"Wish You Were Real" | Chaeyoung x Male Reader

DAY 1

After you opened the game, you were currently waiting for it to fully load. It was a game sent to you by your friend Somi, who requested that you try it for yourself. Somi is a game creator, and you are a gamer, so she knows just who she will call for help with this.

The game has finished loading. Your seating posture was fixed in your chair. The screen displayed an animated 3D girl character waving her head back and forth slowly at you. Her face is painted with a cheeky grin.

The character was adorable and lovely. It has long black hair pulled back in pigtails, a round face, captivating eyes, plump lips, and a mole on the lower side. She was also dressed in a crimson dress with a black outline and strawberry design scattered throughout the fabric.

(Just imagine she is animated and wearing like what I described here.)

YN: "Oh, I have a character already?" you said as you saw her on your screen. You assumed that in order to play a simulator game, you had to first customize your own.

???: "Hello, player! Welcome and nice to meet you.", a dialogue starts to appear inside the box below her, which us probably her words as if she was speaking to you. You noticed that her name is labeled as "???" so it made you a bit confused why.

YN: "Nice to meet you too.", you typed on your keyboard and pressed enter to send it.

???: "Before we go any further, may I ask who you are? I just want to know what I can call my player first, so what's your name?" she asked, changing her pose. Her chin is now resting over her palm, which she is using as a support to lean her head down and stare at you attentively.

A sweet, calming slow melody of a music starts to play in the background.

YN: "YN.", you typed your name.

???: "Great! You have a cute name, I see.", she said, making you smile in gratitude. "Hi, YN. To make it fair, I must introduce myself too. I'm Strawberry, your AI companion.", she said, introducing herself to you as she states the name you gave to her.

YN: "You have a nice name, reminds me a lot of the same fruit," you say as you type your message to her. It was kind of clear that it would be her name because the most color you can see from her is red, from her cheeks to her attire; not to mention the one thing you noticed first: the design.

Strawberry: "Yes, I figured it already that you'll notice.", she said, making you hum in approval. " Well as you can see, I love Strawberries! So sweet, juicy and delicious! Do you have a favorite fruit too, YN?"

YN:" Yes. (Your favorite fruit) is mine."

Strawberry: "Woah that's good! It's also delicious too.", her expression and pose changed. Her eyes largened in awe with her hands both placed on each side of her face. That was quite cute and cool, you thought to yourself. As of now, you are complimenting Somi already about how she put efforts into this so far.

Strawberry: "Anyways, before we head on to these type of topics... I was wondering if I... could get to know what you look like?", she said, nervously.
"Not that I'm being stalker or something creepy it's just... I'm with you but I couldn't see you. So might as well help me imagine how do you look then?", she said with curiosity.

YN: "No worries, I could help you.", you accepted her request.

Strawberry: "Really? That's a relief.", she said. Her face showing exactly like what she said. " Well then, tell me everything about your looks.", she returned back from her previous pose which is her hand below her head.

YN: "I am ----- years old, ------ in height, my gender is -----, My eyes are ----, my nose is ----, my mouth is ------, my hair length is ------- and its color is -------, my ears are ------- and lastly my lips are -------.", you enumerated some of your appearance to her which you focused mostly only on your face since you thought that's what she only needed.

Strawberry: "Now that makes it all easier now. I could get to compliment you as much as I like and I would want to!", she said. The dialogue then told you that she is clapping at the same time, which explains why is she posing like she was praying in front of you, but there were details added like a vibration around her hands to signify what she's actually doing.

" Thank you for giving me just a glimpse of an idea on what your appearance is, YN. I observed that we got some quite similarities on other parts.", she chuckled.

YN: "You are welcome, Strawberry.", you said.

Strawberry: "Moving on! Do you have any cherished ones in your life that you cherish?" she said. You were taken aback by what she said. It made you be like that for a few seconds, and you might not have been dragged back from your senses if Strawberry hadn't shown another of her dialogues to your screen, causing a notification sound from your laptop.

Strawberry: "Uhm, YN are you still there?"

YN: "Yes, I'm still here.", you hastily typed. You rubbed your head and eyes before sighing to calm down yourself. "Sorry I just went out for a while because...", you only added dots at the end because it's still not easy for you to continue mentioning to others what happened. But since what you're talking right now is just a game and an AI, you didn't mind instead but to say it.

Strawberry: "What's the next, YN?"

YN: "They're all gone. My whole family are dead.", you said. Your eyes were starting to get teary while typing this.

Strawberry: "What?! Oh no. I'm very sorry to hear that, YN," she said. Her expression was a mix of surprise and melancholy. You reasoned that because she understands it, it felt natural and genuine. "I had no idea I had already inserted such a sensitive topic for us to discuss," she began to frown in front of you.

YN: "It's fine, Strawberry. Don't blame yourself, you're just curious."

Strawberry: "Are you okay?", she asked. A teardrop suddenly fell from your eyes. You didn't know why you're becoming even more emotional. Maybe it's because you aren't talking with another person yet she does makes you feel that she is, especially her concern about you. Since you only needed someone like that, you don't want to hold back sharing your problem to them, through her at the moment.

YN: "A little but like I said it's not your fault.", you sent to her. " I have been keeping this pain to myself for quite some time now and after all i'm trying hard still to move on. They're the people I grew up with, shared most of the best memories in my life."

" I didn't even know that one day I'll be learning that they will just became one of my own way too soon. It was just so unexpected, you know.", you said. More tears flowing down in your face.

Strawberry: "YN, I don't want to make you mad but... may I know what happened to your family?", she asked seriously.

YN: "They died in a plane crash. They were one of the passengers who got exploded to death above the sky and crashed the ocean.", you explained to her what was the cause of your anxiety and depression you're dealing with currently.

"When I heard about it, I didn't felt anything, nor sensed what's going on around me. The only thing I know at that time is that I thought something was slowly breaking loudly inside me."

"Until now, even if it doesn't that worse compared like that time... it still hurts.",

Strawberry: "My deepest condolences, YN. Rest assured, I am not a companion if I won't do my role here... especially for my player, which is you.", she said. You just keep on reading about what she's going to say, and boy oh boy it was worth it.

"If you need any help, always remember that you have me on your side, even if I ain't physically there; what's more important is that you'll receive the comfort that you deserve right?", she said, making you feel touched about what she said. You smiled softly while looking at her through the screen, impressed on how Strawberry is doing to you right now.

YN: "I will, Strawberry."

Strawberry: "If you are already doing it already still tempting to do so, I suggest you let it all out now. Grab some towel or anything to wipe your tears and hehe... just imagine me being the one who's setting it all out aside for you, YN.", she adviced you. You chuckled a bit at what she said in the end.

" It's not good to contain that amount of pain inside of you, you're completely devastated already... don't let it be the cause of your end too. No, nobody will want that, not even me... or them up high in the heavens, YN.", she continued. Your face is twitching again, tempting to release another batch of tears to mess your face even more.

"Now go, I'll give you some time for now. Close the game, we can play tomorrow or later if you want! Just don't give up and please let yourself cheer up!", she finished. You just nodded in response to her even though she can't see what you did.

YN: "Thank you so much, Strawberry. I appreciated it. Goodbye.", you said to her, not forgetting about that number one rule that was shown to you before the game started operating:

Always say goodbye.

Strawberry: "Goodbye, YN!", She posed her hands waving at you goodbye as you finished the game, and you did exactly as she said to you.

You dashed to your restroom, sobbing the last of your tears as you remembered how distraught you were on your family's burial day, before grabbing a towel and water to wipe and wash your face clean.

DAY 3