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Dark clouds, rainy and numbing weather, only a few street lights beneath the covered sky. Under the ravelled stars was a little relation sparking on the streets of the busy street, the famous shiny couple, Vivace, a popular writer with famous writes and a tag of persistence around her like a bubble, and her girlfriend of 4 years, Ember, a prominent game designer who has many hit games under her name. Ember and Vivace are exploring the city together and are enjoying a lot from the adventures they took up and their togetherness makes headlines.

Though they seem like a cute and perfect couple, things are opposite when they are away. Vivace turns mentally disturbed and violent when Ember is away in her works, only writing and Ember bring peace to Vivace. Her instances are hard to handle.

Ember still remembers the day when she had to leave for an emergency fix for the game she was working on and the outburst was insane. She got to know from the staff of loud and terrifying screams and different actions and reactions from Vivace. 

"Don't leave me, Ember!!" throws shattered glass all over her and the hotel room she was staying in. "I'm so bad, I'm so sorry, Ember, Ember!" She shouts throughout the city light night. Screams and self-harm feels very normal to the staff, "Ember misses you too", "Ember will not be happy to see this" and it feels as if there is something that Ember protects Vivace from.

Ember had to leave the city, this January, just after the New Year, she had to pack her bags and leave to another city. Vivace had no clue that Ember had a flight, the next hour. Ember was scared about the sudden outburst of Vivace and could almost feel it, "Ember" Vivace cried. "Ember, I will end myself, I will throw myself out from this window" She could almost feel these threats as she fell of her iron deficiency. Vivace came just in time and was upset about Ember packing her bags.

"Are you leaving me?" "You know I love you so much" "Why are you leaving me, baby?" "Don't leave me, Ember" "They will hurt me without you" were just some potential arguments for Vivace, to make Ember stay.

 A loud shuddering scream from a hotel room was normal when Ember wasn't around. It was as if Vivace's imaginary potential threats were following her and torturing her.

But this night was necessary, Ember had to leave, she found a high paying new game idea by a famous game maker, though he wasn't know for the best treatments and intentions, he had good ideas, but a tint of mystery upon his identity, he referred to himself as Psyche; never disclosed his real name or face but was a good game maker.

Ember was his partner for this project, so she had to leave really early and it was hard, considering how Nour also was talking to Vivace once or just twice a week. Nour was a patient from a known mental asylum and Vivace was writing about Nour, as she was the quietest but the most tortured patient in the asylum, as Vivace talked it out from her asylum mates.

Vivace was writing about Nour as she resembled her thoughts and the abnormal and terrifying thoughts Nour had in her mind, and Vivace helped her vent it out by telling and Vivace was writing a book about her. Few thoughts of Nour crossed across Vivace's mind

"I wish I could drown people in their own sayings and make them starve of love" "I'd pierce out the human heart of those who say love makes you legally crazy" "I'd rather be mute than to curse out on people who suffer me but give them an agonizing death" "If I were a god, I would punish all in brutal ways, I'd make couples eat eachother's heart and slowly broil them to hell admist an empty heaven"

She immediately stopped her thoughts and diverted herself to Ember and wanted answers from Ember, she did not want Ember to leave her side. She told Ember how her nightmares and paralysis haunted her and terrifies her at night alone. She describes about her nightmare about her previous encounters.

"The sky was black, no stars no moonlight; I saw some light the other side and ran into a shadow of darkness, it was daunting. It grew larger and larger but, I was then covered with darkness, I woke up and wasn't sure if it was a part of the dream and all the directions I looked, I saw the face in the darkness, two shimmery spots with black inside with a smile staring at me, I looked at you, you had a knife but then I fell down, and hit my head, but I was on the ceiling. I couldn't move a bit, then I heard a scream and tried to look after the person who did it, and all I could do was wait for this pain to end." Vivace described dramatically for her sweetheart girlfriend.

"Why didn't you tell me or wake me up?" Ember was the best girlfriend to Vivace due to old traumas in her past relations.

"You were- I don't remember where you were, I couldn't find you anywhere and when I woke up, I could only see that face, all my thoughts were directed towards all of this."

"It's okay, calm down. It was not real anyway."

"It felt the realest in years... But Ember baby? Why are you leaving?"

"Come on, it is such a cool horror game, VR and I can be an antagonist too, please let me go"

"Horror game- you never mentioned and you will be the ghost?-" 

"shhhh, why not celebrate the time we got, rather than waiting we are out of each other's company? I have some time, you wanna maybe have some food"

"But-" "No buts, otherwise I'll be your antagonist" "okay"

Ember and Vivace had a little fancy plate of gnocchi. Ember loved gnocchi and Vivace loved her company. They had little romantic moments, if you call it a dinner and not a date.

Ember left to the airport and promised Vivace that she will contact her as soon as possible and wished her best for luck. 

"Best of luck, baby, make the best VR game ever<3"< em>

"To you too, handle yourself well and write well with Nour, bye, meet you soon!"

They shared a sweet kiss as final bids were done and Ember walked away to her aircraft.