Love Elsewhere

Chapter 6

I woke up first today and used the bathroom before waking up Celestia. The day before went better than expected, I wallflowered but I still mingled somehow without entrapping myself into marriage. I smile in content.

We were instructed by text to go to the cafeteria for breakfast and then instructions on our event for the day.

We head for breakfast and meet up with Daphne and Valerie.

"Hey girls, any potential prospects from yesterday?" Daphne asks eagerly.

"Honestly I had a few. There's Robin, Jason, Sebastian, Marion, Tomaz, Kevan and very briefly Naveen. I don't really know who I would want to marry since I've only met them once, but they were all kind." Celestia responds

All of our eyes drop in amazement, she really is a social gal.

"Go you girl, wow. I only spoke to Sebastian, Hans, and Yuliene. I didn't really like Yuliene, but the other two were nice and good looking." Valeria says smiling.

"Awe that's cute, I'm glad you liked them. Personally, I wasn't really trying to meet anyone. So I only spoke to Sebastian and Axafier. They're okay but I'd prefer not to be marriage bounded." I respond

"Ah okay, we totally get it. I spoke to Mateo, Kevan, Noxias, and Andres. They were all nice, but Mateo was definitely the hottest to me." Daphne says.

This is so cute, it feels like a girls sleepover speaking about crushes and boys.

"This feels like hinge, but in real life." Valerie says laughing which we soon do too.

"It's almost like those 1800-1900's balls in Bridgerton, trying to find the one without parental guidance and to aliens." Celestia says. We keep joking about our situation until the speakerphone crackles.

"... Hello everyone! Hope you had a great time yesterday and some good nights sleep. The event yesterday was very successful, all the Kunai men were happy with the event and all of you beautiful women. Todays event we will do a ranking system and a quiz so hopefully everyone has their heart set on one or a few men. Everyone, women and Kunai men, will be taking a matchmaking quiz to set a compatibility between matches. The quiz is curated and powered by AI which will ensure the best results as long as the questions are answered truthfully. The quizzes will be completed in the Grand auditorium hall the helpers will guide you to. Thank you again."

I don't really know how to feel. What if I enter no names? Will it even give me that option, probably not. Even if I enter a name, does having low compatibility save me from this. So many questions, all muddled in a fog in my head. I guess there's nothing else to do, but take it.

"That's so interesting, that they're giving us a quiz to base our relationships off of." Daphne says.

"I kind of like it, it reminds me of the personality quizzes I do." Valerie replies.

"I guess we will find out once we take it. Good luck girls!" Celestia says.

We all get up and throw out our food. Then we head to the crowded entrance where the girls are being rushed out. Once we make it to the Grand auditorium hall, we wait in a queue. The hall has rows and rows of seats each attached with big screen iPad with a screen with a button that says "Start". Very ominous.

Once we make it to a guard, our name is checked off and we sit down in a seat. I stare at the iPad and a ball of anxiety evolves in my stomach. I don't know why I'm so nervous, but something about an online quiz determining my love doesn't fit right with me. Or maybe it's just the idea of getting married. To an alien. So soon. Just so many elements of it all makes no sense to me, I'm scared.

I have all day to take this quiz, but I'd rather get it over with. It's not like I'm planning to take this seriously to get matched with anyone anyway. I click the start button which takes me to another page explaining what we need to do. One more click leads me to a page full of headshots and names of the Kunai men. I need to select the ones I'm interested in.

"Choose the men you are most interested in from the first day Ball, at least one. Choose carefully, only the men who choose you as well will be available to be matched with you to keep things fair. However, if a man chooses you but you didn't choose them, it will still match you as we are in dire need of matches. We apologize for that but assure no ill intent from the men. Simply tap their icons to select them, there is a button at the top that will show who you selected. Click next when you are done." It says at the top. Pretty straightforward it seems.

I click the two people I spoke to, Sebastian and Axafier. If I had the choice, I would do none but given it doesn't matter, I might as well. The quiz starts off with the question, "do you want kids?".

That's interesting, are they trying to be fair to those who don't want kids? It seems a little odd since the whole point of this is for kids, but pairing two people who just want company is cute. Personally, I do want kids so I rated it a 7/7.

I completed the next few questions pretty quickly, as they were all simple lifestyle or life choice questions. It seems they are trying to measure compatibility based personality, habits, and preferences. It definitely is a method, but who knows what these results may lead to.

The questions feel never ending and I feel like I've gotten to almost 200 at this point. I see a lot of people starting to leave their seats and I'd imagine I'm almost done. Around 20 more questions later, I finally get the screen saying I'm done with some confetti. I laugh at the childish attempt to uplift my mood, but it did so it worked I guess.

I'm just ready to eat something and go to bed after this. I do exactly what I imagined and soon knock out.