''Hey Daph. Missed me?''
Daphne's eyes widened at the sight of her own reflection staring right back at her. Only it wasn't a reflection, she inched backward and saw the girl in front of her moved closer to her, grinning cockily. Confused, Daphne asked quietly, " Who are you?"
"I'm you. Or in simple terms anyways. You can call me Curi for now." The girl replied rolling her eyes, picking her nails. "Why did you bring me here?" Daphne queried, focusing on the important question. Curi lifted her head to look at Daphne for a second then went back to picking her nails. "You know Hansel and Gretel?"Curi asked, still not looking at Daphne. "How does that relate to-" "Just answer the question." Daphne nodded obediently. Curi continued, "Well everyone thinks their the heroes right? The 'good' in their story? Ignoring how they killed the witch while the witch gets all the blame. How is that fair?" Daphne opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Cause the truth was that the witch was just trying to survive as well. Daphne cleared her throat and croaked , "What does this have to do with you bringing me here?" "Just think about it Daphne, the poor witch just wanted to survive yet she was blamed for just trying to do that." Curi said ignoring her. Daphne nodded again, unsure where this conversation was going. "The world needs a change. Wouldn't you want to be it?" Curi asked finally looking Daphne in the eyes. The earnestness in Curi eyes was undeniable, looking for a reason to refuse, all Daphen found was a scared, pure girl behind the earnest eyes, like it was certain she was their only shot. Daphne shook her head and managed to mumble, "No." But the happiness in Curi's eyes said otherwise. Daphne hadn't said no. She'd said the complete opposite.
Tears fell at the mere thought of what she had just done. There would be war. Chaos. Havoc would rain down upon them. Yet Daphne found herself biting her lip and asking, "So what now?" Curi's smile curled and answered, "Now we wait for the perfect moment to strike." "And when is that?" Daphne asked,hoping it was a long time so that she's have time to think through what she had just done. " In about 2 days there will be a full moon when all the multiverses are connected and that is when we strike." Curi responded nonchalantly like all this was common sense. Daphne blinked in confusion,''So who exactly are we 'striking' and how do I help?''Daphne questioned, feling more and more regretful of her decision as each second passed. ''Just like how Hansel and Gretel were in a tale, you are in one too and in every tale there has to be a villan.'' Curi replied circling around Daphne before stopping and staring at her dead in the eye,'' And that Villan is supposedly you.''
Now Daphne was bewildered as her mind flashed back to all the bad things she'd done. Taking cookies out of the cookie jar without permission, sneaking out of the house, nothing too extreme so why was she the claimed villan? ''It's not about what you've done Daph, it's about what you're going to do that counts.'' Curi told her, with eyes begging Daphne to trust her. Daphne just shook her head. '' Answer my question Curi. Who are we 'striking'?'' ''So many questions, so little time. Well if you must know we'll be striking the hero of this story.'' Curi answered. Daphne looked at her impatiently. ''Which is...?'' Daphne prompted. " Your own stepbrother, Jensen Chia.''
Daphne stared at her and began to giggle which slowly turned into a chuckle until tears started pouring out. That's when she realised that Curi wasn't laughing as well. Slowly her laughter died down and turned into a groan, '' You aren't joking are you?'' Curi raised an eyebrow meaningfully,Daphne on the other hand was regretting all of her life's decisions.That was when she felt something trickle down to her eye and as she rubbed her eyes, she came to.
"I"M SO SO SO SORRY I SWEAR I DIDN'T MEAN ANY H-"A boy with a familiar necklace fumbled as she woke up, looking around completely clueless as to what was happening. Daphne blinked as her eyes focused on the figure. It was Wee Siong—Anish's brother. She nodded slowly and mumbled, "It's ok, I'm not injured.. badly anyways." She looked around, realising she was in the nurse's office with an ice pack on her head. Wee Siong cocked a smile and said, " Now that that's over I got to go see you around..sorry what was your name?" "Daphne." "Oh. You are the sister of that annoying guy. Jensen was it?" Wee siong rolled his eyes as he strode out of the room, head high. It was obvious he still had resentments towards her brother. But if what Curi said was true, they'd have to work together to defeat whatever was the attack. All of them as one united universe.
FIRST CHAPTER FINISHED EARLYY
BLOOPERS
Cheng: HEY I JUST MET YOU 👀
Meera: AND THIS IS CRAZY 😝
Aliyah: BUT HERE'S MY NUMBER 📞
Amirah: SO CALL ME MAYBE 🤔
Na'im: STOP WITH THE SINGING
Amirah: Care to say that again?
Na'im: STOP WITH THE SIN-
*5 minutes later*
Police: So how did he die again?
