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Patience hummed as she was scrolling on YouTube when she stumbled on a strange short.
An edit of Judah?
She raised an eyebrow as she watched the edit.
Then it looped and she couldn’t stop watching.
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Daniel raised an eyebrow as he watched Patience hunched on the couch in the lounge. He noticed how the audio on her phone continued to loop. She froze as she looked up to see Daniel standing in front of her with his arms crossed. She quickly tucked her phone in her pocket and sat up, giving him a nervous little smile. Patience didn’t even notice he was in the lounge. She just assumed he was holed up in his room finishing up an exam Josiah had mentioned.
”Hey Daniel! Whatcha need?’
”Your phone?”
”Whaaaat? Why?”
”Security purposes.”
Patience scowled at Daniel, who only gave her a smug smirk. The girl in yellow knew what he was trying to get to and she was not going to let him see it.
”Your phone was looping the same audio like eight times. No way you’re just listening to the one part of Womanizer those eight times.”
”How did you know that was the audio??”
”What? I like Britney Spears.” Daniel shrugged before getting back to the point. “Anyways, gimme your phone. I want to see what had got you giggling over to watch the same audio.”
”And what if I don’t show you?” Patience crossed her arms as she stood up, trying to size up on him and failing.
”Then you’re disrespecting the orders of a member in the security force.”
”Wait- security force??”
“Yea! I finished my exams. What? You thought I was hiding in my room for nothing?” Daniel snickered before holding his hand out for her to give him the phone.
Patience scowled as she reluctantly handed her phone. When Daniel saw the reason for Patience listening to the looped clip of ‘Womanizer’. His smirk turned into a smug grin as his eyes darted from the phone to a beet-red Patience.
”Oh ho ho ho… now this is funny.” Daniel snickered as he returned the phone back to Patience.
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It was a few days after the embarrassing encounter between Patience and Daniel. The two, plus Judah, were bumming around in the lounge when Daniel suddenly had an idea.
”Hey Patience, mind getting me a coffee?”
Patience glanced up with a confused expression. “No, I’m not your servant.”
Daniel’s mouth turned into a smug grin as his eyes darted from Patience to Judah. “I mean, I can always tell him about the you-know-what.”
By now, Judah was paying attention and certainly quite befuddled as to why Patience suddenly turned pink and worked up before scurrying out of the room to get Daniel his coffee. Judah then turned to Daniel. “What was that about?”
”Oh… nothing!”
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“HELP!”
Gala was sprinting away from a giant dragon chasing her down in a dense forest. She didn’t know how she got here, but all she knew was that she had to run. She screamed as a the dragon roared out a giant fire ball. What she wasn’t expecting was for a hand to grab her and pull her into his arms. Her eyes went wide as her face was smack into someone’s chest. She didn’t care as she hugged whoever saved her as tightly as she could.
”You good?”
Gala looked up to see Josiah being the one holding her in her arms. She instantly melted as the two locked eyes.
And then…
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“ARGH!”
Gala tumbled off her bed in a wide-eye surprise. That was the fourth time this week that she had the same dream. She pressed her hands to her cheeks to calm herself down. She immediately squeaked hearing a familiar someone knocking on the door.
”Hey Gala, we’re going to our mission in five, you ready?”
”C-Coming soon!”
”Alright.”
Gala squeaked as she waited for the footsteps of the Nelson in black to fade.
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The agents this time were sent to another fantasy-esce Raelo to help rebuild another town. Everyone paired off into their usual pairs, though Josiah immediately noticed how off Gala had been acting this whole trip. He wondered if maybe she was feeling ill with how red her face was and how jittery she was around him.
”Hey, can you pass me the hammer?” The Nelson in black stretched his hands out to the princess.
”O-Oh! Sure!”
Gala handed him the hammer, and for a second, their hands brushed together. Josiah thought nothing of it but Gala completely freaked out and jerked her hand away. Josiah flinched at her sudden action, wondering if it was something to do with himself that was making her act so weirdly.
”Ohhhhkay… I’m going into the woods to grab some wood real quick.”
”Y-Yea!”
Gala immediately slapped herself in the face after Josiah walked off. Good grief that was SO stupid! She then began to overthink about what the Nelson in black must be feeling right after that and wanted to apologise. So she started her trek into the woods to find him.
”Josiah?” She called out as she trekked around, the forest feeling eerily similar.
Creak
”Oh no…” Gala‘s shoulders tensed up as she realised why this felt so similar. She slowly turned around to be face to face with a giant dragon, the exact same one in the dream she had been frequently having.
”AHHHHHHHHHH!”
The princess immediately started to sprint down, zigzagging her way around the trees but failing to get the dragon off her tail.
”HELP!”
She was immediately yanked behind a tree and was held tight in someone’s arms. She hated the fact that she immediately melted in the arms of the person she had been annoyingly having the same dream about. The princess slowly looked up to see Josiah peering behind the tree they were hiding before looking down at Gala with a worried look on his face.
”You alright?”
Gala sputtered as she felt her brain short-circuit staring at the Nelson’s face. Why was he looking so stupidly cute right now?! After what felt like eternity (really just an awkward couple of seconds), Josiah and Gala awkwardly removed each other from their grasps and Gala was quick to skitter away. Josiah just stood there, completely confused and flustered and giddy with butterflies in his stomach.