11.6 WRIFICT young adult plot comes to life: oh-no

Story's character-sake, a real person, takes on fictional character's profile and changes Serina's life drastically.

Never did it once occur to her in the whole duration of creating an idealized "boy meets girl/boy gets girl" plot outline that it would materialize. Now that it had, Serina knew that she needed much of her thinking head to decide whether to go for it or not.

She does not.

After scribbling her thoughts on a piece of paper, these are the words the journalists found: "This guy is very smart, talented, deep, mature, handsome, disciplined, principled, good-natured, etc. etc. etc. and I like the way he is. Now--I've met better guys before. This guy, clearly, is no match for those other guys--but I still like the way he is. If I say 'okay' today, then today would mark the happiest day of our lives, and business partners we will be from now on. Sadly, I don't know how he works. But I know how I work--I always have to be certain, and I bet he still does not know that I break down easily when work is not excellent. No, I can't do this. No, not yet. Or better yet, he has to wait."

Serina felt unusually empowered that night. A chat conversation was obtained from her archives folder.

She messaged the guy and said, "You're still not Carmine!!!"

The guy then replied, "Say what?"

"Don't jump the gun; it won't be proper."

From a distance, it was observed that the guy was silent. Because of that, Serina was given the license to explain her part: "Don't flatter yourself. Tell me what you know about me."

The man gives a list of basic things about her.

Serina answers with "That's not enough, and this is why 'we' can't happen yet. We've only ever met once, we've only ever spoken via social network, and I do not even know what your talking voice sounds like. You have to wait. We can wait for each other."

The man replied, "Sounds great. I can wait all life long for you."

Serina retorted, "What? That's unrealistic. No, be specific. Until when? How long?"

"When we're twenty and graduated," he said.

"Ah but I'll be taking my masters by then. How about middle to late twenties?"

"Sure."

"By the way, do you remember how my WRIFICT plot ends?"

"Yeah, Carmine gives back the diary and proposes."

"WHEN they meet in person. They have to meet in person, and so do we."