Faraway But Near

Something New

4.4, PM

a message popped from the bar of the screen

"Oh... no, not this jerk anymore," talking with herself with an annoyed tone while deleting her ex's text message.

arrived at Rimba

"Thank you, uncle!" as she stepped out from the school bus and walking towards her home.

"Jannah, akhir jua kau balik, gatah makan", her mom welcomed her.

Translation: Jannah, why you are so late, go eat.

"Nada, class batah kan abis, bah," Jan responded.

Translation: Its nothing, class ended really late, alright.

Jan immediately went up to her bedroom, let her phone charge because her phone battery is seriously dang low and wash up before eating lunch.

goes downstairs

"Um, yeah, chicken... and some veggies, nyum" she mumbled as she picks up the rice with the side dishes.

As Jan finished eating she does her daily routine and after doing all her chores, she tries to make a new Facebook account to have a roleplay account.

"Yes! Now I can talk with people around the world, this is gonna be awesome- really", she screams happily.

As soon she makes friends, each day, she met a young Japenese girl who's not that quite the same age as her but maybe in her 20s and her name is Aika.

14.4, PM

"Well, hello there, nice to meet you, want to be talking about our characters or... our out of characters?" Jannah asked.

"Out of character is fine for me now, so what should I call you rather than Cutiepie?"

Jannah roleplays as Cutiepie the Youtuber

"Well, call me Jan, most of my friends call me that."

"Awww how cute your name is, what about Jenny?"

"Jenny is fine also, what about your name other than Miss Sakura?"

inserts laughing emoji with tears

"HAHAHAHA, call me Aika."

"THATS EVEN MORE CUTER!"

"Hoho- so where do you come from?"

"Brunei Darussalam, a peaceful country, teehee."

"I see NigaHiga reference there, teehee, hahahah, I came from Japan."

"Wow, I never had a friend who is from Japan."

"And I, never had a friend from Brunei, nice to meet you fellow Bruneian. So how's life?"

"Well, just a college life, some sort like a sixth form actually, its a school you can go before entering university."

"Thats cool! I am currently teaching as a psychology teacher at a high school here, quite hard though but its gonna be okay, I just finished my university life, and there's school again."

inserts crying emoji

"Awww, stay strong, just enjoy your job as a teacher, I bet you will enjoy it."

"Yes, and thank you for your kind words, well I got to go, see you Jenny!"

inserts a smiley who blows a kiss

"See ya! Have a nice day, Aika."

Aika went offline

a message popped out from the right-bottom screen of the laptop

"Sapa lagi ne?", as she raises one of her eyebrows and opens the message.

Translation: Who is this?

"Hello there, I guessed you had a good time talking with my sister, hm?" the anonymous maybe male messaged.

"Aika is your sister?"

"Uh, not blood related but yeah, still my sister."

"Yeah, I did and you are?"

"Ian, and you are?"

"Cutiepie Marzia."

"I mean out of character?"

"Call me Jenny and Jen for short."

"So how's life?"

"Pretty fine eventually, next month I'll be having my AS exam."

"Oh, so you are a pre-uni or college student?"

"Just a pre-uni student, by the way. And what about you?"

"Just got a job, I am 19 so yeah."

"Oh alright well, I hope you had a nice day, sir Ian."

"You too Jenny, oh no don't call me sir. You are not even my co-worker or slave or what."

"Oh really? I said sir because I want to be formal."

"But saying sir, does not mean hundred percent you are formal with me, a sir can be a dear."

"Ew no, why would I?"

"Just kidding, man. Why would I date you? We just met and yeah I dont want to hook up with a high school girl like you."

"I said ew because its disgusting for real."

"Oh okay. Sorry though for maybe disturbing."

"Nope, its okay."

Jen just went offline and logs out from her account

"And thats some stuff going on, givin me the chills, brrr-" she slams her laptop and opens up her books to finish the Physics homework given by Miss Vivian.