25th May 2024, 12:01:45
Cerrie: "You are back! Welcome back atharv."
Yes, a simple text.
That's all it was.
No dramatic entrance. No glowing signs from the universe. Just a tiny notification at the top of my screen.
Thirteen people had texted me. I replied to none. but hers? I did
Not because I expected anything to change, Not because I thought it mattered.
Just Because...
I had opened the game that day with a plan:- to leave it behind.
It had stopped feeling like fun and started feeling like clocking into a job I didn't sign up for. Endless chats, dead servers, shallow laughter... I was ready to log off for good.
Call it closure. One last look at the world I used to care about.
But fate has its own way of interrupting the best goodbyes.
Her message pulled me into a short conversation. Casual things.
"How have u been?"
"How are things holding up?"
Then came the ask.
To join her guild
A Statement, An offer that was gonna change the winds
that was gonna change my life
that was gonna teach me what heaven actually is...
I logged in to escape life. I didn't know I'd find a reason to live it better.
I wanted to say no. I had made up my mind, hadn't I?
But there was something about that moment. Maybe the timing. Maybe the way her message made me feel remembered.
Or maybe Destiny shifting the senses
I gave in... I Said yes.
I thought I was done with the game. I didn't know the game had just begun.
She thought she convinced me to join the guild but looking back now
I know what i really agreed to.. a world where an Angel Exists
a world where happiness didnt mean hiding Angst
A world.... With Pari
Her name didn't just sound like heaven. She carried pieces of it in her.
What you mistake for coincidence, destiny calls alignment.
They say fate doesn't shout.
It just whispers softly... and waits for you to listen.
That day, I listened.
And even though I didn't know it then,
I had just walked into the first page of the next chapter and of the story that would also rewrite mine.