" Hello! is there anyone here?" Polly asked. Inside that room there was only darkness all around. And there was no way out. All of a sudden, a beautiful floating talking figure appeared in front of her. It was a smaller version of their city's logo. "Hello! I'm the Android version of the app Write Up. How can I help you?".
He looked so cute that with excitement Polly hugged him very tightly and said "Oh, you are so sweet! I never thought I would meet such a lovely character here. Nice to meet you." The character blushed after hearing Polly's words. But his work was most important to him. So, he jumped out of her hand and asked Polly what she wanted from him.
"Umm...you're so cute. But I don't have much time to play with you, so can you please show me the gateway to Iseul-shi's smartphone. I just need to go there. Can you please help me?" Her words really shook his heart from inside and he turned to hide his feelings and said "Come with me!" And he showed her the last door that could help her to enter the mini Write Up town of the smartphone.After leaving her there he ran away without giving her a chance to thank him.
The Write-Ups world of the smartphone looked a lot like computer's but there was only one difference and that was . There was a premium tower which meant that the mobile version of that software was premium subscription-based.
As she progressed. Along the way she saw many familiar faces. Such as the bully's fellow gang members, the cop I mentioned earlier, an old man who lives in his own real city in his neighborhood. He saw everyone in his shrunken version.
Going deep inside the app she bumped into herself which looked a lot smaller than she actually was. But she was cute too. Polly was surprised to see her little face, yet she smiled at her.
"Ah! Who are you? And what are you doing here?" The shrunken little Polly looked really scared.
"Um...I'm Polly from the laptop version of our write up town." She said, scratching the back of her head and smiling nervously.
"Really? Are you that real Polly from the computer? I can't believe it." He exaggerated.
"Umm...yeah" It seemed as if after exchanging their introductions with each other. The whole nervous atmosphere changed.
The shrunken version of Polly was overjoyed to meet her. She took her to meet little Peter. Along the way she told her the reason. Why she is shrunken?
They laughed, as if they were having a lot of fun. Little Polly said as the real Polly gatecrashed the house of her creators on her very first day, due to which she became famous in their entire city. And now everyone knows about her.
"Haha, like you I wanted to sneak inside her house but you see, she never uses her phone much but her phone is always with her so most of the time I listen to her secretly." She looked very sad while saying this.
"Why is that? Why doesn't she use her phone much?" Polly asked politely as she was worried that she might not get a chance to go out.
"Um... you see. She doesn't have anyone she can talk to. Right now she's in her 30s but she doesn't have a boyfriend yet. And she doesn't even have a permanent job. That's why her life is full of misery. And she never uses her phone much." Tears welled up in her eyes as she was talking about all this.
"I know you must be wondering how I know about all this, since I'm new here. Isn't it?" she asked, wiping her runny nose.
"Um... well if you don't want to tell me you don't have to." said the real Polly with a bewildered smile.
"No, I don't mind telling you...but the thing is her real life story is really sad." She started crying loudly.
"Okay, don't force yourself too much." She tried to cheer her up.
After all these dramatic moments she finally stood up, wiping her tears and wiping her runny nose away. She said, "You know Peter and I came here when you and the real Peter were made on the original platform. And as her writing account is also linked with the smartphone. We were also created.
We were curious about this new place so Peter and I went to different places and met different characters from her other stories. After talking to all of them I realized that their stories were never finished. She created this account when she was about 13 years old and in all these 13 years she never tried atleast for once to write again.
She was so busy doing all the other things that she forgot to complete her own stories. Now her old characters are very sad because she left them alone half-way. But they still care for her as they did before. Because she was really a happy girl before her family broke up. And three years ago when she lost her mother who was her only support, she finally lost everything. You know, last month on may 20 she had her 29th birthday. But she was alone so she drank and cried all night.
Yes, that's what she does these days. When she feels sad she drinks, cries and curses herself till she falls asleep. And all her characters created by her 13 years ago are the only witnesses of this, because they are still waiting for her to complete their stories. The last story she completed was at the age of 11 when her father was with her. When she was the happiest girl in this world.
Polly felt really sad after hearing Iseul's story.
"And what happened to the characters in the story she completed?" She queried.
"Well, they disappeared, no one knows where they are now. But they had a happy ending. Some people say that she put them in the trash can because she wrote those stories with her father. And in anger she deleted them."
"So...? If she starts hating us in the future, she'll make us disappear too?" Such an innocent question from Polly really left little Miss Polly speechless.