You tried to check in our luggage at the coffee shop.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“They looked professional!”
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
💢💢 *Annoyed*
𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“See? Perfect navigation.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“We made three circles around the same roundabout.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“That was strategic patience.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
She sighed but smiled despite herself. “Your niece better still recognize us after this delay.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
He grinned. “She will. Alexander laughs before she complains.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“And her friend?”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“…Pray for her patience.”
[𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎]
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“I SEE THEIR CAR!”
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒍𝒚, 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒈𝒆.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“You said that about five taxis already.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“No, this one is swerving emotionally. That’s definitely Uncle.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander waved wildly. “THEY’RE HERE!”
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒍𝒚… 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒘𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏.
𝑯𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒛𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚.
𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“That,” Himawari said, deadpan, “must be your uncle.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander’s face lit up like fireworks. “UNCLE!”
𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒏—𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇—𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒎.
𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐, 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆… 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅.
𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅.
𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔.
𝑯𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“…I saw nothing,” he muttered from the ground, staring at the sky.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander crouched beside him, grinning way too widely. “You’re just as cool as I remembered.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
He sat up immediately, clearing his throat. “Of course I am. I meant to do that.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
Chuckles softly, eyes lighting up with genuine warmth “I really missed you… my cool uncle.”
𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅, 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“…I did more than that,” he added, a hint of pride sneaking into his voice despite everything.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒓—𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅, “𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍” 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆.
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒖𝒕 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
“Sorry to say miss but you’re late,” Himawari said, calm but firm.
Emma Seinne Martìnez
The aunt exhaled slowly. “We would have been on time,” she said, glaring at her husband, “if someone didn’t take the wrong turn three times.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“It was not three times,” the uncle protested. “It was… strategically reconsidering the route.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“You drove in a circle.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“It was a wide circle.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
The aunt pinched the bridge of her nose. “And then he insisted on parking far away because—what was it?”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
The uncle straightened proudly. “Exercise builds character.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“You got lost in the parking lot.”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“…That parking lot was unnecessarily complex.”
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander leaned toward her and whispered loudly, “This is better than a movie.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
“I Can hear you,” Emma firmly said.
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Good,” Alexander chirped.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
The uncle suddenly reached for Alexander’s suitcase. “Give me that. I’ll carry it.”
𝑯𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚.
𝑯𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒊𝒕—𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚—𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
“…Perfect,” he said.
Himawari kyoka (Daughter of Himari)
Himawari quietly took the other suitcase from his hand. “I’ll handle this.”
Emma Seinne Martìnez
The aunt turned toward the car. “Everyone, inside. Before something else happens.”
𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆—𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒆𝒍𝒃𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒕.
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
"Why it happens with me?" He sighed.
𝑯𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒊 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅.
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒖𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕.
Alexander Acer (MC)
Alexander hopped along beside her uncle. “So, what’s the next plan? Another ‘wide circle’ adventure?”
Carlos Seinne Martìnez
He glanced at her, trying to stay serious, but failed for a second. “…We are going straight home.”
Alexander Acer (MC)
“Boring,” she said instantly.
𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗡𝗘 — 𝗘𝗡𝗗...
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