Lonely

Zi thumps down on her bed. What a busy day! The small coffee shop, which has gained lots of social media popularity lately, has been running smoothly. Zi unties her long silky brown hair, which had a thick white stripe that ran through it. She always has to tie up her hair in messy buns nowadays because it has gotten very long these days. Zi saunters her way into her small bathroom. She then carefully takes out her contacts. It’s definitely not very common for a normal 18 year old human girl to have piercing red eyes, so she always attempts to cover them up with brown colored contacts. She lived alone in a small studio apartment, her parents had passed away a while ago. Though she would have wanted to move away from them anyways. They had always put pressure on her for... well I guess you could say it was about what she would do for the rest of her life. And then Zi went on to create a coffee shop, that hosted the young to old, and brought smiles onto their faces. Though through all of this, she never really had any friends. A lonely girl, in a lonely world. Well I guess you could actually say she’s not so lonely, if you count the ghosts in her closet. You see, this world isn’t the only one, and since the gates of the underworld have opened up, things have gotten even more chaotic for Zi. In reality, Zi has not lived here her whole life. Of course it’s totally normal to move to different places, but it’s not such a casual thing to just pick up your things, and start a life in a new world. Zi’s parents were demons. But the thing that made everything so different for Zi, is that they were royals. The mother was the queen, in charge of managing the souls in the underworld. The father was an all mighty king who wrecked havoc everywhere he went. So of course when the two passed away, it was time for Zi to inherit the throne. She was crowned King if the underworld (Yes even though Zi is a female, she was crowned king, since the underworld thinks separating genders is useless). Now Zi has an entire world to rule, though does she want to? She has been doing it for quite a few years now. She’s kind of gotten the hang of it, though she usually pushes most of the work onto her trusty helper, Len. Len has always been there for Zi, though she never really acknowledges it that much. I guess you could say Len is a friend. They don’t talk too much anymore since Zi came into the human world to learn more. In such a world full of mysteries where shall she go? Humans are intriguing creatures. They only have one shape, and all try to act one way. The only thing that demons have in common in the underworld is the respect they have for the crown, and that’s about it. The human world seems so peaceful to Zi, but will it really accept someone like her?

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