Homesick

| 3 | A Crash Landing

Braine runs through the alleyway, yelling for his friend. "Kasper, where are you?"

Suddenly two hands cover Braine's mouth from behind. Startled Braine and making him jumps in fear, until he hears a voice he recognizes.

"Shh! You're going to let the whole world know where I am!" Kasper whispers.

"Mhmp!" Braine tries to speak, but can't. Finally Kasper lowers his hands and turns Braine around.

"What." He says, sounding both frustrated and confused.

"Kasper, what was all that back there? Telling Dapha to go die, I thought you liked her." Braine begins, but he's cut off yet again by Kasper's hands.

"What's your problem with embarrassing me? You don't know who might listening in this alleyway! Why can't you keep your mouth shut?" Kasper asks, trying to lower his voice but still sounding slightly irritated.

Braine moves Kasper's hands aside. "My problem? You're the one who told Dapha to go die! You literally said it!"

Kasper lets out an exasperated sigh. "Did I really say that? I didn't mean to. It's just, she's acting way too proud of what she did when it was actually just plain stupid. And you're no better for praising her." He points a finger at Braine.

"Yeah well, I'm praising her for having the guts to stand up for herself!" Braine explains, feeling defensive. "The guards deserve it! They always act so rude!"

Kasper looks the other way, gritting his teeth. "Whatever, whether they deserve it or not she's still going to die."

Braine looks at Kasper with sympathy eyes which quickly turned into a chuckle. Kasper stares at Braine in disbelief.

"Kasper, you suck at expressing your feelings!" He laughed.

"Huh, feelings!? please, I don't have any feelings for Dapha, she's just an annoyance." Kasper defended himself as his face grew cherry red.

"Oh really? I never said anything about you having feelings for dapha." Braine grinned.

Kasper face grew even redder as he took a step back. "Let's just drop this topic alright." He grumbled looking away.

Braine hands stayed on his hips while he stared at Kasper. "Oh fine, let's go to Dapha's family bakery, I'm starving." Kasper said rubbing his stomach.

"Yeah okay let's go." Kasper answers as the two begins to walk out of the alleyway.

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"Let's get out of here Heidi, I bet one of these kids will snitch to my sister." Dapha sighs.

"Yes ma'am." Heidi salutes. "We can hang out at the library, the librarian is super nice!" Heidi exclaimed, taking Dapha's hand.

'The library is perfect, I can find out more about this world. The video game only talked about the main characters love life and nothing about the kingdoms history.' Dapha thought following Heidi.

"Dapha! Dapha!" A small voice called out. A child no more than seven came running out of one of the alleyways. "Dapha! The guards!" The child huffed out of breath.

"Calm down Clover, what happened?" Heidi asked, grabbing clovers shoulders.

"There are guards everywhere looking for Dapha!" She exclaimed. "They all have swords too!"

"What already!?" Dapha speaks out. 'The game couldn't talk about how crazy the guards are in this kingdom is?' She thought getting worried.

"Really I thought we had at least an hour before they'd start hunting her down." Heidi mumbled, putting her finger to her chin. "Well I guess there's no helping it, we'll have to travel by roof."