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Foliage extended upwards and outwards, enveloping our scene with greenery. Tropical leaves covered the sky, rays of sunlight shining brightly through the slits in their sides. Moss ran along the thick pillars of bark as vines crisscross between them.

There was no doubt that this was a jungle.

“A tropical rain forest no less…” I thought to myself, my voice leaking out due to my shock. Shaking my head, I turned to Remi and said, “Quick we need to-”

However, Remi turned and grabbed my shoulders, his expression like that of a child in awe, “Nikki! We’re in a jungle!”

“Yes, that’s what I ju-“

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Digitally distorting every few seconds, the rooms and interconnecting hallways continuously shuffled on the map in front of us. Numerous dots appeared in various spots, depicting the locations of each of the players. In the middle of a circular room were two dots next to a center circle. Immediately, I knew it was us.

Watching it teleport to another spot, I theorized, “This place must be alive.”

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The ground crumbled below me, tumbling me down into the abyss. Reaching my arms out, I could not reach the doorway, the edge of the collapsing room. Falling, I let the darkness envelop my senses, believe that my game was over.

A blinding light shone out of the corner of my eye. Red text shone in the black, burning the word <AGILE> in my vision. Two hands grabbed my still outstretched arm. Somehow hanging only by his feet, Remi had decided to save me at the last second. Barely able to see, I thought I saw a smile flash across his face as he lifted himself, and by extension me, into the air, spun, and landed perfectly in the hallway just outside the door, gently setting me on the ground.

His wristband returned to it’s normal dull blue as he praised himself, “Haha, well that was a close one. I sure saved you there, didn’t I?”

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With the last of my energy, I rolled away from my attacker and yelled with a cracking voice.

“<GUARD>”

A sphere of transparent hexagonal crystals surrounded me creating a force field. Backing up against the wall, I wracked my mind trying to think of a word to use once my thirty-second shield dissipated.

The figure backed away from me, waving his arms out in front of me, as if gesturing that I had made a misunderstanding.

“Hey, calm down, I’m not trying to hurt you. I’m just making sure you’re alright.”

Despite my lack of breath, I sputtered, “I don’t… believe you…”

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Waking up on the cold stone floor, all I could think was, “Yup, this is not my bed.”

Getting up, I stretched my body and reached over for my phone.

Unfortunately, all, I felt was cold concrete.

“Wait, this isn’t even my floor.”

It took me a second to realize.

“Cool, I got kidnapped.”

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I was going to write for National Novel Writing Month, but seeing as how it’s been 8 days and I had virtually nothing, I gave up on that.

Instead, I decided to just write another weekly story.

But hopefully longer this time.

Enjoy~ 

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To everyone who’s read “Tomorrow’s Unforecasted Rain”, hello and thank you for sticking with it. Honestly, this turned out a lot longer than it was supposed to be, but I guess that’s okay. What was supposed to be a write-a-story-a-day thing (hahahahaha) somehow turned out to be some sort of weekly web novel, and I’d say that was quite a good outcome. I’d say it was good practice and a good learning experience if I ever wanted to write a serious web novel.

Now, about this work, I’d say it wasn’t that great, but that may just be my modesty speaking, but hey, let me say it. Honestly, it could have gone a lot better, especially if I actually planned out what I was going to write as opposed to simply sitting done and typing whatever I felt like. The title was just something I just thought up and said, “Hey, let’s write something with this title!” So I thought of a random plot and began writing. Though, I have to say, I felt quite satisfied after every successive chapter I wrote, so it can’t be all that bad, I guess?

Well, anyway, I don’t know what else to say, so, I’ll again say, thanks for sticking with me and, I guess, wait warmly for my next work, whenever that may be…

And now, I demand feedback, so…

What did you guys think of this story? 

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I barged into the dorm and saw Sky sitting on her bed looking quite forlorn. She looked at me and her face lit up a little as tears of, what I believe to be, relief flew from her face.

“Mari!” Sky yelled as she leapt towards me, her arms wrapping around me, “I was so worried, I’m sorry for saying I hated you.”

I hugged her back and tried to comfort her with a voice brighter than usual.

“It’s alright, I mean, it must have been a shock.”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Sky sobbed.

“It’s alright, just let it all out.”

And so she leaned on my shoulder and cried for a bit.

“I’m okay now,” Sky said, pushing me away and standing up straight. “I guess it’s alright then, I mean, if Nick likes you, there’s nothing I can do.”

“What are you talking about, I mean…”

“No, it’s fine, I mean, you two would be great together,” Sky said with a smile.

“I guess we would.”

My heart skipped a beat realizing I said it aloud.

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I just wanted to die.

Not that I actually harbored suicidal thoughts or anything, it’s just that after everything that’s happened these past few weeks, I’ve been feeling nothing but complete dread. And here I was taking refuge in a dark corner of the library, trying to act somewhat naturally. I felt like I couldn’t go back to my dorm, not after what just happened…

“Why didn’t you tell me!” Sky repeated, still clinging to me, still crying, still hurting.

“I didn’t want to hurt you!”

And in the end, I felt like I hurt her even worse…

“I-I just t-talked to Nick, and h-he said that he c-confessed to you and t-that he l-liked you,” Sky struggled to say.

“B-but, I never accepted it! Honestly, I don’t want to go out with him, I want him to go out with you! I just wanted you to be happy!”

“B-but, Nick doesn’t like me, he likes you!” Sky sobbed and quietly added, “I h-hate you, Mari…”

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“W-what?” Sky asked me, shocked at the notion.

“Y-yeah, I think I have a pretty good grasp of what Nick likes…”

Or rather, he flat out told me why he liked me, so if Sky acted more like me… well…

“I mean, you just need to adjust your personality a bi-“

“What in the world are you talking about?” Sky stared at me with an unfamiliar sense of anger. “It’s not right to change the way you act, even if you want the person you like to fall in love with you, because they’ll fall in love with your fake self, not your real self. You shouldn’t do something like that.”

“I-I’m sorry… yeah that was kinda dumb…”

“It’s alright, Mari,” Sky laughed a bit, “Besides, I’m pretty Nick knows me well enough to be able to tell right away I’m faking.”

Or rather, because it’s Nick, he could easily tell…

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