“Welcome to YWSland!” The high-pitched voice startled me. I rubbed my eyes and as my vision gradually cleared, I noticed a green leafy thing skipping towards me. It was an artichoke.
“Where am I?” I stood up and brush off the dust that got attracted on my stuffed body.
“I have just welcomed you to our place!” He flashed a smile so wide that it almost reached both of his ears. Boy, is he weird.
“Right.” I breathed out a sigh as I started my pace. The ground, I believe, wasn’t made out of rocks or even cements. Sure it looked like it wouldn’t crack easily after a few decades, but the color just didn’t give any safety assurance for me.
Why you ask?
“You might be wondering why the ground’s blue and white checkered. Well, don’t ask me! I don’t know anything about it! But I just like how it’s so mysterious! Oh my gosh!” Next thing I knew, I felt a slight vibration against my feet, but it wasn’t an earthquake that had occurred, but because of the weird-and-happy-go-lucky creature jumping right beside me.
“Jeez, you need to chill down.” My eyes roamed around the place. I know this wasn’t real but it couldn’t be just a dream. I pinched my arm, thinking it might help me wake up from this stupid dream, but I felt nothing. How could I ever forget that I’m a just stuffed toy?
“Whoa. The sky is beautiful. This place is awesome! Hey, look it's Logan!” The artichoke pointed a brown-haired boy standing under an oak tree. His tall frame and blue eyes all looked pleasing. I didn't say that because he stood out in the crowd, but rather most of the woman who passed by him would sneak a stare, or even dogs happened to sniff his shoes. It was a weird kind of thing. After a matter of few seconds, he angled his face towards us and smiled, as if to acknowledge the artichoke's presence.
"What is he doing here?" It was like my eyes had this electricity locked to his eyes. I don't know, but I kept on staring at that guy.
"He's here to apply as an avatar!" I couldn't tell f this guy was born out of rainbows or unicorns.
Whoops!
I tripped over at a small rock and next thing I saw was a big yellow pool across my body.
Splash!
“Oh no...” Stupid gravitational pull of the world! Why does it even exist?
“You got dunked into the yellow pool! Awesome!” The artichoke squealed like a mouse that has just found a cheese. Really, I don’t know what this artichoke can do for good here. If I was really hungry today, I could have just gobbled him at once. I looked around my body and everything was yellow. It was like I jumped into a yellow paint bucket! My hands, feet, legs, neck and my gorgeous plain face all turned out to be literally and super ultra mega yellow! This just couldn’t be!
“Good morning, noob.” My head turned to follow that strange voice, then I saw a monkey whose tshirt had a “YWS” text on it. Nice.
I just had enough! I could feel hot air coming out from my ears.
“Excuse me, are you the boss here? ‘cause you looked like one. I want to get home! I don’t like it here! First, I got welcomed by this artichoke that never stopped squealing like a mouse. Second, I’m yellow—“
“I’m sorry?” He lifted his glasses to the bridge of his nose as his brows went up in confusion.
“I need to get home!”
“I’m sorry. In order for you to get ‘home’ ”, he quoted with both of his fingers then continued, “you have to pay the exit fee”.
“Exit fee? What are you saying? I don’t have any money? Tell me, how do I get one?” I could feel my blood vessels bursting out in my neck. I wanted to get out from this place. I felt so sticky and disgusting!
“You need to apply.” The monkey said in a calm voice.
“Apply for a what? A job?”
Without answering it, he asked,“Do you even have a home?”
“I—I… I ran away. People don’t accept me there.” I gazed down at the checkered floor, stained with yellow drops. Whoa, it really felt like water… except that it was color yellow.
“Awesome. You really have thick eyebrows. I want to have those too.” The annoying artichoke started to stroke his brows and I suddenly had the impulse to kick him out.
“Your job is to be someone’s avatar.”
“Excuse me?” Is this monkey playing a joke? If so, this was definitely not a good time.
“I’m serious. “ The monkey nodded. He have this poker face that really bothered me off. I couldn’t tell if he was really serious or just laughing hysterically at the back of his mind.
“What is your name again?”
“Paul," I replied with my teeth gritted.
“Son, you just got hired! Artichoke will lead you to your client.” My jaw dropped at this monkey’s unbelievably fast recruitment. You gotta be kidding be.
“Oh my gosh, you got in! I’m so happy for you!” The artichoke started to skipped again, like he had some imaginary jumping rope with him.
Was that supposed to be a good news?
I couldn't tell.
Weird.
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