Most stories have their happily ever afters...but most stories also have their bittersweet endings.

You could say that my life is a bittersweet story.
First, I don't get along with my father, which is why we barely contact each other.
Second, school was hell for me, which is why I always had so much anxiety and nervous breakdowns.
And then thirdly...I've had some good and bad relationships in the past, some ending in sadness and pity and then some ending in anger and regret.
At least I'm still out here alive and fighting.
Juno then snaps me out of my thoughts as he tugs the sleeve of my pajama shirt.

"Hey Mackenzie? Could you...tell me a story?"

"Eh? But I already am telling a story..."

"Eh...?"
( ・◇・)？

"Oh nothing..."

I replied as I held the young man in my arms, feeling his heart race as he stares into my eyes with his sparkling eyes that were full of life. I then move some strands of dark hair out of his eyes, gently caressing his head afterwards.

"Why do you want me to tell you a story? You're not a little kid, you know..."

"I-I know, sorry, it's just that...you write good stories in your diary..."
(^^;)

"You read my diary?!"
(　〇□〇）

"Y-Yeah...sorry I just found it under your bed one day and I was just curious about what you wrote in it...then when I read one of your stories from it, I thought that you're an amazing story teller..."
(^^ゞ

I sighed as I pinched his cheek, causing his cheeks to heat up from my touch.
Such a shy person...I have never met anyone this shy before, except myself.

"My goodness...okay okay, I'll tell you a story since you asked so nicely"
(^^ゞ

"Yay! Thank you Mackenzie, I'm so excited to hear your story!"
(*^^*)

"Okay okay~"

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Once upon a time in the land of South Korea, there once lived a young prince named Juno, who had a gift: he had discovered a magic flute that attracts the love and attention of any girl who hears the sound of it whenever he gracefully played it under the pale moonlight.
He was like the new Pied Piper in town.
He has played the soft, romantic tune to many girls, hoping to find the one, that special someone who would love him for him, but unfortunately, the flute's magic was so powerful that all the girls ever wanted was lust and nothing more to do with the prince. Some of them eventually hated him and some were afraid of him, thinking he was a dangerous threat.
Prince Juno was filled with despair, for he lost hope that he'll ever find his true love...
One night however, that all changed when he met her, a young princess named Mackenzie, who just moved into the country with her mother, the Queen.
When Prince Juno first laid eyes on her as he quietly watched her drawing in her bedroom, his heart wouldn't stop racing and he couldn't stop thinking about her 24/7.
One night, he decided to be brave and played his magic flute to her, hoping that she wouldn't turn out like the others.
As he played the flute, the princess had watched him, smiling as she nods her head left and right, following the sound of his magic flute...
She wasn't consumed by lust or hatred or fear, she loved his special talent of playing the flute and for that, she closed her eyes and listened closely.
The princess then decides to follow the prince and the sound of his flute and the two then found themselves dancing in the forest, staring into each other's eyes as they both suddenly fell deeply in love...they had became lovers that very night.
Every night they would meet, Prince Juno would dance with Princess Mackenzie, the two learning more and more about each other as they both escaped into their own little world and thought that no one could ever ruin it...
However, one day, the Queen had told the princess that she needed to marry another prince of a loyal family.
The princess didn't want to and didn't know what to do...Prince Juno was worried but had a plan.
One night, the two met up in their usual spot and Prince Juno then explains the whole plan to Princess Mackenzie.
The two agreed that they would both run away together the next night and live in their own cottage somewhere in the forest.
However, what the two didn't know was that the Queen was listening in on their whole conversation and had plotted to set up a trap for the prince.
Unfortunately, the trap had succeeded and Prince Juno was captured and was sentenced to death. As Prince Juno sat in his prison cell on his last night, he sadly smiles as he played one last song on his magic flute, knowing that somewhere out there, his princess was hearing it.
And she was, she could clearly hear the soft tune as she sat on her window sill, staring at the full moon with tears dripping down her rosy cheeks.
The day has arrived for the prince's execution and everyone was ready for it...except Princess Mackenzie.
As she stared out her window, watching as the prince was held by the guards, his head on the block as the executioner raises his ax, ready to strike any moment now.
Prince Juno then stares up at Princess Mackenzie, softly smiling as he whispers something to her.
She knew the three words he had said to her...before the axe comes down.
That night, the princess couldn't stop crying, she couldn't stop mourning for the lost of her lover...
The captain of the guards then comes in and hands her something she thought she would never see...the prince's magic flute.
The princess suddenly knew what she had to do...
The next day, the princess was reported missing, but no one ever found her...
That was because she was secretly traveling around the world, playing Prince Juno's magic flute in every village as she uses it to unite people, turning their forbidden love into a reality...and she would always remember her prince from that magic flute she always carried in her hands...

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"That was a very sad story..."

Juno states as he blows into a tissue, tears filling his eyes. I softly chuckled as I then wipe his tears away with my thumb.

"Aww Juno...it's just a story, it's not real~"

"O-Okay..."

"It's getting late, get some sleep babo, you've got a big day tomorrow~"

Juno nods and hugs me tightly, wishing me a goodnight before soon falling deep asleep in my arms. I sighed as I stared up at my ceiling, hearing nothing but Juno's soft snoring beside me.
The story I have told to Juno then got me thinking...what would OUR story be? Will it be a happily ever after? Or will it have a bittersweet ending...?