The Strongest Deliverywoman

Chapter 1.5

New Author's Note: hey y'all so this story is a little over two years old at this point and I decided to rework this story, I'm struggling with a lot and coming back to this show and this fandom helped a little, so I hope you enjoy the slight new direction. I'm keeping the original first two chapters up as well, just uploading the edited and rewritten as little warmups.

Old Author's Note: This is how I picture Sanem's style for a while in this story, so she's going to be dressed very practical and in some instances tomboyish. However later on you will see her adapt to her original style in the series. Also, I do not own Erkenci Kus nor its characters, this is just a bit of fun.

This is also extremely loosely based on a couple of different kdrama plots, so you might see some cliches here and there, because I love them. I also tried my hardest to research and honor Turkish customs and culture, but if I get anything wrong please politely correct me on what I got wrong and if needed to get rid of it.

Word Count: 5k (Will the rest of the chapters be as long as this one? Who can say? These are basically the lengths of the dizis themselves at this point)

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Sanem sits idly at her desk looking at her journal, thinking of what to write, before grinning and starting to write down her thoughts. The beginning of her story.

Dear Reader,

My grandmother once told me of a story of an albatross and a phoenix fated to love one another but cursed to never stay in love. The albatross was an adventurer, he soars through the sky for days and days on end able to traverse oceans and mountains in one single flight. The phoenix was a fighter, she has dealt with countless obstacles and problems but she always made it out. Resilience was what she prided herself on, no matter what difficulties she can soar through the sky again. They've met on a journey through the sky on accident swept by the wind as they met. The albatross longed for adventures and meeting the phoenix seemed like one...

I love my grandmother's stories and the other fairy tales she tells me, but there are no such things as fairy tales in real life, no matter how much I want there to be. I would love to be swept up in a fairy tale romance meeting my prince charming but I have to think ahead and be practical. However, I do love to dream about them and what I want to do in the future. I have two main dreams: one is to be a famous writer and the second is to settle in the Galapagos. I need the strength and courage to believe there will be a happy new beginning somewhere out there for me.

Everything I do it's for my family, I love them, but I don't want to be stuck doing deliveries for the rest of my life. I want to write and be free, free to explore the world. I want to live for myself for a while, but I know I can't, not now at least but I have hope that that opportunity will come for me someday.

For now, I will have to continue to work tirelessly and summon my boundless energy to get me through the days to come. I am no Cinderella, so I can't wait for any Prince Charming to come to rescue me from my own predicament, I just have to overcome and work hard. Yes! That is what I will do.

Goodbye for now,

Sanem <3

She signed off from her diary entry and gave herself a little mental high-five as she went through her mental checklist of what she needed to do before she headed out to go to her different jobs. She worked for a local take-out delivery place, as well as her father's grocery store when he needed more stock. She looked at her laptop on the desk and reminds her to go through her emails for any freelance jobs. Knowing five languages is an achievement and useful for getting odd jobs here and there to help her parents out and save some money for herself.