Chapter 2: Sweet Wonderland ?

The sun rays piercing through the window, Shan is spotted sleeping on her bed. She sits up and blink her eyes for a couple of minutes. She jolted as she heard her phone ringing. She immediately stood up from her bed and grab her phone. Rubbing her tired eyes, she answered the call, "Hey, aunt"

"Why it took some time for you to answer my call? Anyway, I've already sent you my gift and—" The door bell ring. "I guess your gift already arrive. Happy birthday"

Shan smiled and replied, "Thanks, aunt" and she drops the call.

She doesn't have time to wash up. Without a choice, she swiftly run her fingers through her hair, straightening the tangled strands of her dark black hair as she walk herself to the door. Her dark black hair is messy every time she woke up and it has no different like a lion's mane. She doesn't like to face a person even a delivery guy when she looks like a lion early in the morning. She opened the door and a guy around his 20's appear with a smile on his face, handing Shan a box. Shan is entranced.

"He is so handsome, what a nice breakfast to have in the morning" Shan said to herself, holding herself to drool.

Her thoughts, fantasizing on the delivery guy, were interrupted when he called her.

"Uh…yes?" He handed Shan a pen to sign what her Aunt gave her. She took the pen from his hand and shot him an apologetic smile and sign it.

"Thank you" he said with a smile and he went off. Shan looked at him as he went his way, what a handsome guy. She slapped herself to hit reality and look at the box that her aunt gave her as a birthday gift. She swiftly took the box and put it on her table. She knew that it's a book that she is so excited to read it. As she opened it, her eyes widened to what her aunt gave her.

She quickly ran to her room and grab her phone.

"Hey, aunt?" Shan said as her Aunt accepted her call.

"Do you like it?" Her aunt asked, knowing that her niece already received the gift that she sent. A tint of red is visible on Shan cheeks and replied, "Very much, my aunt. Thank you very much, aunt. I love you"

"You're welcome, enjoy reading that. I'll go back in writing." and she ended the call. She put the phone on her short pocket and stared at the book . She graze her fingers on the book cover and the white calligraphy reads as "Sweet Wonderland"

"Collection of sweetness and different types of love. A collection of love story that revolves around—with cute boys. Wonder yourself as you read" is what she read on the synopsis. Little description but intriguing. She put the book aside and shower herself first to start the day.

It was Saturday. A day to chill out and relax, Shan was glad that she's done answering her assignments to have time to chill and wonder herself, reading books. Shan grabbed the book and starts to flip a page, she smiled as a dedication was written:

"To my niece, enjoy reading and wonder yourself. Think of what you want and you'll have it"

Think of what I want and I'll have it? Shan settled herself in the couch, The book has a lot of arcs.

As she skim through the table contents, she was amazed how her aunt wrote it. Reading the title of each arc, she can tell that some were bizarre yet amazing story to be read on by her. She open the next page and started to read the passages.

"Poor Daphne being rejected on." Shan said as she continues reading. She teared up as the main character was rejected by her crush.

"I want to hug Daphne so much, she deserves love. Why do you have to do it, Nathaniel Clayton?" and pull a tissue from the tissue box on the side of her table as she wiped her tears.

Shan was so immersed on the book that she didn't notice it was already night. She closed the book and cry for a moment. She felt the main character too much, her and Daphne were the same that were being rejected by their crushes. She stood up and look at the street. The vague sound of the cars beeping on the street, the subtle winds that gust against her skin. She hug herself and grabbed her book along with tissue box. She went inside to make a cup of coffee and sat on her couch, continue reading the book. She read after read as she sips her coffee.

"And that's why Daphne decided not to..." Shan reads as she battles her eyes not to sleep and she dozed off.