Serafynna (Narrator): Have you heard of a story that sounds so vengeful that you just want to rip them apart? But after they die, you’ll realize that they only did that for the sake of everyone? And then you’ll start regretting it? I live in a village where everyone lived in fear. Fear of the witches in disguise, luring people and killing them. Or worse, eating them alive. We fear it, too. We fear it. The Wolf. Saying its name makes me shiver. Who wouldn’t? Our village is just beside the biggest and darkest forest in our country. The kingdom is just a mile away, but the king never sent even one knight to defend our village. He’s a coward, but the villagers still respect him despite his worthlessness. Except for me. Legend says that a wolf is born every ten years. Before a wolf dies, whether it is a girl or a boy, it will labor another wolf to continue the legacy of their clan. But something is wrong in this legend. We all know that a wolf takes a human form during the day or when it is not in full moon. But in our village, it only attacks during the night and kills a lot of villagers, either it’s a pregnant woman, a child, a man or a woman. Although I’m worried. Why is our house never bothered by the werewolf when our house has no protection against it at all?
*steps of Serafynna walking down the stairs*
Vlademyr: Good morning, Serafynna.
Serafynna: Good morning Papa, Mama.
Elizabeth: Good morning, dear. Pancakes?
Serafynna: Where’s Catherine?
Elizabeth: Your sister went out on the forest…again.
Serafynna: I’ll pass. I have to go to Dmitri’s house.
Elizabeth: Is there a problem?
Serafynna: Nothing. Just….going out to play softball with them.
Elizabeth: Okay. Don’t stay out too late.
Serafynna: Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.
*opens door and walks out*
*sounds of horses walking and busy villagers*
Serafynna (Narrator): I lied. I had a dream last night. It was dark in our place and I saw a green light coming out of my parent’s room. Then it slowly faded, and blood starts spilling out of the room and when I turned around trying to escape, there was a werewolf staring at me and then I woke up sweating. Dmitri and Arthur, my childhood friends, are the only people I can depend on when it comes to these situations. We always meet up in the forest; there, we built a tree house up on the oak tree.
*went behind the bushes and walked deep into the forest*
Dmitri: Are you kidding me? You’re an hour late to our usual meeting time!
Arthur: We’re not patient, you know.
Serafynna: I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I was too engulfed by my dream today that I woke up late. And my dream was…really weird…and creepy.
Arthur: You mean creepy like the voodoo stuff or creepy like imagining you marrying Dmitri?
Dmitri: Seriously? Your face is creepier than a squashed earthworm!
Arthur: Oh yeah? Well, yours is creepier than a human-sized centipede!
*silence*
Arthur and Dmitri: EWWWWW!!! Hahahahaha!
Serafynna: Will you two lesbians shut up!!
Arthur: What was your dream all about, anyway?
*birds chirping and sounds of trees*
Dmitri: Do you think it’s all about those witches and stuff?
Serafynna: What?
Arthur: Dmitri. Stop scaring her.
Dmitri: I wasn’t. I was just being honest.
Serafynna: Well, whatever that is…it must be some kind of message. Like a warning to me.
*bong bong*
Arthur: Oh, lunch time. We better get going before somebody sees us.
Dmitri: Hey, let’s go eat at my house. Mom’s cooking our favorite food.
Arthur: Oh yeah!
Serafynna: I haven’t eaten one of those since Christmas!!
Dmitri: Come on!
*busy village*
Arthur: Woops. We should have left early…
Villager 1: I can’t wait to see Dmitri! *squeals*
Villager 2: I heard he got his new haircut today!!
Villager 3: Where’s Arthur? I want to give him this scrapbook I just made last night.
Serafynna: *sigh* Let’s go?
Arthur: They look like zombies hungering for our flesh.
Dmitri: Eww, man! Do you know how much effort it took me to get this perfect tan?
Arthur: Oh please. I went to the king’s farm just to get some fresh milk from the cows for my night cream!
Serafynna: You’re not serious, are you?
Arthur: What? Don’t you like it? My skin’s glowing.
Dmitri and Serafynna: Hahahaha! That is so gay!
Arthur: At least I don’t have any rashes or dead skin cells!
*The 3 stepped out of the bush*
*girls went crazy and started screaming and running towards them*
Serafynna (Narrator): This same scene happens pretty much every day. My childhood friends are known to out village for being handsome and being gentlemen. Even I can’t deny that. They both are hardworking guys. They are always seen by the villagers working at the factory helping their fathers and sometimes, they go to the farm with me. We all harvest the crops but they never let me carry any of those baskets because they said it’s improper for a guy to let a girl carry a heavy thing like that. Sometimes, in the middle of summer, it gets really hot and they’re sweating and they will remove their shirts and work on the fields shirtless and girls from afar would start screaming. I mean, I’ll admit, I blush too when they take off their shirts only because they have abs and biceps to show off and not just because I’m a pervert or something. I even heard that a princess from Scotland, who paid a visit in our country, saw Dmitri and was instantly hypnotized. She even asked Dmitri to come with her back in Scotland and get married! But Dmitri doesn’t like girls asking him out. He thinks it’s too informal and he doesn’t like it that way. Anyway, Dmitri and Arthur are too famous that a huge fandom was established. The fandom is being lead by Charlotte and Veronica. Some of the girls from that fandom are friends with me, but only because they use me as a messenger when they are too shy to give the boys the letters in person. Sometimes when the boys’ houses are too crowded with girls, they decide to go on sleepover at my place, and around midnight, random people would start knocking on our door asking me to give the boys the stuff they made like cookies or scrapbooks. Charlotte and Veronica, the leaders of the fandom, doesn’t like me very much. They always extend their legs whenever I’m walking on their direction and they would laugh at me when I fall on the floor. Eventually, Dmitri would help me get up and make Charlotte and Veronica look bad.
*opens door, steps* *screaming girls fainting*
Dmitri: I’m home!
*closes door, steps*
Rebecca: It’s about time you arrive.
Dmitri: Sorry, as usual, a bunch of girls were on our way.
Victoria: Mom and Dad went out with some friends. They were assigned to fix the castle for a special event. They will be back in three days.
Rebecca: Well, hello? Lunch time? Come on! I’m starving.
*sounds of plates being washed*
Serafynna: Uhm, is it okay if I stay in for tonight?
Victoria: Why?
Serafynna: Look.
*peaks at the window* *girls murmuring and chatting while waiting for Dmitri and Arthur*
Serafynna: I’m not even halfway across them and I’ve probably already fainted. Those girls cause more riot than the people at war!
Arthur: Tell me about it. That’s why I take pineapple baths at night.
Rebecca, Serafynna and Victoria: Ewww!!
Dmitri: Dude, you are such a humiliating person.
Arthur: Well it’s not my fault that people are so crazy about me that I get bruises!! And besides, pineapples have enzymes that can heal bruises.
Serafynna: Nobody cares.
Arthur: Well if you’re staying here, I’m staying too.
Serafynna: Why?
Dmitri: Because he’s scared that we might sleep together tonight.
Arthur: Are you joking? Me? Getting jealous? Tch, as if.
Serafynna: Oh we are so sleeping together tonight.
Arthur: All right, that’s it! Dmitri, you’re sleeping with me! And you, you’re going to sleep alone.
Serafynna and Dmitri: NO!
Arthur: FINE! THEN WE’LL ALL SLEEP TOGETHER!
Serafynna: Are you kidding me?! There’s no way in hell I’m going to sleep with you two in a room!!
Dmitri: Sleeping with a gay person is the last thing I want to do before I die!
Rebecca: Good night!
*door closes, steps fainting*
Serafynna: I am so not forgiving you for this.
Arthur: Oh, shut up.
*steps of Serafynna walking down the stairs*
Vlademyr: Good morning, Serafynna.
Serafynna: Good morning Papa, Mama.
Elizabeth: Good morning, dear. Pancakes?
Serafynna: Where’s Catherine?
Elizabeth: Your sister went out on the forest…again.
Serafynna: I’ll pass. I have to go to Dmitri’s house.
Elizabeth: Is there a problem?
Serafynna: Nothing. Just….going out to play softball with them.
Elizabeth: Okay. Don’t stay out too late.
Serafynna: Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.
*opens door and walks out*
*sounds of horses walking and busy villagers*
Serafynna (Narrator): I lied. I had a dream last night. It was dark in our place and I saw a green light coming out of my parent’s room. Then it slowly faded, and blood starts spilling out of the room and when I turned around trying to escape, there was a werewolf staring at me and then I woke up sweating. Dmitri and Arthur, my childhood friends, are the only people I can depend on when it comes to these situations. We always meet up in the forest; there, we built a tree house up on the oak tree.
*went behind the bushes and walked deep into the forest*
Dmitri: Are you kidding me? You’re an hour late to our usual meeting time!
Arthur: We’re not patient, you know.
Serafynna: I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I was too engulfed by my dream today that I woke up late. And my dream was…really weird…and creepy.
Arthur: You mean creepy like the voodoo stuff or creepy like imagining you marrying Dmitri?
Dmitri: Seriously? Your face is creepier than a squashed earthworm!
Arthur: Oh yeah? Well, yours is creepier than a human-sized centipede!
*silence*
Arthur and Dmitri: EWWWWW!!! Hahahahaha!
Serafynna: Will you two lesbians shut up!!
Arthur: What was your dream all about, anyway?
*birds chirping and sounds of trees*
Dmitri: Do you think it’s all about those witches and stuff?
Serafynna: What?
Arthur: Dmitri. Stop scaring her.
Dmitri: I wasn’t. I was just being honest.
Serafynna: Well, whatever that is…it must be some kind of message. Like a warning to me.
*bong bong*
Arthur: Oh, lunch time. We better get going before somebody sees us.
Dmitri: Hey, let’s go eat at my house. Mom’s cooking our favorite food.
Arthur: Oh yeah!
Serafynna: I haven’t eaten one of those since Christmas!!
Dmitri: Come on!
*busy village*
Arthur: Woops. We should have left early…
Villager 1: I can’t wait to see Dmitri! *squeals*
Villager 2: I heard he got his new haircut today!!
Villager 3: Where’s Arthur? I want to give him this scrapbook I just made last night.
Serafynna: *sigh* Let’s go?
Arthur: They look like zombies hungering for our flesh.
Dmitri: Eww, man! Do you know how much effort it took me to get this perfect tan?
Arthur: Oh please. I went to the king’s farm just to get some fresh milk from the cows for my night cream!
Serafynna: You’re not serious, are you?
Arthur: What? Don’t you like it? My skin’s glowing.
Dmitri and Serafynna: Hahahaha! That is so gay!
Arthur: At least I don’t have any rashes or dead skin cells!
*The 3 stepped out of the bush*
*girls went crazy and started screaming and running towards them*
Serafynna (Narrator): This same scene happens pretty much every day. My childhood friends are known to out village for being handsome and being gentlemen. Even I can’t deny that. They both are hardworking guys. They are always seen by the villagers working at the factory helping their fathers and sometimes, they go to the farm with me. We all harvest the crops but they never let me carry any of those baskets because they said it’s improper for a guy to let a girl carry a heavy thing like that. Sometimes, in the middle of summer, it gets really hot and they’re sweating and they will remove their shirts and work on the fields shirtless and girls from afar would start screaming. I mean, I’ll admit, I blush too when they take off their shirts only because they have abs and biceps to show off and not just because I’m a pervert or something. I even heard that a princess from Scotland, who paid a visit in our country, saw Dmitri and was instantly hypnotized. She even asked Dmitri to come with her back in Scotland and get married! But Dmitri doesn’t like girls asking him out. He thinks it’s too informal and he doesn’t like it that way. Anyway, Dmitri and Arthur are too famous that a huge fandom was established. The fandom is being lead by Charlotte and Veronica. Some of the girls from that fandom are friends with me, but only because they use me as a messenger when they are too shy to give the boys the letters in person. Sometimes when the boys’ houses are too crowded with girls, they decide to go on sleepover at my place, and around midnight, random people would start knocking on our door asking me to give the boys the stuff they made like cookies or scrapbooks. Charlotte and Veronica, the leaders of the fandom, doesn’t like me very much. They always extend their legs whenever I’m walking on their direction and they would laugh at me when I fall on the floor. Eventually, Dmitri would help me get up and make Charlotte and Veronica look bad.
*opens door, steps* *screaming girls fainting*
Dmitri: I’m home!
*closes door, steps*
Rebecca: It’s about time you arrive.
Dmitri: Sorry, as usual, a bunch of girls were on our way.
Victoria: Mom and Dad went out with some friends. They were assigned to fix the castle for a special event. They will be back in three days.
Rebecca: Well, hello? Lunch time? Come on! I’m starving.
*sounds of plates being washed*
Serafynna: Uhm, is it okay if I stay in for tonight?
Victoria: Why?
Serafynna: Look.
*peaks at the window* *girls murmuring and chatting while waiting for Dmitri and Arthur*
Serafynna: I’m not even halfway across them and I’ve probably already fainted. Those girls cause more riot than the people at war!
Arthur: Tell me about it. That’s why I take pineapple baths at night.
Rebecca, Serafynna and Victoria: Ewww!!
Dmitri: Dude, you are such a humiliating person.
Arthur: Well it’s not my fault that people are so crazy about me that I get bruises!! And besides, pineapples have enzymes that can heal bruises.
Serafynna: Nobody cares.
Arthur: Well if you’re staying here, I’m staying too.
Serafynna: Why?
Dmitri: Because he’s scared that we might sleep together tonight.
Arthur: Are you joking? Me? Getting jealous? Tch, as if.
Serafynna: Oh we are so sleeping together tonight.
Arthur: All right, that’s it! Dmitri, you’re sleeping with me! And you, you’re going to sleep alone.
Serafynna and Dmitri: NO!
Arthur: FINE! THEN WE’LL ALL SLEEP TOGETHER!
Serafynna: Are you kidding me?! There’s no way in hell I’m going to sleep with you two in a room!!
Dmitri: Sleeping with a gay person is the last thing I want to do before I die!
Rebecca: Good night!
*door closes, steps fainting*
Serafynna: I am so not forgiving you for this.
Arthur: Oh, shut up.