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You and me, who will you choose? EP16 MAY1 Survival

# # Fiction Sector: Before the Truth Comes

Before Ploy knew where he was standing

May always knew first... that everything was going to break.

Not because Ploy said anything

But because the gems started "quiet,"

The silence of the gemstone.

It's not the same.

In the past, Ploy would ask

Will laugh

Will believe

But later, Ploy read and didn't answer.

Online but not greeted.

And the scariest.

Ploy began not to ask about "Nont."

May knew immediately.

The truth is walking

And the first thing May did

Not an explanation with gemstones.

But is

Management of "peers"

---

# # # 1.may start putting words

May sat with a group of friends in the original band.

The original cafe.

May sighed softly.

"This is a strange gem."

Some friends look up.

"How weird?"

May made a reluctant face.

Like people don't want to gossip

"Well, I don't know, it's like he's stressed out sometimes."

May, stop.

And then fill it gently.

"Sometimes he's in with something that's... not true."

May didn't speak directly.

But enough.

Because May knew that.

Listeners will fill the gap themselves.

---

# # # 2.May starts creating images

May started posting something.

Not an attack post.

But a kind of post.

> "Tired of us being sincere, but some people think for themselves."

Or

> "Maybe silence is the best answer."

No name.

No one was identified.

But everyone close enough

Will start guessing

And when people start guessing,

The story will begin to have "multiple versions."

And in all versions,

May is not the wrong person.

---

# # # 3.May begins to pose as a sore side

May still talked to friends as before.

But insert some sentences.

"We don't want to lose friends."

"We really care about him."

"We don't know what he's angry about."

These words

Not meant to explain the truth.

But there is for

Create "credibility."

Before the truth comes,

---

# # # 4. Because May is scared

Not afraid of being hated.

But afraid that

If Ploy tells

Everyone will see May.

In a way that May doesn't want to see.

Not a strong May.

It's not May that someone chooses.

But it's May who

Gotta make someone up.

Not to be dumped.

---

# # # 5. But there's one thing May can't control.

Is

Ploy doesn't say

Ploy does not post

Ploy doesn't explain

Ploy just retreated.

Be quiet.

And that silence.

It makes all of May's words.

Floating in the air

No one confirmed it.

But no one denied it.

And deep in my heart, May,

May knows.

That one day

Ploy may not have to say anything.

Because

The truth.

Will speak for itself

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