#one prof replied and said it was late and i said I didn't get a date

[rapidhighway]

I don't even know if I'm supposed to go to uni tbh xd

[antennaed-kenzy]

Clean House

❆ Baro Shoei x f! reader

❆ Warning: not prof-read, Little OOC

❆ Misc: Word Count: 1k+ 12 days of Christmas special with the Blue Lock Boys. 2/12 day with the clean freak himself Baro Shoei. Hope you enjoy it.

❆ In which you didn't have time for anything.

Baro was sitting on the couch watching TV. But someone was going back and forth in front of the TV on their phone. It bothered him but he couldn't say anything as she was busy with calls.

It's been happening every day since the start of the cold weather. {Y/n} mostly worked at home but she was never home. She was always busy dealing with other things on her list.

To which Baro couldn't say anything. If he did then the female would be more mad than him, and that says something. She might've kicked him out a long time ago if they weren't great friends.

"Yes, I understand your problem miss, but you not getting what I'm saying." {Y/n} was so done with this person and Baro could tell. He turned down the volume a little to hear their conversation.

"No, let's start from the beginning." {Y/n} had to explain the process again but this time she went a little slower and the person on the other line finally understood. "Yes, you're welcome goodbye." She hung up the phone taking a long sigh while sliding down the chair.

Baro might have looked like he was watching TV but he was in fact paying attention to his roommate. He really couldn't care about her, but she was ignoring all her other chores.

Again he never said anything as she can get way more mad than him. He saw her get up from the chair in her office and walk into the living room taking a seat on her chair.

{Y/n} faced the black-haired male motioning him to give the remote to her, and he did. The female changed the channel to the news for a quick second then changed the channel to a baking show.

The male didn't mind as he did like the baking show and it was her turn to pick what they watch anyway. And he didn't complain.

"Hey, Baro." She called over not taking her eyes off the show. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure what is it," He answered back looking at he awaiting the question.

"Do you like I should take the offer?" She looked over to him a plan look on her face. "I get more money, but also more work. It's a win-lose situation. Either more money but more piled up work."

"Yeah," He simply replied before looking back at the TV show. "Even if it's more work you'll get paid a lot more and eventually you'll catch up on the work and you'll have less work than now with more pay."

"I guess your right." She changed the channels one last time to another baking show. Maybe she should've chosen to be a chief instead of working online all the time. But it was too late now, especially because of the raise.

The next day {Y/n} got on a meeting with her boss to talk about the raise. Meanwhile, Baro was cooking up a small meal for the both of them this time.

His food was nothing to brag about, also since his roommate could cook an awesome breakfast with little to no effort. She was to busy to even think about cooking at the moment. That's why Baro has been doing everything recently. Even cleaning her room ever so often when he couldn't tolerate it.

There was nothing he could do though. He had to muster the pain and let the woman make money. He couldn't be the only one in the house making banking-- along with it wasn't his house. Short and simple he lived with her and paid his share of the bill.

The reason was simple too. At the time he was struggling to find a place and {Y/n} had offered him a stay for a while until he found a place. Then without even realizing it, Baro moved in and started to pay his share.

{Y/n} and Baro had been friends since the end of middle school. She was the only person who could talk to him and not cower away. Maybe that's why people never really approached her either. They both looked like people not to mess with, and their aura was intimidating when they were together in public.

The sound of a keyboard clacking was the only sound the female had been hearing for the past hour. She was still at her desk and Baro was serving her food. He was incidentally the maid at the moment. And he was for the past week.

{Y/n} has been working her ass off and didn't even get a chance to go out and enjoy the December weather. Meanwhile, Baro has been going shopping, getting decor for the house, and even wrapping some presents. The funny part is he was wrapping them at home and {Y/n} had no idea.

He got more rest the the female of the house and it was bothering him. Baro was a famous football player and he had time to rest. Meanwhile {Y/n} was sitting at her desk typing away with work. It all bothered him for some reason.

Wait, he knew the reason. Baro knew the exact reason why he was bothered by her. She hasn't been doing anything. She had been working day in and day out all because he told her to take the promotion. It all started because of him.

Baro knocked on her desk doors.

{Y/n} looked up from her computer for half a second to see who it was. "Come in, Baro," she called typing aimlessly.

The black-haired male walked in closing the door behind him. "Take a break." He said it with his full chest.

"What?" {Y/n} finally fully looked up from the blue screen. She had a confused face, to say the least.

"You heard me," His tome started to get cocky. "Take a break."

"I thought you said that, just making sure I heard you properly." She got up for her desk sitting in front of it.

"You did now take a break from work," He stated this time.

She nodded her head up and done. "Yeah. Just to remind you who's making the money here. You or me." She clapped her hands then pointed at him then herself. "Me right. Maybe you should take a break and stop talking."

Baro gritted his teeth balling his hand into a fist. "You need to take a break, {Y/n}! You've been staring at the screen day in and out I bet you didn't notice every present for you and me is wrapped. Or that the whole house is spotless. I've been doing all the work while you sit there typing away. I bet you don't even know the next week is Christams."

"You need to get up and walk away. Walk outside, I bet you didn't even notice the light rain. So get out of this room and go for a walk." He hit the desk in anger at the female.

The two didn't notice Baro was looking out for {Y/n}. He had been doing her chores and now telling her to take a break and go outside. The female took a sigh of defeat.

"Fine." She grabbed her closet in the closet putting it on. She walked to the front door putting on her winter boots. "You coming or not, Shouei?"'

The male put on his jacket and boots walking out the door with his roommate. The both of them had a nice walk, causally walking into stores and buying a small item. They walked until the sun started to set and neither of them noticed.

When they arrived home {Y/n} didn't even bother with work. She sat down on the couch picking a movie while Baro made the popcorn and gather chips and snacks. They even opened a few presents early since it was just the two of them.

Finally for the first {Y/n} was taking a well-deserved break. The house was spotless too which added to the accusation of maid Baro.

a/n: kind of a short one but I was busy today with finals and forgot to finish working on this. Anyway this also got a little off track but that's ok I brought it back a little. Thanks for reading if you made it this far, mind following if you liked this, you could like the others.

[frenchiepal]

don't worry about late reply clearly i am also late...i hope your thesis is going well i know how busy it can get i also just finished up my degree D: (what am i going to do with myself now that i'm done???)

ah, yes I think it's normal to push phonetics/phonology. i've talked to some professors and they've said my uni is a bit of an outlier because it has profs who specialize both in formal linguistics (with the more traditional focus) and more functional/applied linguistics. so i guess it's me more so with the unique experience!

yes...i really didn't like learning about UG and syntax trees etc etc (i seriously don't get the point like why try to fit a language into pre-conceived UG when you could study it with an open mind and learn so much more?) I was lucky! I was actually able to take hist ling both during my undergrad degree (i did a ling minor) and again for my MA...it was !so fun! and a lot of hard work too, but often the best classes are. hopefully you'll be able to take one sometime!!! it's just such an interesting topic

p.s. all ling memes are welcome

you 🤝🏼 me

replying late

(must be a linguistics thing lmao)

first of all congrats on finishing your degree ahh?? 🎉🎉 i wish my uni would offer more applied linguistics tbh if only to give me more arguments against the "linguistics is useless and you're gonna end up as a taxi driver/jobless" crowd :') imo it's a fifty fifty chance what kind of syntax course you get - either the cool one (yay how to different languages operate?) or the loser one (ug, also trees) dbdbs

i'm gonna post all the lingi memes i have soon there are so manyy

lots of love! <3

[dirtmunch]

On Tuesday I had one of the worst crits ever while operating on 3 hrs of jetlagged sleep. It was one of those crits where you're trying to explain your concept, which is deeply rooted in your identity and the inherent conflict it has with the men around you, to the men around you lma and ones that have disrespected you time and time again. My work deals with esoteric rites, worship, and gender and identity through the lense of religious art techniques--both in an attempt to understand the symbolic "woman" and the feeling of "woman". This parallels my inability to understand the feeling of "faith". I use archetopical symbolism to construct my pieces. The pieces like I said are deeply rooted in being an andro lesbo, and I frankly and too recently soft-out to want to discuss to a group of jackoff art dudes that sort of venerable content.

And ofc to a room full of 30-40nyr old men this is totally incomprehensible, and me refusing to explain in great detail what each piece or symbol mean (again, cuz THAT'S THE POINT AND ALSO THE PIECE SHOW WAS ABOUT MY NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE WITH MEN IN ACADEMICS, I.E. THEIR ASSES!,) was totally unacceptable. I spent the whole time trying to explain why I wasn't going to explain the deeper meaning of the pieces and them then giving confusing, mean, replies. My prof at home point said "yeah if an atosy doesn't explain what their work means in a gallery I just walk right by it" which is such bullshit Idek where to start. For one this sort of esoteric art is SOOOO historically rooted and common that is a fun in lie. Like viewer interpretation of peices with repeated symbols being placed above clear explanation is not only common, but also incredibly important. 2ndly uh no the fuck you wouldn't. My work is visually good enough to stand on its own which again, IS THE WHOLE POINT OF MY CONCEPT. these fucks get so caught up in "woman no give me what I want" that they totally overlooked the actual piece in the room in favor of trying to pry shit out of me simply because I didn't want to freely give it to them. Because of that I got NO formal feedback, NO comments on the actual Piece. NO suggestions of what to do/take away visually, NO comments on craft, NO useful shit at all!!!

And this is more minor- I happened to have been accepted into a very competitive apprenticeship, yippieee! I posted it to my story the day before. My prof saw it, no likes, not message, no nothing this dude goes out of his way to congratulate every dude in the class on whatever they achieve. This guy has told us to aim and achieve high and tell us about our achievements so he can brag about his students. Anyways fays forward to class the next day- and mind you I hadn't had a chance to talk to him and tell him, considering his ass showed up late to HIS CLASS. We go through class announcements, and another student asks me in front of everyone "hey didn't you get that apprenticeship? Co grays dude that's awesome!" n I was like "oh thank uu ^_^"

What does my prof do? Absolutely nothing. Totally ignored that happens. No smile, no mention, no Congratz, no nothing. Just moves on. And the whole class he's like, peeved at me. So my crit with this asshole the same day after all this shit.

What's annoying is this prof is nonconfrontational to an infuriating point. If he realizes he was a dick, he will never apologize, he'll just do what me and other girl students have dubbed "puppy dog mode" where he acts like a friendly little kicked puppy, and will try to be all extra niceys, which is just annoying and frankly infantilizing. Like dude you're what, 43? Just say you're fucking sorry like dawg we are all adults in a graduate academic course let's be so fucking real. And that's even if he feels like he HAS done something wrong.

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Slight correction to the correction...

Screenshot is from Wikipedia on Sugarcane.

Text:

The two centers of domestication for sugarcane are one for Saccharum officinarum by Papuans in New Guinea and another for Saccharum sinense by Austronesians in Taiwan and southern China. Papuans and Austronesians originally primarily used sugarcane as food for domesticated pigs. The spread of both S. officinarum and S. sinense is closely linked to the migrations of the Austronesian peoples. Saccharum barberi was only cultivated in India after the introduction of S. officinarum.[12][13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane

^^;; My geekery continues.

OK, what's true is that unlike a lot of other foods, it was a slow Westward diffusion over time until it hit Europe and Europe can't grow sugarcane under normal conditions. The native range is tropical or subtropical. I've covered this in the larger doc and several times over, but people argue for sugarbeets in this case, and NO, you REQUIRE industrialization for that since sugarbeet processing didn't exist until the LATE Victorian era. This is why the slave trade.

References abound in that section and I checked. It lines up with the Cambridge History of food.

BTW, I'm stating this again, I did a 50 page treaties on subsistence systems which DOES cover rich and poor food, and struggle food using anthropological sources. The original post was merely adding to it. It has SOOO much, it crashed my computer of the time. It has SO much information, that pretty much the sheer compiling of it beats most Anthropology textbooks on food, including the official one because the commonly used one for Anthropology of food doesn't break it down like that, but basically has a list of articles of which I've effing included into the doc as the book is listed (not the articles.)

The point of the opening post was to add and the point of the replies was to say stop using magic as a substitute for trade. 'cause Fuck it, PoCs exist and Fuck it, like WTH is with everyone fixated on temperate climates? Even Europe isn't all Temperate. Scandanavia not exist for you??? The Med doesn't exist for you?? Italy IS NOT TEMPERATE.

I don't think magic should be used as an excuse to cut out PoCs. I think that's a really poor way of going about things, ya know. And I hate to see it. Won't kill ya to mention traders and trade. (And I did cover how Inuit are PoC that far north too in the Physical Anthropology post and man, it's tied to food).

I swear, I tried very, very much to cram in all I could into those 50 pages and give you vastly more to think about than Seasonal changes. I got things like goats vs. sheep and which environments (And I checked with my Economics Prof on this and my theory and he said it made sense), how to invent domesticated animals, I tried to cite people who did it right and wrong in Fantasy. I got the advantages and disadvantages of various plant types. How to avoid imperialism (thus also do imperialism) from a theoretical standpoint, how to design a trade network around food. I put my degree for good and shared it free for you, even though the degree cost me over 20K. I poured my years of watching cooking shows, research in the uni library, begging with the Food Anthro prof to give me his syllabus, used the Harvard syllabus, pictures I took of pages from said library and vast watching of various anthro and food documentary shows to compile it together.

I swear, I tried my best to cover everything until my computer and Tumblr said no mas and I had to give up and then reblogged and wrote a topic on top of the things I kinda couldn't write in so you could research them.

Yes, Socioeconomics of food is IN THERE. I didn't suffer for 5 years in utter abject poverty for the first 5 years of my life to forget about socioeconomics of food. I also spent time giving credit to where things come from, have pictures of the Cambridge History of Food, and then used a college class on European food systems to talk about the contribution of the Mongols to Europe.

I was fucking efficient. It took me quite a while to write. And I took a few years to collect the images for it too. But I missed thinking about food more efficiently on realizing how long it takes to make one dish and how much pre-planning goes into it. That's why I put up a new post.

Again: I swear it's all in that doc. I just can't edit it anymore because I broke Tumblr. ^^;;

The reason I state this is I'd rather not tread old ground when I effing covered it and very widely and gave a bunch of thinking points on it. You bet I'd cover imperialization of food. I swear, I swear that post should have almost everything you need. My economics prof often talked about how the economics was tied into food production. If I thought of it, I think I put in his whole thing about his work on Yap or linked him to it at least. (James Egan) Flips everything you think about food and food production.

So before people reply to this post, at least give the original a spin and skim it to see if the point was made so I don't have to repeat the same thing. Read the subject titles if you like, but get an idea of what was covered.

Slight note about the system of food.

'cause adding it to the large doc might crash my computer?

I've realized that though historical fiction minds this more when set in pre-industrial times, that often fantasy set in agricultural societies doesn't seem to do this, though it should.

So I'll give you an example...

Almost everything in Korean food is centered and bred for two things: Kimchi and soy sauce.

But what you don't realize in your industrialized state how freaking long it takes to make these things and how much planning is involved and how much you have to mind the seasons in order to make it correctly.

Kimchi:

Baekchu (or other vegetables) that's often harvested in fall.

The salt, which was traditionally sea salt was harvested in the spring and summer months.

Garlic is a spring to mid summer crop.

The sweet rice that goes into winter kimchi takes a ton of work to make and can take from Spring to fall.

The fish sauce that goes into Kimchi that helps preserve it for over a year, takes and ENTIRE YEAR to make. Yes, a year. You really, really have to plan on that. And what do you do if the fishing is poor for that year?

Spring onions are faster to grow, but you still have to time it for the fall kimchi making.

The fish are seasonal. For example, Yellow Corvina is taken in Korea in the spring. Shrimp in the summer (June), and anchovies in early spring to fall.

Your timing has to be impeccable and you need an entire year to plan this one dish.

Meanwhile, you, industrialized person, take for granted that you can get fish sauce any time you like and can pour it over kimchi.

In fantasy this could add flavor to your fantasy make up, if your character can only get this dish once a year. It can add political unrest (What do you mean the salt harvest was poor and we're left with the shitty metallic salt), because your characters in an agricultural society will be subject to weather changes, which you get when reading historical fiction and so on. Three seasons of poor harvest, daaaamnn... the people might overthrow their government. There might be new religions that pop up, there might be uprisings because the King and Queen are eating feasts every day while the peasants are eating things that are empty calories.

What I'm saying is that you can't be too entrenched into industrial mindset if you're not writing an industrial setting.

That orange is seasonal and only comes about in a connected system that has winter and a warmer climate.

Maybe there are key foods for your climate that are highly treasured or sought after. Mandarins once were. Cacao. Think a bit about those things and how it might interact with the larger world. When does your plant mature and when can it be harvested? is it different from different climates? There's wars that have been fought over food. (Tea, famously, at least a few times).

A staple crop failing is going to have devastating consequences.

And yet, often in fantasy, I often see people going, ya know what I can eat in the dead of winter, strawberries. Do we have greenhouses? No. Did we have freezers? No. But you know what my character is eating? A strawberry. Yeah, think about that. Strawberries don't preserve well. So plan out the timing of your dishes a bit (to the climate and subsistence system) and it can give a bit of background worldbuilding to your dishes and food.

I do have to say that the small mentions from Rings of Power n what's in season or not and why kinda made me feel like the world and the traveling was more "real" with the Harfoot. There's small references to fall v. spring crops.

[trothplighted]

PLEASE MORE GRINDELDORE AS PROFS IN HOGWARTS AU.

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND

I HAVE TO USE THIS SPACE TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK SO THERE'LL BE MORE GRINDELWALD CONTENT IN A LATER INSTALLMENT BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOY

Monday, 2 September, 1974. the morning after the full moon.

"So!"

Someone - presumably Sirius Black, but one could never be too certain this early in the morning - slammed himself down onto the bench, practically bouncing back up again when the wood finally remembered it had some give. His schoolbooks smacked into the table with a crack that set the breakfast plates on both sides to rattling, earning him a stern look from Sturgis Podmore, who sat further up the table, angling himself on the bench to display his Head Boy badge to the largest amount of people possible at one time.

"Sorry!" he loudly whispered. "Won't do it again!" The look on his face, as far as the boy beside him could tell, didn't indicate either contrition or a lesson learned, but as he hadn't done anything worse - yet - he only earned a sigh from Sturgis as the rest of the Gryffindors returned to their food.

"So," Sirius said again, clapping an arm around said boy with enough force to realign every bone in his body. "Welcome back to the land of the living!"

"Mmngh," his companion answered, poking at a bowl of porridge with about as much enthusiasm as a flesh-eating slug faced with a diet of only grass. This meant, roughly, go jump in the lake and get eaten by the squid, but Sirius was never one to pay attention to obvious signs, and he blazed ahead with all enthusiasm.

"We missed you at the feast last night," he said. "'Course, I understand - the night sky's much better company than we are."

The boy - Remus Lupin, fair-haired and slender in contrast to Sirius's darkly handsome good looks that had already earned him a legion of admirers among the girls in his year - groaned, shrugging off the hand that had draped itself around his bony shoulders.

"That's a terrible joke, if it's meant to be one," he observed, blinking balefully at his friend.

"Good," Sirius replied airily, "your sense of humor's intact. Can't have that fatally incapacitated by your sickness."

"My sense of humor wants to tear your head off," Remus muttered, returning back to the sad-looking porridge. "Anyway, do you have to shout? It's too bloody early."

"It's almost nine o'clock," countered a third voice, this one belonging to a lanky boy with hair that stuck out from his head in all directions and a pair of round glasses that perched on the end of his nose as if the only thing keeping them there was his insistence they behave. "And we've got Defense in half an hour. I just got our schedules from McGonagall." He brandished a few sheets of parchment at the other two; Sirius leaned over and snatched one, examining it intently.

"Oh, fantastic," Remus muttered, stabbing a spoon into his bowl as if it could kill the nausea that still lay thickly on his stomach. "Exactly what I needed today. Thank you, James, you've single-handedly saved me."

"We're fourth-years now," the bespectacled boy told him. "No more Dark creatures, which means no more lectures on the evils of you-know-whats." His voice dropped conspiratorially.

Remus didn't laugh, but did consider lobbing a lump of porridge right into his face. He decided against it, instead asking "Where's Peter?"

"You missed it," James informed him. "He's late, he got spattergroit when he was on holiday. He'll be starting next week."

"Is he all right?"

"Oh, yeah, it wasn't a bad case, but he's still contagious."

"And there's a new professor," Sirius added, shoving a buttered scone into his mouth halfway through the sentence

"There's always a new professor," Remus said.

"Not like this," James cut in. "This one's foreign." He slapped the parchment onto the table, pointing to a name that Remus was obliged to read upside-down. "Gregor Weiss. See?"

"He's the new Head of Slytherin House," Sirius added, still mostly chewing on his scone. "Dumbledore announced it last night, but Reg got a letter over the summer about it."

"What?" Remus asked. "But what about Slughorn?"

"Oh, he's still Potionmaster," James said. "Look, his name's still there."

"Why would he get the sack for half the job but not all of it?"

"No idea," James shrugged. "Sirius, cough up, you're our man on the inside."

"Am not."

"What do you call having a family full of bloody Slytherins?"

"Bad luck."

"Except you do know something," Remus countered, and when their eyes met Sirius groaned and finally swallowed the last of his scone.

"Reg complained about it for three days straight," he said, picking up a glass of pumpkin juice and taking a long drink that was somehow meant to be obnoxious. "Finally, Mother told him that it was a good thing, as Professor Weiss has a Durmstrang education -"

"He what?"

"Am I telling the story or aren't I, James?"

"Fine! But - Durmstrang?"

"Durmstrang. Apparently one of their top students, in his day. Very notorious in the right circles. Mother was impressed. She thinks this indicates Dumbledore might finally be getting the right idea about the direction Slytherin House ought to be taking."

"But - it's full to bursting with Dark stuff, everyone knows that!"

"I almost went to Durmstrang," Remus announced, cutting James off before he could go on one of his long rambling tirades against Dark magic.

"What?"

"They take werewolves, don't they? And Veela, and half-elves, and all those sorts of creatures. Besides, both of you are missing the really interesting bit of all this."

"... which is?"

Both his friends' eyes were on him, and that was almost enough to make Remus grin.

"If Professor Weiss is the new Head of House, he's planning to stay. Which means -"

"Which means he broke the curse," Sirius interrupted.

"Which means he's got to be powerful," James finished.

All three boys turned their heads to peer up at the staff table, and the conspicuously empty seat belonging to the Defense professor. Whoever he was, they'd know soon enough.

[fwacchi]

On mobile & sorry if I said anything weird my first language isn't english & for not using puntuation I'm not good at it

Hello! This is just a mini rant(kinda)(since no one that I currently know are into vtubers or know what they are & I just wanna talk about it) but I just came across this tiktok short/edit (don't really know what to call it 😅) but she basically trying to expose? Vtubers (mostly nijien) (mostly nina in this case) but she was a minor (it's in her prof.) & I found on one of her edits/videos she was asking ppl for shoutout bc she 'needs her fame back' & that just makes me feel weird about it like.. Idk.. I think that recently I just had seen some ppl trying to cancel some vtubers on tiktok for stupid things like fu-chun getting 'cancel' for liking/reading BL even though he's bi if I'm correct (ik that some of the cancel aren't really recent but tiktok just kinda stated to put those videos on my for you page recently) like for vox I kinda get why he's was cancel but at the same time not bc sure you can feel uncomfortable & all but for me personally I think that calling him a p*do was too mush like lately ppl have been throwing that word around to losely & I just think that he over share to much but yeah

Btw it's ok if you don't want to respond to this you can just ignore it but have a good day/night also I hope that your first day in college was good! My younger sister also just started college & she was saying the same thing as you so just know that you aren't alone 🤣🤣

Your English is reallyyyy good!! <3 and good luck to your sister too!!!

I've wanted to talk about this topic before but didn't really have the chance to but now that you've ranted about it, I'm gonna reply to your rants with a rant of my own so buckle up 😌

(there's literally an essay down there so enter at your own risk 👁️👁️)

This is exactly why I barely go on tiktok anymore. when I used to be a diehard fan of kpop artists, shits like this was way more worse. At some point, it started disturbing me to the point I actually never went back on tiktok again. That's how much I hated that app back then. Literally just one or two months ago I opened that app again, thinking I could have a peaceful life in vtubers fandom but oh lord I encountered a hate video.

It was something similar to what you said, but what I saw was a video saying "canceling nijisanji en" and I thought it was a joke or something so I went to the comments section to see what it was about. And the whole comment section was filled with "omg yes" "ugh shifting to nijisanji jp right now" "well at least shu is safe💀" honestly, I was like huh??? seems that they were talking about most of the nijisanji en boys interacting with an artist who was apparently racist (or something else i'm not really sure) but yeah that's the bits of it. [I saw a comment under the specific post saying something like "if this is how yalls attitude is, then don't even think about coming to the jp side" and I was like SLAYY GIRL YOU RIGHT ASF] sorry I'm pretty much gatekeeping niji jp from toxic fans like that who could just hate on their so called "oshi" on a baseless rumour.

First of all, I'm on twitter literally everyday and have heard nothing of that issue. Or maybe it's possible that I could've totally missed it. Secondly, even if the issue is true, I'm pretty sure the en boys wouldn't have interacted with the said artist if they knew about it. Like girl, vtubers don't have to know everything about everyone on internet. Just because they don't follow up on who is who and who is supporting what doesn't mean you have the fucking rights to cancel them.

Let me tell y'all something mind blowing. Reading BL isn't a crime. Surprising? Get that into your fucking mind. BL is a genre just like Mystery, Romance, Historical and etc. Even if you're straight you can read/watch BL it's not wrong. It's not wrong as long as you don't fantasize about it and get off on it. If you're a straight person reading BL (yaoi) and getting turned on about it and being public about it, then seek help. That's just so wrong. You girls don't like it when men jerk off to lesbian porns so it goes both ways.

This is me speaking for myself as someone who enjoys BL and I would love to read GL genre too. But there's just none that suits my taste and BL stories are being published more and more rather than GL. That's the main reason I read more BL and not GL. It has nothing to do with me being a freak. I don't even read much yaoi like BJ ALEX, painter of the night, etc. I mostly enjoy fluff BL genre because I see it as any other romance. (if you have good gl manhwa/anime/donghua/manga recommendations, please share it with me👁️👁️)

And calling vox a p*do? that's just way too offensive and wrong. Did you see him having dirty talks or actually having sex with a minor? No you fucking didn't so stfu. You don't even know who he truly is behind the avatar so what gives you the rights to say something so horrible about him? And this goes to everyone else. Even if a person you know, or barely know, is a prostitute, slut, playboy or whatever, you do not get to judge them. You're not their parents/family members so you get no say in their life. Just stfu and live your own life instead of judging others'. UNLESS you see them committing real crimes which is against the law of your country then report them to the police. That's all you have to do.

Now, I don't want to categorise all tiktok users as one group but most of the people, I repeat, MOST of the people in tiktok are underage, or simply just utter fools who have no morals in them. Especially those hate accounts (and this goes to EVERY hate accounts. not just the ones dedicated to nijisanji/vtubers).

I see some accounts saying "this is a troll account. i actually love [insert name] so much🥺" no. If you love them as much as you claim to, then you wouldn't even think about hating on them like that even for a joke. That's just disrespectful.

What do they really get out of this hating behaviour? likes? shares? comments? fame? well if that's what they want then they're really doing it in a wrong fucking way. I didn't know people could be happy getting those achievements from such a nasty way. They have little to none shame. Possibly bringing down someone's career because of their stupid behaviour isn't something to be proud of. Their parents surely wouldn't be proud of it either. Am I mean? well not as much as they are and at least I'm only speaking facts.

It's literally so easy to shut up your mouth if you don't like something. Like, go find something else you enjoy instead of hating.

+the nijisanji en family has been getting bigger these days which is why they're getting more hate that are visible. The only thing we can do is comment something to put some sense in their shitty mind(which will end up going over their head considering how dumb they are), report, block and scroll away. Fools like them can't be fixed unless they themselves realise what they're doing and how it harms others around them. We really shouldn't be wasting our time and ruining our mental health over some dumb asses.

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He's in THAT mood~

Summary : Jendralkhan & The Great White Shark was in charged of watching over Zahwa, Spike, Twitch, & Bella while Paddle Pop, Liona, & Magus were on the mission (AZ pinkself ain't even know how in the world did they manage to get The Great White Shark to also watch over the kids-). The Great White Shark was a little bit suspicious of the way Jendralkhan was acting, maybe it's bc Jendralkhan has a little bit of some pink-ish hue on his cheeks, Jendralkhan always jump when he was barely been touched, Jendralkhan covering his mouth, and finally, Jendralkhan always avoiding eye-contact with the kids, and the elder shark. The elder shark asked the kid's if they knew anything abt the way Jendralkhan was lately acting, but instead of just a simple answer, the kids explained the concept of "Lee-Mood" and exposing Jendralkhan...

Another day, another Lee!Jendralkhan contents from your favorite Jendralkhan Simp! /HJ

Yes, I PLATONICALLY simp for Jendralkhan. He ma fav shawk UWUWUWUWUWUUUWUWUWUWWUWUWUWW

Welp- uhh...- Idk what else to say, but hope you enjoy!

Casts/Characters :

Lee : Jendralkhan.

Ler : Great White Shark.

Baground : Spike, Twitch, Bella, AZ, Paddle Pop, Magus & Liona.

Mentioned : Prof. Higgabottom, Remora, & Shadow Master.

TW : Tickles, Self-Insert, Platonic shipping/pairing, Mentions of b4ckst4bb1ng, & Possibly typos➡.

Another day, another crowd of fishes in the Dewan Laut, discussing something...

But today, the Dewan Laut's crowd & discussion wasn't the important case, because...

"Guys, will you promise me to watch over them?" Paddle Pop asked to the Ocean's toughest Knight, & The Great White Shark.

The Great White Shark was at Dewan Laut!? Wow! How rare! He visited Dewan Laut!? But, why is he watching over the kids?

"Do not need to worry, Paddle Pop," The White Shark assured Paddle Pop, "We could watch over them," The King continued, "Plus, I might as well watch over them, I've got nothing to do anyways" The King added.

So, The King decided to watch over the kids because he had nothing to do!? Well, that's a one way for a king to fill up his schedule, AND also cure his boredom-

"Don't worry, Paddle Pop," Jendralkhan reassured the Lion King (Pun definitely NOT intended ;)). FOR THE 150TH TIME. "We could watch over these tadpoles" Jendralkhan said, joking a little-

"Why did you call them Tadpoles?" Paddle Pop asked, a bit confused of Jendralkhan's nickname for the Kid's whole group.

"Cuz their TINY! Duh!" Jendralkhan answered, "Their height wasn't even tall enough to reach my waist..." Jendralkhan continued, in As-The-Matter-Of-Factly tone.

"Hahah! That's true!" Paddle Pop agreed.

"Now, now, we shouldn't waste anymore time! We need to go to the Phoenix Ship, Magus is waiting for us!" Liona said.

"Oh, right! We need to go now, bye!" Paddle Pop said, waving at the Ocean's Strongest Knight. "We'll see you guys when we get back!" Paddle Pop added while he walked swimmed his way out the drowned building & entered the Ship.

"Byee!" The knight & the king replied at the same time.

"Hmm, I hope they finished their mission successfully!" The king hoped for Paddle Pop & his friends.

"Now, Jendralkhan," The king turned around just for a second, "Wh-" The King's question was cut when he realized that; Jendralkhan somehow wasn't there anymore.

"What!? Where did he go!?" The king turned his head left & right to look for the younger knight. The king SWORE the younger knight was right NEXT to him just a few seconds before the king turned around!

Then, the king heard giggles from one of the rooms. The king entered the room, and saw the kid's sitting on the floor, talking abt something.

"H- hey guys, have you guys seen Jendralkhan by anychance?" The King asked, stuttering a bit.

"HWAA!" AZ screamed, not expecting the King to suddenly come into the room out of nowhere-

"Hm? Oh, uh, sorry, I didn't see him" Spike replied, apoligizing.

"I didn't see him either" Twitch also replied.

"I didn't see him. I was talking with Twitch, Spike, & AZ in this room the whole time!" Bella replied.

"I was at the halls next to this room to get a drink, then is saw Jendralkhan heading to the library," AZ answered, pointing to the direction where Jendralkhan went. "But if he wasn't there, then I don't know where else he went. I only saw him heading to the library" AZ added. "Also, sorry for suddenly screaming, I wasn't expecting you to suddenly enter this room" AZ apologized.

"It's ok!" The Great White Shark replied, "Also, thank you for the answers!" The king added before heading to the room Jendralkhan headed to.

"You're welcome!" The kid's replied, all at once.

"Now, where were we?" Twitch asked, wanting to continue the conversations he had with his friends.

Meanwhile, with the Great White Shark & Jendralkhan...

As the king almost swimmed past the library, he saw Jendralkhan sitting near the window, looking out the window.

At first, the king thought that nothing was wrong, but he lost that thought after he saw a glimpse of Jendralkhan's face. The king saw... A BLUSH on Jendralkhan's cheeks!?

The Great White Shark's eyes widened a bit, then it hit him.

'Jendralkhan has been acting weird today...' The king thought to himself, 'Him avoiding eye-contact with me, him BLUSHING, him suddenly jumping when I slightly touching him, and him covering his mouth,' The king continued his thought. 'Could it be...' The king thought, feeling a bit concerned. 'Naah, he might just had a bad mood today' The king thought, thinking that Jendralkhan had a reason why he was acting rather wierder than usually.

A few minutes later...

It's 08:30 now, Jendralkhan still hasn't acting like how he acted the last day the King saw him.

'Hmm, Jendralkhan is still acting weird...' The King thought, the King's concern about Jendralkhan's actions got bigger & BIGGER.

'You know what? The kid's were a lot more closer to Jendralkhan then I am,' The King thought of an idea, 'Why don't I ask them?' The King thought once again, heading to the room the Kid's was in last time he saw them.

"Hey guys," The king greeted the kid's.

"Hello!" The kid's said, turning their heads to the Great White Shark.

"Hello" AZ replied, holding her phone with 2 books, a pen, & a pencil case in front of her.

"How are you guys doing?" The king asked the kids.

"Me, Spike & Bella were just talking!" Twitch replied.

"Really?" The king asked again, "What were you guys talking about?"

There was a silence for a bit, and the 3 other kid's exchange looks before the kid's said "We forgot what we were talking about" at the same time.

"Huh? How come?" The king asked again, wanting to know how in the world did they even forget what they were talking about!

"We talked about quite a lot of things the past minutes" Bella replied.

Welp, that made sense-

"And Zahwa? What are you doing?" The king asked.

"Doing homework" Zahwa said, typing something on her phone.

"Well, if you had homework, do it now!" The king said, "Don't play with your phone when your homework isn't done" The king continued.

"I got quite a lot of homework to do," Zahwa replied, "I'm done with the ones on the book, just needed to send it to the teacher." Zahwa continued. "I also got a pop quiz homework, it's on my phone, and I'm doing it right now..." Zahwa added. "Thank goodness the homework & the quiz wasn't Math-" Zahwa added again.

"Well then, good luck with your homework!" The king said.

"Thanks!" Zahwa said.

"Now, do you guys happened to know why Jendralkhan has been acting weird lately?" The king asked, getting to talk about the thing he came to the kid's room for.

"Weird like what?" Bella asked.

"Finished!" Zahwa suddenly yelled, standing up and tidying up the pile of school stuffs on the floor & putting it on her school backpack.

After that, Zahwa sat next to Bella and asked "Now what did I miss?".

"Anyways," The king said, after Zahwa sat next to Bella, "Jendralkhan was acting weird because he avoided eye-contact with me, somehow blushing for no reason, he covers his mouth, & he jumps when I slightly touched him," The king explained the whole thing, "I don't think he acts like that the last time I met him, do any of you guys know what happened to him?" The king asked.

"Well, he did avoid eye-contact with us," Bella said.

"But I think I remember I saw a bit of a pink-ish hue on Jendralkhan's cheeks," Spike continued Bella's sentence,

"And he indeed jumps when I touched his sides to get his attention," Twitch continued Spike's continuation.

"And he's covering his mouth..." Zahwa said, holding her phone.

"Could it be..." The 3 other kid's said at the same time.

"He's on THAT mood?" Zahwa answered-ish the 3 other kid's question, still holding her phone, typing something.

"Oooooooh... OOOOOOOH WAIT, That made sense-" Twitch said, realizing that THAT mood might be the reason why Jendralkhan has been acting weird today.

"What mood?" The Great White Shark asked, he couldn't process what does the kid's meant by THAT mood.

"The Lee Mood!" Spike & Bella said at the same time.

"Lee... Mood?" The king said, confusingly.

"Oh goodness, now I have to explain it..." Zahwa said, seemingly embarrassed to explain what was "Lee!Mood".

"What is a Lee Mood?" The king asked, not even understanding what does that word means.

"Ok, first off, the word Lee stand for Ticklee, and Ticklees are a person who enjoy or are being tickled," Zahwa explained, "And the word Ler stands for Ticklers, and Ticklers are a person who enjoys or are tickling a person." Zahwa continued, "And the word Switch means that a person who enjoys both tickling someone, and being tickled. And that means I'm a switch-" Zahwa continued again, "And second of all, to answer your question; Lee Mood is a mood where you wanted to be tickled, but a Ler Mood is a mood where you wanna tickle someone," Zahwa answered the King's question.

"Oh... So that means..." The Great White Shark said, in a questioning tone.

"Jendralkhan WANTED to be TICKLED? Yeah, he definitely does-" Zahwa continued the King's sentence.

"Wait- is Jendralkhan even ticklish HIMSELF?" The king asked.

"Trust us, he is INDEED ticklish," Zahwa answered the King's question, kinda turning off her phone. "Don't believe us? I recommend you to tickle him yourself" Zahwa recommended.

"But, what if it won't work?" The king stuttered.

"Trust us! It WILL work!" Bella said, reassuring the king.

"Ok..." The king stuttered, finally agreeing to the kids. "But will you guys help me?" The king asked.

"Help you to actually tickle him? Nahh" Zahwa said.

"Watch YOU tickle him? Yass!" Bella said, continuing what Zahwa said.

"Help you by telling you which spot to get next? Yeah!" Spike said, continuing what Zahwa & Bella said.

"Record the whole time when you tickle Jendralkhan? Yeah!" Twitch said, continuing what Zahwa, Bella, & Spike said.

"What!? Y- you're gonna record me tickling Jendralkhan!?" The king asked, not expecting what Twitch said.

"Yeah, duh!" Twitch replied, "It's our tradition to record ppl that was being tickled!" Twitch explained.

"But first of all-" Zahwa said.

Later...

"-Got it?" Zahwa asked, making sure that the Great White Shark remembered wich spot to get.

"Ok, I got it!" The king replied, "Wow, Jendralkhan was surprisingly ticklish for a tough knight like him!" The king exclaimed.

Meanwhile, with Jendralkhan & The Great White Shark...

"Hey, Jendralkhan," The king greeted as he entered the room Jendralkhan was currently in.

"Oh, hey there, your highness," Jendralkhan greeted back, with a rather tired tone. Jendralkhan wasn't actually tired tho.

"Are you ok?" The king asked with a concerned tone, "You've been acting weird today, is everything alright?" The king continued, rubbing the knight's back.

"Y...- Yes! E- everything's alright! Heh..." Jendralkhan stuttered, looking away & covering his mouth with a wobbly smile.

"Hm? Are you sure?" The king asked.

"If you are indeed alright, you wouldn't acted-..." The king said, "Weird like today..." The king continued as he started tracing Jendralkhan's back.

"Gyahk!" The knight slightly screamed as he arched his back when he felt the sensations.

"I- I dohon't know what you're- hmhm- talking about!" Jendralkhan said, letting out a few giggles & is still covering his mouth.

The Great White Shark widened both his eyes & smile after he heard Jendralkhan's giggles, then said "You have such a cute laugh!" The king complimented, "I'd love to hear more of it!" The king said as his eyes were half-closed into a set of mischievous eyes...

Jendralkhan widened his eyes in horror, and the next thing the young knight knew; The elder shark grabbed his staff/trident, and cast a spell to grab Jendralkhan's arms, held them up, and held them against the walls, pinning the knight to the walls.

Incase if you're wondering what did the Great White Shark did to his trident after he casted that spell : The king also cast a spell that maked his trident magically stands up while is not being held by someone, and just let go of his trident and focusses more on his tickliah prey...

Welp, Jendralkhan's DOOMED now.

"Now, Jendralkhan," The King said, "Do you happened to be..." The King cut his sentence, then placing his hands to Jendralkhan's sides after continuing his words "Ticklish..?". The King earned a small muffled giggle as soon as he placed his hand onto the younger knight's sides.

Jendralkhan gasped whisperingly & widening his eyes upon hearing The Great White Shark's question.

"N- no!" Jendralkhan answered with the WRONG answer, "W- why would I even be ticklish?" Jendralkhan questioned back.

"Really..?" The King said questioningly, squeezing the younger knight's sides after asking "If you're not ticklish, then why did you react when I do that?" To Jendralkhan, clearly pointing to the King squeezing Jendralkhan's sides.

"Gah! Hmhmhm! Noho!" Jendralkhan verbally fought back.

""No"? "No" what?" The King asked.

"No tickling!" Jendralkhan grunted as he said it.

""No tickling" you say?" The King asked, "But it's a "Yes tickling" for me!" The King teased.

"NOOOOOHOHOHOHOHO!!" Jendralkhan both protested & laughed upon hearing the King's words, closing both his eyes shut.

FINALLY!!! JENDRALKHAN BROKE!!!

"Jeez, no need to shout! I'm right in front of you!" The King joked, smiling widely. Clearly, the King's enjoying tickling Jendralkhan. (AZ : Me too, your Highness. Me too.)

"Gahahahahaha! Hohow dihihid yohou knohohohow!?" Jendralkhan asked, demanding to know how in the WORLD did The Great White Shark knew that Jendralkhan was ticklish!

"Simple! The kid's told me about it!" The king chirped out an answer.

"WHAHAHAT!?" Jendralkhan said, not expecting the king's answer.

"I noticed that you were acting weird today, i got a bit concerned about you acting that way, so i asked the kids about it!" The king said, "And instead if them only giving a simple answer, they just thought me a whole new lesson about the concept of "Lee mood"..." The king added in a teasy tone.

"Screhehehew yohohou kihihiHIHIHIHIDS!!" Jendralkhan nearly SCREAMED as the king traced on Jendralkhan's stomach.

"Jeeheez, Jendralkhan! You're so sensihitive!" The king teased, laughing at Jendralkhan's laugh suddenly went up an octive!

"Oh, and also; If you want me to genuinely stop, just say "Oyster", ok?" The King said, giving a save word.

"Ohohokahahay!" Jendralkhan replied, feeling glad that he was given a save word.

The Great White Shark smiled upon hearing Jendralkhan's laughs. The king had NEVER seen a knight as redicilously ticklish as Jendralkhan! And Jendralkhan had NEVER laughed this hard & loud ever since the day that Remora decieved Jendralkhan to be evil.

"Now, Jendralkhan, i have a favour to ask you," The king asked Jendralkhan to do his favour, "Do you think you could do that?"

"Suhuhure, ihif you let me gohohohoho!" Jendralkhan replied.

"You don't need to be let go for doing my favour, because..." The King said as he grabbed a green, fluffy, & soft feather that Twitch definitely didn't tickle Prof. Higgabottom to gave a feather straight from his wings, and just gave it away to The Great White Shark, then continuing "I want you to laugh harder, and louder!".

'Uh oh... I'm doomed...' Jendralkhan thought to himself upon hearing the King's last sentence.

And the next thing he know, The King traced Jendralkhan's stomach with the green feather, and Jendralkhan absolutely lost it!

"GYAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! " Jendralkhan laughed out loud, Jendralkhan cannot take the feathers tracing his stomach.

The Great White Shark laughed along Jendralkhan as soon as the king saw Jendralkhan's reactions then said "Ahaw! You're so cute when you laugh like that! You should laughe more, kid! Your laugh could make a sad oerson happy from just hearing your laugh! That definitely worked on me!" The king exclaimed and complimented.

Jendralkhan only laughed more, not replying to the king's comment. (In reality, he just doesn't know what to say or react to the king's comment. Plus, he's being tickked to bits! Jendralkhan could barely say a single word without laughing)

The king stopped tickling Jendralkhan with the feather and asked "Now, are you ticklish here?" Before squeezing Jendralkhan's underarms.

"Aahahahahaha! Thahat's ahalot mohohore behehetteheher!" Jendralkhan laughed, his laugh got more calmer when the king stopped with the feathers.

"I'll take that as a "Yes"!" The king replied.

Then, the king started scratch Jendralkhan's armpits, earning a loud growly scream from Jendralkhan.

"GRRAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GYAHAHAHAAA! NAHAHAHAHA!! NOHOHOHOHOT THEHEHEHEHER!" Jendralkhan screamed out loud.

""Not there"? Why not? Is it because it's too ticklish?" The king said in a teasy tone, smiling widely, half-closing his eyes, and raising an unexisting eyebrow.

"YEHEHEHEHEHEHESS!! NOW STAHAHAHAHAHAHAPH!" Jendralkhan complained.

""Stop"? Didn't i told you to say "Oyster" if you want me to genuinely stop?" The King said, pointing out the fact that he gave Jendralkhan a saveword.

"Or, perhaps..." The king cut, "The kid's told the truth about you enjoying being tickled?" The king said in a teasy tone.

"NAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! NAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAT TRUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUE!! IHIHI HAHAHATE TIHIHIHIHICKLEHEHEHEHES!!" Jendralkhan complained through is loud laughter.

""Not true"? If that's not true, then why didn't you use the saveword i gave you?" The king asked.

"I'll give you 5 seconds for you answer, and i'll stop!" The king said, as he moved to Jendralkhan's underarms.

"Ihihihihin your dreheheheheheheams!" Jendralkhan barked.

"Your funeral" Is all the Great White Shark say before he grabbed an electric brush that Zahwa definitely didn't grab off her father's office and gave it away to the Great White Shark.

The elder shark turned on the electric brush, and let Jendralkhan heard the buzzing sound the brush made.

The brisstles of the brush was vibrating like crazy that it even made buzzing noise.

As soon as Jendralkhan heard the buzzing noises, Jendralkhan widened his eyes in happiness fear.

And then, it happened. The electric brush made contact with Jendralkhan's stomach. And i also think it's save for me to consider that Jendralkhan absolutely LOST it.

"GYAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA- NAHAHAT THAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAT!" Jendralkhan laughed, smiling widely.

"STAHAHAHAHAHAHA- STAHAHAHAHAP!!" Jendralkhan barked.

"Remember Jendralkhan, i gave you a save word, and i also give 5 seconds for you to to answer my question" The king said in a rather teasy tone.

"AHAHALRIHIGHT, AHAHAHAHALRIIIHIHIHIHIGHT! I'LL TEHELL, IHIHIHIHI'LL TEHEHEHEHEHEHELL!!" Jendralkhan laughed, FINALLY giving up!

The Great White Shark smiled, turning off the electric brush, took his trident and took the spell away he casted on Jendralkhan, and turning back to Jendralkhan.

"So, was it tr-" The king said, but was interrupted by Jendralkhan.

"Yes. It is indeed true that i ejoyed being... T- tickled" Jendralkhan stuttered, and Jendralkhan's blush got deeper and deeper as soon as Kendralkhan said the word 'Tickle'.

"I- i'm just trying to hide that mood, but the more days gone by, the more bigger that mood gets!" Jendralkhan exclaimed.

"Why were you trying to hide that mood, if i may ask?" The king asked.

"I... I thought others might think i'm weird..." Jendralkhan answered, "I'm a knight, and knights weren't suppose to enjoy tickles, weren't they?".

"I'm a king, and kings weren't suppose to be incharge of watching over kids and teenagers, or tickling others, weren't they?" The king exclaimed.

Jendralkhan just stared at the Great White Shark for a second or 2, then looked back down the floor.

The king sighed, then said "Jendralkhan, i understand that you enjoy tickles and you being a knight. But knights could and have the right to enjoy ANYTHING they want, including being tickled".

"I'm a king, but i enjoy hanging out with kids and play with them. I could do it for hours if i want to" The king said, "I know kings like me wasn't suppose to enjoy that, but i also know that everyone, including me and you, still had the right to enjoy things we want or like. Wether their a knight, a king, or a villager, they still had the right to enjoy things they want, even if they wasn't suppose to enjoy them" The king continued.

At that sentence, Jendralkhan could only smile and said "Thank you so much your highness," Hugging the king, "I really needed that".

At the response, the King wasn't actually expecting Jendralkhan to hug him, but the king just hugged Jendralkhan back and said "You're always welcome, dear".

"It's been so long since the last time i was ticklee mercilessly like that, thank you" Jendralkhan thanked the king.

"When was the last time you've got tickled before, if i may ask?" The king asked.

"I- i don't remember..." Jendralkhan answered, "But, i still remember the last time i was tickled by my bestfriend Remora. And that day stoppee when Remora decided to backstab me, and left me to be Shadow Master's servant".

The Great White Shark gasoed in shock & disbelief, then said "I apoligize, but he's such a horrible friend! I bet Paddle Pop would've been a better best friend for you".

"It's ok, and i also proved the fact that Paddle Pop would've been a greater friend for me myself" Jendralkhan replied.

They smiled for awhile, then hugged eachother.

"Thank you so much, your highness, for everything!" Jendralkhan said, thanking the king.

"You're welcome, dear" The king replied.

"Now, i think you needed some time alone after i tickled you, so i'll be leaving now" The king said.

"W- wait!" Jendralkhan said.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" The king asked...

"Well, if you don't mind..." Jendralkhan stuttered, "I... I haven't said "Oyster", didn't i?" Jendralkhan 'Asked'.

"Oh?" The king said before smiling mischievously and said "I'll gladly continue it".

"Thank you" Jendralkhan said.

"No need to thank me, kiddo" The king replied, "You've thanked me for quite alot of times before, and plus; Don't you remember of what i told you today?" The king said.

Jendralkhan only smiled in reply.

Then, the Great White Shark reclaimed his trident, re-cast the spell he used to pin Jendralkhan, then went back to tickling Jendralkhan.

A little while later...

"PPPBBRTHHH!!"

"AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!"

The king raspberried Jendralkhan's stomach, and by that point, the word 'Oyster' would've been the oerfect word to say.

"GYAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! OHOHOHOHAHAHAHAHA! OHOHOYSTEHEHER!! OHOHOYSTEHEHEHEHER!" Jendralkhan said, he got just a bit tired from the tickles.

The Great White Shark noticed this, and stopped his attacks.

"I'm sorry, but i just have to know if what the kid's say was the truth..." The king said as he started to scratch Jendralkhan's chin.

"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhm! *Purr~" Jendralkhan giggled. And PURRED.

The king widened his eyes & smile, then said "Ahaww! That's adorable! They are indeed telling the truth about you purring when your chin is scratched!" Whilst laughing along Jendralkhan.

After a minute or 2, the Great White Shark stopped attacking Jendralkhan's chin and took away the pinning spell.

Jendralkhan was left breathless, untill the king decided to attact Jendralkhan's chin wich helped Jendralkhan calmed down a bit.

"Told ya he'd purr!" Someone said at the doorway.

The 2 sharks looked towards the doorway the sound was coming from, and saw the kid's leaning at the door! But, in Zahwa's grasps, there was a camera with a flickeeing red light!

And that only means 1 thing... And that is...

"What!? What are you guys doing there!?" Jendralkhan asked in a shocked tone.

"Remember what i said?" Twitch asked, with his eyes were mostly set on the Great White Shark, "We would record you tickling Jendralkhan!".

"But didn't you said, Twitch would be the one recording me tickling Jendralkhan?" The king asked.

"Well, i would if we could use our phones" Twitch said.

"But if we our phones to record you, it would took alot of our phone's storage space" Zahwa explained.

"And plus, Zahwa haven't even thought us on how to use the camera she was holding anyways" Spike said.

"Hmm, that ma-" The king's sentence were cut off.

"Guys! We're back!" Paddle Pop said as he enter the drowned building with Liona.

The kid's gasped and smiled as soon as they heard Paddle Pop's iconic voice.

"PADDLE POP!!" The kid's screamed and ran swam away towards the enterance of the Dewan Laut. And ofcourse Zahwa turned off the camera before she swam away.

And ofcourse the 2 others sharks went to the enterance way to greet the land & sea heroes.

The kid's & the 2 other sharks met Paddle Pop & Liona at the enterance of Dewan Laut and greeted them.

"Hello Paddle Pop!" The kid's greeted.

"Welcome back Paddle Pop!" Jendralkhan greeted too.

"Welcome back" The king also greeted too, "How'd the mission go?" The king asked.

"It went very good!" Liona answered.

"How about you guys?" Paddle Pop asked, "How's everyone doing?".

"We had an amazing day today!" Bella said happily.

"But i bet the Great White Shark & Jendralkhan enjoyed this day much more than us does~" Twitch said in a very teasy tone.

The Great White Shark only giggled at what Twitch said, then the king said "Yeah! I actually do!" Happily, "But what about you Jendralkhan?" The king asked.

"I had the best day of my life!" Jendrakkhan responded happily, "And i thank you for that, your highness" Jendralkhan said to the Great White Shark.

"You are and will always be welcomed, dear" The king replied.

Paddle Pop & Liona was left in visible confusion, and Zahwa realized this.

"Oh, if you 2 didn't get what actually happened; Just check the security cameras" Zahwa said calmly.

"HUH!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!?" Jendralkhan asked.

"Didn't you remember? I helped Dewan Laut improve their security system by setting up security cameras in every single room this place has!" Zahwa explained, "There's even a camera in the room they're in while they had alot of fun~!".

Paddle Pop & Liona got even more visibly confused, so they got to the security room of the Dewan Laut.

After they did, they were in AWE of Jendralkhan being tickked to bits! And they were also in AWE that the coldest king could be so supportive, and soft!

And eversince that day, Jendralkhan no longer had fear of showing, doing, or talking about things he enjoyed and liked.

We had the rights to like, enjoy, or talk about things we liked, no matter if we weren't suppose to, or were suppose to.

There might be alot of people who seemed strong on the outside, could be weak on the inside. Just like Jendralkhan.

And there are might also be alot of people who seemed cold on the ouside, but is warm on the inside. Just like The Great White Shark.

Fin~

[niawritess]

The Lovestruck~Chapter 7

(1st December)

9:33 am

"Waah! That was such a hard test." Ria groaned while stretching her body and you sighed whilst nodding.

"Prof. really gave questions from that chapter which I took notes from." You opened your notes to check your answers.

"Y/n, the test is over, so keep the notes back before I throw them out." Ria threatened and you gave her a look before shoving your notes aside.

"Let's go in the garden, you have brought chocolates, right? After taking the test, my sugar level has decreased and hunger has increased." Ria said dramatically dropping her body on you behind and you coughed before dragging her to the garden.

"Oh My God!" Ria laughed out loud causing people in the garden look at you both weirdly and you slapped her arm. "Shush, stop laughing now."

"Okay wait, so Dan almost revealed your story." She snickered before taking a bite of the chocolate.

"Dan seriously, I would kill him someday." You huffed munching your chocolate before you looked around and spotted a familiar figure.

You frowned. "Isn't that Rowoon?"

Ria followed your gaze and let out a sigh. "Woah! They are dating already."

"How can you tell?"

"Look at their hands Y/n, and see how he keeps his arm around his shoulder." She gave you a look which was saying 'why are you so dumb'.

"What! I have seen in dramas, they also do that when they flirt, you know." You debated.

"They don't kiss on the cheeks if they are flirting." She said as a matter of fact tone and you shrugged, not really interested in the topic.

"I feel bad for the guy who would date an idiot like you." She shook her head in disappointment while taking the last bite of her chocolate.

You shot your eyes at her before faking a smile. "You don't have to feel anything because I'm not interested in dating."

"Not interested in dating," She mimicked your tone. "Let's wait and watch."

She crumbled the chocolate wrapper and threw it on your face, you glared at her before taking the wrapper and threw it back at her face.

"Still, I wanna date." She whined.

"Oh, it's class time." You ignored her before standing up and made your way toward the campus.

"Wait for me! You're always ignoring me." She yelled catching up to you but you ran away while her chasing you again.

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12:14 pm

Walking out of the classroom, you were on your way to the cafeteria before texting Ria and while strolling, Rowoon was passing by you and waved his hand to you. Before you could greet him back, lauren quickly dragged him out before sparing you a glance, or say glare.

"What the heck? No one's going to steal your boyfriend." You grumbled, rolling your eyes before walking fast to your destination.

"Oyii, bestfriend!" You got a headlock by your bestfriend making you yelp and you shot a glare at her before she let go of you.

"Woah! What happened? Why are you sending dagger from your brown eyes." She joked and you gave her a look before walking again leaving her behind.

"Okay, jokes aside, what happened?" She asked linking her arms around yours.

"Nothing, that lauren-"

"Lauren? What did she do? Huh? Did she said something to you? Wha-" She started her nonstop questions but halted when you gave her a look of 'will you let me talk'.

"Okay, i'll stop now tell me." She brought crossed arms to her chest and stared at you seriously.

You let out a exhasperated sigh. "That.. Actually Rowoon waved to me and she just dragged him like I was going to jump on him like seriously I'm not even interested in him that way lik-"

"What! How dare she!" Ria exploded putting her hands on her hips. "I knew it! She seemed to be rude with others but how dare she! With my best friend! Just wait i will teach her lesson!"

She rolled up her invisible sleeves and was about to go but you grabbed her arm to stop her.

"Woah! Calm down dragon! What are you doing? It's not even serious and I don't even care about her, so leave it." You said calmly.

"What?"

"Look, she just tried to tell me that Rowoon is her boyfriend, yeah it wasn't her mouth but eyes and I don't really care about whatever she thinks or do, unless she crosses her limit." You stated and she looked at you with frown but nodded.

"Then why were you angry?" She asked.

"It was for a brief minute but then I thought why should I care?" You told her casually and she pursed her lips.

"Right, you're someone who doesn't really care." She smiled and you nodded.

"Anything else?" You folded your arms to your chest.

"No professor, you're amazing." She gave you thumbs up and you both laughed.

"Let's go now, i'm ravenous." You whined, rubbing your stomach.

"I know, you eat-cracker."

"I told you not to call me that."

"What? What are you gonna do? Eat-cracker." She stuck out her tongue at you and you scoffed. "You're dead now!"

She ran ahead with you chasing her before Ria was running as she glanced behind to you and she didn't saw that there was someone walking ahead of her.

"Careful!" You shouted as you saw what was about to happen but too late she bumped into a guy's back.

"I'm sorry." She immediately uttered as she stood straight before he turned around and Ria let out a gasp seeing the person infront of her who was none other than Park Chanyeol.

You quickly jogged upto her and stood in front of the taller guy who was towering over you both.

"You!" He exclaimed looking at her Ria and shifted his eyes to you for a brief second before looking back at her.

"Aren't you that card girl?" He asked showing his big eyes.

"Yes, but I'm not card girl, I'm Ria." She smiled and he nodded smilingly, finally knowing her name while you just looked at both them weirdly until you heard another guy's voice behind you to see none other than Kim Jongin.

"Hyung! Here-." He halted his sentence as his eyes stopped to you both who were looking at him with wide eyes.

"Oh! You!" He exclaimed pointing at you causing you both get startle."You work at that Café, right? Baekhyunee hyung's g-"

Chanyeol cupped his mouth, before he could utter that girl word while You and Ria looked at eachother before looking back at them perplexed.

"Friend, he meant friend." Chanyeol completed his sentence, whilst smiling nervously and you nodded slowly.

"Something like that." You chuckled awkwardly not really sure about the answer.

"So, you go to our college." Jongin spoke, with a surprise tone and you just smiled before he glanced at Ria who was staring at him in shock.

"And you are?" He asked, his corner of lips twitching upward and you glanced at Ria who was still in shock to answer, so you nudged her and she snapped out.

"Uh.. Um yeah, I'm Ria Song Smith, Y/n's bestfriend." She stammered and smiled nervously.

He nodded smilingly before glancing back at you. "So, you're Y/n, we finally met you."

"Eh?" You tilted your head looking at him in confusion.

"Oh nothing, don't mind him." Chanyeol interuppted. "Anyway, we have to go out, so see you around." He smiled and you both nodded.

"Annyeong!" Jongin waved cutely, walking away with Chanyeol behind and he looked back at Ria who was also looking at him before he walked away.

"What was that?" You uttered and looked at your bestfriend who was still looking at the college gate where your seniors went out by.

"Ugh let's go now!" You groaned, dragging her to the cafeteria before her fangirling starts.

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"I can't believe, I met them." Ria said, sitting on her chair.

"Like I met Chanyeol Sunbae once but didn't know I would get to meet them again with Jongin Sunbae of course and they talked to us." She squealed.

"Here she goes again." You muttered before rolling your eyes and sat beside her.

"I don't get it, why don't they eat in cafeteria like the food isn't bad tho." She said and you nodded.

"Maybe, they are fed up from the stares." You joked, shoving spoon of rice in your mouth.

She gasped. "That must be it! They are so handsome, of course people would stare at them."

You looked at her in disbelief. "No, I just.."

"What?"

"No, just eat up." You shook your head but then laughed at your bestfriend who took your joke seriously.

Ria looked at you and understood as you got smacked by her but instead of getting angry, you laughed even more.

"What's so funny?"

You both looked up hearing the familiar guy's voice as he sat opposite of you both and stopped laughing.

"Mark?" Ria looked at perplexed. "We didn't see you the whole day, where were you?"

"Actually, I was in need of a part-time job and found one so went there to discuss about it." He replied.

"Oh? You were looking for a part-time job? You could've just asked Y/n then, she works at a Café." Ria told him and he looked at you in surprised. "You do?"

You nodded. "Yeah, but why are you so surprised?"

"Correct me, if I'm wrong but your family is good financially right? Then why are you working there?" He questioned.

"Yeah, at first I wanted to work there for some experience but now I like working there." You smiled.

"Or is it someo-." Ria's sentence got interrupted as you shoved her spoon of rice.

"Eat a lot." You gritted your teeth and she grinned mischievously.

"What happened?" Mark looked at you both confusingly and you shook your head before glaring at your bestfriend who was munching her meal happily.

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"Why did you both took forever?" Junmyeon asked the two males who just reached their table before getting seated.

"We met someone on the way." Jongin answered filling his plate with the meal while Chanyeol ignored him and sat beside Sehun.

"Who?" Yixing asked who was seated beside him.

"You won't believe, Baekhyunee hyung's girl." Jongin grinned causing Baekhyun stop his chopsticks in his mouth and he looked at the latter with widen eyes.

"What did you say? You met who?" He asked placing his chopsticks back on the table.

"I said I met your girl Hyung." He replied before gulping his water.

"Where did you meet her? And I told you it's not like that, so stop calling her that, she has a name." Baekhyun told him sternly.

"I know, it's Y/n." Jongin said casually smiling in victory and Baekhyun looked at him for few seconds before letting out a sigh. "I hope you didn't spout nonsense infront of her."

"Hyung! What do you take me for!" Jongin whined.

"He almost said she's your girl." Chanyeol intruded and Baekhyun looked at him in shock before looking back at jongin furiously.

"You-."

"Hyung! That was mouth slip, okay!" Jongin defended himself.

"Whatever, Don't talk nonsense to her, no don't even talk to her." He forbid him and jongin smirked.

"Why? You're going to get jealous?" He wriggled his eyes brows and Baekhyun rolled his eyes. "Shut up."

"Stop it and let us eat now." Kyungsoo grunted getting irritate by their conversation and two of them stopped but jongin kept grinning widely at his Hyung who was eyeing him sternly.

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2:14 pm

You were walking towards the Café as usual while listening to some music and getting close to Café, you were so imersed that you didn't felt that someone was walking beside you.

As you glanced to your side, you got startled to see Baekhyun in his simple yellow hoodie and jeans, smiling down at you.

You stopped and pulled out your earbuds, before looking at him astonished. "When did you come?"

"I have been walking beside you for like five minutes now, you didn't know?" He looked at in confusion and surprise.

You shook your head innocently and he imitated you shaking his head while looking at you in amaze.

"How could you get so imersed, that you didn't even felt me beside you." He asked and you just shrugged.

"You shouldn't do that, it's dangerous." He said staring at you in serious expression making you surprise as you've never seen him this serious before except that basketball game day.

Nevertheless, you smiled. "Okay, I'll be careful."

He grinned back."Good, let's go now."

He walked ahead while you stood there staring at his back and wondering.

"What is this? Why did he sounded like dad?" You mumbled then chuckled at your thought.

Baekhyun stopped when he didn't see you beside him and turned around to see you standing there.

"What happened? Come on." He called you out and you nodded before jogging upto him.

You both reached the café and as you were about to open the door, Baekhyun did it gesturing you to go in first as you looked at him and smiled before walking in with Baekhyun behind you.

"Oh? You two came together." Rose said as soon as you both entered.

"We met on the way." Baekhyun told her, making his way to the kitchen and she nodded.

"Rose, did you set the date?" You asked as you approached her at the counter and Baekhyun came out of the kitchen wearing his apron.

"Jack said, they need to recheck the schedule and will inform later." She told and you nodded.

"You talk to jack often?" You frowned and she looked at you but didn't answered.

"Of course, she has to ask him about these things right, Rose?" Baekhyun looked at Rose who looked at you both in perplex and nodded slowly.

You tilted your head. "But Rose, why is your face so red?"

"Oh? Is it?" She laughed looking away nervously and fanning her face. "I just feel hot."

"It's winter." You said, looking at her innocently and trying not to laugh.

"Uh..yeah, it is winter." She stuttered and looked at you who was stifling her laugh and immediately squinted her eyes at you.

"Go get changed and get to work." She pushed you playfully towards the kitchen and you laughed before walking in the kitchen.

You walked out of the kitchen wearing your apron, before walking behind the counter and stood beside Baekhyun who was taking the order.

You started making the drink while watching Rose who was talking on the phone and then you felt a presence beside you.

"Why were you teasing her?" Baekhyun asked but his tone was a complaining one, like a protective brother who was worried for his big sister.

You giggled at your thought before handing him the drink and he gave it to the customer with smile before standing beside of you again.

"The thing is, Rose is the only child and has always kept herself busy with studies and then this Café, so she never had time to date and now finally she's on that track then there's no one to tease her." You explained.

"So, I want to let her feel that how sisters are by teasing her a little bit, if it does make sense to you?" You chuckled and he nodded slowly understanding your point.

"That's good but then you also have to be prepared." He uttered before taking the order from another customer who just came in.

"Why?" You frowned.

"I'm not-" You got interrupted as your hand hit the spoon on the counter causing it to fall and it made a loud sound which startled the customers including you both.

You immediately apologized before squatting down and Baekhyun did the same making your forehead collide with his.

"Ow." You both groaned rubbing your forehead before looking at each other for few seconds and burst out giggling.

"Wait." You hit your forehead with his again lightly and he looked at you in confusion while rubbing it.

"Oh, if you don't hit it again, two horns will grow on your head." You told gesturing towards his head and he looked at you weirdly.

"Who told you that?"

"I saw it in dramas."

He looked at you in disbelief before sighing in defeat and shook his head.

"You and your dramas..," He trailed off as his corner of lips turned upward. "..Are really one of a kind."

With that he stood up before holding out his hand to you and you looked at him frowning before picking up the spoon and took his hand to stand up but got startled to see the customer looking at you both in shock.

"Am I interrupting something?" He eyed you both weirdly and Baekhyun's eyes widen while you were still confused.

You looked at Baekhyun, then to the customer who was still staring at you weirdly and then you realized what he meant which made your eyes enlarged and your face flushed.

"No! It's not like that!" You exclaimed a little loudly startling him and he nodded scared by your sudden outburst.

"Sorry, can you get my order, please?" He looked at Baekhyun and he nodded before doing it while you took the drink to serve a customer by walking away quickly with your red cheeks.

Baekhyun chuckled at your reaction which he found cute and kept smiling while making the drink.

"Is she your girlfriend?" The customer asked him noticing his smile and Baekhyun got surprised by the question.

He shook his head. "No, we're.." he stopped getting confused by his question and thinking what are you both, co-workers? acquaintances?

Then his eyes stopped at you who was talking to Rose smilingly and his lips curved into a smile as looked at the customer.

"Friends, we're friends." He told him before giving his drink to him and the customer nodded.

"I thought you were a couple." He chuckled awkwardly before taking his drink from him and walked out leaving Baekhyun in amaze.

"What did the customer said? I saw you two talking." You questioned as you reached the counter.

"He said, you watch too many times." Baekhyun replied, looking at you seriously and you frowned.

"Hm? How does he know I watch dramas?"

He looked at you for few seconds and then laughed shaking his head. "I'm kidding."

"Huh? What the heck?" You whined making him laugh more and you made a face before walking towards the kitchen leaving laughing Baekhyun behind but his laugh made you smile unknowingly.

***

7:51 pm

You entered your home with Daniel behind you before he walked into the kitchen and you sat on the couch while closing your eyes.

You felt peaceful until something cold touched your cheek making you flinch and immediately opened your eyes to see Daniel grinning down at you while holding a juice bottle.

"What the.." You took it from him and he sat beside you before you opened the bottle cap and took a sip.

"Oh right, mom called but you weren't home." Daniel sipped his juice and you sat up straight before bringing your legs up and crossed them.

"How are they? They are coming back tomorrow right?"

"They have to stay for another week."

"Another week? Why? Is everything okay there?" You asked worringly.

He nodded. "Everything is alright, their flight got canceled because of weather and the whole week is booked already."

You nodded pouting. "So I have to tolerate you for another week."

"That's what I'm saying." You shot back and you glared at him before switching on the TV.

You gasped. "Oh, it's Park Seo Joon!"

"Are you a player? You keep changing your actors." Daniel grunted and you scoffed. "It's not being a player, it's called being fan of them."

"Whatever, now give me the remote, I wanna watch." He was about to grab the remote but you pulled your hand behind you.

"No, I'm going to watch my drama."

"Just give me the remote!"

"No!"

"Okay!"

"Okay?" You looked at him in surprise before placing your palm oh his forehead. "Are you sick or something?"

"Shut up! Noona, i'm bored. Let's go out." He requested giving you pleading eyes.

"I don't want to."

"You're always at home, just get out sometimes. Let's goooo!" He whined, shaking your arms and you exhasperated before looking back at him.

"Ugh! Fine."

"Yayy!" He exclaimed and you shook your head before smiling at your brother who looked like a 5 year sold.

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@wooya1224 @buttercupbbh

[the-coffee-story]

Coffee - Murder in Red Moon Motel

Chapter 9 - An unexpected Meeting

The door opened, letting a gust of August wind inside. A young woman with dark lipstick, a white fur coat and a burgundy dress walked into the diner. The Professor didn't really pay attention until she came up to his table and waved her hand into his face. "Hey!"

He couldn't believe his eyes at first and just stared in pure amazement at first, like a student at their first good grade after a bad few months.

"Grace?" His tone had gone up in surprise.

The woman nodded excitedly. Her blue eyes were sparkling like frozen leaves on Christmas morning. She looked so much happier than the last time.

The Professor clapped slowly. "Applause. You look fantastic, and I'm not one to throw around compliments."

"Thank you." She chuckled. "I practised in secret."

"It looks...it looks simply amazing, Grace."

She sat down at the table, her smile still so wide one could get worried the corners of her mouth might meet on the back of her head. "Ha. Anyway, what are we doing about the Denny Chung thing now?"

"I was thinking we could go to Red Moon Motel. Maybe check for security cameras, ask the staff-" He was interrupted by a couple suddenly appearing by the table like jumpscares in a cheap horror film.

"Good evening everyone, I heard you were talking about Denny Chung. Mind if we join you?" The woman didn't even await an answer and landed next to Grace. The man gave everyone an apologetic glance before sitting down next to her. When he brushed a curl behind his ear they could see that he was missing a thumb.

"Sure, go ahead," the Professor said long after it had been necessary to reply.

"Okay, hi everyone," the woman said. Her voice was deep and husky. The Professor bet on chainsmoking. "I'm Harley, this is Quentin."

"Hi, I'm Grace." Grace gave her a smile.

"You're cool, just wanted to point that out," Harley commented. She turned to the Professor. "And you are...?"

"Professor Jules Calvet, at your service."

She nodded. "Excellent, we might require said service."

Quentin cleared his throat. "What we wanted to ask is...how much do you know about Denny Chung's case?"

"Not much yet," Grace admitted. "We're planning to investigate tho, because it's fishy as hell."

"Good!" Quentin sighed in relief.

"Here's the thing," Harley explained. "We're private investigators, and Beverly Chung - that's his wife - hired us to prove her husband was murdered. Now, the problem is, she pays after seeing results. And we need the money to pay our bills in twelve days, otherwise we get evicted and shit goes down crap creek and that's not nice."

The Professor nodded. "Aha."

"You get where this is going, right?"

"Absolutely." He tilted his head. "Twelve days is quite a task."

"We're well aware," Quentin sighed.

"So..." Harley's eyes were narrowed. "How about we join forces on this case?"

The Professor drummed his fingers on the table.

"Grace, what do you think?", he asked.

She chewed her full lip. "Hmm..."

"I mean...we all want the same, am I right?", Harley tried to convince them. "We all want to prove Denny Chung was killed. Might as well work together doing it. And once we're finished we get our pay and you get...uh, honor, I guess?"

"I've lost my honor twenty years ago and I've no desire to get it back, you live better without it," the Professor said. "I have a purely scientific interest in this case."

"I don't think my honor is in a good place either," Grace admitted. "But in terms of your proposal, yep, I'm in."

A wide grin spread on Harley's face. "Excellent."

"Just a question beforehand."

Harley's eyebrows shot up. "Hm?"

"I'm trans. Do you two have any problem with that?"

Harley shrugged her shoulders. "Nope."

Quentin shook his head. "Me neither."

Grace's blue eyes widened. "You really don't mind?"

"Honey. Sweetie. Gorgeous." Harley blew her a kiss. "Kermit the fucking frog could waltz up to me and tell me he'll help me with this fucking murder and I'd be ready. I really wouldn't wanna become homeless over stupid bigotry."

"Oh. Okay." Grace bit her lip.

"Which of course doesn't mean I'm gonna be a bitch over here," Harley quickly assured her. "I just literally don't give a fuck what the hell your gender is. Heck, you could be a fridge for all I care."

Grace laughed. "Then it's sealed. Prof, what do you think?"

He nodded. "I'm in."

***

"Before you even say it, I'm not reducing Grace to being pretty here. She was one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You all pale in comparison to her." Harley laughed. "Don't take that personal, you're still functional adults. Mostly."

"Yeah, I'm definitely not," Gary Fox mumbled.

"Gary, you're good, have you seen me?"

"October, really, have you seen me?!"

"Nope, can't say I have, at least not lately."

"The joke's getting old, it should retire already," the Doctor said.

[kpophours]

One Love || part I

➵ SF9: Youngbin x fem. reader / series, werewolf AU / fluff

➵ warnings: slight mentions of loss and death

➵ word count: 3k

next.

You knocked on the slightly ajar door in front of you. 

It was just a plain, white door - not a fancy oak one or something like that, which you had always imagined the door of a professor's office to look like. This one pretty much looked like any other normal office door. 

"Please enter.", a deep, male voice answered and you immediately pushed open the door, following the invitation. 

"Well, hello there, how can I help you?" A brown-haired, handsome man with dark eyes smiled at you, closing the book he had just looked at. "Professor Kim? I'm Y/N, your new scientific assistant.", you answered, smiling a bit shyly. Immediately, his face lit up und he circled his desk to shake your hand. "Ahh yes, of course! It's so nice to finally meet you in person - please, have a seat." His smile widened even more and he gestured towards one of the black chairs in front of his desk, taking a seat himself. 

"Thank you."  You smiled again and handed him your documents, which he quickly looked over.

"Great, everything seems to be in order! As today is your first day, we don't want to overwork you immediately, so I thought I'd start with giving you a tour around our beautiful campus and introduce you to some colleagues and then, I’m going to show you my most recent research papers, which you can have a look at for the rest of the day. Sounds good to you?" 

You smiled and nodded. "Sounds perfect, Professor Kim." 

"Ah, please - we'll have to work closely together, so just call me Inseong. I hope I can call you Y/N?", he said, simply waving his title aside and smiling at you.

"Of course, Prof- uh, I mean, Inseong." you answered, returning his smile and following the tall man out of the office.

The campus was really beautiful, full of old brick buildings as well as some more modern looking office buildings. The library was a towering, imposing structure which reminded you more of a church than an actual university building - and you immediately fell in love with it. The whole university reminded you a bit of Hogwarts, so you felt like walking through a dream. Only a handful of students seemed to be hanging out on campus today, but that wasn’t really surprising - the new semester hadn't started yet. 

"And this is the most important building out of all of them - the cafeteria.", Inseong explained, ending his tour with a grand gesture towards one of the more modern looking buildings. You laughed and he smiled, really liking the sound, bright and fresh so early in the morning - he already knew working with you would be a pleasure, you were open-minded, talkative, funny and seemed to be pretty laid-back. He couldn’t wait to hear your thoughts on his next big research project.

"Well, I think I'm going to like working here. The atmosphere is truly amazing - and the campus is beautiful, I always love when buildings have a certain... history to them.", you told Inseong just before you entered the History department again and smiled up at him, looking around and taking a last deep breath of autumn air, before pushing inside. 

"Well, you can definitely say this about these buildings! Ahh, I'm truly just so glad you're finally here. I really do need a helping hand and I'm sure we'll become a great team. Are you maybe interested in having dinner with me tonight? I could show you around our little town, if you like." Inseong immediately saw you withdrawing upon hearing his proposal. "I mean as friends of course! I am definitely not interested in dating at the moment, I simply don't have the time!", he quickly explained further, sheepishly ruffling his hair and smiling down at the you. 

You exhaled, relieved. "Oh, well... sure, I'd like that, then." Your attitude quickly changed back to your usual self and Inseong began gnawing on his lower lip. He meant it, he really wasn't interested in dating anyone at the moment - you were nice, intelligent and rather beautiful, but he knew a relationship with him would be a doomed one - because of his secret. He was a werewolf and therefore had a mate - somewhere out there in this world. It was possible that he would never meet her of course, but if he did... well, every other woman in the world would simply fade into the background, no matter how much she had meant to him before. He didn't want to risk breaking anyone's heart, so he always tried to keep his distance. And this would obviously also apply to his new research assistant.

The rest of the day passed rather quickly. You were able to work through a few of Inseong’s research papers without much difficulty, already pointing out some weaknesses - he had been right, you truly were the right person to help him. You were incredibly bright and quickly came to the right conclusions - Inseong knew you’d improve his little research team in just the right way.

The walk around town in the evening was very enjoyable as you had a lot to talk about. Inseong found you very easy to talk to, your witty sort of humor entertaining him greatly. He learned that you had grown up in a rather small village together with an older brother and your parents. Your childhood had been filled with good memories, up until your grandfather died - your family had been torn apart by the loss, one of your uncles and your mother hadn't talked to each other in years afterwards. You hadn’t been allowed to play with your cousins anymore - one of which had been like a brother to you, as you were the same age. Your mother had died when you were 15, as well as your maternal grandmother a few years later, to which you had been very close after losing your mother so early. You didn't really get along with your older brother, but loved your father beyond words. 

Inseong also found out that you loved to read, listen to music and to travel, that you liked baking but not cooking and that your favorite animals were wolves (oh, the irony) and penguins. Inseong in turn told you about himself as well - that he had been raised by a very large family, that no, he had no "real" siblings, but was living together with a bunch of people now - a somewhat adopted family, he called them. Some were working in town, some were still students at university - none of them being a student of his, of course - and they were close like brothers, living together in a big old farmhouse outside of town, deep into the woods. He told you he also liked reading, but was more into historical fiction, something you rarely decided to read. 

You noticed how much you already liked your new boss and began to really look forward to working with him and the rest of his team.

It was already completely dark and rather late, when you finally finished your dinner and left the cozy restaurant. "Well, thank you very much for this evening, Inseong - I had a lot of fun. Just one last question: do you happen to know about a car repair shop around here? I just bought a car and it seems to be in pretty good shape, but the previous owner said I should get it checked as soon as possible - just to be sure." 

The tall man grinned and nodded. "I know just the guy for you - he actually lives with me! His name is Youngbin and he owns the best and biggest repair shop in town. I think I have his business card with me, just a second..." He searched through his wallet, finally finding said card and handed it to you. "Kim Youngbin, CAR REPAIR SHOP.", you read out loud, "Oh perfect, thank you! I'll call him tomorrow and ask for an appointment." But Inseong waved that aside. "I'll just tell him you'll come over after work tomorrow and he'll have a look at your car. I'm sure that won't be a problem." 

"Are you sure?", you asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Oh yeah, I'll tell him tonight - he’s a night owl and most definitely still awake.", Inseong answered and smiled at you.

You returned it immediately. "Well, thank you! That's really nice. I'll see you tomorrow at the office, then?" 

"Yes. I'll bring coffee - a latte for you?", he asked, car keys already in hand.

"I’d prefer a cappuccino, thanks. And can I interest you in a muffin or bagel?", you replied and he grinned.

"Oh, you absolutely can." 

"Then that's what I'll bring.", you said with a smile - and with that, you parted ways. 

When you got home, you immediately threw off your shoes and jacket, quickly tumbling into your big, comfy bed - the jet lag still hadn't fully disappeared and you were completely exhausted. Minutes later, you were already fast asleep. 

Inseong on the other hand wasn't nearly as tired as you when he came home - he also wouldn't have been able to get any sleep yet. The house was full of his brothers and some of their mates, it was apparently time for their monthly movie night again. 

"Inseong, there you are! We were almost beginning to miss you - don't tell me you were working until now?!", Jaeyoon immediately greeted him when he entered the living room. He was one half of the, how Inseong silently called them, ‘chaos line'. 

"Well, he probably wasn't one a date, so where else could he have been?", Dawon, the other half of said line, grinned and struck out his tongue at the older man. 

"Don't be mean.", his mate Ava immediately scolded, wacking him over the head and smiling apologetically at the older man, who just rolled his eyes. 

"I actually was out, just so you know." 

"ON A DATE?!", the tallest of the bunch, Rowoon, almost shouted, surprise written all over his handsome face. All fell silent, gaping at Inseong who had turned slightly red. "No, don't be ridiculous. I just had dinner with my new scientific assistant, that's all. She's new in town and doesn't know anyone yet, so I showed her around a bit." 

"Ohhh, is she pretty?", Kate, Jaeyoon’s mate, asked, smiling brightly just as Dana, Chani’s mate, asked: "Is she nice?" 

"I don't see what her looks have to do with anything, but yes - she is very pretty. But more wha’s even more important, she is nice, yes - thank you, Dana.", Inseong answered, making Kate pout. Jaeyoon grinned and slung his arms around her, pulling her to his chest. 

"Who's pretty and nice?", a male voice behind Inseong suddenly asked and Youngbin entered the living room, hands still full of grease from repairing cars all day. 

"Inseong’s new assistant.", Rowoon explained immediately. 

"Scientific assistant, there's a difference.", the older man automatically corrected, "She's writing her doctor's thesis as well as joining my research team." 

“So she's intelligent.", Zuho guessed. 

"Oh, highly so. I think she'll be able to improve my papers greatly.", Inseong confirmed and Youngbin whistled. "Coming out of your mouth... she must be half a genius." He cracked a slightly crooked smile, indicating his irony. 

"But she's not your mate, I guess.", Rowoon said and everyone fell silent again. 

"No, she is not. But something about her... I don’t know. Her scent indicates something, but I can't put my finger on it.", Inseong explained thoughtfully, staring into nothing, before shrugging, "Maybe I'm wrong, who knows. I'll go and try to get some sleep now - you guys don't stay up too late, okay?"

Everyone nodded, before looking at the big screen in front of them again. 

"Ah, by the way - Y/N needs someone to check her car, so I told her she could come by at your repair shop after work tomorrow and you'll have a look. I hope that's alright with you?", Inseong said to Youngbin and his alpha just shrugged, before nodding. "Sure. I'll be around the shop until 8pm at least, I think.", he answered.

"Perfect, Y/N will be glad to hear that. Good night then.“ With that, Inseong left their living room.

It was bitterly cold the next day. 

You already froze half to death when you hurried along the sidewalk to get to your car. Your breath formed tiny white clouds in front of you and you cursed yourself for not having thought about bringing your gloves. They were still in one of the few unpacked boxes inside your new apartment - but who could have guessed that the temperature would drop so low just over night? Not you, that much was obvious. You were glad that your car started pretty quickly, even though it was a such an old one - a black VW golf cabrio from the 90s. Back home you had driven a newer model, a shiny, silver VW polo, but now you were on a tighter budget. You just hoped that the repair shop wouldn't find any real damage tonight. 

When you finally arrived at work, your car was already cozily warm and you felt much better. You had quickly stopped at a little café not far from campus to obtain the promised muffins and bagels for Inseong and yourself and now you were rushing towards the office so you wouldn't be late for your second day. 

Inseong was already seated behind his desk when you arrived - a bit out of breath, you should really start your workout routine again - and immediately began to smile when he saw you, his dark eyes forming little crescents. "Good morning, Y/N. Slept well?" 

You grinned back, placing the food on top of the table. "I did, thank you. But I was a bit shocked when I stepped outside this morning, if I'm being honest. Such a radical temperature drop over night!" 

"Well, that does happen sometimes in this state.”, Inseong confirmed, reaching behind him and handing you a steaming cup, ”Here, take your coffee - it'll heat you up." You deeply inhaled the familiar scent, smiling slightly and thanking him, before taking a seat behind you own desk. 

You spent the next few hours in comfortable silence, with only a few interruptions whenever you had questions about the research. At around 2pm, Inseong and you had lunch at the cafeteria, where you also met up with a few other professors and their research assistants, before returning to your work. At 6.30pm, Inseong finally yawned, stretched and turned off his desk light. "Well, that's it for today. Let's go home - or in your case, let’s go to the repair shop. Youngbin knows you're stopping by, so he'll be waiting for you." 

"Ah, perfect, thank you so much, Inseong! I'll see you tomorrow, then.", you answered and smiled at him. 

"Yes, have a nice evening, Y/N." With that, he shot you a wink and left the office.

You didn't have much trouble finding the repair shop, even though you usually didn't have the best sense of direction. But earlier that day, Inseong had shown you the way on Google maps and as the shop was just a few blocks away from campus, you found it rather quickly. You parked your car in front of one of the many garages, got out and looked around a bit helplessly. The shop was much larger than you had expected and you weren’t exactly sure where to go now - the front entrance was dark, but you saw light coming from the inside of one of the garages. Still, you decided to try the front entrance first - which was already closed as you quickly found out. Finally, you knocked against the door of the illuminated garage. 

"Hello?", you asked as you carefully pushed open the door, "Is anyone here? Mr. Kim? I'm Y/N - Inseong said you could help me with my car?" 

From under the car, a person emerged, clad in heavy worker boots, a greyish tank top and an overall whose upper part was loosely tied around narrow hips. The man was tall when he stood up, his well-toned arms even more prominent thanks to his tight muscle shirt. He wore his black hair in a slight undercut and sported dark, smoldering eyes. 

He didn't return your smile when he saw you - no, he looked a bit shocked and taken-aback upon spotting you. 

"Mr. Kim?", you asked, getting a bit shy now and ducking your head when you saw his almost critical gaze. "Oh, uh - yes, I'm Youngbin." His voice was a bit rough, which caused a shiver to run down your spine. Your heart began to pound faster and your breath caught. 

Dear Lord, he was hot. 

You’d never felt such immediate attraction towards anyone ever before. 

"Hwi, can you take over, please? I have to... go." With that, Youngbin almost ran away from you, leaving you somewhat bewildered behind. Suddenly, another, younger man emerged from behind a car, sporting long, messy hair and a sweet gummy smile. "Hey there, you must be Y/N. I'm Hwiyoung, Youngbin’s helping hand. Sooo, you want us to have a look at your car?", he asked without batting an eye at his boss’ weird behavior.

You just nodded, still flabbergasted thanks to Youngbin’s strange exit. "Uh, yes, that would be great. There's nothing wrong with it - or at least not something I, someone who knows pretty much nothing about cars, can see. But the previous owner said it would be better to have it checked by a car shop.”, you finally explained and Hwiyoung nodded, taking the car keys from you and turning to leave the garage. "You can stay here, if you like. It will take about half an hour to check if anything's broken or faulty.", he said over his shoulder, smiling at you. 

"Oh... well, thank you? I just...", you trailed off, looking around the garage.

"The office is just around the corner. Ask Youngbin to make some coffee or tea. I'll be back as soon as I can." With that, he grinned one last time before leaving you behind. 

You just stood there, undecided for a few seconds, before sighing deeply and finally making your way towards the office.

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Enigma - Year 1

Enigma Series Masterlist

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Y e a r O n e

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a crash followed by a curse can be heard inside a suburban looking house. it was white in color and had two terraces and only one balcony. inside the house, we see a woman, seemingly in her late 30s, with her face scrunched up in pain as her right hand held her left one. she looked at her left hand only to hiss in pain and shake it as if it hurt.

“you alright, ma?” the woman turned around to see a boy, in his early teens, looking at her in concern. the boy had some features of the woman which mad either clear that they were mother and son. “i'm alright, hun.” a weak smile appeared on the woman's lips as she hid the fact that her left hand hurt from her son. “why don't you go wake kenzie up? she had a rough night,” the woman suggested as she turned back to what she was cooking. “ren can do that,” the teen replied as he neared his mother. “here. let me help you, ma.” without even waiting for a response, he took the frying pan and spatula from his mother's hands and nodded at the chopping board. “why don't you just chop the ingredients and i cook?” he suggested which made his mother smile and kiss his cheek. “thanks, hun.” she then went to the chopping board and grabbed a knife before carefully cutting what needed to be cut. “no problem, ma.”

a second later and yet another teen emerge from the hallway of the house. “what's for breakfast, mom?” their mother barely had time to even react before the first teen turned around and pointed at the new teen with his free hand. “you, ren, are going to wake kenzie up.” ren raised an eyebrow at his seemingly older brother. “all i asked was what we were eating for breakfast, ralph and why do i have to do it?” ralph turned around and looked at ren with deadpanned eyes. “mom and i are cooking, dad's in the shower still which leaves you to wake our dear sister up.” ren looked back at ralph with equally deadpanned eyes. “i just was what was for breakfast.” the woman, their mother sighed and stopped chopping. “ralph, ren stop it. ren, go wake your sister up, she had a rough night and ralph—” said teen flinched at the sharp tone his mother used. “don't be so mean to your siblings.” the town teens then sighed and mumbled a sorry as they went on their way, ralph cooking and ren on his way to wake kenzie up.

said girl was peacefully sleeping when a sharp knock followed by a threat — “kenzie, wake up or i'll drench you with ice cold water.” — interrupted her much needed sleep. a groan escaped her lips as the young teen refused to wake up but she knew that her brother wasn't joking with his threat which made her groan even more. “i'm up! i'm up!” she shouted to her brother as she merely later on her bed, staring at the ceiling not wanting to move just yet. “you better be or else you'll have to walk all the way to school!” fuck. she forgot that day was the first day of school. fuck. it's the first day of high school. shit. with that realization, she shot up from her bed and stumbled to her bathroom, cursing as her feet hit her study table. a laugh can be heard fading from her bedroom door as ren began to walk away while laughing as he heard his younger sister curse like a sailor. “shut up, you twat!” she yelled to her brother only to flinch as her mother yelled back. “mckenzie caitlin snow!” yup. she was screwed. and it was only seven in the morning. wait. seven? even more fuck. “sorry, mother!” she yelled as she finally got to her bathroom and set out to take one very quick bath.

not even five minutes later, footsteps can be heard running down the stairs as kenzie emerged from the hallway. “sorry ma. i overslept.” said woman just sighed and gestured to the only chair directly across from her. it seems as though the rest of the family was already sitting in their respective seats at the dining table. sheepishly, she sat down and the family was finally able to eat their breakfast.

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“stay safe!” their mother yelled as the three siblings went inside their oldest sibling's car. “we will, ma!” ralph yelled back as ren and kenzie both waved at their mother before they were on their way to their school. the ride was silent as neither of the three wanted to speak to each other. ren and kenzie promptly decided to just look at their phones and scroll through social media. “you excited for your first year in high school huh, buttercup?” ralph asked as he tried to get both of his younger siblings to start talking. mckenzie sighed and offed her phone, knowing that she wouldn't be able to escape the conversation. “quite frankly, no.” ren smothered a snort as ralph's face fell at her answer. “why not?” ralph pestered, trying to get her to talk more. mckenzie sighed and turned to her brother as he continued to drive ignoring how ren offed his phone and leaned back to his seat, clearly enjoying the conversation. “ralph, i'm fourteen going on fifteen and i'm like, what? 5'8"? everyone's going to make fun of me.” both her brothers fell silent at that. it's a known fact within the neighborhood that the snow siblings were tall for their age. it wasn't weird for the boys because boys were naturally tall but for kenzie, it was quite a problem. being 5'8" and a 14 year old is very, very weird and more often than not, she gets teased by it. not that she cared though. her friends made sure to remind her that she's amazing no matter her height and age but when you're starting out your highschool, it's quite hard not to be scared of being made fun of for being tall. it wasn't as though there aren't other girls that's tall in the school, it's just that kenzie just felt weird to be as tall as she is. it's a insecurity of hers. “kenzie, you won't be made fun of—” ren started only to be cut off by mckenzie herself. “would you look at that? we're already here. time to go,” she said in a rush as she opened the door just as her brother began to slow down at the sight of the school nearing. “wait, kenzie, no—!” she didn't wait to hear what her brother was saying as she close the door and speed walked her way to the school. what a great way to start out the semester. a sigh escaped her lips as she tried to find her two best friends while also going to the place all freshmen were told to go to.

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“there she is!” mckenzie turned around and smiled as she saw her two best friends run to her, with their hands together. it was hard to miss kaitlyn's purple hair. “hey girls,” she said as the two neared making the three burst out laughing at the inside joke. mckenzie looked at the two — ignoring the insecurities that came creeping when she had to bend her head to look at them — and smiled. “would you look at that? we're in highschool!” kaitlyn said excitedly as both her and sally laughed in response.

the three girls met during their middle school years and quickly became quick friends that slowly turned to best friends thoughtout the years. mckenzie, to this day, always looked back at their first meeting fondly and couldn't help but feel glad that she met the two. “you're excited about that? i'm here wondering why on earth they even allowed you to dye your hair purple at such a young age!” mckenzie exclaimed which led to the three of them laughing again. “you know her, kenz.” sally nudged her with a smile as she nodded at kaitlyn who was showing of her hair in a way that made the two smile and nearly laugh again. “she has 'her ways',” sally continued as the two of them laughed only to laugh even more when they heard kaitlyn huff in faux annoyance.

“children, children.” the three friends looked at each other in confusion before they turned to look at the stage only to smile widely at the sight of their school's principal, prof. rowan. he was their class adviser last school year and safe to say, he was a good teacher. not too strict but strict enough. “welcome to your first year as high schoolers!” he yelled making them all cheer, well, all but a select few. mckenzie's eyes searched the whole area they were in noting how most, if not all, older students came to watch their ceremony which made her even more nervous than before. her eyes then caught a familiar figure which made her flinch and look back only to see nothing. a sigh escaped her lips. come on, kenzie. get your head out of there. “you alright?” a hand placed itself on her shoulders making her flinch and snap out of it. “yeah, yeah. sorry, i thought i saw something.” she ignored the worried looks she received from kaitlyn and sally and proceeded to listen into prof. rowan's announcement. “as per tradition, each and every one of you, children will be divided into the three divisions based on your skills. the artistic division—” cheers and yells can be heard straight ahead making all of us look up to see the artistic division cheering. “the athletic division—” this time, the cheers came from their right. “and finally, the academic division—” surprisingly, the academic division only nodded and clapped their hands politely as a majority continued to stare at the freshmen to try and deduce which of them would be in their division. “i wonder what division i'll be in,” kaitlyn whispered to her and sally making the two turn to look at her and shake their heads. “you're either in the artistic or athletic,” sally replied as if it was obvious which it was. out of the three of them, kaitlyn was the most athletic and let's not forget how she's also very artistic with her singing and dancing skills. said girl blushed and began stuttering before she pointed at sally defensively. “well, if you seem to know, what division will you be in?” mckenzie raised an eyebrow before shaking her head. “i'd either be in the artistic one or the academic one.” sally stilled as she slowly nodded. “oh yeah.” while kaitlyn was the most athletic and skilled in singing and dancing, sally was skilled in painting and arts and was very, very smart. “what about me?” mckenzie asked not with curiosity but with humor. the deadpanned looks she received made her blink and tilt her head. “kenz, you're obviously in academics—” sally then cut kaitlyn off. “or in artistic with your writing skills.” the two looked at each other and shrugged missing how mckenzie stayed silent at their words. that's right. all she was good for was her smarts and nothing else. the thought made her bitter and hate herself but she hid it with a laugh and smile. “of course.” sally and kaitlyn failed to notice the bitterness in her tone or how her eyes seemed to dull as they conversed within themselves, mckenzie not bothering to join in or listen.

“hansen, sally!” said girl jumped at the sound of her name before slowly moving forward after being reassured by her friends' smiles. every stayed silent as she walked, most marvelling at her beauty and while others in bitterness at her figure. out of the three of them, sally had the most fans with her kind personality and her smarts as well as her cuteness. sally neared the stage and went up only to be met with prof. rowan's smile. she returned it shakily as she put her hand on the seemingly floating orb in the middle of the stage and watched with bated breath as the orbital began to glow and assess her. a few seconds later the words “artistic” floated above the orb and for all to see. the said division cheered as they welcomed their new member with cheers and smiles. while she was smiling and clapping for her friend, mckenzie was internally panicking as she knew that there was little to no chance that she'd be in the same division as her friends. “howard, kaitlyn!” the purple head girl smiled shakily at her which made her nudge her softly. “go on,” mckenzie whispered to her which gave her enough courage to strut her way to the stage ignoring the stares of awe and respect she received from her courageous front. kaitlyn then did the same thing as sally and got the same result. she, too, was in the artistic division. oh, fuck. her eyes met sally's and kaitlyn's from their spot at the side of the stage where all divided students were place for their second division and she smiled shakily. soon, her name was called.

“snow, mckenzie!” the tall girl gulped and carefully hid her panic with a calm facade as she slowly but surely walked to the stage, her head high and her face not showing anything. she nodded as she passed by prof. rowan before her eyes began to scan all that were watching her. her eyes met her brothers making her look back at the orb and sighing. she slowly put her hand on it and watched with a sinking feeling as the orb began to glow yet again only for her division to stare back at her. “academics” stared back at her as her eyes met with her friends. she ignored the claps and respect she received — getting into academics was a hard challenge for you need to be incredibly smart to do so — as she desperately tried to hide her sadness. oh, no. she was in a different division from sally and kaitlyn. oh, fuck.

she numbly walked back down the stage and ignored the sad looks she received from sally and kaitlyn. her dull eyes met with a teacher's eyes as the teacher smiled at her. the woman looked at the board she had and smiled back at mckenzie. “ms. snow, you'll be in section 1.” the words shocked the teen but kenzie nodded back either way. “thank you,” she whispered to the teacher as she moved to the space all section 1 students were located in, noting happily how sally and kaitlyn were there as well. maybe highschool wouldn't be that bad.

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[cj-riker]

So, because of the pandemic, it's online classes for us. I thought things are going to be okay.., I was wrong. Things are definitely much harder in an online class than a face-to-face class. For one, our data signal sucks, and most of my allowance goes to buying load so that I could attend my classes. Another is that for some reason, some of my professors think that just because they gave a week for their assignments, that we could actually get it done without much stress, well newsflash profs, your subject is not the only subject that I have an assignment on and even if you give us a week to get it done, it doesn't change the fact that it intersects with the assignment of other subjects. And of course, there are professors who have an attitude that just likes ruining your day and make your life even harder. Like my professor in multimedia journalism, who decided to give us an assignment where we have to find a journalist that lives near us to interview, the interview could be done through chat, email, or f2f(which will never gonna happen) provided that we follow proper protocols. My problem with that assignment is that there is no journalist that lives near us, and I don't personally know any journalists, so I decided to ask my friends and other classmates if they know an extra journalist because I'm desperate I mean the deadline was in 2 days and I still don't have an interviewee. By the grace of God, one of my classmates do have extra journalists and just gave it to me, so I decided to asks through chat if I could interview them for our school assignment and wait for a reply...after 24 hours there was no reply, my message didn't even get seen, so I'm back to finding another interviewee, a day before the deadline fantastic. Hours passed by and no luck until I remembered that my previous theology teacher in senior high also works on a radio station, so I send her a message and she replied, which seems promising, but then she said that her program is different from breaking news, and my hope was dashed. Until she asked if I want her to refer me to their news writer(I shit u not, I was about to cry in happiness) so she sends a message to their news writer and gave me a go and I send a message to their news writer and then..., and then their news writer did not reply or even seen me(much like the first supposed to be interviewee) and I just felt horrible and lost on what to do because the deadline is just a few hours away. On the day of the deadline, I still got nothing, response or even a seen, nothing, so yeah there was I just all-round feeling pitiful, I mean who wouldn't that assignment is worth 125 points and the subject is a major too, so I'm pretty sure my grades were toast and so am I. But by some miracle, another classmate learned that I still do not have an interviewee so she said that she has an extra journalist and contacted him for me, she said that the dude reply to her messages, so I was like 'Please 🙏' cuz ya know desperate student here, so she sends a message and the dude replied, he said that he's driving and to just send the questions and that he'll answer them when they've arrived at their destination or as soon as he's not busy, so we send my questions and live it at that, in the meantime I've decided to send a message to my professor to tell him that my assignment will be late and I list down my reasons why, and as his attitude shows he just 'seen' message, no reply or anything and I was just like 'is that permission or what?', but yeah, so long story short, I missed the deadline, the last guy still haven't replied and it has been a day now and at the present, I just don't have any energy to care, I Jist decided to stop worrying about it cuz I have new assignments to worry about.

[theserenetheories]

Scars to your Beautiful

As I stands straight looking my stunning reflection in the mirror. I was amazed how the dress could possibly fit in my body. I never thought that someday, I will be wearing this dazzling dress. And this is the day, my "not just a special day" but indeed a very special day because today is my first appearance to the people after a year. The first time that they will see me different from a fat and ugly girl, and to a now dazzling, alluring, charming and hot lady. I couldn't help but to wipe my tears as it dripped down to my rosy cheeks. I remember the sacrifices I had done. All the insults I ate from the people around me. I remember everything, the reason why I pushed myself to become a better version.

It was sunny morning and I was rushing to the bus stop because i'm already late. I didn't heared my alarm clock rings earlier. I was walking so fast and almost run when I bumped into someone. The man cursed and looked to my eyes, I can see how angry he was but it he became calm when I told him that im sorry and I was on a hurry. The tall guy just smile so I already waved my hands and bid a goodbye. As I steped on the campus all the people are looking intently at me. Everyone's keep on smiling and greeted on me I was touched on how people gives me a very welcoming smile which i did not experienced for the past 2 years in studying in that school . I paused for a minute when I remember the guy who I bumped that morning. I shake my head and roam my eyes at the campus. "Its been a while" I murmured. I went back to my senses when I heard some girls yelling and I also turned my head where the girls looking at, as I noticed that everyone is looking at the luxurious car as it entered the campus gate. All the people are whispering as the owner steps out of his car. No other than the ultimate heartrob on their campus. I gazes him as I remember the scenario earlier at the bus stop "He looks matured now but still handsome. i dont think he recognized me" I stated in the back of my mind looking at the man who's behind of my transformation. The man who broke my heart into a pieces, Nicolas De Vega.

The class is about to start. I find it weird when everyone looks at me intently it is like asking me who am I but I ignored my thoughts. When the professor entered the room they all stand up and greeted the prof politely. "Sorry sir, im late" Nicolas said while he still chasing his breath. "Where have you been De Vega? It's first day of school yet you are late." The professor state in a calm way "Im sorry sir, Coach Veron called me at the head quarters. He just discussed some varsity matters sir." Nicolas replied. "Is that so? You may sit beside her" As the professor pointed on me Nicolas eyes widened when she saw me. Did he remembers me? Nicolas was smiling from ear to ear as he walks toward his seat. "So let us start I know some of the students here. Im familiar with the most of them but there is also new faces in this class. Can you guys introduce your self here in front. Lets start with you miss?" And he pointed to me, but was nervous because this section I belongs is my section where I really belongs for the past school years. I knew that they wouldn't recognized me but Im afraid to introduced myself. Im afraid that I will receiving negative comments again. Just like when I used to, when I gain weighs 180kgs. But i still bravely stood up and walk in front of the classroom. "Hi everyone I am Tally Rodriguez, yes. The one you used to call 'FATGIRL' " Everyone on the room dropped their jaws as they hear those from me. They couldn't imagine that it was actually possible except Nicolas, he's looks cool sitting there and looking at me intently so I paused for a minute. Not becaused I saw the reactions of my classmate but becaused of the reaction of Nicolas caught me. "Why is he not in shock? Did he recognized me at first?" I asked her self. But then I continue "Trying to love yourself while you lose weight seems a bit counterintuitive. After all, you’re working hard to change your body, so that must mean you don’t love it the way it is, right? Wanting to get healthy and accepting the body you have today don’t have to be mutually exclusive. When I entered the campus on my first day here. I lost my self and i lost the respect that i needed. Many people are laughing because of how I look back then. Then I fall inlove with someones who is much better than me. I know that he doesnt care about me he didnt even knew about me. Im losing my self everyday. But then one day I felt that I needed to do something, I must change my life style and love my self more. I experienced many difficulties just to stand again here. But i change my self for me. Because i love my self and im bringing back the pieces again that I lost in the past. Self-acceptance is a condition of grace and appreciation for the great range of body shapes and sizes. We are all different, and who you are