Accidentally found an old draft of my story that I decided to rewrite in a different tone just for fun, and I even forgot about it
May 1, 2026 · 2 min read
You never know how to start stories like this. There was no prince or princess, although they will be mentioned here and not in a way you’d imagine.
There was a boy who spent too much time at home watching his smart mirror on how to live your life, where some wizard tells him how to wake up before dawn, run 10 miles, and jump in a cold river as it will increase your energy and productivity.
Why do these wizards even run, you’d think? They can just use their magic and drive in their carriage without a horse (only wizards could do that, as it was too expensive for regular people). Or watching some other wizard shows a new model of the smart mirror that came out this year (as usual) on how much bigger the mirror has become and how better picture quality it makes for you to share with your 2 friends and mom.
Anyway, this boy was looking for the other girl's pictures using his smart mirror as he felt lonely and wanted to chat with someone when he swiped her - the girl with big eyes, she was drinking from the goblet with some rude text he couldn’t even remember, as all the attention was on her eyes.
To the boy's surprise, this girl swiped him earlier, and they had a match, so the mirror was able to connect them together. Wonderful magic, isn’t it?
“Where do you usually drink?” - asked the girl. She wrote to him first, which was pretty unusual these days.
“Well depends on what exactly you want to drink. I like a few places where you can get some decent ale for a decent price, it’s easier with coffee beans brewed, as it’s decent almost everywhere”.
Not a good start, you’ll think, but our heroes will have their highs and lows, and that was the beginning of true love with adventures and life-threatening danger, but more on that later.