After Mia and Noah left the cafe, Nyx and I tio talk for a while, but we left the cafe quickly.

  We tio talk for a while and made our way to the point where we had to go our separate ways.

  “We never got to discuss it, but I’ll bring it up again. I want to tio hunt with you” Nyx said, before we parted for the day.

  “I’m not sure if I do that right now” I tell her.

  “Why not?”

  “I’m pnning on hunting aloil I get a certain skill”

  “Really? How long is that going to take you?” she said with a sad face.

  “About a month, I think”

  “Well, then give me your phone number” she said, having her sad face fall away, and it was instantly repced with a face of determination.

  “Um, ok” I said, pulling out my phone.

  We quickly exged our tacts.

  “Ok, so text me when you have your skill and we start hunting together.” She said with a smile.

  After that, we went our separate ways. I made my way bae, and had a niight with the rest of my family.

  “So, we are actually leaving again on monday” mom told us while we were having dinner.

  “Really, that's pretty quick” Aira said.

  “Yeah, but there are a few cities we o che” Dad said/

  “Well, we have a few days before you leave, how about we have a nice dinner on sunday?” Anthem brought up.

  “That would be fun” mom said.

  “Thes pn for that then” Dad said.

  ?

  It was Thursday when we made the pns for dinner on Sunday, meaning I had three days of nothing going on outside of hunting.

  During that time I was able to get a solid 8 runs in on every day.

  I was also able to increase the level of my strength boost to level 3 and my luck boost to the same point.

  This means that when I go back to hunting on monday, I am going to be switg up my duo a new dungeon.

  My strength stat is 32 now, so I am going to be starting the wolves den.

  ?

  Sunday night, my whole family was going to a nice diogether.

  “Make sure you dress nicely” Mom said to me when I got bae.

  “Of course mom” I told her. She was on top of us when we were going out.

  I headed up to my room and put on some nicer clothes. Underh my cloak while I am hunting is just some normal clothes I have.

  I grabbed a nice colred shirt and a pair of dark jeans and quickly ged.

  From their, all of us headed to a det restaurant.

  We talked about a lot, like how mom and dad were looking forward to their trip. Or how Anthem has pns with Madison.

  It was quite an enjoyable dinner with my family.

  ?

  The day before their highschool started up again, Noah and Mia were in her room.

  “So, we’ll walk to school tomorrow?” Noah asked her.

  “Sure” she said ftly, with husiasm.

  “Don’t be like that.” he said. “Just imagine. Walking into school with your amazing boyfriend”

  “Does it really matter?”.

  “Of course it does. So that everyone knows we're dating”

  “Fine” she said, once again with husiasm.

  “You know” noah started, smming his fist on Mia’s desk, “I would appreciate it if you showed more enthusiasm towards our retionship”

  Mia shuddered back.

  Noah then walked over to where Mia was sitting. “There there, nothing is going to happen”, he said as he held her.

  But Mia couldn’t believe him.

  She had seen how he had ged.

  “Not as long as you have me”

  ?

  Nyx was having dinner with her aunt and uncle, but wasn’t that ied in the versation.

  “How has hunting beeie?” her uncle asked her.

  He had always been very enthusiastic about everything she had done, from her inal singing career, to everything she did with her record pany, and now with her hunting.

  But Nyx never respoo the question.

  “Nyz?” her aunt asked her.

  But Nyx just kept looking at her phone.

  After a few more minutes, her uncle spoke up again. “What's so important on your phone” he said, at the same time he pyfully threiece of bread at her.

  This distracted her long enough for her to look up at them.

  “Huh, what?” Nyx said.

  “What are you looking at on your phone?” he asked her again.

  “Oh, nothing. Just my tacts”

  “And what tact would be that mesmerizing”

  Nyx had not told her aunt and uncle about Zenith.

  In truth, she had never really had a crush on anyone before, so this was a first for her.

  “Um, just a friend of mine” she said, trying to hide her enthusiasm.

  “And what friend would that be?” her aunt asked her. Nyx’s aunt and Uh know that, even with her popurity, Nyx had basically no perma friends. She moved around to much because of her music.

  “Is this someone you met as a hunter?” her aunt asked Nyx.

  “Um, yeah. We met at the nearty” she expined. “And we ran into each other the other day at a dungeon”.

  “What makes her so iing?” her uncle asked.

  “Her? He was a boy” Nyx said.

  And her aunt and uh chuckled when she said that, uanding what was going on.

  “OK, what makes this boy so iing?” her aunt asked.

  “I don’t know” Nyx said with a smile. “He is just kind of cute. And he is really iing when he is hunting”.

  “Really” her aunt said. “Well, it looks like you have a crush”

  “Yes” Nyx said quickly. She already khis was true. “Wait, what did you say?” she said when she finally paid attention to who she was talking to.

  Her uhen spoke up. “Nyx, this is great. We would love to met him”

  “It’s just a crush” Her aunt said. “We wait oing him”

  “Yeah, but I want you to know, if he hurts you…” her uarted.

  “ we please not do this? Zenith is a very sweet and shy boy, I don’t think he is going to hurt me” Nyx said, embarrassed ohis versation is heading.

  “You never know, sometimes even someone you've known for a while bee a partner you don’t want. And then you get stu that retionship, and they won’t let you leave” her aunt said.

  “I don’t think he is like that. But if anything like that happens, I’ll deal with it” Nyx said, taking her family's words to heart.

  She didn’t thih was capable of hurting her, but ko be careful when it es to love. She knows people ge, or hurt the ohey love.