EXPLOSIVE NEWS UPDATE

16 FEBRUARY, TUESDAY, AFTERNOON

By lunchtime, the screenshot of my one word response had been reposted a crazy number of times. The number kept increasing and I gave up keeping count.

My betas were as reliable as always. Within the hour of my comment, NL FAO replied on Yuunie's channel:

"@YUNNIE, you are cordially invited to the NL Packlands for tea with the Alpha Princess. I've pm-ed you our FAO contact information. Please have your management contact us to make the necessary arrangements. Yours Sincerely, Beta Ki, NL FAO, Lorent Division, on behalf of the Alpha Princess."

And see, my beta could type in very readable English. I would just like to point that out, in case that was a tiny detail no one noticed in the explosion that followed.

I used to read descriptions like "explosive news" and shrugged it off as one of those trick words to attract readers. But now that I was so much closer to the action, I have found that it was a very apt description of what happened.

I probably shouldn't have responded just now. 

Yuunie freaked out (very cutely). This was captured by her BFF Kurrie (also an official Muunie.)

When Kurrie saw the invite, she "totes had to personally show it to YuuYuu." (You'd think it'll be impossible to make Yuunie sound any cuter!)

So she took a reaction video because that's what BFFs did when you were supposed to be busy learning new choreography in the dance studio together.

Anyway, she stopped the group practice for Yuunie to check her phone. For some reason, group practice involved only Yuunie and another long haired Muunie. They were learning in front of the large mirrors from their lady dance instructor. There were a lot of other attendants etc in the dance studio but you could easily tell who wasn't a Muunie since all the Muunies looked like fashionable teenage girls with various shades of blue hair. Everyone else looked like grown ups who had to babysit.

It did make me wonder if my betas and warriors looked like they were on babysitting duty when they were with me too.

Anyway, the lady instructor looked very displeased. Another lady ran up apologizing. She tried to keep the practice going, and suggested in false cheerfulness to the other off-screen muunies, "Why don't we all try it one more time from the top?"

"It's waaaaay to hard." A short haired Muunie complained, while poking her face into Kurrie's screen.

"Sunnie!" Kuurie tried to wave her friend off, "I want to get Yuunie's face."

"What's wrong with her face?" Sunnie asked, and then she laughed very pleased at her own joke.

Yuunie had realized something was up by now and made a very cute scramble to take out her phone from her very expensive monogramed quilted leather gym bag.

The other girls came over to look.

"OMG. SHE replied." Yuunie clasped her hand over her mouth.

"Not just that. Read down." Kurrie instructed.

"OMG. OMG. OMG." Yuunie whispered into her hand, she looked wide eyed at the camera, "Is it really Beta Ki?"

"OMG, it's Beta Ki." Yuunie slapped her forehead in disbelief and then her mouth again. 

Because it turned out that it wasn't my one word reply that was the bomb. It was the name of my Beta Ki.

"Beta Ki... Yuunie heart you!" Crowed Sunnie. She signed every heart shape possible with her body to the camera and sang their latest single, "luv Luv LUV luv u u u u!"

"No, no, no, it's not like that at all!" Yuunie protested, "He was just my sister's ex-boyfriend."

"Emphasis on 'ex'" the long haired Muunie pointed out quietly next to her with a slight smirk.

"No, no, no! Runa, don't say it like that!" Yuunie shook her head (cutely), she turned to the camera with pleading wide eyes, "It's not like that at all!"

"So are we going?" Kurrie asked.

"What? Why are you coming?" Yuunie looked shocked.

"How can I leave my best friend to face her lifelong crush alone?" Kurrie sweetly asked.

"Let's all go!" Sunnie decided, punching her fist in the air, "Let Beta Ki taste the power of LuvMuunMuun!"

"Must we?" Runa asked.

"Yes!" Sunnie yelled.

And then another Muunie appeared, she had the fairest colored hair of all the Muunies, "What are you talking about?"

"Yuunie is going back to the Green Packlands to face her childhood crush." Runa deadpanned.

Kurrie squealed, "He's going to flip when he sees the grown up Yuunie."

I couldn't quite imagine Ki doing somersaults over this but haha.

Yuunie was now holding her reddened cheeks in her hands, "It's not like that! It's not like that!"

Actually, it was more like Yuunie was going to flip.

"Is that beta guy who used to date your sister?" The fairest colored hair Muunie asked, just to be clear.

"Yes, and it's Beta Ki, Juna." Kurrie patiently answered, "And this time round, he isn't going to see a plain middle schooler anymore. Yuunie is going to show him her beautiful grown up side and he's going to fall in love with her."

"OMG. What if he's your soulmate?" Juna got starry-eyed immediate.

"Or what if he's dating the Alpha Princess?" Runa asked.

The other girls stopped moving for a moment.

"Runa!" Juna scolded, "Why do you always have to go ruin the moment?"

"What moment?" Runa shot back, "Don't blame me just because your fairytales don't come true!"

"Fairytales will come true when you believe in them enough!" Juna insisted.

"Stop." Kurrie waved for the girls around her quieten, "This is an important moment for Yuunie. We need to be supportive."

"It's not like that at all!" Yuunie looked really flustered, "OMG are you still filming this, Kurrie? Stop, turn it off!"

And that was what Kurrie uploaded, and all the other Muunie's reposted.

And then Yuunie had to post her own response video where she denied whatever Kurrie posted. She was really mad with Kurrie. She even puffed out her cheeks and gave the ultimatum, "If you don't take down that video and apologize, this will be the end of our friendship, Kurrie!"

And then fans started begging the both to make up. But they also reposted a video clip from Episode #436 of Living with Muunies, where it was revealed that the reason why Yuunie had never had a boyfriend was that she fell in love at 13 with a guy her older sister was dating.

So it was like a dead giveaway when she said that Beta Ki was just her sister's ex-boyfriend.

So now everyone was speculating how their meeting with Beta Ki would play out. Many fans hoped that this occasion would be documented in at least one episode of Living With Muunies.

And it seemed at least for now, that nobody remembered the reason why Yuunie was coming to the Green Packlands was to slap off my fake hair.

Like magic, it was suddenly yesterday's news.

Beta magic.

Although I'm quite sure this time, the diversion wasn't planned. I'm not sure what Ki was going to do now. Maybe he would really flip (in panic). It sure had to be tough to be so charming. Hahahaha.

After that, I struggled through the rest of the day to actually learn something in school. I realized just at the end of History lesson that I missed most of the chapter and only caught the essay we had to write for homework. I was too caught up with what's happening in my phone - because the news channels started posting transcripts, excerpts, etc from various expert sources on LuvMuunMuun's Yuunie and her long lost love. Hahahaha.

It was like a whole new other world had opened up before me... The land of Muunies where every personal thought, preference, and emotion was flung out like stars in the night sky for the world to stare at and connect together, drawing all kinds of stories against the backdrop of all the latest trends in candy colors and glitter edition.

But despite my new found fascination with Muunies, I was in school and I thus obligated to use the opportunity I had to grow and learn and all those things Dad said kids were supposed to do in school (which didn't seem to include Muunies anywhere in the syllabus).

Now that history was... history. (Haha, get it? It was over?) It was time for Science. We had to go down to the lab today for practical work.

Tbh, I hated the lab. It smelled bad and the experiments never worked for me. Grrr... But today was lab day, and since it was so much trouble to get to school, I should try to learn something. So armed with my newly boosted guilt inspired self motivation to learn, I trooped down to the lab with my class.

My science teacher was Mrs Dawson. She liked to wear her hair in large curls and large tinted glasses. It was very retro look, but I don't think she was wearing it because of the retro trend. I think she was wearing this since highschool and never changed.

The weird thing about it was that the lab would be dimly lit even in the daytime, and she would still be wearing her tinted glasses. I mean, she was a wolf, yes, but still.

I mean, I'm alpha wolf and while I see perfectly "fine" in what the humans called "dark" it was still different. I'm not sure how to explain it, but if the lights were dimmed, we would notice the light change. It's like everything would more desaturated. So it's like Mrs Dawson would be the most colourblind wolf in the world?

Maybe my year end science project should calculate the percentages of what senses wolves rely on VS humans. Off the top of my head, I'd say humans would be eyesight 90% and 10% everything else.

Wolves would be 40% sight...

Maybe I should just ask Ink. Hahaha.

Anyway, my lab work had nothing to do with why Mrs Dawson needed to wear tinted glasses or why the lab was always dimly lit and the old wooden counters and bunsen burners always looked more like a witches tabletop than a school science lab.

No, nothing interesting like that. But that didn't mean nothing interesting happened.

My lab partner was Jasmine. Which was good because she was always able to replicate the experiments correctly. On any regular day, I would attempt the experiment, get totally bizzare numbers, and then copy her's into my lab workbook.

Today our counters had little glass cups filled with a clear liquid that wasn't water, it didn't even smell drinkable, but there was a disposable straw next to it.

The rule in the lab was that we weren't allowed to touch anything on the counter until the teacher said so. Of course, no one follows thus within the first 5 minutes of our entry, someone had broke the glass cup.

"Don't touch the beakers!" Mrs Dawson snapped immediately at the sound, "Linda! Linda!"

Linda was the lab assistant. She was always wearing a shawl and lab goggles, masks, gloves... Some of the kids say that she was trapped in a lab fire many years ago and now dwelled in the backroom of our highschool labs a la phantom of the opera... Or phantom of the school labs.

Linda scurried out of the backroom, "Yes, Mrs Dawson?"

"Bring out a few more beakers for me!" Ordered Mrs Dawson, "And clean up the broken glass."

"Yes, Mrs Dawson!" Linda squeaked and scurried back to the backroom.

Very mysterious.

"It burns!" Terrence loudly complained.

Troy, his lab partner announced in alarm, "He drank the water! Mrs Dawson! Terrence drank it!"

"That wasn't lime juice!" Terrence yelled, red faced and angry, "It burns!"

"Who drunk it?" Mrs Dawson demanded, "Linda! Linda!"

Linda scurried out, while Mrs Dawson squeezed through the crowd of students that had surrounded Terrence.

"Why did you drink it? Oh you stupid boy!" Mrs Dawson sounded exasperated.

"You said it was lime juice!" Terrence argued. His voice sounded raspy and his face was red.

"Limewater! Oh you stupid boy!" Mrs Dawson cried out.

It really wasn't the time to bemoan Terrence's IQ though. He was starting to breathe funny too.

"Oh dear, oh dear." Mrs Dawson muttered to herself, "Linda take that boy to the back, and call the ambulance or something."

"Someone give Linda a hand. Who's the class monitor?" Mrs Dawson asked. Mrs Dawson was never one to learn about insipid things like the names of her students.

Liam got up and made his way over to help heave Terrence into the mysterious backroom of the lab... A backroom for the preparation and storage of chemicals and experimental supplies and apparently also milk. I briefly wondered if they'd give it to Terrence in a beaker.

Once Terrence was out of sight, Mrs Dawson shook her head and muttered to herself, "Why do they make children so stupid nowadays?"