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Part 1 of Sugarfly x Black Sapphire
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2025-07-17
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Sweet as SugarSapphire

Summary:

There aren't enough Sugarfly x Black Sapphire stories 💔. My friend got me into this ship, kinda just made this for them and decided to post it. Idk how to write a summary 💔. Each chapter has a very different summary... Takes place during episode 10 beast yeast (?)

When Shadow Milk cookie takes his disguise as The Lady in Azure, he takes his minions (Black Sapphire and Candy Apple) with him to the Garden of Delights. Where Black Sapphire and Sugarfly meet.

Notes:

There will be multiple endings.
Ending 1: doomed ending
Ending 2: happy ending

Shadow Milk and his minions visit Eternal Sugar's garden.

Chapter 1: Meet Que (pilot)

Chapter Text

Black Sapphire's POV:
**•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*
𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝑂𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠, 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛.

“𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒! 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛, 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠!”

𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑.

“𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠! 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝐼, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑧𝑢𝑟𝑒!”

𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛, ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦.
**•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*

𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.

“𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.” 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑧𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, “𝐼'𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡!”

𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, “𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟… 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒!”

𝐴 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑝. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠… 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙. 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑. 𝐴 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠.

“𝑌𝑒𝑠 𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒?”

“𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒!” ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑.

“𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦.” 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑢𝑠.

𝑆𝑜𝑜𝑛, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑒.

“𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒… 𝑔𝑜… 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑.

𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐼 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

“𝑆𝑜… “ 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, “𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒?”

“𝐼'𝑚 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.” 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑙𝑦.

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑓𝑙𝑦.

“𝑊𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑡, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒.”

“𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑.” 𝐼 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑.

“𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑒… 𝑢ℎℎℎ”

“𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑓𝑢𝑙.” 𝐼 𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑.

“𝐴ℎ, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑒.”

𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑘, 𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒. 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑦. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡.

“𝑀𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡.” 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, “𝑇𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑡.”

“𝑊𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑔𝑔𝑦?” 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑.

“𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡! 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛.”

𝐼 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠. 𝐼𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟? 𝑊𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛? 𝐼 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑘. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑.

“𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢.” 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑑, “𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙.”

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚?

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑, “𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒.”

𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑘, 𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛.

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠… 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.

“𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑛!” 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑.

“𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑔𝑜 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒!” 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝.

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑝. 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒.

 

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𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘄𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻. 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.

“𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲!”

𝗜 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗼𝗿, 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗔 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮 𝗴𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗷𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗜'𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗲𝘆𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆.

“𝗬𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲?”

“𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲!”

“𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘆.” 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻.

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𝗜 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿.

“𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲… 𝗴𝗼… 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘆.” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲.

“𝗦𝗼…” 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲?”

“𝗜'𝗺 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻? 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗶𝘁, 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲.”

“𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱.” 𝗛𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴.

“𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲… 𝘂𝗵𝗵𝗵.” 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁, 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲'𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲!

“𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.” 𝗛𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, “𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗳𝘂𝗹.”

“𝗔𝗵, 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻, 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲.” 𝗜 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲. 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗹 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀. 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀, 𝘀𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲, 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗸, 𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲. 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝘆.

“𝗠𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆.” 𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺, “𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁. 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘁.” 𝗜 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱.

“𝗪𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗜 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗴𝗴𝘆?” 𝗛𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱.

“𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁! 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻.”

𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗛𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿.

“𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹.” 𝗛𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, “𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂.”

𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘂𝗽. 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲.

“𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹.”

𝗜 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗹𝘆, “𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲. “ 𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱.

𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗸𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵. 𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴.

“𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗻!”

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆, “𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗴𝗼 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲!”

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.

𝗜 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁. 𝗔𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁, 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗯𝘆𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻.

Chapter 2: Heaven Sent

Summary:

After returning to Shadow Milk's domain, Black Sapphire sends a letter to Sugarfly in hopes to speak to her again.

Notes:

Magpie: A symbol of love and deceit.

I'm sorry these chapters are so short, later chapters will be much longer!

Chapter Text

Black Sapphire's POV
**•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*

𝐴𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑.

𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒, 𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚. 𝑀𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚. 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑠.

𝑆𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐴𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑝𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑦.

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔.

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𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒,
𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑦. 𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠.

𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡. 𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒'𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒.

𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝐼'𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦.

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦,
𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒
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𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟, 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑏𝑜𝑛. 𝐼 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑝𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟.

“𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠.” 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑.

𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑝𝑖𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑓𝑓.

 

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𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁. 𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹.

𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗔𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲, 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗜'𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗹, 𝘂𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀.

𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀, 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗽 𝗮𝘄𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲. 𝗔 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗽. 𝗜𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗷𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗲.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻, 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸, 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗸𝘆 𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗼𝗻. 𝗜 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲! 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝘁, 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲. 𝗔𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁, 𝗜 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.

𝗜 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻. 𝗜 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗲 𝘂𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱, 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘄𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀.

“𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴?”

“𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿…” 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀, “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲?”

“𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹?”

“𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿, 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿?”

“...𝗜'𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻.” 𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱.

“𝗛𝗺𝗺𝗺… 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲!” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱.

𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿, “𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲?”

“𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗹, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲.”

𝗛𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗱, “𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲, 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.”

 

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𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗲.

𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.

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𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲,
𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂! 𝗜'𝗺 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲.

𝗜'𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘇𝗲. 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲.

𝗜'𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻, 𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂… 𝗜 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜'𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆,
𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲
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𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗜 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽, 𝘄𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳𝗳.

“𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.” 𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲.

𝗜𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳𝗳, 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻.

Chapter 3: A Sticky Surprise

Summary:

Black Sapphire and Sugarfly send continuous letters between one another. They learn more about each other as they hoped to before.

Candy Apple comes across the drawer of letters Black Sapphire keeps from Sugarfly.

Chapter Text

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𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒,

𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑠ℎ 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒.

𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦, 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡.

𝐼 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝐼'𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.

𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒. 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝐼 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦.

𝑀𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑠, 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑓𝑎𝑟. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑠…

𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠. 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟.

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦,
𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒
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𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲,

𝗜'𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹.

𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲.

𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲. 𝗪𝗲'𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹. 𝗜'𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘆.

𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀, 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗜 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗲𝗿.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘄𝗹 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲; 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵! 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹. 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗜 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

𝗣.𝗦.
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁. 𝗬𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄.

𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆,
𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲
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The truth was, none of what she told Black Sapphire Cookie was true. At least, not about the garden. She didn't know why she lied about her past to him. Maybe she was worried about what he'd think of her. That he'd think she was pathetic. She worried, he was the minion of The Master of Deceit, he'd figure it out soon enough. But it was too late, she had already sent the letter off with the magpie.

 

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𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒,

𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙, 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓. 𝐼’𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑙. 𝑂𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦… 𝑊𝑒'𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒…

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠.

𝐼 l̶o̶v̶e̶ 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐼𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦.

𝑃.𝑆.
𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒; 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. 𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡?

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦,
𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒
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𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲,

𝗢𝗵, 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜'𝗺 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀!

𝗔𝘀 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗜'𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀. 𝗜 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘆!

𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆,
𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲
─────────ೋღ 🪽 ღೋ─────────

 

As the days passed, the two cookies got more comfortable with each other. They shared their secrets, their past, their enjoyments. Their love.

 

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𝐸𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑, 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑝𝑖𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝐼 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑀𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑦. 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑑, 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ.

𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.

𝐼 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚.

“𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒!” 𝐼 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟.

“𝑂ℎ, ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.”

“𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢! 𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑦, 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠!”

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡.

“𝑊ℎ𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛?” 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑑.

“𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛! 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠! 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑'𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠!”

“𝑂ℎ 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑟𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟! 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.” 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠, “𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘.”

“𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚!” 𝐼 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑.

𝐼 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒! 𝐴𝑠 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑.

( “𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.” )

𝐼 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝑠𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑑.

 

𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑦, 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠.

𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑑. 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡.

 

𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑑, 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑑 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟.

“𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑢𝑠…” 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑.

𝐼 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑, 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒.

 

“𝑂𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜ℎ 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠!” 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑.

“𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑖𝑟, 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.” 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑.

“𝐴ℎ, 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑.

𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒.

“𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒…” 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑, “𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛!”

𝑀𝑦 𝑗𝑎𝑚 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑.

“𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒! 𝐻𝑎!”

𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑.

“𝑈𝑚𝑚, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒… 𝑠𝑖𝑟.” 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦.

𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑢𝑚.

“𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠!”

“𝐻𝑒𝑟.” 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑.

“𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑟𝑟𝑟𝑟.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑.

𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦, 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘.

“𝐴ℎ!” 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡, “𝑀𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑣𝑒!” 𝐻𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑.

𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘.

“𝑆𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒!” 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, “𝐴ℎ! 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒, 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟!”

“𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡?!” 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑦. 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒’𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠, 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔.

“𝑂𝑤!” 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑑.

“𝑊𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒!” ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑.

“𝑁𝑂! 𝑁𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑜, 𝑁𝑂!” 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑, “𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑡! 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑡!”

“𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑏𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑣𝑒!” 𝐻𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑.

𝐴 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑓𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠.

“𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠… 𝑆𝑢𝑒-𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒!” 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑.

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𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗺. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱.

“𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲! 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂!” 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱.

“𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲?” 𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱.

“𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲… 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀.”

𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁? 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲'𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿?

“𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲, 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲… 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱.”

“𝗡𝗼.” 𝗛𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱, “𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.”

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁, 𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳𝗳. 𝗜𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗹𝘆.

 

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𝗜 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹, 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗔 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲.

“𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼!”

“𝗠𝘆 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿?”

“𝗢𝗵, 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹!”

𝗛𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗲, 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻, “𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿. 𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂?’

“𝗬- 𝘆𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲, 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.. “

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿-𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿, “𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁.”

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗜 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿.

“𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗠𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴… 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲.”

“𝗢𝗵 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿,” 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗱, “𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁, 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.”

“𝗜 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁… “

“𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗺.” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴. 𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, “𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹?” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱.

“𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜'𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻.”

𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗲, “𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿… 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲… “

𝗜 𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, “𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹.. 𝗜… “

“𝗚𝗼 𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿.” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱.

“𝗜'𝘃𝗲… 𝗜’𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲… 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲-”

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵… 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲… “ 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱.

“𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲… 𝗪𝗲'𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗜'𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱. “

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵, 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀, “𝗔𝗵, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?”

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗼𝗻.

“𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄?” 𝗜 𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗱.

“𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻. 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱.

𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀. 𝗜 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗹𝘆. 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿.

“𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵.

“𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘆. 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱, “𝗦𝗼 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂… 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀… 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.”

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲.

“𝗕𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿. 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲.”

“𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲.. “

“𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱, 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽.. “

 

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𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺, 𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟰 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆, 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆, 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿.

“𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝗹.” 𝗜 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱.

𝗕𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗺.

“𝗔𝗵! 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲! 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲?” 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱.

“𝗜'𝗺-” 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱.

𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳, “𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀.”

“𝗢𝗵, 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻.. “ 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱.

“𝗪𝗼𝘄… 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀… “ 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱.

𝗜 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱, “𝗢𝗵 𝗻𝗼! 𝗜'𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽. 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲.”

𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆, 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲'𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲.

“𝗢𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲. 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.” 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱, “𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲, 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿…”

𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗱. 𝗛𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀.

“𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲… “

“𝗚𝗼 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆! 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗹!” 𝗛𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱.

𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁. 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻.

Notes:

Adding a little creative freedom, so the beast-yeast episodes are a little OOC and not exact to as it is in the game...

Chapter 6: Special Mission (1)

Notes:

OMG I'M SO SORRY, I SAID I'D PUBLISH THIS ON THE 5TH AND I DIDN'T 💔💔💔

I've been sosososososo busy and caught up with so much stuff!!! This chapter is super short and lowkey unfinished and I'm so incredibly sorry 😔

Chapter Text

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑤. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦. 𝑀𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟.

“𝑂𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜ℎ 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒!” 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑, “𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒!”

𝐴𝑠 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑜. 𝐴𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑡.

“𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔! 𝑆𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑢𝑠!”

“𝑈𝑚𝑚, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒… 𝑠𝑖𝑟” 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑.

“𝐴ℎℎ, 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑. 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡!”

𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟.

“𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙.” 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙, “𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛.”

𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝐼'𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟.

“𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠, 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑦 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑦𝑦𝑦.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡.

“𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟!” 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑, “𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠… 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠… 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠! 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛! 𝑊𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑡! 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑎!!”

𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠.

“𝐴ℎℎ, 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒! 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛…” 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑.

𝐻𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒, “𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡… 𝐼’𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠! 𝑁𝑜𝑤, 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜!”

𝐻𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚.

𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑘. 𝐼 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝐼’𝑑 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐴𝑠 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠? 𝑃𝑎𝑦 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡?

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𝑇𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒,
𝐼 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑧𝑒, 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒. 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑠. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑦𝑒𝑠? 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑠, 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔… 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠.

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟'𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦,
𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑎𝑝𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒.

𝑃.𝑆.
𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠. 𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦, 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
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𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑛, 𝐼 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡. 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟𝐹𝑙𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒.

𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑤, 𝐼 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡.

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