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Chapter 0: Meeting the new girl
Let me tell you a story about our main protagonist, Serena. What? She's not our main protagonist? How would you know? The summary..?oh... well, you still can't deny that she is still important to this story.
Serena was not what you called an average girl. Well, unless you call an average girl storing huge piles of yaoi manga and anime under her bed normal, then sure! Serena was what you call an average girl.
See, Serena used to live a perfectly wonderful life. With two best friends who had the same interests as her, boys who seemed to like her. Key word, 'seemed', and a wonderful loving mother who listens to her. But that all ended when her mother told her that they had to move away due to a job opportunity. Serena was devestated, who wouldn't though? Move away from the perfectly good life you had before? No way! But she had no right to object to this, as this might give her and her mother a more better life. So she packed her things, and followed her mother.
When they reached their destination, the first thing Serena did was to look around the place, look around as in standing in front of her yard and questioning everything she saw. Okay, the place didn't look to bad. It was a small sleepy town called Vanville, although it wasn't big, but at least it was cozy. Most of the houses there were two story buildings, and so was her house, they also gave off a 'homey' sort of feel.
As Serena grabbed her things from the moving truck to move them to her new room, she vaguely noticed her mother chatting excitingly with the neighbour... a little to excitingly.
She paused, and tried to listen in on their conversation. But only managed to catch a few things like, "... she would be happy to meet him!" And "... he would be happy to have a new friend !" Serena sighed in fustration, she knew her mother would try to set her up with some new friends since she felt guilty about dragging Serena away fom her old friends. But Serena didn't want new friends! She wanted her old friends who supported the same ships as her or maybe hated the same ships as her. Don't lie, hate brings the world together.
The blonde grumbled softly, then slowly walked up to her bedroom to unpack her stuff which mostly consisted of a bunch of anime disks and manga. Once inside, she quickly picked up her phone to call her friend and fellow fujoshi, Touko. But what about unpacking you ask? Well, her stuff did mostly consist of anime and manga, so why not just throw them under the bed right? Anyway, back to the phone call with her phone rang twice before someone picked up.
"Seré! Seré! Ohhhhhhh I missed chuuuuuu!" A voice cooed.
"Missed you too Touko! It's soooo boring without you!" Serena cooed back.
"Of course you would miss me? I'm like the best thing that ever happened to you. Oh yeah! By the way, did you move in alright? Forget anything?"
"Uhhhhh... No? I don't think so? I have my manga... anime... doujin... oh"
"Yeah, you left your RinHaru doujinshi in my room.. so, haha! I have a reason to go visit you now!" Touko cried over the phone loudly, causing Serena to jolt away from the phone a bit. She smiled sofly, Touko was always the one to make her day no matter how bad it was.
" Really? Can't wait! " Serena replied as she started to feel a little stuffy and slowly made her way to open her window beside her bed.
"Oh yeah Seré, did you find any cute boys there?"
Serena let out a huff of protest and opened her windows, "Noooooo, well not yet? And even if I did, what would I even say to the guy? 'Hey I think you're cute, wanna hang out sometime?'"
"Sure"
There was a short pause.
"Touko, you're not suposed to answer me you know..."Serena laughed.
"What are you talking about? I didn' t say anything?" A confused Touko said through the phone.
Serena paused, then heard a faint cough across from where she stood. Did she hear correctly? The cough came directly across from her meaning... oh right, the neighbour Serena let out a shaky breath and slowly lifted her head to find a boy around her age smiling at her. A cute boy at that.
"Hiya! I'm Calem!" He said with a wave. Serena chose to stay silent. "Uhhh hello? You're suposed to introduce yourself now... You wanted to hang out right? The introduction is necessary for us to 'hang out'. Hello?" Calem said leaning foward with a concerned face.
Serena could only stare back at him until a busybody Touko who somehow heard the boy's voice through the phone cleared her throat loudly and jolted Serena back to her senses.
"Uhhhhhh... um... not unless you consider yourself cute?" Serena muttered as a response but then realized that she might have said that a little too softly, but Calem seemed to have heard her, since his facial expression changed from confused to amused.
"Well, I don't know what you girls consider as 'cute', but if you ask me, I'm more of a handsome kind of guy" he replied smugly and Serena soon snorted, and laughed.
Calem raised an eyebrow and Serena had to force herself to stop only to realize 'oh wait, he's serious' .
"Really? Well I couldn't tell" Serena replied, her laughter from earlier slowly dying down.
"Of course you couldn't, my looks must have accidentally blinded you" Calem said a smile slowly gracing his features again. "Oh yeah, your name! I already introduced myself, so your turn... neighbour" He said soon after.
"Ah... I'm Serena, but Seré works as well"
"Well, nice to meet you Seré! Now that the introductions are done, we're officially friends! Also we can 'hang out' now!" Calem said looking a little too excited.
"Well that's great and all but my friend has been waiting for me to answer her this whole time so maybe later?" Serena said holding her phone out for Calem to see. The boy nodded and yelled a 'hello' at the phone enlighting laughter from tne girl in front of him and the girl on the phone.
Calem nodded, happy with a job well done. As he was about to open his mouth to say something, his mother yelled for him to help her with the laundry. Calem pouted then immediatly yelled back to answer his mother, then signaled for himself to leave.
After he left, the busybody named Touko had the decency to laugh after listening in on their conversation. "Oh well, that solves the 'Serena will forever be single' issue that we were working on." She said soon after she stopped laughing , soft gasps of air were heard while she was talking.
"Shut up... And even if he did want to date me. Well, what do we even do together? I don't do sports, I don't like going out, and if he suggests to come in to my room, I don't think my bed can handle the piles of stuff i have."
"Well then, If he really can't accept the way you are, then look for someone else! And if that still doesn't work out. You still have me and Mei chan!"
"Yeah... Thanks ,well then I still have to go and help my mom unpack some stuff, so bye..." Serena said ending the call. After that, she got up and slowly made her way downstairs to grab more things.
Once she reached the living room, she was greeted by her mother, Grace who wore an expression that said 'hello dear child, I have great news for you. And when I said for you, I actually meant for me', suspicious... waaay too suspicious Serena raised an eyebrow at her and her the smile on her mother's face widened.
"Serena, I know you're lonely without your friends here with you, soooo guess what?!" Her mother started, with a smile still evident on her face.
"Um..You found a new friend for me?" Serena 'guessed' not that it was too hard to tell.
"YES! And wanna know who he is?" Grace said happily, making Serena take a small step back.
"Um... if the 'he' you're talking about is our neighbour.. than I've already met him...?"
"Great! Then things won't get awkward! And before we know it I'll be a grandmama!" Serena instantly blushed at that comment and glared at her mother. What is this woman planning?
"What... Mom he doesn't even know what I like...So how can you be so sure we'll get along?"
"It'll be fiiine trust me! In fact, why don't you show him your collection tonight!? It'll be oodles of fun!"
" No it won't be fine! And- wait what!? What do you mean show him tonight!?"
"It means that our dear neighbours have agreed to come over and eat dinner with us! Isn't that great!?"
"wha-" Serena said as she tried to protest but soon got cut off.
"And no rejections from you missy! You need new friends! Male friends at that! And if you still refuse, I will dispose of your anime collection!" the horror.
"But-"
" what did I just say?"
Serena gave a soft sigh and answered " When will they come..?" Grace smiled happily knowing that she has won this round. "At 7 pm, so get dressed by then sweetheart!" Her mother said giving her a pat on the back.
Well, at least the 'hanging out' part won't have to wait any longer.
Oh heeeeeey! I know I deleted a story once before, but that was because halfway through the plot, I realized that I had no good ending for it, and in the end chose to delete the story. So I sincerely apologize to those who have read it and liked the story. But fret not, as I will post that story again sometime in the near future!
Anywhooo! Is there anybody here that does not know the word 'fujoshi'? Ok, well for those who don't know, fujoshi is a girl who enjoys a malexmale pairing. in japanese it's written like this '腐女'. And I have A LOT of these friends so I'm sorta used to it. For boys, they're called 'fudanshi'.
Also, remember when I said Serena was not the main protagonist? Well, she sorta isn't? But is in a way. Starting from chapter 2 onwards the story will ne written in Calem's point of view.
Thank you for reading!
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