A long morning in castle town

It's a new day in castle town. Today I'm going to visit a new association. I already know where to go. I'm going to accompany Gera to the tinker association.

Gera is already awake, while Nea is still sleeping, just like yesterday.

As I get up, Nea immediately gets up as well.
She seems pretty enthusiastic.

What did you do to Nea? Elves normally don't show their emotions like this.

Her evil smile scares me. What does she have in mind?

No, I didn't do anything weird. She just liked the magic association yesterday and is probably happy to come back there.

She? You know Nea is a boy, right?

What? No! Nea is obviously a girl.

I look at Nea. She looks like a girl, I think. Not as feminine as Selia, but still as cute as Lena.
But Bernd also is kind of cute, despite being a boy...
And when looking at Nea again, she might really look more like him than Lena.
So Gera might have a point...

Wait! You're really a boy, Nea?

Of course I'm a boy.

Oh, I was thinking...

Even if I wasn't interested in her like that, I'm still kind of disappointed now.
Maybe I really wanted to get closer to her in the first place...

So you liked the idea of me being a girl and-

No, I...
Let's go!

But I thought, you don't want to go to the magic association anymore.

Uhm..., yeah. But I think you have to go now.
You don't want to be late, right?

You're right!

You know how to get there, don't you?

Sure.

I look toward Gera.

Yeah, Nea will get along alone well. At least as long as he knows what to do.
So have fun. And come back before it's getting dark.

Okay.

Nea gets ready and leaves quickly.
I don't even get to say goodbye to her..., uhm..., to him properly...

And what about you? Where will you go today?

I thought I'd accompany you.

Are you sure? You don't look like you...

I just didn't want to think about it.
If I don't like it, I can still go somewhere else tomorrow.

Yeah, then let's have a fun day together.

So when will you leave?

The required times are rather late. And I don't want to get there before I have to.
Let's have a proper breakfast first. I already bought something.

I look at the table and see a lot of closed paper bags.

Gera opens them, and I see different buns and pastries.

Oh, that's a lot. This must have been expensive. How much do you want for that?

Don't worry about that. You're invited of course. We're living together, so it goes without saying.

Thanks...

I sit down and almost don't dare to eat.
I only taste most of the pastries while Gera eats one pastry after the other in record time.
She must really be hungry.

There's still something left. You can have it?

Okay, thanks.

I eat the remaining stuff, while Gera just watches me eat, which is kind of embarrassing to me.

I'm glad you're my flatmate now.
You're pretty cute.

She isn't trying to flirt with me, is she?

Thanks. You also seem nice so far.

We keep sitting there.
Gera doesn't say anything. She's just relaxing and looking around.
I'm getting nervous.

Isn't it time to leave? I don't want to be late.

We still have some time, but we can also go outside and explore the town for a while.

Sure.

I immediately get up and get ready as fast as possible.
Gera almost has been ready to go and slowly puts on some shoes only.

It's a sunny day and walking around with her is fun.
She even buys some snacks, despite just having had breakfast, while I look at the interesting architecture in this town.
These houses are just beautiful. And each of them looks different.
I really wish we had houses like these in our village.

When we reach some market place, I look at the statue in the center.
It's a girl.
It says it represents a former princess.
And she really looks similar to the girl I've seen in the castle.
It's really a nice statue.

Hey, what are you waiting for? I think we should go now.

I start up and look at Gera.
I must have been dwelling in my thoughts.

I already thought I lost you. Let's go!

She starts walking away and I run after her.

Okay, I'm ready!