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"Oh my god! What a cute girl you have miss."
"My my, your daughter is cute! Do you think we can have a wedding arrangement."
"What's her name!"
Lia smiled, "Her name is Astrid! She is such a sweet girl isn't she."
"Yes ma'am! She is...I guess she gets her beauty from her mother."
Lia laughed cheerfully at the comment. While Astrid meanwhile was gritting his teeth in annoyance, a vein popping on his forehead. After all, the girl everybody in the mall kept referring to the was him.
'Shit! I cannot believe she actually went through with this!' he thought as imaginery tears streamed down from his eyes.
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2 hours ago
"Oh hell no! There Is no way am wearing this," Astrid complained as he held the long white gown in his arms.
"But this are your sister's clothes and they will look really cute on you!" She said mischievously.
"B..but, but mom!"
"No buts! Go and put them on now" Lia said, chasing him inside.
Astrid ended up going upstairs with a helpless expression, 'why am I the one that always suffers such humiliation."
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'I really need to find a way to escape this hell' Astrid thought as he watched both men and women look at him and his mom walk pass in admiration.
Looking around, his eyes landed on the toilets and a smirk made its way on his face.
"Hey mom! Can I go and use the toilet" Astrid asked with a pleading expression, Lia looked down at her son(daughter with squinted eyes). "Oh come on, I promise you I won't take long!"
"Fine you can go, but hurry up and come back so we can pick out your clothes." She replied using hand gestures to send him away.
He smiled cheerfully before grabbing his gown and running towards the male bathroom, making the people around him look at him passing with raised eyebrows.
They wondered why a girl would be going to the boys bathroom, but due to her age, they just thought of it as a mistake, since most children her age where unable to read....or write infact.
Upon reaching the toilet door, a strange thought popped into Astrid's head, 'what if it was a mistake to leave his mother and come to this toilet'. He was getting a bad premonition that something incredibly stupid, embarrassing and annoying was about to take place.
But he couldn't hold it in any longer and rushed in and ran to one of the pots before pulling out his little buddy and releasing all his stress with a release of air showing his relief.
'Urinating in this....costume....or whatever this is, is very uncomfortable'. Astrid thought while closing himself up. 'Well, time to go before mom gets mad and disgraces me in this mall' he thought with a sad laugh.
Turning around though, he saw two large eyes that where staring at him with curiosity making him jump back in surprise while screaming, "The fuck! Wh..who the hell are you, creep."
The creep in particular, chuckled at the question, then with a smile on his face, he bowed down, proper etiquette required of a noble, before mouthing the words, "Now a cute and lovely lady such as yourself shouldn't be saying such ragged words."
Astrid stared him up, checking the boy out (not gay at all), he had bright blonde hair that glowed in the sun, with bright golden eyes, wearing a fancy white suit with golden trims at the edges. He was basically the most handsome boy around his age he had seen, well not comparable to him at all but still a potential rival.
'But who does this guy thinks he is to call me a lady' he thought while carrying a pouting expression which made him look more female, making the boy begin to blush, before asking.
"What is a beautiful lady such as yourself looking for in the male toilets."
"That is non of your business! Now if you excuse me, I will be going my way then" Astrid replied, pushing the boy aside and walking away.
"Wait! Before you go, might I know your name, you can call me Leo, how about yours..." Leo asked
"That....That is non of your business as well" Astrid said before walking off. 'that guy! Now I remember him, he is the major side character and also the MC's best friend, sigh, another major character revealed to me just like that, he is going to be annoying to deal with'.
' haaaah! I am pretty sure that guy is going to be trouble while I am here, I need to find mom, and quick too.'
Astrid began searching each aisle of the mall in search of his mother, the mall was extremely large, as large as a small village capable of carrying up to 20000 people. It was made of twenty floors and right now he was on floor five.
Based on what he remembered from watching the anime in his past life, the clothing aisle was all the way up to the 15th floor, so he had to make his way all the up there while also searching the floors just in case Lia hadn't reached the clothing aisle.
The worst part about it is that he kept having run ins with that idiot, Leo...it was clear that he was hopelessly in love with his female aspect, which he found unsurprising at all. Even he would fall in love with himself if he had the chance.
It also made him start to question Leo, in his mind though, ain't no way he meeting that obsessed creep.
Questions like, why the hell was he in every floor, were where his parents, how can they leave such a stupid child unsupervised, and also, why the fuck he kept offering help even though it was clear that he was just looking around.
'i guess my intuition was right, entering that toilet was obviously a big mistake' he thought while running away from his pursuer, Leo.
Unsurprisingly, he followed after him while screaming, "My lady! Please just hear me out, I am hopelessly in love with you, stop running, please".
"Hell no! Are you crazy, your to young to be having such feelings on the first place."
Of course Astrid tried looking pathetic so that at least one of the adults could help him, but they just thought of it as children playing tag.
'things couldn't get any worst' Astrid thought with imaginery tears streaming down his eyes, when an explosion suddenly happened at the elevator and stair case blocking all access to the exits.
The explosions also caught some of the people passing off guard causing a lot to be injured, some even dead. The whole floor turned into utter chaos as the fire alarms went off.
Astrid looked at this with a shocked, expression, the chaos leaving him very confused, 'why....why do I always have to jinx everything'.
Astrid thought as he heard a loud statement made from where the explosion had happened.
"Everyone get on your knees! Or die"
'Sigh! This is bullshit.'
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