209 Surprise (1/2)

To be fair, life as a girl went by quite fast, and before I knew it, the month was almost up, with today being the last day. Even then, it was already late in the day, meaning that the day will be over soon.

This month...how should I describe it, is one of the more joyful months for me. I was exposed to a sense of friendship that I was never exposed to before and given more opportunity to be close with the others. I guess this is the difference between being a boy and being a girl. As a girl, it's more common for friends to be quite close, doing everyday things such as shopping and having nails done together. It's rather easy to blend in as well as often times when we would have conversations, I would just listen in. I guess that part isn't that much different from being a guy for me, but I just feel as if when I was a girl, I feel more like in a family than when I was a boy.

Maybe it's because girls are a more closely knit group or it's actually more because of a change in mentality on my part. Ever since what happened on Christmas Eve, where everyone remembered who I was and sought me out in the cold winter streets of Palisia, I felt...closer to everyone at that moment. They all appeared to be someone that I...value above others. Even Noah, the more obnoxious of the bunch, I missed to a certain degree.

In this month as a girl, I suppose things went quite smoothly. Every day after school, I would either participate in the club activities with the others or leave school to hang out elsewhere with either everyone or just the girls. To be fair, even now, I still do not know what's the purpose for our club, but since it gave us a place to be after school, I'm not the one to complain.

During this month, I also made sure to not have any moments where I am alone with Loyd, knowing that he holds special feelings for the female version of me. I'm not sure what memories were implanted into his brain by the divines, but...it must be some of that sweet and sour youth memories thing cause...it just felt like that sometimes the way he would occasionally glance over at me in class and when we're with everyone else. I couldn't help it but notice the resemblance of our situation and our behavior with that of the many cliche romantic shows that are being played on television. This then made me think that maybe Emilia had a part in this, as I was once told in the past that she enjoys watching television shows like these. You know what, come to think about it, it must've been Emilia.

In this month, Erith has also blended into the group quite well. She no longer acts as if she is out of place and is more relaxed and natural now, which to be honest, I do not see the difference between how she's acting now and at the beginning. However, it is obvious that there has been a difference, and that, I believe is more of a mental thing. It's like she accepted us to be her friends and incorporated us into her social circle. However, the person that she is the closest to is still Luna, and I believe it'll be quite difficult to change that.

Everyone else has just been the same. I mean there's really not much going on in our lives other than the occasional exams that would warrant a change in our behavior. It's not like we're magically transported to another world and tasked to kill the demon king or anything, so there's really nothing much going on. Daily life is still daily life, it's bland. Like in those slice-of-life shows, they only show the interesting part of life. Those are basically highlight reels of one's day, and to think how long a day is and how long an episode of those shows are, it just goes to show how boring life is. However, just like those shows depicted, it isn't without its highlights, but those highlights in my life...it's rather bland at the moment. You just have those days where nothing interesting happens. I guess it's due to the fact that I'm trying to live life as peacefully as possible as a girl and actually succeeding at that.

If one were to really dig into what happened this month that is worthy of mention, then I guess that one time when I was out with Elise on another weekend where we went to watch a movie together and bumping into Ralus counts.

”Hey,” Ralus smiled and waved at me. ”You're looking oddly attractive today.”

His voice still sounded the same as before, although with a greater sense of taunting and mocking mixed into it. This was probably because he knew that I'm forced to be a girl for a whole month so he's taking advantage of that.

”Is this your friend?” he asked, looking over at Elise who appears to be a bit smitten by Ralus's appearance.

To be fair, Ralus is quite handsome, and being an angel and all, it gave him a sort of divine and noble aura. However, since I know his nature, I'm not about to let my new friend fall for his devilish schemes.

”Thank you for taking care of my neighbor,” Ralus bowed his head and said in a flirty and yet gentlemen-like manner. ”It's quite flattering to me to know that Alvelyn has such a pretty friend. I—”

”Get going,” a familiar woman said and gave Ralus a kick in the back. Looking over, I saw that it was Emilia.

”Come on,” Ralus laughed as he gathered himself and followed after the woman. ”You're jealous?”

”No,” Emilia said with great determination in his voice. However, I could swear that I saw a light blush somewhere in that face of her's.

After that, the two just went off and disappeared, and Elise, after assuming that Emilia is Ralus's wife or girlfriend, gave up. All in all, I'm kinda okay with this ending.

Anyways, that's the more interesting event that happened to me over this month. Everything else was rather bland and boring and like every other day. Life is just so peaceful these days, and I'm actually enjoying it.

That night, as I sat there on my bed, catching up on what the girls had sent in our own group chat while I was taking a bath, I was actually quite sad that I will have to leave this tightly knit circle and be looking in from the outside as Alevian. Surprisingly, I sort of want to stay a girl. But, I'm also missing being a guy, so I guess you can't have the best of both worlds.