🔞 어둠 Tales I: The Fragile Princess (7-25)

IV : Lemonade

Published on: March 15, 2021

After that day, I kept thinking about this princess they were talking about. Who's this Fragile Princess? If she is a princess then why would they insult her? Did she perhaps do anything bad that they would talk bad about her? No that's not it, they were talking about her appearance. No they were JUDGING her appearance.

"Okay, dude what's wrong with you? You've been sitting there, holding up your fork, staring at your food for a whole hour already. What's keeping you so spacey?" A voice interrupted my thoughts, making me look at its owner.

"What?" That's the only thing that came out of my mouth. Making Carl roll his eyes.

"Dude there's something wrong with you! You've been like this for three days in a row already! What's wrong? Tell me." He said, I just smiled and said.

"I'm fine, let me think for a bit dude, I've been alone for two years. This became a habit of mine, I'm not used to having someone around me yet." That's what I said. Yes it's a lie, but not completely, just.... half lie.

"You better get used to it then, 'cause seriously dude, I might think that you're seeing ghosts or something. Don't ever freaking scare me like that, I might die early. I still want to get married to the love of my life." He said, literally praying for his life.

"Dude calm down, you're being weird. I'm not some kind of exorcist alright? And it won't even kill you if I am an exorcist." I said smirking at him who's trembling in fear, he moved away from me, praying for his life.

"I swear if you come close to me, I'll scream to everyone that you used to wear panties." He threatened, having his palm towards me, trying to stop me from going closer to him.

"Dude, that's not even true." I said laughing at this scaredy cat.

"But it will still humiliate you, so stop dude, you won't get in heaven if you take another step closer." He threatened again with his ridiculous reasons, I sometimes wonder how the hell did we become friends.

"As if, I won't get flustered if something's not true dude, that won't humiliate me. And a step closer won't decide my fate so...." I said teasingly when Rona suddenly popped in our house, giving me an idea.

I signalled Rona to scare Carl from behind as I halted my movements. Carl looked at me terrified and slowly slid down. I started murmuring some random words while closing my eyes and moving my hands weirdly, then I opened my hands infront of Carl, giving Rona the signal that she should scare him already.

As the 'Project: Scare Carl to Death' succeeded, someone suddenly barged in and said....

"Why? What happened? What's wrong? Are you guys alrigh--" As this person realized what happened, she smacked Carl on the head, him rubbing his head whining at this girl, while I'm confused. Rona looked at me and giggled.

"Hey Carl, mind if you introduce this lady? Someone looks a lit~tle lost." Rona squeezed in Carl and this lady's bickerings? The two stopped and looked at me. Carl blushing and this girl confused, just like me.

"Oh yeah uhh.... Javier, meet my fiancé, Lonnie. And Lonnie, meet my bestest friend, Javier." He introduced, making me smile. I held out a hand to Lonnie as a greeting.

"I didn't know you were engaged? Since when? And when? And how?" I asked one by one, one next to the other.

"And I didn't know that I wasn't your bestest friend? I thought, I was your bestest friend?" Rona mumbled at the side.