Escape Summer

She Runs, She Chases, also known as Chasing Summer

Cheerful, flirtatious sweet girl P x cool, sharp-tongued, short-tempered T

Song Tuxi x Lu Fanni

A coming-of-age school romance about healing, a pure-love GL story

Both are inexperienced!

-------- Content Warnings --------

A few warnings for my dear readers!

1. I'm a beginner, and my writing still needs work...

2. This isn't an all-female story! There are male characters who help move the plot along, but they won't get detailed descriptions.

3. The two heroines are assumed to be studying in their spare time! Working hard at their studies...

4. The plot isn't especially original! It's a straightforward school story. There's only so much you can write about.

-------- Character Introductions --------

Song Tuxi.

A fan of every kind of novel, she's good at being a slacker, sneaking out, and pretending to be well-behaved.

Her greatest passion in life is talking nonsense, no, playing Jump Jump.

Her family is well-off, and her parents came free with her phone top-up.

She seems like a cheerful little sun, but is actually sensitive, prone to overthinking, and quick-tempered.

In her second year of high school, she transfers to Chunwang Middle School in Luwu City because of her parents' work.

On her first day, she gets lost.

Then she writes a little note in class.

Whoops! Before she knows it, she's gotten her deskmate, whom she'd called a bot, into trouble.

Ahem (looks away). Like they say, you can't get acquainted without a little trouble...

Lu Fanni.

Chunwang Middle School's resident "poisonous ice cube," she's good at neglecting some subjects, snapping at people, and being picky with food.

Her greatest passion in life is doing math problems.

Her family is well-off, and her parents are open-minded, but they talk a mile a minute.

She seems like a cool, sharp-tongued little iceberg, but she actually loses her temper easily, is considerate, and blushes easily.

She's always cracking jokes.

She lives by one rule: Never break character!

But just as her second year of high school was going smoothly, a flirtatious new deskmate dropped out of the sky.

She even spouts nonsense and bothers her all day long.

Her character's going to crack, hey!!!!

-------- Story Introduction --------

The two have been close online friends for five years, but somehow...

After a transfer, these online friends who'd never met wind up face-to-face through a strange twist of fate.

What the heck? Weren't we supposed to be rivals?!

When they first start spending time together,

Song Tuxi accidentally gets Lu Fanni into trouble.

Lu Fanni: "Have you really never been beaten up?"

Song Tuxi, talking nonsense online: "I may be unremarkable, but I'm a top-tier masochist."

?

What a weirdo.

After spending some time together,

Lu Fanni tutors Song Tuxi.

Song Tuxi: "Would you at least consider praising me?"

Lu Fanni looks at the horrendously botched test paper...

It's really hard to praise her with a straight face.

Lu Fanni: "I'd rather praise a dog than praise you."

?

Could you at least put it more gently?!!!!

Anyone else would be mad, but then...

Song Tuxi: "Woof."

"Can you praise me now?"

?

Psycho.

Just when they finally get a little closer...

Damn, they've gotten way too close!!!

The two grow close in real life, then stumble upon each other's online identities.

Along with her excitement, Song Tuxi suddenly realizes her feelings have already changed into something else.

But the other girl is straight!!!

What now?

Damn straight girls!!!

Guess she'll just have to turn her!

How do you turn a girl?

Just take it one step at a time~ (A clumsy attempt at showing off her tricks)

But the other girl tries to avoid her.

And so begins the strange scene of one running while the other chases.

But... she can run all she wants, she won't get away.

At long last, they get together.

Lu Fanni: "Your way of seducing me was recommending that I play Jump Jump?"

But...

Weren't we supposed to stay together?

Why... why can't I find you?

Why...

-------- Character Dialogue --------

"Are you sick?"

"I've got ice, not a disease."

?

"So what if you have long legs? We're both over a meter tall. Could you stop walking so fast?"

"Aren't you 1.7 meters tall?"

"Uh, that was rounding up. Can't I round down now?"

?

"ball ball you help me thank you very much."

Is that how you're supposed to use English?

?

"You're OOC."

"You're nuts. Have you been reading too many novels?"

?

"Fanni."

"Hmm?"

"I find you annoying."

?

"Get lost."

?

"Do you hate me?"

"Huh? I love you, obviously."

"What kind of love?"

The kind where I want to get in your pants.

Ahem, no.

"The girlfriend kind."

...Still failed, huh?

Damn straight girls!!!!

-------- Blurb --------

"When the sun tries to escape this summer, the light will chase after it at all costs."

"More than the height of summer in August, I like what my heart desires."

"What my heart desires will always be you."

"You say our reunion was fate. I say meeting again took careful scheming."

"Thank you for barging into my world. From then on, it was an endless summer."

"Trapped in a narrow alley, chasing the light through summer."

"Sailing onward, the faint dawn light shines on the sails."

Song Tuxi and Lu Fanni's story. They meet in the sunshine, and become each other's sun.

Theme: Be brave and do everything you want to do.