Ep-2

Susen's Pov:

Later at Night time was always our time.

No matter how busy the day got, somehow all four of us ended up back in the same lobby like magnets pulling toward each other again.

Sometimes the game stayed open for hours without us even playing properly.

We’d queue into matches, forget the objective halfway through, then spend the rest of the time talking about completely random things while losing terribly.

“Focus!” Cherine would yell.

“You’re literally driving the vehicle into a river,” Theon would reply.

And somewhere in the background, Ruaan would laugh quietly while I tried to breathe from laughing too hard.

Those nights felt endless in the best way possible.

The world outside my room would go silent—streetlights glowing faintly through my curtains, everyone at home asleep—while my headphones filled with voices from different parts of the world.

It felt unreal sometimes.

Like we existed in a separate universe after midnight.

A universe made of bad internet connections, game sound effects, and conversations that drifted everywhere.

We talked about impossible things a lot.

“What if we all met one day?” Cherine asked once during a loading screen.

Theon immediately said, “I’m not hugging any of you.”

“Liar,” I laughed.

“You’d cry first,” Ruaan added.

But after that, the topic never really left.

Slowly, our imaginary plans became a routine.

We’d create ridiculous fake scenarios about meeting each other someday.

Cherine insisted we should all meet in a huge city with neon lights because “main character energy matters.”

Theon wanted a beach house somewhere isolated where he could “escape society.”

Ruaan said he didn’t care where as long as the food was good.

And me?

I secretly just wanted to know what it would feel like to see them in real life instead of through screens.

Sometimes we got oddly detailed with our plans too.

Who would arrive first at the airport. Who would recognize who first. Who would be awkward. Who would cry.

“Cherine would definitely scream in public,” I said once.

“I WOULD NOT.”

“You absolutely would,” Ruaan replied calmly.

The silence after that lasted two seconds before all of us burst into laughter again.

And maybe that’s what made those nights so special.

None of us knew if those plans would ever happen.

Still, we talked about them like they were inevitable.

Like someday the distance between us would finally shrink into something touchable.

I remember one particular night clearly.

It was almost four in the morning for me.

The game had long been abandoned, yet nobody left the call.

Cherine had fallen asleep with her mic still on. Theon was humming some random song softly. And Ruaan…

Ruaan was talking to me quietly while the others slept on the call.

“Do you think we’d actually get along in real life?” I asked absentmindedly.

A small pause.

Then his voice came through my headphones, low and calm.

“We already do.”

And for some reason…

my heart never quite sounded the same after that.

TO BE CONTINUED~ 🍀

***Download NovelToon to enjoy a better reading experience!***