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S3C Chapter 45: Indecision

I hope you all enjoy this one. I really was troubled trying to figure out how to write this chapter, that's why it took me so long. I knew the general idea I wanted to do for this chapter, but I just felt that I couldn't figure out how to write it and do it for the life of me. I hope you all like it, but I feel so mixed on this one. I guess that makes the chapter's name very fitting. I might even try and rewrite it if this lack of satisfaction sticks around.

Marina POV

Marina turned the page of the manga she was reading, closing it, having just finished it.

Marina leaned her head back with her eyes closed as she took in the emotions she was feeling.

Acht: You good?

Marina: Yeah, I loved that issue so much.

Acht: Is it goo-

Marina: -It's so good! There's so much emotional turmoil with the main character and side characters handling-

Acht: -Whoa, hold it, Marina. I get it, it's good. I'll have to check it out sometime.

Marina: I can loan you my copies so you can check the series out.

Acht: Sure, saves me from having to get them myself.

Marina: As if you don't have plenty of money now to get them if you did want to?

Acht: I'm frugal, so not my fault.

Marina: It's fine. You put that to good use, buying this place you've got here now.

Marina said, admiring Acht's new home.

Acht: Yeah, well, gotta live somewhere. And I didn't like the idea of living with someone else. I still appreciate your offer though.

Marina giggled.

Marina: It's fine. I understand you prefer your own quiet spaces. I'm just glad I can come see you now. And I always know where to find you.

Acht: I might not always be here.

Marina: Oh really? Where else would you be?

Acht: Actually, the other day I got called out to play a card game with someone.

Marina: Ooh, I love getting challenged to a battle for that!

Acht: It's weird that people will just accept random challenges like that from people they don't even know.

Marina: You say that, but you battled them anyway, didn't you?

Acht: Fair. Doesn't make it any less weird though.

Marina: By the way, which story are you reading there anyway?

Acht looked back down at the manga in her hands.

Acht: I picked this one from the pile you brought. The cover interested me.

Marina looked around at the cover of the manga.

Marina: Oh, that one is a classic! It's got a great love triangle at the center of the story. However, the two fighting for the heroine are both friends.

Acht: Do you just have all of these memorized?

Marina: A lot of them, but it's just because when it's a good story, it sticks in my brain and is hard to forget. And I'm also just a sucker for romcoms.

She said, slightly embarrassed by it.

Acht: Really?

Marina: Yeah, they can be so entertaining, especially as a sort of slice-of-life reality. It's also nice to imagine myself in the heroine's role in the story sometimes.