Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-35898511-20191205190815/@comment-44464716-20191205225506

As desperate as I would be to get away, I know deep down that I'm not going to flee to Florida. It's Florida. I'd probably be safer here than Florida. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I accept the money and fake passport and I promise my father that, no matter what happens, I'll be fine. I then give him a goodbye hug before putting on my mask and cloak that obscure my energy and heading outside to clear my head; hoping to figure out what I'm going to do.

I walk around the backyard for a bit before heading to the old tree nearby that I used to always go to when I needed to be alone for a bit. When I arrive, I put my hand on the tree and sigh; ''what am I going to do? I can't stay here, or I'll be found. But if I try to leave, I'll probably get hunted down and captured...''

"What's wrong?" I jump in alarm. Recognizing that voice, I look up. Sure enough, my neighbour's daughter: a red-haired Dhampir named Elain; born before her dad became an Incubus and about my age now, is sitting in the tree. We've been best friends for years, and in the last couple of years, I've developed a crush on her, but I've been too timid from my... life experience... to say anything about it. She drops down from the tree. "You only come here when you need to be alone."

I smile. "You know me so well." I fill her in on the situation. The more I tell her, the more alarmed she gets.

"I feared that this would happen," She tells me, "Recently, more than a few Mamono have been asking me about you; wondering who my 'strange masked friend' is." She sighs in exasperation. "The lengths that some will go to find a man. Here's a thought: rather than hunt for men, why not ask the guy out?"

I nod in agreement, "If only more Mamono thought like that." And I know she is being honest; not only has she protected me from other Mamono on more than one occasion, but in all the years I've known, never has she lied. It was one thing I always liked about her.

Her eyes glance down, then back up, before she steps toward me and smirks, "You know; they are looking for a single man. There is an obvious solution to that." I just stand there staring blankly at her; completely clueless as to what she might be suggesting. Then she spells it out.

"Look; I like you, and I have for at least a few years now. I know that probably the last thing you want right now is another Mamono flirting with you, but if you like me too, then it would also solve your current problem. Do I need to be any less subtle?"

Now, I'm just standing there and staring dumbfounded, but for a completely different reason. Once I'm snapped back to reality, I remove my mask and I kiss her. We immediately head somewhere isolated to... 'elope'. A week later, we both agree that this city's rotten and we move to a new place, and thanks to her "solution", not a single Mamono notices or cares as I walk by and out of the city. Once we arrive at the new place, we have a proper wedding and honeymoon.