Chapter 14: The Pond
'Shit...I forgot I got a pool date with Aurora!! Shitt!'
Mikey's brain went into full-blown panic mode as he hurried back to his dorm room.
Here's the thing—Mikey might have been knee-deep in the madness of his new found Web Novel Deluxe Mode and all the bizarre revelations that came with it, but before that, before any of this insanity started, he had made plans...With a girl.
Yes, a real, living, breathing girl. Shocking, right?
Now, anyone who took a look at Mikey would ultimately assume Mikey's social relationships revolved entirely around pervy misadventures and unfortunate peeping hour incidents with his so-called friends. But that wasn't entirely true. Because he had Aurora.
And Aurora was different.
She wasn't just some classmate. She wasn't some distant crush. She was his friend. They had been tight since childhood, way before her dad hit the jackpot and sent her to Metropolitan High School—the prestigious, borderline prison-like dormitory that Mikey had only managed to enter through sheer brainpower and a scholarship.
Aurora had always been by his side. Through thick and thin. Through cringe phases and bad haircuts.
And now... he had just stood her up.
His stomach twisted as he realized it. It had completely slipped his mind, buried under the absurdity of his new reality.
But now, as the guilt crashed over him, Mikey moved in great speed. He bursted into his dorm, showered at light-speed, threw on clothes, and without a second look, he bolted away.