𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙋𝙊𝙇𝙄𝙏𝘼𝙉 || 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴

Chapter 8: Nonsense

Y/N swiftly inserted the tape in the old machine. She then quickly realized something immensely important and groaned out of annoyance at her stupidity, "Crap.. I don't know how to use a VHS..", and she reached out for her bag, and proceeded to drag her bag towards herself and dig through it, hoping to find her phone in there.

Finally, after 2 minutes of searching through her coloured bag, she finally found it; her phone. She slightly smiled at her small and simple achievement and proceeded to search up 'How to use a VHS' tutorial in YouTube, but just as she was about to click on the first video that came up, she got distracted by the sheer amount of notifications from all her other apps.

But suddenly, she had a curious thought; "Wait what if the people from my world exist here too..?" She thought. Out of curiosity, she searched up several famous people, and several not-so-famous people, and they were all there. The same videos, the same posts, the same memories. But there was just one thing different about them, and that was the fact that they're all.. y'know, having their nationality flags on themselves.

The girl's amusement faded the second she realized that she had been distracted, and quickly went back to trying to get the VHS to work. And it did. She then pressed the play button, and sat on the matted floor opening the chips packet she had.

──── [ TAPE CONTENTS ] ────

[ Tape : 1 ]
Picture slideshows

P1: There was a picture of a woman, having the flag of the League of Nations, who was joyfully standing next to a seemingly newborn child, which had a UN flag on his face. The picture seemed to be taken during the 1940s.

P2: The next picture had the same woman, League of Nations [ LoN ], playing with her son. She looked like she didn't catch enough sleep, and was running on coffee.

P3: The third and last picture had LoN looking tired. She had various cracks on her face which were covered by bandages which were unicorn themed. She was holding her one-year-old son on her hands, with a slight smile.

P4: The United states was holding the child, UN, with LoN nowhere to be found. UN looked around 5-years-old, and was wearing a small suit. America looked disdained.

[ END OF TAPE : 1 ]

The girl simply stared at the now blank TV, just confused at everything that she just saw. She blinked, and just moved on to the next tape on the floor. It seemed to be an actual video, and not pictorial representation.

She quickly put the tape back in case she'll get busted if she doesn't hurry up, until she decided to take a short little break because she still felt exhausted with running in the rain earlier. She refilled her chips, sat back down again, and started exploring the world through her phone again.

She then remembered the small notes Qing Dynasty and Taiwan gave her, and pulled the notes out of her pocket. Y/N just added their numbers on her phone, and pressed the play button on the tape.

It didn't show anything, nothing at all. She thought that the tape was too old, and hence why it doesn't work properly. She felt a bit upset as she wasted all her time doing whatever she did just now. She just left the tape there playing absolutely nothing, and just went to bed as it was already late at 11:34 PM.

The next morning, she woke up feeling exhausted as ever, as she sat up slowly. She looked outside, wondering what she'll do today and what UN is up to all of a sudden. She felt safe around him, and didn't know who to believe. Taiwan? Or a peace organization? She has yet to figure that out, but that's something for another day she'll think hard about.