merchant of the abyss

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"hey come on! We have to get going or we'll be late!" A girl yelled at her friend "I'm coming, calm down! At least let me get out of my apartment jeez!" Said the other girl as she was tying her shoes "come on Mariana you know we have a test and it's the first subject today!" Whined her friend as she was rocking her feet while sitting on the railing " god Amelia calm down we won't be late, you're such a worry wart" Mariana mumbled more to her self rather than it being an answer to her friend.

"You said that we wouldn't be late Mariana now look at us we are running !" Amelia yelled out while running beside Mariana "we are near the school! We still have a few minutes left before the bell rings!" Mariana panted as she rounded a corner.

"Girls you were almost both late again what's with you girls lately" the professor said, rubbing her temples in frustration. "Well i couldn't sleep so i had trouble waking up, I'm very sorry professor" Amelia said quietly while looking down at the floor "Amelia it seems you have insomnia because this is the third time this week!" The professor said and then directed her gase to Mariana awaiting for her response "and you miss Winchester?"she said while writing down the absence of students."i had to prepare breakfast for the both of us and then pull Amelia out of bed, you don't onow how hard that is" Mariana huffed as she crossed her arms, turning to go to her and Amelias seat her lilac hair swishing behind her, Amelia quickly following behind her. "Why did you have to tell her about dragging me out of bed, that's so embarrassing!" Amelia whispered as she put her head on the table, her black hair covering her face completely "we needed an excuse, we couldn't say we were up all night watching korean drama!" Mariana rasped back to her as she began writing down what was on the white board,"okay we needed to know what happened to sooha and jong-seo, like the plot twist was insane, jong's sister actually being his mom, who even thought of that!" Amelia suddenly sprang back to life as she talked in a hushed voice as she got her notebook out and wrote down the words as well. "You actually thought that was good? It was so boring and the pacing was horrible" Mariana whispered not looking up from her note book, "Mariii don't insult the show it's a masterpiece-" "no it's trash, it strayed so far from the plot." She cut her off now solving equations,Amelia now defeated pouted as she went to slove the equations as well, "come on if we solve this we can get out of school early" Mari said trying to chear up her friend "Oh yeah because of the exams!" Amelia chirped and took the notebook Mari handed to her so they could both get out early. This all repeated until they did all their schoolwork, once they were out of school they went to a café.

"Soo got anyone you like?" Amilea questioned as she sipped her bubble tea contently, leaning on the table with her arms. "Where is this coming from? God you're so random." Mariana scoffed as she put ridiculous amounts vanilla and rum sugar in her capuchino." Well you were never really into anyone and we are fifteen now and it is about time to have at least an interest in someone" Amelia said as she looked out the window of the café, surveying the people outside with mild curiosity "I'm sorry is this our love life, " she questioned waiting for a response, Amelia shook her head"exactly stay out of it, cuz I'm never going to have one!" She spoke, as her and Amelia shared eachothers drinks. "Now what are we going to cook tonight?" Mariana questioned her as she was looking up recipes on her phone. "Oh! Maybe pizza night we didn't do that in a while!" Amelia immediately cheered up at the thought of pizza, "pizza it is" Mariana hummed in agreement. Once they finished their drinks quickly as it was getting dark, and then they went of to their shared apartment.

Once they had made pizza they watched a movie while eating pizza all was well until Amelia got an interesting idea,
She proposed they go into the woods filled with rivers intersecting, people went missing without so much as a trace, they were never found. Some of the older people of the small town said it was due to a water spirit but nobody believed them, "Amelia i don't think that's a good idea don't you know the stories?" Mariana said nervously " oh come on their just stories nothing else plus it will be fun imagine all the stars we'll see at the cliff!" Amelia squealed with stars in her eyes excited at the mere idea of star gazing." Ugh fine but if anything off happens were immediately getting out of those woods, you hear?" Mariana said as she went to get her hoodie and shoes, "okay, you don't need to worry so much!" Amelia said as she jumped to find her coat and boots.

"Ahh we're heree!" Amelia said practically jumping with excitement "yeah yeah we're here calm down, we are going straight for the cliff okay I'm not stopping for anything you deem interesting" Mariana warned but to no avail, her friend wasn't listening to her at all. "Ugh let's just get this over with…" she mumbled to herself, following her friend as to not get left behind, "ohh the rivers look so cool it's like the stars are in them!" Amelia said as she looked at the glistening waters," woah you're right, it's so pretty! But we have to get moving come on!" Mariana yelled to her as she ran ahead of Amelia. " Hey wait up!" Amelia shouted back, as they were getting closer to the cliff, but then Mariana slipped into one of the rivers it wouldn't have been a problem if it was shallow, unfortunately it was such a deep part of it she was quickly sinking to the bottom. " Mariana!" She heard the muffled voice of Amelia crying out to her as she sank deeper and deeper Amelia tried to grab her but it was no use, then everything went black.