Pastel Frontier 2 Prologue

Original date: August 14, 2024

2 years ago, Genesis and her younger brother Blade, aged 19 and 18 at the time, accompanied by their father, found a treasure in the middle of the pastel-colored woods, when suddenly, a hitman was hiding in one of the trees, holding a knife. 

He showed up, running to stab their father, who told his daughter and son to run before dying. The two of them obliged, and they ran away from the scene, only for the hitman to chase after them, who ended up in a cliff.

Suddenly, just as Genesis was about to jump off the cliff with her brother, the hitman spared their lives upon realizing that she was a woman, before letting two of them go and jump from the cliff.

Soon, the two siblings ended up being washed ashore on a river, before going to a cave that led to a village, where Blade found a house for him and his sister to live after they were left alone without parents.

By the time they started living in this house, Genesis found a scroll and started to study it using a sword that was left behind.

Soon, the two of them started to train each other using swords.

7 years later, Blade was now a 25-year-old swordsman.

One day, while wandering in a forest trail with his sister, now aged 26, he saw a bear running after him, when suddenly, he fell down to the ground, and a woman about the same age as his sister, came to his rescue by scaring the bear away with her maple-themed attacks.

Blade thanked her for saving him, to which she introduced herself as his best friend Maple. 

Not long after, upon seeing her attractive appearance and personality, he started to have feelings for her, and so, the two of them started dating.

Eventually, the two of them were sitting next to each other in a hill, with him saying to her that he wants to avenge his father, and she tells him that she wants to introduce him to her own father at her own house, without realizing that his father had passed away 7 years prior.

Upon hearing her words, Blade embraced Maple in his own arms, before going to the same house he and his sister lived in 7 years ago, for the night.

The next day, she takes him to her house, where her father, who was the one who killed his father, and he tried to attack him, only for her to come to his defense.

In the end, although she saved his life, she fell into his arms, causing Blade to cry over her body.

He calmed down, and he got angry towards her father to the point he told him "I'm never going to forgive you anymore for what have you done to her...!" before carrying her away to a isolated spot in the woods.

Upon arriving in the woods, Blade laid Maple on the ground, and he saw a woman 3 years his junior, walking with a box of pastel crayons, who was later revealed to be Pastel-chan.

He asked her if she can save his lover, to which she agreed to save her by drawing a maple leaf to wake her up.

Upon waking up, Maple had no idea that her lover was still on her side. 

Soon, she and Blade were more than happy to see each other, to which they started to kiss each other.

August 14th, 2024. 

One day, outside the game, after receiving an email from the developers of Pastel Frontier to compose music for an advertisement of their upcoming online game, now known under the name of Pastel Frontier 2, DJ Shams, a 31-year-old singer-songwriter from Saudi Arabia, headed to the headquarters.

Upon arriving in the recording studio, he encountered two different voice actors recording voice lines for the existing NPCs Blade and Pastel-chan, who they were cast as, before asking them if they could collaborate with him on his new song, to which they agreed to collaborate with him, using the names of the characters they were cast as.

Soon, the music was a success to the point it began to be used for the game's advertisement, and the music video went viral that several players started to play Pastel Frontier 2 for the very first time since its very first closed beta test, all the way up to its release 2 weeks later.

Around that time, there lived a completely different VTuber named Mofuru Sugikura (杉倉もふる), who was about the same age as DJ Shams.

Unlike him, she was a member of Pastel Frontier 1's development team since day one and left the company after Pastel Frontier 1 was shutdown. 

One day, while in her room, she stumbled upon an advertisement promoting Pastel Frontier 2, which, and so, she decides to give the game a try, only for her to get transported into the game.

Soon, she found herself in the house where Blade and his sister lived, all alone on her bed, sleeping the whole time, when suddenly, she wakes up to a weapon she had only seen in the first game, and it was none other than a sword and a book.

Upon wielding the sword and book as her weapons, Mofuru left the house.

While wandering in the hills, she encounters Blade, Maple and Pastel-chan, who were both way younger than her, for the first time, with him asking her if she could come join the three of them in their quest to find the missing Pastel Crayons, scattered throughout the Pastel Desert, to which she agreed.

And so, the story of Pastel Frontier 2 begins...

The Musketeer of Ouroboros

Original date: December 19th, 2022 (part 1) December 27th, 2022 (part 2)

While Elsword, Aisha, Rena and Ain were going to another continent in Elrios for an another adventure, the ship they were sailing on sunk and their lifeboats were capsized as well, finding themselves in a strange island called Ouroboros. 

Rumors say that there were three musketeers in that island due to their unique sword techniques, making them impossible to be defeated by anyone else, including a skilled swordsman.

One of the musketeers happened to save the heroes and brought them to her house, where they find out that there was a epidemic in Ouroboros and one of her colleagues found himself shipwrecked in Velder and the other drank contaminated mineral water from the river, resulting in his hospitalization in Lanox for food poisoning to their horror. 

She gives them a quest to find the ingredients to make the secret recipe to cure the virus that causes the epidemic. 

Will Elsword, Aisha, Rena and Ain save the island of Ouroboros by making this lifesaving recipe? Find out in The Musketeer of Ouroboros!

One day, the ship whom Elsword, Aisha, Rena and Ain were sailing to another continent in Elrios, shipwrecked into a rock and capsized, and while the four of them got into two separate lifeboats, the lifeboats unfortunately capsized as well, which led to them getting found ashore off the coast of an strange island called Ouroboros.

Rumors say that there are three musketeers in this island, and one of them saved them by taking the two of them to her house one by one. 

Arriving at her house, the musketeer introduces herself as Sibyl and she tells them about what happened to the other musketeers. 

According to her, one of her colleagues named Leith was trying to travel to Sander, only to get shipwrecked off the coast of Velder, and the other, Takeo drank mineral water from a river contaminated by a virus that causes the epidemic in Ouroboros, resulting in his hospitalization in Lanox for food poisoning.

Sibyl shows the four her drawing of the secret recipe, listing the ingredients required to make one, and one of the ingredients were a dragon fruit and one can be only obtained by cutting a shining watermelon, which contains the main ingredient required to make this potion and can be only found at the entrance of the cave. 

Upon giving them the quest, the four of them split off to find the ingredients.

At the other side of the forest, Elsword and Ain extracted the contaminated mineral water whom Takeo drank prior to their arrival in the island, putting it into a bottle and going elsewhere. 

Meanwhile, Aisha and Rena were hungry and found a dragon fruit tree in a beach, in which they took one out of the tree, and then picked three of them in order to make the ingredient. 

However, they couldn't figure out on how to make a knife, so the former had a idea on how to make one, and she found a rock and wood to make a knife.

Thanks to Aisha's help, she and Rena were able to eat the dragon fruit they took off earlier and put the remaining ones on their bags before leaving the beach. Arriving at an alchemist's house, the two put the three dragon fruits on the table.

On the other hand, for Elsword and Ain, they saw what it looked like to be a flower field, and to their surprise, the flowers were actually the same flowers that replaced Fawn's flower on her head in her 4th path and Fawn shows up in front of them, trapping them in her vines and saying to them "I see what you've done. What were you guys doing?"

Ain tries to break the vines Fawn trapped him in, saying to her "My job here is done." and Elsword tried to escape as well, but she eventually destroyed the vines, in which she points her crossbow at them and told them "But you guys didn't do anything, so I give you some ingredients." before giving them the El Potion she found on her way to the Tree of El and asked them not to drink it and use it for the secret recipe, in which they agreed and the two of them walked away to the alchemist's house and put the El Potion next to the three dragon fruits Aisha and Rena gathered, before leaving the house.

As the four of them got tired of searching for every single ingredients, they went to a mixed hot spring to take a rest, and while they were relaxing in a sparkling bath with the three musketeers, Ain took out an empty bottle and filled it with the sparkling bath water, only to stare at Aisha and pretended that he looked at nothing, only for her to slap him in the face and the five of them, including the musketeers, except the two of them laughed at him awkwardly.

After spending their time in the hot spring, everybody came to put on their clothes, and the three musketeers apologized to Ain for laughing at him and he forgave them shortly after. 

The next day, an earthquake broke the bridge between the main island, often called as Ouroboros and the less-populated island of Horus, making it impossible to access the island of Horus and the cost to repair the bridge was 2 billion ED, which was only found in a cave along with the shining watermelon, in which our heroes have accepted the quest.

Once they arrived at the mysterious cave's entrance, Elsword and Aisha found a shining watermelon and they wanted to eat them, but Rena stopped them, saying that the watermelon was a necessary ingredient to make the secret recipe, and the former cut the fruit in half with the sword, introducing a seed that created this strange phenomenon and the latter of the two holds it, saying "Wait! That must be the miracle we've been searching for this epidemic!" and the former replied "Yeah! That's what we've been looking for the whole time!"

Just as expected, the two put the seed in their bag, and meanwhile, Fawn and Ain found themselves stranded in Horus, trying to find a way on how to leave the island. 

Arriving at the cave, Elsword, Aisha and Rena saw a swarm of bats attacking them, and they fought back against them, continuing their path, while slaying evil goblins, and they stopped upon meeting an orc who threatened to kill them if they steal the treasure to their horror.

The orc in turn fought against them, and however, since they couldn't fight against him, they were attempting to surrender themselves to him by dropping their weapons to the ground until Starla walks in to defend them by using her newly-learned earth skills at him and her shield skill on her allies, before saying to Elsword "Don't give up with your friends yet! You all have plenty of time left to defeat this orc, and remember, take your time if you haven't already!"

After countless hours of fighting and thanks to Starla's help, the three heroes successfully defeated the orc and finally got access to the treasure vault, in which they got all of the treasure and had fun with it, with Elsword putting the golden crown on his head and throwing the ED coins to the ground, only for the three musketeers to show up and say to him "Dude, have you found the 2 billion ED we're looking for to repair that bridge?", then he replied "Yes, we've found the 2 billion ED."

Sibyl and Takeo thanked Elsword for finding the 2 billion ED required to repair the bridge, and thanks to his help, they were able to repair the bridge between Ouroboros and Horus, thus allowing Rena and Ain to reunite with their allies, and they hugged each other again, before seeing a mysterious entity flying in the sky, presumed to be the dragon called Ouroboros himself.

At the same time, there were two silhouettes in the bridge between Ouroboros and Horus, later revealed to be Raven and Eve, in front of Elsword, Aisha, Rena and Ain, only for the three musketeers Sibyl, Leith and Takeo to push the four of them away and they got into a fight against the two of them, with the four of them running away to hide in the alchemist's house and make the secret recipe to get rid of the epidemic in Ouroboros Island.

As Elsword, Aisha, Rena and Ain were done making the secret recipe, which was a vaccine, it was glowing green in front of them, which made them think that they've found the miracle for Ouroboros. 

The latter suggested to the former that they should try testing it on lab rats, and he agreed to him. 

At first, they didn't have any side effects of the vaccine, but was eventually cured by now.

Ain suggested Elsword to test the vaccine on the animals of the island, and together, they tested the vaccine on the animals while wearing beekeeping protective gear to prevent the virus from getting transmitted to them, and after vaccinating the animals of Ouroboros, they got tired and went to settle inside the alchemist house.

A week later, while the two were going out for fishing, they caught the virus and started to have their face become crystallized and rock-hard, before it spread on their skin, and panicked, only for one of the infected locals to touch Ain's shoulder and told him "Why are you panicking like that?" 

He stares at him and said "You're right. Our skins has become crystallized and rock-hard."

Elsword started to cry and ran away, only to get stopped by Aisha, who also fell victim to the virus as well, leaving Rena as the only person who didn't get infected by the virus even though she's apparently older than the two of them.

The Three Musketeers arrive, with Sibyl saying "What's going on here?" Rena walks in and tells her "My friends got infected by the virus and their skins are becoming a rock! If they suffer long enough from the virus, they might even die!"

Sibyl got shocked and Rena fell unconscious upon seeing the skin infection, with Elsword and Aisha crying over her unconscious body until Elona walked in to hug the two of them and told them not to cry. 

He eventually carries her unconscious body with him and went to the waterfall, where he finds out that she has the same skin condition as her friends and she wakes up to staring at him, before asking "Wait! Where am I? Where's my friends? Who are you?"

Elona introduces himself to Rena and asked her if she would like to kiss him, only for her to get scared and thought he was her enemy, only for him to make her change her mind, in which she agreed to kiss him, thus purifying her from the virus. 

The scene switches to Sibyl suggesting ideas to cure Elsword and Aisha's skin condition, and the two suggested that they should kiss each other before they die, so they left Sibyl and Ain alone, walking away from her.

As the two arrives in the waterfall, they kissed and hugged each other, thus purifying them and getting rid of the virus. 

Upon coming back to where Sibyl and Ain are, they saw a fight between Ain, Leith and Takeo, who were defending her from him and to their surprise, they saw Raven and Eve, who came in to resolve the problem by having a glass of glowing vaccine.

Raven told Leith and Takeo to stay away from Sibyl and they listened to him, as he gives the glass to Eve, and she gives it to Ain, who drinks the vaccine and he eventually disappeared, to their horror. 

Fortunately, Elsword suddenly calls him out of nowhere, and he was feeling much better compared to when he was infected.

After vaccinating the entire population of Ouroboros Island, there was an mission for the heroes and the three musketeers. 

Chung, Ara, Fabian, Frostine, Fawn and Azure were being held captive by Rufina, who prevented them from escaping from Ouroboros' lair by putting runes to restrain their hands and having the dragon himself block the entrance of the lair.

Upon arriving at the entrance of Ouroboros' lair, Leith said to Sibyl and Takeo "What should we do to fight this dragon?" 

Elsword and Aisha got stunned upon hearing Rufina's voice and almost ran away but the crystal barrier blocked them from escaping, thus trapping them in the entrance to the lair and they got thrown into Rena, who carried them.

Ouroboros said to the heroes "Who the hell are you? What are you guys doing here in my lair?" 

Sibyl aims her sword and replied "We want to save the others!" 

He answered "Is that so, Sibyl? Come try and get at me. I'll kill you." 

Rufina appeared behind him before electrocuting him to her surprise. 

She said to her "No time to fight with Ouroboros. You may feel free to come inside his lair with me." before walking to the lair with her, thus locking the door, to everyone's horror.

Takeo whispered to Leith "What should we do if our colleague Sibyl's gone with Ruffy...?", and the two saw Raven knocking the door with his arm and legs, with him saying to them "No time to wait for your colleague, cowards!" but surprising enough, the door was made out of balsa wood, thus allowing the two musketeers and our heroes to enter Ouroboros' lair.

Meanwhile on the third floor of Ouroboros' lair, Rufina threatens to take off Sibyl's clothes, and put her hostage next to Chung and Ara, only for Elsword and Aisha to barge into the room with their fire abilities, with the former of the two saying to her "Not so fast, Rufina! Who do you think you are to us, huh?" 

Rufina summons her dual swords and replied to him "Bring it on!"

Aisha slapped Rufina in the face and told her "If you want to fight against us, go ahead. We're stronger than you are." before the two started to fight against her, and after countless hours of fighting with weapons, Rufina got enraged and brainwashed Sibyl to fight against Elsword and Aisha, only for the former to outsmart her and make her team up with them to fight her brainwasher with them, thus defeating her.

The three of them had won and Rufina ran away crying in tears, throwing away a picklock and two keys, two motorboats to leave Ouroboros Island, and an unused dynamite. 

Together, they freed Chung, Ara, Fabian, Frostine, Fawn and Azure, who thanked them for saving them, and they all left Ouroboros' lair along with Sibyl. 

Meanwhile, Elsword and Aisha carried the motorboat away and went back to the lair, only to set the dynamite to 30 minutes and ran away, only for the lair to explode in less than an hour, to the islanders praising them for their heroic actions.

As a result, for saving the entire island from the virus epidemic and Ouroboros' lair, Elsword, Aisha, Rena, Raven, Eve and Ain were awarded with the title of The Musketeer of Ouroboros, and together with Chung and Ara, they left the entire island on a motorboat with Fabian, Frostine, Fawn and Azure also leaving the entire island on a motorboat, waving goodbye to the locals of Ouroboros, as well as the three musketeers, who decided to leave the island for an another adventure in an another world.

After they all escaped this island, they went back to their normal lives, and to this day, the legendary story of the Musketeer of Ouroboros is still being talked about by and for everyone in Elrios.

THE END

Closers Fanfic: Seha's Housewarming Party

Context: After I saved this image to my computer in May 2023, the game in question (Closers RT: New Order) was shutdown a mere 2 months later due to its disastrous gameplay that most of the people who worked on it got fired after the shutdown.

One day, Seha invites his colleagues to a party at his old apartment, where they all had a great time.

Just as he, Sylvi, Yuri, J and Misteltein were about to drink, someone knocked on the door, in which he told the four of them “Guys, wait a second. I gotta go check who it is.”, before heading towards the entrance door.

Upon looking at the home intercom system, he saw a beautiful woman with light-brown-pink hair and pink eyes.

“Hello, can I get into your house?”, she said to the speaker.

“Sure thing, Ria.”, he replied to her through the intercom speaker, before walking to open the door for her.

The two of them arrived at the living room, where he and his colleagues were having a drink.

Sylvi and Yuri got shocked upon seeing Ria for the first time, to the point they both said to him “Seha, you can’t be that kidding! Who is that girl?!”

Just as everything was about to get heated between her colleagues, Ria told everybody “Hey, chill out guys! I haven’t introduced myself yet so… can you please let me introduce myself to you all?”

Eventually, they eventually let her introduce herself.

“Hi, nice to meet you all, I’m Ria Yoon! I’ll be joining you guys starting from now on!”, she introduced herself, to the applause of her colleagues, who were all happy to see her become a part of their team.

A few hours later, after the housewarming party was over, after Sylvi, Yuri, J and Misteltein had all left, it was now just Seha and Ria, who were now looking at each other in confusion.

“What’s wrong, Seha?”, the latter asked the former.

“I don’t know, Ria.”, he secretly whispered to her, who walked as far she can to the entrance door.

“It was nice seeing you, Seha.”, she said to him.

“Me too. Oh wait, just before you leave, can I give you a kiss?”, he asked her.

“Oh, s-sure thing, I guess…?”, she answered.

He then kissed her, before they parted ways with each other that night.

The next morning, it was his day off from work.

He thought to himself “Last night was amazing.”, before getting out of bed and dressing up before he headed outside of his apartment.

Eventually, after walking for a few minutes, he arrived at a café where his five colleagues were waiting for him.

“Hey Seha, what game are you playing?”, Sylvi asked him, who was busy playing on his portable game console.

“Come on, show us what game you’re playing!”, Misteltein said.

He then showed his colleagues the game he was playing, and turns out, the game he was playing turned out to be a fantasy-themed online action game that has been the talk of the town, that even people who played that game gathered around him, with one of them saying “Oh my god, is that the legendary gamer Seha?! I’ve heard that his mom’s also a famous gamer!”

Upon hearing the loud voices, Ria told her colleagues “Let’s have an another party at my house.”, to which they all nodded to her and left the scene.

Upon arriving at her house, the four of them had a great time singing karaoke and dancing to one of her music videos.

A few hours after the party ended, Ria slept on the couch, completely surrounded by empty bottles of soju.

The next day, she saw a text message from J telling everyone in the group chat that Seha moved to a new apartment somewhere in New Seoul and he went as far as to host a housewarming party for everyone at that apartment and that Yuri called the party “Seha Lee’s Housewarming Party”.

Arriving at his new apartment, they were greeted by his smile, in which he told everyone to have a great time by playing some of his games on the TV, before dancing to one of Ria’s music videos and afterwards, they ended up having drinks at his new apartment.

By the end of the “Seha Lee’s Housewarming Party”, J and Misteltein went home, and it was just Seha, Sylvi, Yuri and Ria.

“Seha, now that it’s just the four of us, what are we gonna do tonight?”, Yuri asked him.

“We’re gonna play games at my home tonight.”, he told her.

And so, the four of them ended up spending the rest of the afterparty night playing video games, before falling asleep.

THE END

Wish Upon a Death Star

Legend has it that there was a park in southern Sakurahama Island, said to be home to a bamboo tree, where anyone can write their wishes into a paper strip and hang them to the tree.

One day, while the other couples were having a picnic next to the bamboo tree after putting their wishes to the tree, Cherrypink sat on a wooden picnic table on her own, drawing a portrait of her ideal boyfriend.

Damien walks in and sat next to her.

"Hey Cherry, what are you doing?", he said to her.

"I'm drawing my ideal boyfriend.", she replied.

"Ok.", he responded back.

To their surprise, Hyunwoo walked up to them, and he looked at what she was drawing.

"Wait a minute, Cherry, is that me who you're drawing?", he asked.

"No, I'm not drawing you, but it's my ideal boyfriend.", she answered.

"Ah, I see.", he said.

After that, Cherrypink decided to write a wish on a paper strip, before hanging it to the bamboo tree and heading back to the table.

"So Cherry, what is your wish for this year?", Damien asked her out of curiosity.

"I wish to have a loving boyfriend.", she replied to his answer.

While in the middle of the conversation, Bacar and Hadidja walked together in front of the bench, holding hands and a picnic basket.

"The picnic we had together was amazing, wasn't it?", Hadidja said to Bacar.

"Yeah, it was amazing! Let's make a wish together.", Bacar replied.

They wrote their own respective wishes and hung them on the tree, before leaving the scene, to everyone's excitement.

Suddenly, Joakim tapped Cherrypink's shoulder, and he told her that Kamal wrote a wish saying that he wanted to be with her.

"Who's Kamal?", she asked him.

"He's that pink-haired guy who loves you more than anyone else in this world, but wait, there's one more. Look behind you, Cherry." he told her.

She looked behind and saw Niels sitting on the other side of the table, waving at her with a smile.

"So, Niels, what is your wish for this year?” she tells him.

"I want to graduate from college, marry you and start a family together in the future.", he replied to her.

"Niels, that's my phrase!", Damien responded, while joking at the same time.

Soon, the people that were on the bench began laughing over Damien's joke, when suddenly a mysterious song began playing out of nowhere, that people outside of their picnic bench began holding torches and heading towards the mountaintop.

Yasmina walked to the picnic bench and said to everyone "Guys, what is this all about? Why are they heading towards the mountain with a torch?"

"I don't know, but something's going on at the mountaintop.", Hyunwoo said to her.

Soon, Junaid showed up holding a torch and gave the people that were on the bench torches.

He told them to follow him to the mountaintop, to which they all agreed.

Upon arriving at the mountaintop, they saw a 5-member boy band performing their last song on an outdoor stage.

While everyone was waving their light sticks, one of the members of the boy band noticed Cherrypink and told her to come dance alongside him and his colleagues, to which she agreed to do so.

After their last song ended and the rest of his colleagues disappeared in the middle of the night, he introduced himself to her as Junho, and soon they began having a conversation with each other.

After their conversation was over, the two of them hid behind the stage to dress up as the weaver and cowherd.

Serika showed up and said to everyone "Attention everyone, our last show for this evening is the love story we've been all waiting for!", before continuing with "Here are our main stars for today's show, Orihime and Hikoboshi!"

Cherrypink and Junho walked on the stage, and bowed down to everyone before starting the show.

Towards the end of the show, the two of them faced each other in front of the virtual magpie bridge, holding each other's hands.

"I love you Orihime.", Junho said, while acting as Hikoboshi.

"I love you too, Hikoboshi.", Cherrypink responded, while also acting as Orihime, before kissing him.

Little did she know, he instantly fell in love with her and soon, everyone applauded them.

After they waved their audience goodbye and thanked Serika for the show, they removed their wigs and Cherrypink ran off from the stage, leaving behind one of her shoes.

Junho grabbed the shoe and chased her outside of the stage, running down from the mountaintop without holding a torch.

"Junho, let me help you find her!", Damien yelled, running after him as well along with Niels, Hyunwoo, Joakim, Yutaka and Yasmina.

"Guys, wait! What about me?", Junaid said while following the others.

While at the park, Cherrypink was still wearing her weaver girl costume and a white hijab, looking at the bamboo tree with everyone's wishes on it.

A few minutes later, the seven of them returned to the park, where they finally found her.

"Cherry, where have you been?", Junho politely asked her.

"I was just looking at one of the wishes that was on the tree, Jun.", she responded.

"Oh, okay. Well, before that, can you come take my hand?", he told her.

"Sure.", she said, before holding his right hand.

To their surprise and to everyone else's, Cherry and Junho began flying in the starry sky.

Meanwhile, while at the picnic bench, Damien looked at her sketchbook, and said "Well, I'm glad that she found her ideal boyfriend at last."

"Good for her. Let's watch their show anyway.", Joakim responded.

Suddenly, Junaid told the people on the bench that there's a strange star above the two flying lovers.

"Oh my god, what kind of star is that?!", Yutaka asked him.

"It's not a star, but rather a spatial battleship disguised as a star, that has the ability to destroy an entire planet with its own built-in railgun engines.", Junaid responded.

Everyone was shocked.

Yasmina said "Wait a second, Junaid... so that means we made a wish upon a Death Star?!"

"No, Yasmina, we didn't make a wish upon the Death Star. It was someone else who did it, not us.", Niels reassured her.

Back at the starry sky, Cherrypink told Junho "Run for our lives, Jun, there's a strange star above us."

"Really? You're right, Cherry. Let's run for our lives!", Junho replied.

The two of them flew above the strange star, before they saw an evil demon possessing Kamal's body.

"Oh my god... Kamal, are you okay?!", Cherrypink said to Kamal, in complete horror, while aiming her machete at him.

"Nice try, but I'm not Kamal, but rather, Firdaus.", the demon possessing Kamal said.

"Firdaus, why the hell are you on the Death Star?!", Junho yelled at him.

"I just came home from hanging a paper to this tree and at the same time, wishing upon the Death Star.", Firdaus said.

He continued with "Anyways, I'll let go of Kamal only if Cherrypink agrees to marry me."

"There's no way she's gonna marry a horrible person like you!", Junho yelled at him, before he and Cherry punched the demon in the face.

After getting punched in the face, Firdaus gets out of Kamal's body, revealing his true form as an evil demon with the demonic horns on the head of a human and the body of a horse.

"Thank you, guys! Can I join you guys in dealing with that demon who possessed my own body?", Kamal said to Cherrypink and Junho.

"Sure thing, Kamal.", the two of them nodded and said.

The three of them teamed up with each other and defeated Firdaus by throwing him into the battleship and they flew far away from the battleship.

"Goodbye, Firdaus!", Cherrypink said, before snapping her fingers, exploding the battleship, which took Firdaus with it.

Meanwhile, while in the park, everyone saw the fireworks and a few minutes later, Kamal safely descended to the ground.

After the fireworks ended, while in the sky, Cherrypink thanked Junho for saving her from Firdaus before hugging him in the middle of the Milky Way.

After they both hugged each other, they held hands and eventually, they descended to the ground as well.

"Congratulations on saving Sakurahama Island from the Death Star!", Yohana said to the two of them and Kamal while clapping her hands.

Afterwards, she gave them a medal.

Cherrypink said to Junho and Kamal "Thank you guys! Without you, I wouldn't be able to defeat Firdaus on my own."

"You're welcome, Cherry.", Junho and Kamal responded.

"How about we take a photo with each other to celebrate this legendary moment?", she said to them.

The guys nodded and they took a photo of each other.

"Anyways, everyone, it was nice to see you all in this place, as since I have other things to do with my life, I'm logging out, bye-bye!", she told everyone.

"Goodbye, Cherry!", everyone said.

"Wait! Before you go, can you give me a kiss?", Junho said to Cherry.

"Sure thing, Jun.", she said.

She gave him a goodbye kiss before logging out of the game for good.

Back in the real world, Cherrypink removed her VR headset and went outside to do some errands for her parents.

Upon getting out of the store and while on her way home, she saw a handsome man, who she had never seen before.

"Hello, what brings you here? Is that you, Junho...?", she said to the man.

"I came here just for you, and yes, I'm Junho, but my actual name is Hojun.", the man replied.

"Really?", she said back.

"Yes. Actually, I have something to tell you. Can you go out with me to eat something?", he politely asked.

"Sorry, but I have other plans.", she responded.

"I see, my bad. Can we exchange numbers so that I can take you out to have fun together next time?", Hojun told her.

"Yes.", she replied.

The two of them exchanged numbers and parted ways with each other.

3 days later, while at home, Cherrypink heard someone knocking from the door.

She then walks over to the entrance door, and opened the door, only to find Hojun waving at her.

"Cherry, would you like to go out with me?", Hojun said to her.

"Of course!", she replied.

Eventually, he grabbed her hands and they walked together at the same time.

"Hold on, where are we going next, Hojun?", Cherry said.

"We're going to have fun at the beach and see the ocean together!", Hojun told her.

And so, Cherrypink and Junho's love story begins...

THE END

Higankoi Gakuen (彼岸恋学園)

One day, after getting over a nasty breakup with her abusive ex-boyfriend by blocking him everywhere on the day before the Ramadan vacations, Yara was lying on her bed all by herself. 

She then thought to herself "I'm glad that my ex is now gone from my life.", before grabbing her phone in order to download a game.

There, she saw an attractive male character with pink hair and brownish-pink eyes, who she can relate, and throughout her experience in the game, she later realized that he was not just a tiny pixel, but rather an actual young man with a story of his own and introduced himself to her as Kamal, who is 9 months older than her.

To her surprise, Kamal had several things in common with her, like anime, manga, drawing and video games, which got them along very well through her phone screen, to the point she truly cared about him more than her ex.

"Wow, what a fun game.", she said, before exiting the game and focusing on other things. 

The next morning, it was the first day of the Ramadan vacations.

Just as she was about to uninstall the game from her phone for good, his right hand grabbed her left wrist, in horror.

Little did she know that Kamal has a surprise for her: turns out, he is a yandere man who has a crush on her.

"Even if you uninstall the game, I'll still be looking for a way to find you, Yara.", he told her, in a threatening aura.

She got scared and instantly uninstalled the game for good.

"I never thought that Kamal would be like this.", she said to herself, before going back to take a nap, like as if nothing had happened the previous day.

Suddenly, Yara heard someone knocking on the entrance door of the house, and immediately showed up to the entrance, holding a machete.

She then opened the door, and saw him walking closer to her, who tried to walk away upon dropping her machete to the ground, with a bouquet of spider lilies, before he pinned her to the wall.

"You can't be kidding, Kamal... How the hell did you get into my house, on the first day of Ramadan?", she asked him.

"That's because I came here to be with you instead of spending my time alone without you.", he answered back.

She then manages to escape from him by sneaking away from the scene and making a run for her life before hiding under a blanket, like as if she never saw him again.

Just as she thought he was already gone by then, he appeared next to her, and it was then she realized the truth behind his yandere personality.

Turns out, he was a wholesome man who truly loved her more than her ex and will never hurt her in the same way her ex did.

Upon realizing his true intentions, Yara apologized to him for the whole ordeal that happened earlier that day, and he forgave her too.

"Starting from now, I'll be your right-hand man and we'll be together, forever.", he said to her, with a sweet tone.

"Thank you, Kamal. You're way better than I thought.", she replied.

And so, Yara introduced Kamal to her native Mahoran culture, before parting ways with each other at a beach near a supermarket located a few minutes away from her house 2 days later.

"Now, I can at least spend more time on my own.", she said.

That is, until she wakes up in an abandoned high school in a mobile simulation, wearing a school uniform, for some sinister reasons.

"Is it me or is it the fact that I'm now back at school once again...?” she thought to herself, before exploring the area surrounding that mysterious school, before she entered an empty classroom and started reading a book in a way to distract herself and forget everything that happened on the first 2 days.

A few moments later, Kamal showed up, also wearing the school uniform, and asks her about the book she's reading, to which she told him that it was a French-language book, before closing the book and standing up from her seat.

She stared at him in shock, to which he told her "Why are you even shocked at me, even though it's just the two of us in this school?"

"I don't know, but woah, you scared the hell out of me, Kamal. Thank you for always looking out for me.", she said back, before walking out of the classroom and heading towards the shoe lockers to put her outdoor shoes on and put her indoor shoes in the locker.

He then approached and asked her if he could walk her home, to which she agreed to let him do so, and the two of them left the school, before they arrived at his house.

Upon arriving in his room, Yara saw several photos of her plastered on every wall and even on picture frames.

"Kamal, are you crazy or something?! I mean bro, what's with all of these pictures of me in your room!?", she says to him, in complete shock.

He explains to her the context behind the suspicious pictures, and it was then that her hair and eyes started turning blue from her usual black hair and brown eyes, activating her inner form and summoning her glowing dual swords.

"It’s over for you, Kamal.", she spoke to him in French, with a threatening aura.

"Bring it on, ma belle. I'm sure that you won't escape from me or my game ever again.", he replied, while also activating his inner form, turning his hair and eye color to white and pink, summoning a glowing knife at the same time.

The two of them began fighting with each other to the point she immediately ended the fight, by opening a portal back to the real world, detransforming her back to her normal form, and fainting afterwards.

Upon seeing her unconscious, Kamal held her in his arms and began crying, to the point where he told her "Yara, I'm sorry that I had hurt your feelings like this...! Please... Come back!".

Back in the real world, she woke up to Kamal, now back in his normal form, smiling at her.

"Phew, I'm glad that you're awake.", he said to her.

"Me too, but I never thought you were that kind and caring towards me in both the real and virtual world.", she replied.

"It's my pleasure. By the way, can I tell you something?", he asked.

"Of course, go ahead.", she answered back.

"Can I be... your boyfriend, for real...?", he told her, who then said yes to him.

And so, they became more than friends, as they began dating, with the intention of marrying each other within 5 years.

By then, he was already used to the lifestyle in her home island, having completely forgotten about his origins in the game world. 

Later that afternoon, they found a guitar and went to the rooftop, where he listened to her singing and playing the guitar at the same time, to the point he began singing with her as well.

After she was done playing the guitar and singing, she put the guitar to the ground and walked towards the front corner of the rooftop.

While being far away from him, she looks at him, with lifeless eyes.

“Kamal, there’s something I truly want to tell you.”, she said to him, with a deathly stare.

“Okay.”, he replied.

“Actually, the truth is… I don’t think that I can be with you any longer in that world.”, she told him, who then realized that she was in danger.

Upon realizing this, the two men saved her from doing the act by holding her from behind and they were lying down on the ground, before they started getting up.

The latter of two then puts her on his thighs, and said “Are you okay, Yara?”

“I’m okay. Thank you, but who are you…? I don’t remember seeing you for a while.”, she asked.

“It’s me, your best friend Elsword! I really missed you so much, so your man summoned me to save you alongside him, you know?”, he replied.

“Wait a second, but Kamal is not my man and we’re not dating. Is there something you guys want from me?”, she said back to him.

“We both want to be with you forever.”, the two men told her.

Yara got stunned and told them “No way.”, before she vanished into thin air.

Later, she wakes up, only to find out that the two men weren’t even real and that they were fictional characters from completely different games, and she was now back in the real world.

There, Lael came over to see her, and she explained to him all about the entire story, which was a dream the entire time.

Upon realizing that it was all a dream, she came up with the idea of inviting her two friends Bruno and Yatomi to come join them in a library, where they would talk about and draw themselves using the crayons provided by the librarians like as if Kamal had never existed to them.

Suddenly, just as they were leaving the library and heading towards their respective homes, he was secretly hiding in the bushes before he followed them along.

After parting ways with Bruno and Yatomi, who headed home respectively on their own, it was just Yara and Lael at the entrance of her house.

The latter asked her if he could stay at her house to be with her, to which she agreed to let him do so.

Later that evening, they woke up at the same mysterious abandoned school in the mobile game she was playing after getting over her ex-boyfriend, wearing nothing but school uniforms.

“Welcome to Higankoi Gakuen.”, a mysterious voice told them.

Lael said “Wait, who’s that voice…?”

Yara replied to him, saying “I don’t know, but I don’t think that it’s Kamal either.”

“There you are, Yara!”, Elsword said to her, while showing up along with Kamal, also wearing the same school uniform as them.

“Oh hey!”, she told him.

Eventually, this led to a heated fight between him and Kamal, to the point Lael told Yara to go upstairs with him and grabbed her right wrist with him to where they can find peace.

As they arrived at the school rooftop, Lael and Yara were all alone by themselves, and just as he was about to confess his feelings for her, Kamal showed up and began revealing his true colors.

“Yara, would you like to be more than just friends with me?”, Lael asked.

“Of course, I would love to!”, she answered him.

Just as they were about to kiss, Kamal yelled in a loud voice “Lael, what are you doing with my Yara?!”

Yara got furious and told him “Hey Kamal, who the hell do you think you are to Lael, huh? Why are you screaming at him like that?!”

“I just want you to be with me instead of that guy!”, he replied.

Little did Kamal knew he was done for, as Lael was the guy who he should not mess up with, due to the latter’s military experience.

Elsword showed up and told the two men “Guys, stop fighting over her! If you really want to be her boyfriends that badly, stop fighting!”

“Thank you for telling them right in their face, bestie!”, Yara said to him.

Kamal and Lael offered her roses.

Several minutes later, Yara made the choice to dump Kamal and chose Lael instead of him.

“Thank you Yara! I knew you were right to choose me instead of him!”, the latter said to her, to Kamal’s disappointment that he said to himself “Damn it! I can’t believe that she chose him over me… I’ll make sure that she’ll be mine in my own world forever.”

“It’s okay Kamal, but you can be one of my friends if you’d like.”, Yara told him.

“In that case, I’d love to be your friend of course!”, he replied.

Ultimately, everything turned out well for the three of them, as Yara and Lael became close friends with Kamal.

5 years later, after she parted ways with Lael due to them not being on the same page as a couple that ultimately led to her breaking up with him and becoming friends with him instead, Yara was now back in the mobile simulation, sitting next to a table, facing Kamal for the last time.

“Yara, I’m sorry for everything that happened throughout these past 5 years. I was so crazy for you to the point I went too far as to almost ruining your relationship with your friend Lael. Remember the day I made a promise to marry each other within 5 years and to never betray you.”, he told her.

“Of course, I remember that from the very beginning.”, she replied.

“So Yara, for once and for all, will you marry me?”, he asked, holding a wedding ring.

“Yes, I do!”, she answered.

In the end, Yara and Kamal had a small wedding ceremony, and are now happily married to each other, as they now head on a honeymoon towards a faraway island located somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

THE END

One Night in Helsinki Part 2

 

Part 3

Original date: February 3rd, 2025

November 29th, 2025.

One day, upon arriving in his home country all by himself, Lael was now at his apartment in Helsinki and began to study, until he finished them all for the day that he grabbed his phone to call his girlfriend Yara, who had just turned 18 last week and was living somewhere in France, an hour ahead of him, all by herself, through video chat.

She then picks up the phone, only for him to tell her “Hey Yara. I’ve been thinking about you the whole time, and I have something to tell you.”

“Tchini? (What?)”, she asked, in one of her native languages.

“Apparently, my parents… they own a land near a lake in a secluded forest near Rovaniemi, and I would love it if you just came with me there. Can I show you a picture of what it looks like?”

“Ok.”, she replied.

He then shows her a picture of his parents’ land, to her amusement that she wanted to go there as well.

And then, to her surprise, since his parents wasn’t there at their land that day, he offered to take her by the time she arrived in Helsinki so that he can show her what it’s like to live in the northern part of the country.

3 weeks later, upon arriving in Helsinki on her own, she saw him with a smile and hugs him in return.

“I’m back, Lael! I miss you very much.”, she said to him.

“Me too, Yara.”, he replied in return, and they kissed each other on the lips for a short while before letting go of each other and holding their hands.

And so, they started heading to the café whom they went to 4 months prior, where they had a great time drinking coffee before they headed outside after she paid the bills, until they arrived at the land, which was in a secluded forest near Rovaniemi, where it was snowing.

“Wow, what an amazing place.”, Yara said.

“I know, right?”, Lael replied.

He tells her a story about the place, dating all the way back to the 19th century, when his great-great-grandfather built two houses and a sauna for his family, including his future descendants, to live in for the years to come.

Upon entering the main house, they saw a frame of his great-great-grandfather, his great-great-grandmother and his great-grandmother.

“Who are these people?”, she asked him, to which he told her that they were his great-great-grandparents and his great-grandmother, who had passed away a long time ago along with hers, way before they were born.

“I see.”, she said.

After having a conversation, they left the main house to go to the second house, which was a summer cottage.

Inside the cottage, she gives him some of the licorice candy she had brought from France, and this eventually led to the two of them enjoying it, until he asked her if she can go take a sauna with him, and she agreed.

The two of them took a shower with each other, before heading for the sauna room.

While in the room, he grabbed a vihta to gently massage her back and this continued for several minutes, until she exited the sauna to take a shower before going back to the main house, wearing nothing but a towel on her body, with him following suit, although with nothing on himself.

Meanwhile, they were now in the master bedroom, with her towel now on the ground and the two of them facing each other.

Yara then tells Lael about a dream she had 10 months prior, which turned him on, to the point he wanted to spend the night with her.

To his surprise, she then tells him that she’s on her period that day and can’t do it with him.

Upon realizing what she was going through, he hugged and kissed her, reassuring her that it’s safe to do it during the time of the month.

They ended up spending time in the shower, with him putting a black towel on the bed after they were done showering, and the two of them cuddled each other that night.

The next day, the two of them headed to Rovaniemi, where he bought menstrual pads and chocolate for her and while on their way, they decided to stop by a nearby café to eat something for lunch.

Soon after, they went to a ski resort, where they began skiing for the first time, only for an hour, before they got out of the resort and headed south to the forest.

Arriving in the forest, they saw a camping van, and she asks him if she can drive the van, only for him to listen to her.

And so, Yara grabbed the keys to the van and Lael followed her to the van, before they drove off from the forest and left Rovaniemi in the middle of the night, in a long road trip, where they both ate their snacks while listening to metal music at the same time.

4 hours later, they arrived in Inari, where they saw the northern lights while sitting in front of a lake, which was what they both dreamed of the whole time, before they kissed each other on the lips.

Little did they knew, they would spend the next 5 days there, and within the next 5 days, she showed him some of the drawings she made about them being together and they went fishing and hiking as well.

Later, upon their return to Rovaniemi, while walking in the downtown, they ran into his friend Maksim, and he introduced her to him, as his girlfriend, before they parted ways with each other, as the couple headed back to the forest with the van.

There, they went to a sauna to forget about what happened during the past 5 days, before going back to the main house.

While in the house, he cooked dinner for the two of them.

After eating dinner, they headed for the shower, before heading towards the summer cottage.

While in bed, he told her “Remember our promise?”

“Of course, I remember our promise.”, she replied.

“Okay.”, he said back, and continued with “I’ll show you what it’s like to Netflix and chill.”

From that night on, she saw him as the love of her life, as they spent the night with each other every single day for the next 2 weeks.

2 weeks later, it was now time for Yara to go back to her home country, and Lael was sad to see her go again.

While at the airport, she hugged him for the last time, before parting ways with each other for a few years, as she was headed towards her plane to Paris.

Upon her return to her home island, she received a text from him, saying “It was great.”, along with a photo of the two of them standing next to each other, wearing winter coats.

2 months later, in January 2026, he was drafted to the military, and just like he had promised her 6 months prior, she received letters from him about how he’s doing every few days.

6 months later, he got discharged from the military and reunited with her over the phone.

In the end, several years later, they were now facing each other at a nearby mosque, wearing their wedding outfits and kissing each other, eventually having several children of their own.

Turns out, it was all a VR experience, as Yara removed her headset, realizing that she was now back in the real world, in February 2025.

“Wow, that was a roller coaster from the beginning to the end.”, she said to herself, and continued with “Only if I could find the love of my life, it’d be great. Oh well, I wish I could’ve travelled to Finland someday.”, before going to bed and starting a new day, like as if the events of the VR game she was playing the whole time never existed in real life.

The next day, after she got out of school that day, since her bus driver was late, Yara was sitting in front of the stairways, when her schoolmates Bruno and Yatomi noticed her and asked if they can accompany her to her house, and she agreed to their offer.

Little did they knew, while they were walking towards her home, they saw a man wearing black clothing and a black face mask, along with a black cap and sunglasses.

“Wawe de mbani? Wami cavu tsi ona wawe avant. (Who are you? I don’t remember seeing you before.)”, Yara said to the man in Shimaoré.

“Hé Yara, c'est moi Taneli, mais les gens m'appelle Lael à la place, donc appelle-moi par cette surnom au lieu de mon prénom actuel si te plait. (Hey Yara, it’s me Taneli, but people call me Lael instead, so please call me by that nickname instead of my actual name.)”, the man said back in French, before continuing with “Remember the game we played before, where we were lovers living in my country, right?”

Soon enough, she remembered the game and was shocked to find that the love of her life existed in the real world and wanted to be with her the whole time.

Eventually, while heading back home after her last class, an English teacher walked up to Lael and she asked him “Hello, what brings you here?”

“I just came here to be with the love of my life.”, he replied to her, who pointed her fingers at Yara and told him “You mean that girl over there?”

“Yes.”, he responded.

He then stared and smiled at Yara, who did the same to him, before telling Bruno and Yatomi if he can join them as well and they agreed to let him join.

Several minutes later, after parting ways with the two of them, it was now just the two of them walking in the stairs, headed for the entrance to her house.

Upon arriving at her house, the two of them exchanged their numbers, before kissing each other on the forehead and parting ways with each other.

Later that evening, she went back to the VR game she was playing the whole time, and she was now back in Helsinki, in the middle of the night.

She went to a nearby café to rest and drink coffee on her own, like as if nothing happened between her and the love of her life.

Just as she was about to forget everything that happened throughout the past several days, Lael walked and sat next to her table, putting his cup of coffee opposite hers.

“Hey, is that you, Lael?”, she asked him.

“Yes, it’s me, Yara. How is it going today?”, he replied.

“It was great, thank you.”, she said back.

After they were done drinking their coffee, the two of them paid their bills separately, and went outside of the café.

There, they went for a walk in the city.

As they stopped a few minutes away from a nearby bench, she removed her headscarf, revealing her black hair, while at the same time her own butterfly hairpin, turning her eyes from her usual dark brown to blue.

Lael then held Yara in his arms, before they danced with each other and smiled at the camera.

Later, she grabbed her headscarf and butterfly hairpin, before she sat next to him at the nearby bench, where they were now holding hands and facing each other.

“Yara, voinko... suudella sinua...? (Yara, can I… kiss you…?)”, he asked her in Finnish, while blushing.

“Okay, Lael.”, she answered, before putting her butterfly hairpin on her right hair, turning her eyes back to dark brown.

He kissed her, who then put her headscarf over them to avoid them getting caught, before eventually making out with her.

Turns out, it was all a dream the whole time, as she woke up in the middle of the night, in her bed, all alone, and she had no idea how it’s like to date someone outside of her dreams and VR experiences.

That is, until she heard someone knocking on the entrance door to her house, that she ran to the kitchen to grab a machete and headed towards the entrance of her house, in which she opened the door of her house, only to saw Lael waiting for her outside, calming her anger down.

“Oh, hey Lael, what brings you outside of my house?”, she told him.

“Since I missed seeing you a lot, I came here just for you.”, he responded to her.

Upon realizing his true intentions, which was to be with her, she ended up dropping the machete to the ground before heading back to her house, without saying a single word, throwing one of her slippers away.

He then grabs one of her slippers, before chasing after her, saying “Wait! You forgot this!”

Yara stopped by and he gave her one of her slippers back.

“Thank you, Lael.”, she said back to him.

“You’re welcome, Yara.”, he replied.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you about this, but the truth is… Rather than spending one night in Helsinki all by myself, I want to spend more time with you, not only in the VR world, but rather in the real world. Would you like to be my girlfriend for real…?”, he continued.

She changed her mind, and said “Of course, I would love to.”, to his excitement that the two of them hugged each other.

The next day, just as she got out of school, he grabbed her hands, with her telling him “Wait, Lael, where are we going next?!”, while running at the same time as him.

“We’re going somewhere else, my love!”, he replied.

And so, the story of Yara’s misadventures with her male friends in the VR world has come to an end, as she somehow managed to hit it off with Lael in the real world, starting a new chapter in her life.

Mayotte After Dark

Original date: December 16th, 2024

One day, Nadil woke up to find his parents’ house destroyed by a cyclone and his home island plunged into entire darkness.

He sets out to find a solution by using a headset to connect to the VR world.

There, he met Yara, a girl from the same village as him, who was also in the same world as him.

“Oh, hi there, Nadil! How are you doing?”, she said.

“I’m doing great, Yara! Thank you!”, he replied.

And so, Nadil and Yara set out on a journey in the VR world.

While in the VR world, they encountered Saouda sitting in front of a campfire.

“Everything in Mayotte is complete chaos”, Saouda said.

“For real.”, the two of them said.

“Saouda, would you like to join us in our adventure to save Mayotte?”, Nadil said.

Saouda agreed to join the duo in their quest, and they went to Rovaniemi, said to be the hometown of Santa Claus.

There, they saw Lael sitting with a snowboard next to him, saying to himself in Finnish that translated to “Only if I could have a girlfriend, who I can see the northern lights with…”

“Moi!”, Yara said in Finnish.

“Oh, hi there, who are you?”, Lael replied.

“Hi, I’m Yara from France. Nice to meet you!”, she responded back.

“How did you know my language?”, he asked.

“I learned it all by myself.”, she answered.

“Can we be friends?”, Lael said.

“Of course, you can be friends with all of us!”, Yara replied.

And so, everybody became friends.

Nadil, Yara, Saouda and Lael spent their entire day across Europe, until it was time for Saouda to log out of the VR world.

She told them “It was fun wandering with you all in this VR world!”, before continuing with “Since I have things to study in real life, I gotta go now. Goodbye!” before logging out of the VR world.

Now, it’s just Nadil, Yara and Lael.

Nadil then said to them “Now that Saouda is gone and that it’s just the three of us, what should we do next?”

Yara responded with “I don’t know, but how about we meet Niels in Copenhagen?”

Lael said, “Who the hell is Niels?”

Nadil responded to him, telling him “It’s that guy who has a crush on Yara.”

Lael quickly understood what Nadil was telling him and knew who Niels was. 

They eventually arrived in Denmark, where they saw Joakim playing music and singing his own song.

Yara asked Joakim if he had seen Niels, to which he told her that he had seen him before.

Suddenly, Niels showed up, holding a lighter and paper cigarette.

“Wanna smoke?”, he asked Yara, to which she told him that she’s not old enough to smoke.

“Oh, I see. My bad.”, he said back while shaking his head before looking at the guys and asked her “Who are these guys?”

“Well, they are Nadil, Lael and Joakim.”, Yara said, before continuing with “They’re from France, Finland and Denmark.”

“I see.”, Niels replied.

“No time for chit-chatting, Yara and Niels!”, Nadil told them in a stern tone.

The two of them awkwardly stared at him, as if he betrayed them.

Nadil then profusely apologized to them, and said to Yara “We don’t have enough time left to chit-chat in Denmark. We have one goal, and that goal is to save Mayotte from impending doom!”

Yara and Lael quickly understood what their goals were and listened to Nadil.

Niels then asked Nadil if he could join them in their quest, to which the latter agreed to let him join his group.

And so, Nadil decided to name his group “The Nightwanderers”.

The Nightwanderers parted ways with Joakim in Denmark and wandered south to Germany and eventually headed towards Strasbourg.

In Strasbourg, the Nightwalkers asked if they could have a helicopter and use it to fly around Mayotte.

Suddenly, Saouda logged back in, and asked if she could fly with them, to which Lael agreed to let her in onto the helicopter.

The helicopter eventually flies away from Strasbourg.

It headed towards the Atlantic Ocean and the southern tip of Africa before reaching the Mozambique Channel.

While flying over the Mozambique Channel, they saw a mysterious airship, responsible for stealing most of Mayotte’s energy source, currently being chased by multiple helicopters for hijacking a container ship.

While in the airship, one of the commanders noticed several helicopters with their head speakers shouting, “Surrender now!”

Niels told Yara, Nadil, Lael and Saouda “There it is, the ship! Bring your weapons with you all, as we’re heading towards the ship, now!”

They all grabbed their weapons and jumped to the top of the ship.

Nadil and Saouda jumped to the cockpit, leaving the commanders no choice but to capture Yara and put her away to somewhere else.

This ended up backfiring on them, as Lael punched and kicked them to the ground, knocking them down.

Nadil saved Yara by carrying her with him, but just as he was about to run away from the ship, a red alarm came off, causing multiple robots to come after them and their teammates.

“Holy shit, we’re screwed guys…”, Niels said upon seeing the robots.

Lael threw a glitter bomb at the robots, blinding them and causing them to attack each other, to the point of destroying themselves.

Meanwhile, Nadil, Yara and Saouda entered the engine room and saw the light source running on it.

“There it is the stolen electricity from Mayotte… Let’s bring it back to the island ASAP!”, Yara said, before using a machete to break the glass, obtaining the extract of the stolen light source.

This led to the ship setting itself on fire, causing the three of them to flee from the scene, with Saouda telling Lael and Niels to come follow her in escaping from the ship along with her colleagues Yara and Nadil.

As a result, everyone jumped off from the burning ship, with a parachute, and they eventually landed on a beach near a parking spot. 

Nadil woke up and saw several people surrounding him and his teammates, thanking them for saving the entire island.

He then said, “Is everyone okay?”, to which Yara, Lael, Saouda and Niels all woke up at the same time and told him that they’re all doing okay.

As soon as the sun sets in the island, Nadil, Yara, Saouda, Lael and Niels gathered for the former’s group selfie before they parted ways with each other, as Saouda and Niels logged out of the VR world, leaving just Nadil, Yara and Lael.

The three of them took a group selfie using a Polaroid, with the result photo labelled as Mayotte After Dark, and their names written on the photo with a blue pen.

Everyone soon logged out of the VR world, with Nadil keeping the same photo he had in VR in the real world the whole time, ending the story of Mayotte After Dark. 

Araba

Original date: December 24th, 2024

Once upon a time, there lived a large mansion in a town where everyone knew each other.

Within this mansion lie hidden secrets that only a single individual knows about.

However, he has a dark past surrounding his parents’ criminal past.

By the time he came of age, he found a headscarf and a dress worn by the dancers and women in his area, where there are Arabic and Swahili speakers.

Upon wearing the outfit, he did a pose and started calling himself “Araba”.

While in the village, Araba opened a shop in the bazaar, where he started selling spices, magic carpets and dresses at a cheap price, and after he sold all his products, he decided to use all that money to help other people in need, before he went to do other things.

One day, Araba saw Hiram and Yousra carrying a basket containing their harvested crops, and asked them if he could help them out, in which they allowed him to do so.

Later, he made a name for himself in their village and became well-respected among the local villagers, and whenever he wasn’t selling, he would spend most of his time either painting or helping people.

However, there was one problem in the village, and it turned out to be none other than Chido.

Chido was the son of the head priest, who Hiram got his revenge on several years ago for taking advantage of younger women.

He was no better than his dad, as he often gets into accidents, go partying, drinking and taking drugs, not to mention, engaging in risky behavior for attention, that people avoided him everywhere he went.

That is, until a villager informed Araba, Hiram and Yousra about Chido’s wedding.

Upon finding out that he summoned the entire village, they all went to his wedding.

On the day of the wedding, everyone saw Sania, the bride, without her face covering, all in shock, until Arslan, one of the villagers chosen by the groom to present them, walked in to speak out for them.

He then revealed the gruesome details of the history between the couple, including the fact that the bride had a vendetta against Araba and her soon-to-be husband Chido, to the point the entire wedding got cancelled after the latter found out that she was cheating on him with another guy.

Afterwards, everything went well for Araba, until the day his entire village got annihilated by a cyclone and a fire the following night, that everybody from that village was exiled to other places at Sunset Beach.

However, Araba was nowhere to be found after the village was rebuilt several years later.

By then, everybody but their descendants as well as Hiram and Yousra, had all disappeared.

But still, despite finding out about Araba’s disappearance, Hiram and Yousra remained determined to find him no matter what.

And so, they started a group called “Araba Search Party”.

Now as the Araba Search Party, Hiram and Yousra set out for Araba’s parents’ house, which was now home to a school.

There, they saw the new owners, who had known Araba’s parents for a long time.

They asked them about Araba’s whereabouts, and they told them that they had no idea who he was until Yousra told them everything about him.

Soon, they got interested in his case and joined the Araba Search Party.

Several days passed, and still, the group hadn’t found any traces of Araba.

While in exile on a small island, Araba started searching for things, when he stumbled upon an unused diary and a quill along with its inkwell.

He then soon used it as his diary while drawing every single day for several weeks until the day he was found by Arslan and his two friends Hiram and Yousra.

Turns out, the main reason why Araba was exiled to the island was because of Chido’s ex-fiancée.

Arslan told Araba to join him, Hiram and Yousra to get their revenge on her for trying to ruin Chido’s life, back in the village, and to his surprise, Araba agreed to take part in Arslan’s revenge.

Upon their return to the village, they saw Chido being abused by Sania, to the point Araba stepped into Chido’s defense and told her to stop abusing him.

Nearly everyone came to his defense that this enraged Sania to the point she summoned a large pair of scissors and challenged everyone to a fight.

However, she was easily overwhelmed by Chido and Araba, who knocked her down to the ground.

After the fight, Sania started to throw insults towards nearly everyone in the village, before leaving the scene.

A few weeks later, Chido thanked everyone for saving him from her and changed himself for the better.

Soon, they forgave him, and not long after, Chido became friends with Araba, Hiram, Yousra.

On the other hand, Sania was later executed for her infidelity and bringing dishonor to the village as well as her harassment and defamation of others.

In the end, Araba thanked everyone for being on his side before he left off to wander across different lands, only to be never seen again.

Several years later, the village was now named Araba, after his nickname, and since then, his story has been passed on from generation to generation, even to this day.

Welcome to Mayotte

 

Original date: January 17th, 2025

One day, a company opened office near Yara’s house, ready to sell its own products, specializing in art.

Upon hearing about it online, she decided to apply for a job there and suddenly, she got accepted to work at the office in question.

On her first day at work, Yara met two people and their boss.

They were nice and welcoming towards her to the point her colleagues introduced themselves as Nadim and Rouwaïda, who were originally from the villages of Chiconi and Poroani, respectively.

Everything went well for her new company within the next 4 days, until it went out of business 2 weeks later, after their boss disappeared, closing its offices and locking their employees out of their workplace.

In the aftermath of the company’s bankruptcy, Yara managed to become friends with Nadim and Rouwaïda, who were all left jobless at the same time.

Not long after, they created a group to track down on their boss’ whereabouts.

However, they made a shocking discovery:

Turns out, their boss has been lying about her entire life in a way to deceive others and was a migrant from the neighboring island of Anjouan, who had a criminal record for abusing her ex-husband.

Upon finding out about this, Yara, Rouwaïda and Nadim were all shocked and realized that their boss was a horrible person, so they quickly moved on from their former company and parted ways with each other.

5 days later, Yara saw a young man while on the way to her house.

She gave him some of her leftover snacks before giving him a can of coffee and going to her house.

Little did she knew, he showed up in her doorway the next day, thanking her for the food and drinks she gave him the other day.

“Oh, hey there Yara, thanks for saving me the other day.”, the young man said.

“You’re welcome.”, Yara replied.

He later introduces himself as Bruno, who was originally from Mozambique, of mixed Danish-German and Malawian ancestry.

Upon hearing about his story, she got interested in knowing more about him and for who he was as a person.

She asks him to come sleep with her, and to her shock, he agreed, on the condition that it would be a secret between the two of them, so that her parents wouldn’t find out.

From that night on, Yara and Bruno would become more than friends, but rather as lovers.

3 days later, after he was done with her, he decided to stay in bed next to her and told her a story about his friends Niels and Lael.

“Would you mind meeting my friends so that they can also be yours?”, Bruno said.

“I’d love to meet them.”, Yara said back.

The next day, she saw Niels going for a walk while shirtless.

Upon her waving at him and hugging him, he then saw her as the love of his life and offered her coffee, so that she can drink coffee with him.

The two of them got along with each other, to the point he began having a crush on her after she told him about her dreams of becoming a game developer.

After having a conversation, in which he agreed to support her in everything she does no matter what, she parted ways with him, blowing a kiss to him before walking away.

He then thought to himself about being with her despite him meeting her for the very first time.

2 days later, Bruno introduced Yara to Lael, who was also interested in heavy metal music.

They got along very well, as they had several things in common and at one point, they gave flowers to each other as a parting gift after they slept with each other.

4 days after that meeting, Yara was with her friends at a café, when Nadim, her former colleague, told her that Niels invited her for a walk and to spend the night with him at her house.

“No way, is that true for real?”, Yara said, in complete shock.

Suddenly, Niels walked in, and tells her if she can walk with him, and she simply nodded yes, to her friends and Nadim’s excitement.

Soon, they started going for a walk outside of the café, and eventually, they reached a nearby beach, where they started running in the sands.

As it was starting to get darker and darker, she asked him if they can spend the night at her house, and he was more than happy to go to her house.

Upon arriving at her house, he cooked dinner for the two of them before drinking coffee with her.

In the middle of the night, she then asks him if he can enjoy the night with her, and he agrees.

The next morning, Yara wakes up to Niels cuddling her and she cuddles him in return, before parting ways with each other.

5 days later, Amaris arrived in the island, where she met the locals, some of whom welcomed her.

“Welcome to Mayotte”, Rouwaïda and Nadim said to her.

They and Yara invited her to the rooftop of the latter’s house, where they had their sandwiches together, in midst of a sunset.

Soon, Yara and Bruno walked behind and while they were facing each other at the rooftop, they began smiling in front of the camera.

Later that evening, while everyone at the rooftop were toasting and drinking their cans of tea, Niels and Lael showed up, holding roses in a way so that Yara can pay attention to them.

By then, she noticed them, and they gave her the roses, in which she thanked them for their gift towards her.

In the end, she took a selfie with Niels before doing it with Rouwaïda, Nadim and Bruno, eventually doing it with Lael.

She shared it with them, before posting it on social media, where it became viral.

Her post, which consisted of her selfie with Niels, had a caption that read the following: “Welcome to Mayotte”

And so, the story of Yara’s life in the island had come to an end, as she was now heading towards Germany, all by herself, accompanied by Amaris.

To be continued...

Part 2

One Night in Norway

Part 1

Original Date: December 17th, 2024 (original text) December 27th, 2024 (revised text; Word)

One day, Yara was at Saphir and Melanie’s café in Germany, reading some newspaper, when suddenly, she saw a text on her phone, containing a Norwegian flag and two red heart emojis.

"What is he even doing?", she said to herself.

Saphir shows up, wearing a bunny boy costume, and said to her "Good morning, Yara!"

She greets him back, and they saw Joakim walking with advertisements for trips to Norway.

Joakim gives Yara the ad paper along with a love letter supposedly written by the guy who sent her the Norwegian flag and red heart emojis earlier that day.

She saw him walking by to deliver the newspaper containing the said ad to Saphir and his cousin Melanie before he left the scene.

She then thought to herself about what’ll happen to her if she were to travel to Norway for the first time in her entire life when Joakim noticed her and asked if she’s doing okay to which she told him that she was doing okay.

Yara then opened the love letter, which read the following below:

“Dear Yara, it’s me Niels from Norway.

I’ve always had a crush on you for quite some time now, since the day you told me that your dream was to become a game developer.

I would be glad if you could answer my letter declaring my heart and feelings for you.

If you’d like, we can talk to each other on the phone or by email or exchange letters with each other by mail.

I will gladfully wait for an answer from your side, and thanks.

Sincerely,

-Niels R.”

“What is this letter all about?”, Yara said.

Saphir told her “There’s a guy from Norway, who’s about 2 years older than us, who has a crush on you. His name is Niels, and he’s waiting for you there.”

“Oh really?”, she responded.

“Yes, it’s true. Joakim told me about him and if you really want to see him, go ask him or try calling or texting him if you want to.”, he responded back.

Yara decided to call Niels, who told her that he was in Hamburg and on his way to see her at the café in Cologne.

A few minutes later, while she was busy chatting with her mom through her phone, Niels showed up out of nowhere, wearing nothing but a black hoodie covering his white shirt and light blue jeans, along with a white cap covering his hair, sunglasses and a white face mask.

He then sits next to her, and orders two cups of coffee for the two of them.

Melanie showed up and gave them the two cups of coffee, before going inside the café.

Niels removes his sunglasses, revealing his blue eyes, before removing his face mask.

“Hello there, Yara. How are you doing?”, he said.

“Oh hi, Niels. Nice to meet you too, and I’m fine, thank you.”, Yara answered back.

“Where have you been before you arrived at this café in Cologne?”, she continued.

“I was in Hamburg, and I just arrived here in a taxi.”, he replied.

“Oh, I see.”, she said back.

They had a great time talking to each other and enjoying their cups of coffee, like as if they were on a date even though it was their first time meeting each other.

Saphir then showed up, putting the bills on the table.

Yara asked if she can pay the bills, but Niels offered to pay their bills on her behalf, and afterwards, just as they were about to leave the café, Saphir took a day off from work, and along with Melanie and Joakim, asked if they can accompany them to northern Germany, to which they agreed.

While at a place located at the border between Germany and Denmark, Yara and Niels held hands, before they parted ways with Saphir and Melanie, who wandered away.

As soon as they arrived in Copenhagen, Yara and Niels took the train to Stockholm, before heading towards Oslo.

Upon arriving in Oslo, Yara woke up and said to Niels “Wait, where am I?”

He told her that they’re in Norway.

“I see… Can I take some pictures of this place for my family to see?”, she said back.

Niels nodded and agreed to her request.

He then tells her that he lives far away from his parents, who lived somewhere near Trondheim and is a university student currently living in Oslo for his studies.

“I heard that there’s an island above us in the Arctic Circle, so what is it called?”, she asked.

“You mean, Svalbard?”, he said.

“Yes. From what I’ve heard and seen, giving birth and dying there is banned.”, she responded back.

“That’s true, from what I’ve heard from the people who went there.”, he said.

“Yara, if you don’t mind, would you like to meet my parents with me?”, he continued.

She agreed and the two of them started wandering north of Oslo, before they arrived at his parents’ house.

As soon as they arrived at his parents’ house, they were surprised to see her speak in Norwegian fluently even though she wasn’t from there, and Niels was more than happy for her to speak in his language.

Yara got stunned and suddenly ran away from the house in shame, with him running after her and telling her “No wait! Come back, Yara!”

Soon, they ended up in Tromso, where she was comforted by a close relative, and Niels walked up to her, telling her that his parents had already apologized to her for what they’d done to her, and she agreed to reconcile with him.

“Can we go to Svalbard?”, Yara said to the operator, who agreed to let her and Niels to go there on a helicopter, with the condition of them bringing suitable clothing to survive the Arctic cold and some bear spray.

Soon, they arrived in Longyearbyen, said to be the northernmost settlement on the Earth.

“Wow, what a beautiful place… I never went there before…”, Yara said.

“Same…”, Niels said to her.

“This is our first time being in Svalbard, even though it’s far away from where we arrived in mainland Norway.”, Yara said.

“For sure though, but we better pay attention to the bears that might lurk in there while finding a place to live in for the rest of the night.”, he replied.

And soon, Yara and Niels started finding a place for them in Longyearbyen, until someone offered them a place to live in for free.

Later that evening, the two of them were sitting in a bathtub, staring at each other in the eyes, like as if they were finally alone with each other.

Eventually, they went out to eat dinner before going to sleep that day.

The next day, Niels woke up and offered to cuddle Yara on the side.

She then wakes up to his cuddles, before cuddling him in return.

The two of them started to prepare themselves to travel across Svalbard, before thanking the stranger who offered them a place to live in for the night and heading outside to a shopping mall to buy essential things to bring with them back to mainland Norway.

And soon, they started wandering around the area until they saw a woman almost giving birth being transported by helicopter to Tromso, that they rushed to the helicopter to help her out.

Eventually, everyone made it safely and the woman ended up giving birth to a daughter 5 days later.

After the girl’s birth, the woman’s husband thanked Yara and Niels for saving and looking out for his wife and daughter.

On the other hand, Yara and Niels made it back to Oslo, where they kissed each other for the only time, causing him to realize his dreams of asking his crush out, only for her to reject him.

“I’m sorry to say this, Niels, but I have no intentions of becoming your girlfriend.”, she said, in a stern tone, before continuing with “If you’d like, we can still be friends.”

“Of course, we can be friends, Yara.”, he replied.

And so, Yara and Niels became friends.

Soon, they took a train to Stockholm and Malmö, before heading towards Copenhagen and Hamburg.

Back in Cologne, Joakim sat next to Yara’s table and said to her “How’s things going in Norway with your secret lover?”

“No, he’s not my secret lover, but rather, a friend.”, Yara replied.

“Oh, my bad, I thought you guys were dating.”, he said back.

Suddenly, Niels hugged her from behind and the three of them started having a great time, with Saphir and Melanie joining in as well.

And so, Yara took a selfie with Niels and ended up putting it in her house, before leaving it in her room, and writing their names with a blue pen.

She then writes to Lael on her phone “Meet me at the barge on July 10th, 2025.”

He replied “Ok, I’ll be waiting for you on that day 😊”

“Now that my trip with Niels in Norway is done, I think that I’ll go to a trip to Finland with Lael for next time.”, she said.

Suddenly, she received a call from Lael, in which he asked if she could meet him outside of her house and discuss things about the trip to Helsinki with him in advance.

They met outside of her house and discussed about their trip to Finland before he accidentally kissed her, even though this was the first time that they had met.

The two of them ended up hugging each other goodbyes before parting ways with each other, with her going back to bed and him walking all the way to his house.

The next day, Yara was now on a train in Stockholm, bound for Oslo.

She then said “Oslo, here I come.”

Soon, the train arrived in Oslo, and everybody who went on the train there started to leave one by one.

Yara arrived in downtown Oslo, and was on her way to a nearby café, when she received a call from Niels, who was waiting for her at a place near the café.

She then headed to the place and saw him, this time with round glasses, a maroon turtleneck sweater and black jeans.

“What were you doing with Lael last night?”, Niels asked her.

“We discussed things like our trip to Finland in advance.”, Yara answered back.

“I see. What an interesting place.”, he said, before continuing with “I would love to travel there with you and him someday.”

“That’s great.”, she said back.

“Remember the day we went to Longyearbyen?”, he told her.

“Of course, I remember going there with you before.”, she replied.

Since it was starting to rain cats and dogs in Oslo, Niels offered to give one of his coats to Yara for her to wear.

“This will make you feel warmer and comfier.”, Niels said, after he saw her wear one of his coats.

The two of them went to his apartment, where he shared some of his snacks with her, who did the same with him.

Later, she saw a map of the country and noticed some cities in Norway that they never went to before.

Son, they discussed about their trips to the unvisited cities in Norwegian, until Yara decided that they’ll go to Stavanger.

Arriving there, they saw a migrant being taken advantage of by a tour guide, and Yara said “Ah shit, here we go again.”

Suddenly, the photographer came to the rescue by saving the migrant from the tour guide.

“Who are you guys?”, Niels asked.

“I’m Markus, and the girl who I saved that day is Anja.”, the photographer said.

“Where are you guys from?”, Yara asked.

Markus told her that he was from Sweden and that Anja spent most of her life living in the slums of Moldova, under a different name, until she was smuggled out of the country by smugglers who got arrested a long time ago.

Anja thanked Markus for saving her life, before she left the scene.

Meanwhile, Yara and Niels started looking at each other with confusion, until Markus offered them Norwegian folk costumes.

The two of them looked great wearing the costumes, and after Markus took a picture of them, Yara took a selfie of the two of them with her phone.

Not long after, Markus’ photo of them went viral online, with most of the comments shipping them even though Yara had no intentions of being with Niels and overall positive.

The next day, Niels gathered up the courage to ask Yara out and this time, she agreed to be his girlfriend, only for a day, accidentally fulfilling his wish to be with his crush.

Meanwhile, the two of them went to a secluded forest to gather strawberries for them to eat and use for their cooking.

Suddenly, after gathering the strawberries, Niels started to have an urge to take things to the next level with his new girlfriend, to the point she stopped him by telling him to stop.

He agreed to her wishes, and then asked her what’s wrong, only for her to tell him that although she doesn’t mind the 2-year difference between them, she finds it uncomfortable to kiss in a forest full of bears.

Soon, Niels saw a bear, to his horror that he told Yara that she was right about the bears.

As the bear was approaching them, he told her to pretend to be dead along him in front of them so that the bear would focus on something else, and their plan worked, as the bear disappeared in the middle of the night.

“Now that the bear is gone, shall we head to my house?”, Niels said to Yara, who agreed to follow him there.

While at his apartment, the two of them washed the strawberries before eating some of them and using the rest of them to cook some crepes and a cake for them to eat.

After they were done eating, Yara then asked Niels if he can kiss her to sleep, and to her surprise, he agreed to make out with her, even though this wasn’t the first time they had kissed each other, in the couch.

This soon escaladed to them dancing with each other in their sleepwear for a while, until they went to sleep in his bed.

The following day, Yara woke up and told Niels that it’s been only a day since she became his girlfriend, and she wanted to keep the promise of her being his girlfriend for a day.

However, Niels told her that she was very kind to him and the others around her and saw her as the love of his life, to the point he wanted to marry her by the time he had a stable job and so did her and become a father to their children.

Upon realizing his feelings for her, she then backed down on her promise and told him that she has no intention of becoming his wife and a mother of his children, but in the meantime that he’ll always be there for her no matter what, even as a friend.

As soon as she told him the last proposal, Niels agreed to become her friend instead of being her boyfriend for good.

Later, Lael came to the apartment and told Yara if she and Niels can discuss more details about the trip to Finland, to which she agreed.

And soon, the trio talked about the trip there, all in English, so that they can easily understand each other regardless of their differences and native languages.

After talking about the details of the Finland trip, Yara, Niels and Lael proceeded to prepare themselves to leave the apartment.

After leaving the apartment, Yara, Niels and Lael were now in downtown Oslo, and just as they were about to head to the train to Stockholm, she took a selfie of the three of them together, with their names being written in blue pen after the photo was printed, along with their signatures on it.

In the end, the three of them hugged each other before parting ways with each other for several months.

On the other hand, Yara was now back in her room and thought to herself “I never thought that my trip to Norway would become that fun than I expected, not to mention, creating a love triangle.”

“Oh well, time to focus on other things while waiting to go on a trip to Helsinki with Lael for now.”, she continued, before moving on to other things.

To be continued...

Part 3