User blog:The Vaudevillain Veteran/Humans from another world: Case Study 6: Cristian Antonescu

Location: Bucharest, Romania

It was a rainy afternoon in the Romanian capital, and in the distance a loud school bell rings, signalling the end of the school day.

Two teenagers, one with shoulder length black hair and the other with short brown hair, were amongst the first students to exit the building.

"I still can`t believe Mr Alupei said you looked like a corpse. You really should get more sunlight Cristian, you don`t look so healthy with such pale skin." Cristians friend chuckled.

"I'm fine Mihai, I just don`t like going outside a lot okay?" Cristian replied.

"You should at least try and socialise, it`s not good always keeping to yourself. Who knows, maybe you might find a girl you like." Mihai suggested.

"I`ll think about it" Cristian said.

"Ok man. If you`re up for it we can go somewhere tomorrow." Mihai stated.

The two boys eventually parted ways and while Cristian was walking home, a homeless man called out to him.

"Spare some change va rog." the man asked weakly.

Feeling bad for the man Cristian checked his pockets and handed 5 Lei ($1.21) to the man.

"Mulţumesc foarte mult." The homeless man said happily.

"Nici o probulemă." Cristian replied.

After arriving home Cristian immediately began doing his homework and when he was done, started to cook dinner for himself and his mother. When Cristian`s mother arrived home he greeted her and told her about giving money to a homeless man.

"I know you mean well Cristian, but we needed that money to buy bread and milk." His mother scolded.

"I know mama but I believe he needed it more than us. We at least have a roof over our heads while he only had old torn clothes and a cardboard box to shelter himself from the rain." Cristian stated in his defense.

"You`re right son, I know you are a gentle and kind person inside, but be careful nobody takes advantage of you for that." Cristian`s mother warned.

"I`ll keep that in mind mama, Is it alright if I could hang out with my friend Mihai tomorrow?" Cristian asked.

"Yes it`s fine my boy, just be home by the 3 PM." Cristian`s mother answered.

The Next Morning:

Cristian woke up feeling a bit nervous and excited. He never went out much, and because of that he could rarely hold a conversation longer than 5 minuted with someone.

After putting on his clothes and saying goodbye to his mother, Cristian walked to Mihai`s house.

''KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!''

The door was finally opened and standing there was Mihai.

"You ready to go Mihai?" Cristian asked.

Mihai simply nodded, and the two boys headed to the first place they knew where they`d enjoy themselves: the mall.

Whilst the two teens were walking Mihai stopped dead in his tracks.

"Do you hear that?" Mihai whispered.

"No." was Cristian`s response. Mihai then took off without warning, seemingly trying to find the source of this strange noise.

"MIHAI WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING!?" Cristian shouted.

This little game of cat and mouse soon came to an end when Cristian finally caught up with Mihai, who was currently staring at some strange portal.

"Whoa, coool!" Mihai pumped his fist into the air.

"What the hell is that?" Cristian asked perplexed.

"Looks like some kind of portal. You wanna go in?" Mihai asked coyly.

"No! Doom guy or Shao Kahn could be on the other side of the portal for all we know." Cristian tried to reason with his friend.

"Oh well, your loss Cristian." Mihai said as he walked through the portal.

With the portal now closing in front of him, Cristian done the only thing he thought logical and jumped in after his friend.

The teens were now in what appeared to be a grassland with no civilisation in sight. The portal behind them shrank until it was no more.

"Nice going moron, if you never went though that portal we wouldn't be stuck here." Cristian complained.

"You chose to come through the portal remember?" Mihai reminded Cristian.

"That was only because I didn't want anything to happen to you." Cristian retorted.

"Ok, if you say so man." Mihai nudged his friend.

Mihai and Cristian walked in the field for a few minutes until they heard the mooing of a cow.

"Hey Cristian, check this out." Mihai called.

"Is it me or does that woman have horns on her head?" Cristian asked.

"Yeah it seems so, you wait here while I go ask her for any directions to the nearest town." Mihai stated as he made his way toward the cow woman.

After waiting nearly ten minutes and getting tired of Mihai taking his sweet time, Cristian got up from the grass to find any nearby lake or river, as he was now felt his mouth and throat feeling dry, a sign of thirst.

Another 5 mintues of walking passed as Cristian finally found a lake, however he immediately spotted a dark skinned woman dancing by the lakefront.

Staring at this woman`s majestic movements ignited something inside Cristian, a feeling he knew all too well.

Lust.

"My, my it`s seems my dancing has certainly caught your attention." the woman said.

Cristian only snapped out of his hypnosis when he realised that the woman was talking to him.

"Ah yes ma`am, your dancing was very... elegant to say the least." Cristian said nervously.

The woman picked up on his nervousness and proceeded to rub her fingers down Cristian`s chest.

"There is no shame in being allured by the female figure, us Apsaras can incite carnal desire in men simply by dancing." She said seductively.

Cristian`s face was now beet red, he had never been so close to a girl before, especially one as attractive as this woman.

"You have very lovely black hair, my name is Sabita, what is yours" she asked.

"Cristian."

"Well then Cristian, would you like to become my husband? I promise I will make you feel good everyday and will shower you with love" Sabita said as took Cristian`s hand and looked him in the eyes.

"Yes!" Cristian blurted out.