"You're late. What took you so long? " I asked sen-ah who was struggling to stand up and looked as frail as a feather.
She stopped standing on her legs to not fall and sat next to me right before she felt on the grass, still taking in long breathers of air.
" You look like you could die any second. What did you do to have such tiredness."
She responded very lightly, saying that she ran here because of how late she was. I could already feel that she ran here.
She didn't like to make people wait for her. That has been a part of her personality for a long while.
That was a part of her, which I like a lot.
" How have you been. It has been two weeks since I have seen you." It was a long and stressful two weeks for the both of us.
Preparing for our midterms and writing them. Trying to score better and more. Those two weeks felt like two months for me.
I want to know how It was for her.
" It was very stressful,painful, and anxious for me. I had zero to no sleep those two weeks. It was all me revising the topics and then seeing if I remember it or not, then go into the next one or revise it once again." I could see her already exhausted body look even more exhausted after saying those words.
" But do you know what fueled me to atill do that with a lot of headache and tiredness. It was you. You have an even tougher life than me. Having to do part-time jobs to get a bit of money,attenting classes,revising, and some other things that i might not even know." A small smile was what i could see on her.
I let out a small laugh at her words.
She asked me what was so funny to her.
" What could be more funny than this. I enjoy being full on work. I'm a workaholic. That is my favorite hobby. It might be stressful, but it's the best thing for me."
Her face turned from a puzzle to a small glow of yellow with a bit of realization.
" Is that why you enjoy doing a lot of work in mostly anything that you do. While you still say you are lazy."
" Maybe, now that you say it, I am feeling a bit lazy now."
The grass was very soft here since it was very close to the river bed, and there were no bugs in the grass because it was winter.
I fell onto the grass to feel its soft touch, and it felt as if i was on a bed of air. It was the softest thing i had laid on.
Myabe, it was because of how much work i had in my hand for many days.
It was a very good evening for me, and for sen-ah, we enjoyed the rest of the time talking or just lay on the grass and look onto the sky.
" Come to think of it. Why are there no people here. It's a very nice place to stay in. There is a lot of grass. Many beautiful trees and a hillside on the other side of the river." She looked around the place while trying to find people as she said while doing so.
It was a good question, and i had the answer to it.
" it was simple. There are too many potholes on the road for vehicles to come here, and no one comes here to even find this place out because of this, too." Comnig up to her. I took out a small but lovely hibiscus to give to her.
" This flower looks lovely. You should try it on by putting it in your head."
As she put it on her hair, it actually looked gorgeous, but I couldn't say it to her since I wanted to savor this look of her.
"How do I look. Is it good?" Her glare with those jade like eyes were pretty, and I couldn't hold my mouth, and i replied to her that she looked looked gorgeous without even my notice.
Her face turned pink with a suprise with me looking away from her with a bit of suprise to myself because of what I had said.
The sun, which was shining brightly above us without the notice of the passage of time, came close to sun down, and the sky was turning red.
Walking out to her bag, she pulled out a high-end camera. I knew what she was gonna do, and as I thought she began walking up to me, asking to take a picture with her.
I didn't want to do it. And I replied hesitantly that I didn't want to take a picture right now.
But her persuation didn't stop until i accepted her wish to take a photo with me.
It might not seen that bad but I either look bad in any photo I take or just make it look bad just by my existence and I didn't want to see her disappointed by the photos we might have.
But for the first time in my life, I felt that I actually didn't feel that this photo which I had taken was bad. There was a bit of suprise at the end, but the both of us were very delighted with the way today went on for the both of us.
As we were leaving, we we wanted to send over the photo we took to each other, and as we were doing so, we suddenly struck the notification by an unknown email.
The email was from the author of the famous novel Murim Warrior of the tower.
We were at a suprise as we didn't participate in any competition nor support him in any way for the author to email us.
We felt that it was a fake account trying to scam us, but because of my curiosity I checked the email and for my suprise it was about a request to become the co-author to his second novel which was soon to release.
I was overjoyed with excitement to become the co-author.
Sen-ah who also received the mail also had the same mail. Both of us were pretty big fans oh his work, and we were pretty overjoyed and wanted to join his work.
We sent an acceptance mail to him, and just as we did, our mobiles blanked out and began golwing brightly.
The light was enough to blind me for a bit and as I moved the mobile away from my face, I was met with another suprise.
The river we were near turned into a street with people walking by.
The location seemed different, and the language here was different too, the signboards, stores, people words all of them were alien to us.
It was at this moment that it struck the both of us that we were sent into another world.
The only place we could be sent to would be the into the world of the authors story's and the only one I can guess right now is into the world of the murim tower.