After a long and fun day at the beach, the sun had fallen, and the girls were packing up and getting ready to head home through the portal we had came here from. It was meant to take us back to Fragment, but… I had other plans.
"Wait, you guys," I said as they began heading for the changing rooms. They all turned to me, confused, and tilted their heads.
"Something wrong, Xuan Kai…?" Yu An Yan asked.
"No, there's nothing wrong," I replied. "It's just… I wanted to show you something. All of you."
The girls exchanged glances, curious to see what I wanted to show them, but I merely smiled mysteriously and winked at them.
"… Follow me."
*****
I led them into the forest by the beachside, where no one could see us.
"Alright… this should do," I muttered under my breath after glancing both ways.
"Um… what did you bring us here for…?" Lan Xiao Su asked hesitantly, frightened by the darkness all around us.