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Chapter 38.5

Second PoV

You've been smiling all day, nothing new since Alastor did tell you to smile more for showing misery means you're below.

However, your smiling face does look more genuine and not only that, the flowers in your body all seems to be brighter and in full blossom. You were in such a good mood that you've been swaying side to side, humming to your head as you watered the plants in your garden.

It's so obvious and contagious that even the carnivorous flowers seem to catch the mood and dance along, happy that their master is creating such a bright aura that it's even making THEM giddy.

'Well someone woke up on the bright side of the field, did your date go THAT well lil miss sunshine?'

The voice in your head calmly echoed, yet still somehow startling you from your daydreaming and you turned to look at your giant tree, it's one giant eye on its trunk boring into the little garden demon that you are, who seem to redden bashfully at the stare.

"Look Nar, it went far too well that I just can't help but daydream the events that happened and it's still makin me feel all sorts of ways! He was just.. too much! But in a good way!" You giggled like a little freshman gettin confessed to by their senpai, hands to their cheek and anime sparkles dancing around your figure.

If their eyes would allow it, they would've given you a deadpanned look, so instead, Narjuallah opted to express their dead inside expression through their voice in your head.

'uhuh, you don't say...'

"Oh can it, you! Lemme be happy!" You huffed, pouting at the tree.

In outside perspective, it would've been amusing to watch a woman argue with a friggin tree.

'When you're dead, I'll consider-'

"But I AM dead!"

'-But anyway, so are you two a thing now?'

Rolling your eyes at the fact that you just got basically waved off, your thoughts went back at the memory of you with the charming snake back at the gazebo where the two of you shared your first kiss, your whole head and neck immediately exploding in heat as the blood rushed to ur face and dyed ur skin red, making you fidget with your vine which seems to also somehow rise its own temperature despite being made out of fiber and having no blood in it.

"I-I.. don't know, maybe? Yes? I mean we kissed so I think? I honestly really don't knowsinceI'vealwaysbeensinglesincebirthtodeathandthisismyfirsttimedealingwiththeseanditsweirdgodIjustnowrealizedIdiedavirgin,doesthismeanifIweretomakecoconutitsvirgincoconut?-"

'I regret asking..'

And upon the midst of your flustered rambling, a broken mic ring startled you and your rooted house friend out of your racing thoughts.

Looking by your front lawn, there stood your dear ol big adoptive deer brother, eyes wide, and mouth agape. His mic's eye also wide open in disbelief.

The whole forest including Narjuallah who closed their eyes and pretended that they weren't there were pindrop silent.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Ohhh shit I forgot about you-" you whispered slowly.

But that was loud enough confirmation for the man to shake the entire forest with one word.

"... W H A T ? ! ?"

The man then set fire to the whole forest and everyone including you and Narjuallah got burnt to a crisp and Pentious is now once again, a single lonely old snek who had a girlfriend for only one night and he cried,

The End.