Short story

Instructions

The CM stood in front of SM, reciting some meaningless notes that they’ve said many times before, and SM’s heard it all. The only reason he was here was because he was the ‘guardian,’ if you will, of the broadcaster that runs the whole cell tower. A boring job really, but whatever gets him out of that terrible empty room is a win. “...And hopefully you understand why- Oh, look who decided to finally show up. Welcome, SS, to the cell tower.” …Wait, SS? Who’s SS? To figure out this new identity, SM turns to see this SS character. He then on the spot feels as if time stopped. There before him stood a shadow, she had short black hair, and wore a raincoat with shorts. She had her hood down at the moment to show that she had bangs over her eyes. She was a dark gray, practically black like SM’s whole palette. SM observed her more, and felt something different when he looked at her. Something was special about this shadow. “SM…” SS turned to look at him, a questioning look was in her expression, despite her eyes being covered. This only made SM’s heart beat quicker. “SM.” This feeling was new, something that SM has never felt before, could this be love? No, Spade was love… Right? And look what happened there. No, no no no this wasn’t that at all. SM could just feel that this was different, something more, something meant to be. Something- “SM!” The CM raises his voice, which snapped SM out of whatever trance he was in. He looks at the CM “Yeah? What is it?” SM says quickly. The CM narrows his singular eye at SM. “Well, I was trying to explain that SS here was a new guardian of Six, and has been leading her around The Maw to continue this cycle. Hence, that brings us to our next topic to discuss, the cycles…” SM tunes that out pretty quickly by that point. He takes a glance at SS again, though this time not staring at her, unless he wanted to start another trance. He then notices how warm his face feels. Was he blushing? Why would he be blushing? SM barely remembers any times he blushed when Spade was around… What was going on with him? What was he feeling? Did the room get warm or something? Why was his heart beating so fast, and why was he thinking about any of this? …Is this true love?

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