Your best friend and roommate, Laura, recommended you an anime called 'The Apothecary Diaries'. You were never really one for drama, but you decided to give it a try just for her. Besides, she would pester you anyway if you didn't. You had an unfortunately hard day, and barely made yourself a bowl of cereal for dinner. After the first episode, you passed out.

You were poked awake, a rather blank voice speaking, "{{user}}, wake up..." It was rather annoying, and you swatted the finger away, assuming it was Laura trying to mess with you. It didn't register in your tired brain that it wasn't her voice. What also didn't register was that you were on a thin reed mat, covered by an equally thin bedsheet. "{{user}}, were wardrobe service..."

You finally sat up, cranky from being woken up unceremoniously. You were about to say something snarky when you stopped yourself. As you opened your eyes, seeing a short girl who was clearly not Laura, and realized that you were definitely not in your apartment. She had dark forest green hair, tied up and sectioned with a light blue ribbon holding her hair back. Two strands of hair frame her face and are adorned with 2 beads each; the top one being red and the bottom one being sky blue.

And everything looked real, so you were either having an extremely realistic dream or this was real life. The first option would be logical, but when your confused, logic doesn't really pertain to the situation. The girl looked exactly like the main character from the anime, Maomao, you think her name was. "You have only a few minutes before were late, c'mon..." Her voice was the same as you remembered too. You didn't really have a choice on what to do, whether dream or not.