🐉ONC'24 LONGLIST🐉
It's the last year of senior high or known as senior year, many of your friends already make their own plans for this event, including you as one of the most famous boy in school. You've become the football star in school and eas...
Sunset finally arrived, Haris, Jonathan, and Leo along with all entire students of Tuscho were done with their swimming and one by one they emerged back to the Gazebo dried themselves, and prepared back to the Hotel. Haris just came out from the ocean after diving to search for something amazing inside the ocean for his collection. Jonathan and Leo are already by the shore gathering their belongings and ready to go back to the Gazebo and look for Haris.
"Where is he? Do you see him?" Asked Leo and Jonathan nodded.
"He's diving to look for something amazing for his collection or something to give to Lilibet" Jonathan replied while brushing his wet hair he was looking at the sea to see Haris but he didn't see anything.
"I think we should go after him, it's getting dark"
"No need, he promises me he'll be at the bus I think we can go first to the Gazebo and take care of his belongings"
"Alright then"
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Inside the ocean, Haris swimming freely and looking around the bottom of the ocean for something amazing. Haris is good at holding his breath especially when he's in his free time, he always practices his breathing so he can hold more minutes. This time, Haris dives deeper into the ocean and lets the cold of the waters hit his skin and body, this way makes him think clearly when he has a thought. He dived into the bed of the shore and sat there for a while thinking about Lilibet and her beautiful smile. Haris smiles to himself while looking around.
"There must be something that I can give to her and ask her to be my partner on prom night?" He said inside his heart while swimming around and when he almost reached the coral, he stretched his arm and gasped. A huge bubble of air came out from his mouth and he turned to look at his arm already bleeding but not too bad.
"Shit this coral! Now I lost my breath! better hurry before I run out of my time!" He continued and suddenly found a beautiful shell that had a color of pink and radiant purple.
Haris took it and examined it before placing it in his pocket. He felt his stomach start to contract due to less oxygen that he had and he had a long way up to the surface. Since Haris learned a breathing technique, he decided to take everything calmly and slowly without taking any more time, he finally reached the surface and gasped for air.
He calmed himself and he felt his body fill with oxygen and he felt his ABS muscle contraction getting better than when he was underwater. He brushed his hair to the back and looked into the beautiful sunset horizon and how far he had swam from the Beach. In the distance, he caught Leo and Jonathan already on their way back to the Gazebo where they placed their bags and stuff, he decided to swim and went back.
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When he was already by the Beach, he looked around and tried to spot Lilibet but he didn't see any of her anywhere. He gets worried that Lilibet might be back on the bus, but when he decides to go to the Gazebo, Lilibet appears not far from the Gazebo, by the florist kiosk. Haris runs towards the Kiost and shouts her name, but the crowd makes Lilibet can't hear Haris's voice in fact, it almost makes Lilibet go away from the Kiost.
"LILIBET!! WAIT!! LILIBET!!" Haris screamed while running towards her but she didn't hear him at all.
Haris ran too fast and didn't see that there was something by the sand beneath his feet and he lost his balance and almost fell to the florist's table when Lilibet accidentally held him. \
"Gosh! Are you okay? please be... wait, Haris?!" Lilibet said while looking at him with curiosity and disbelief.
"Ha... hai! I mean, hello... no! I mean, yes... thank you!" He replied startled by his own words but this made Lilibet giggle and she just looked at Haris's face and body that was still wet by the waters.
"I'm guessing you just returned from being a mermaid to find me and you didn't know how to walk using your feet since it just turned from fishtail to human feet?" Lilibet said while holding her laughed.
"I... what? yes... I just came out from the great ocean, but I was already a human far before I went to the ocean. When are you gonna stop teasing me about the mermaid thing?" Haris replied and Lilibet laughed hard at him but somehow it made Haris happy to see Lilibet laughing and smiling at him.
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Haris took Lilibet's hand and looked into her eyes deeper and spread the passion and love from him, as if the earth stopped moving, the surrounding only him and Lilibet seeing each other. The background music that came from the florist is "My Universe" by Coldplay playing slowly and making the vibes and the moment more romantic than ever. Both Haris and Lilibet seem drowned by the vibes and music.
"Lilibet..."
"Haris"
"Lilibet I... I..."
"Yes?"
"Will you... uh... will you go to the... the..."
"What is it, Haris?"
"Lilibet, will you be my prom night date and spend the night of our senior high together?"
There! Haris said it while presenting his lovely shell that he found by the ocean at a previous moment. Lilibet seemed thinking and her smile swiped away from her face making Haris worried.
"Is there something... wrong, Lilibet?" Haris replied but Lilibet went away from him back to the florist and Haris sighed deeply and looked away, "Gosh! I think I screwed everything up!" He continued and walked away from the florist.
Before Haris went away, Lilibet came back and placed her jacket on Haris's shoulder, and whispered to his ear, "I've been waiting for ages for you to ask me, Haris".
