It's winter. It is cold and you feel like you want to move to somewhere much hotter than this. You're becoming sick of the cold weather in your hometown despite it being the normal weather for this time of the year.


You're done with it. You want to move. You have had enough. You figure, why not go somewhere exotic for Christmas? Have some fun on the beach and kick back under the sun?


But then you remember how much it'll cost you. You growl and throw your hands in the air in defeat. What is the point?


"Of what?"


Oh, right. You were in uni. Chaos. 


Your name was ______ and you were a uni student. You were a specie of a/an ______, and you came from ______. 


You remember that you are sat next to your best friend, a shy but humble panda named Mei. You always noted how she was so cute with her smile and how she never looked like a mess. Her outfits were always on point. Always.


"Sorry," you mumble, writing down the answer to one of the questions on the sheet. "Just thinking about escaping from here. I find it dull at this time of the year."


"I hear you." Mei says with a smile. She had been your best friend since forever. If there was anybody who you could turn to, who you could trust with anything, it was this girl. She was always there for you.


You sigh a bit. Homework was boring. You wish you didn't have to do it but you understand it was to help you learn.


Wait, no. It wasn't. It was just to kill time. Goodness, were you okay? You were under the weather it seemed. Mei was quick to notice this and asked you if you were alright. Her expression looked concerned.


You shook your head and dropped your pencil in defeat. "No. Not really. I feel stuck. I feel like I don't know what I want to do any more. It's the same thing over and over. You know?"


"Hmm."


"Why couldn't I be a celebrity? Why couldn't I be somebody important? Somebody who didn't need to do any of this? Someone with a lot of money who could do what they wanted? Like go on a holiday?"


"Same."


"...Wha?"


It was Mei's turn to sigh. She rested her pencil on the table. She seemed unusually troubled. Not like her, you realised. Something must be on her mind too.


"I feel stuck myself. I don't know what to do with my own life. I wanna do something with it but not sure what. I hate feeling like this. I just wanna be able to feel happy with myself. I can't and I don't know why!"


You think it might have something to do with her now ex boyfriend. He had left her after she voiced she wanted a family someday with him, but he had other ideas. Turns out, he was a play boy, and had already had another girl in his arms waiting for him. You wanted to punch him for hurting your best friend that way. Mei deserved so much better than a slob like him.


You frowned. You both needed a holiday.


"Then why don't we do something about it? The two of us?"


"What?" Mei blinks, looking at you with a confused gaze. "What do you mean?"


"Well, why not plan to visit somewhere for the weekend after this period is done? Why don't we go somewhere fun?"


"You... Sure? Don't you want to stay here with your family? What about the money?"


You shake your head. No, you wanted to escape as much she Mei did. "No. No, no. Let's just go anyway! Let's go! Stuff uni work, we can catch up with it. We need a weekend away, just the two of us. Come on, Mei. You said so yourself, right?"


"Y-yeah, but--"


"Hey, have I ever let you down?"


Mei smiled, chuckling to herself. You grinned in response. You knew she was going to go with you. She was your best friend after all. You were everything to her. She was like a sister to you.


"...Damn you. Fine, I will go with you, ______. You better not lose me."


"Heh, deal."