Later that weekend, after getting back home from college, xyuro was chilling in her bed and scrolling through her phone, when she heard someone knocking on the entrance door.
She then said in French, "Who is this?"
After getting dressed up in normal clothing, she then headed towards the entrance door and opened the door, only to find Kamran in normal clothing albeit with a headscarf, sunglasses and a mask.
He asked her, "Hey xyuro, shall we go out for a walk together?"
"Alright then.", she replied. "Kamran, why are you covering your face with all of this?"
He explained to her "I don't want these terrorists finding out about who I am through their shitty platform in order to kill me over our shared opposition to their reign of terror."
"Wow, that's horrible. I'm glad you got out of your birth country 14 years ago."
"Indeed. They're making things worse for us there."
He thanked her before they both decided to go for a walk around her hometown and buy some snacks from the grocery store on the way.
While xyuro and Kamran were both walking and talking about the different things they have in life, they saw Janan and Zahir waving at them at the pizzeria where they first met before minding their own business.
They ended up sitting in the stairs of the local house of crafts and chit-chatting for a while, before they heard a very loud call to prayer in Arabic, coming from different mosques and had to cover their ears with their hands until it stopped.
Kamran said to xyuro, "Oh my god, what was that? They almost broke our eardrums."
xyuro told him, "It's the call to prayer. I grew up hearing them since I was a child."
He listened and said, "Me too, when I was growing up in both Iran and Iraq, before I escaped to different places with my other big sisters Farah and Solmaz after what happened to our beloved sister Shiva 5 years ago."
"That's horrible. I'm sorry for your loss.", she responded to him.
After talking for a while, they got up from the stairs and took a shortcut before taking a break at a nearby stop.
Just as xyuro and Kamran were in the middle of talking about some college stuff between each other, someone was sitting behind them and watching something on his phone before he waved at them with a smile, to which they responded with greeting him back.
The man then introduced himself to them as a VTuber going by the name of Nishant, and he told xyuro that he was a fan of everything about her including her art.
As soon as he saw Kamran's face covered with the sunglasses and mask, he asked her, "Hey Yuro, why is your man hiding like this? Is he a terrorist or something?"
She told him, "He told me that he doesn't want the terrorists in his country to find out who he is so that they can send their hitmen after him even though he hasn't lived here for 14 years. And no, he's not a terrorist, his father is one."
"Damn, that sucks for him, given that he seemed to be a pretty cool guy to hang out with."
Throughout their conversation, Kamran took off his sunglasses from his eyes and asked them if he can talk to the both of them for a moment, to which they agreed and he chimed in.
Eventually, after they were done talking to each other about some random stuff and jokes, they exchanged their contact information with each other.
They got out of the stop, with xyuro and Kamran walking together to her house.
As soon as they arrived at the stairs leading down to her house, they were facing each other while his motorcycle was parked in her neighborhood's parking lot, with his flowing black hair and beautiful blue eyes without any covering in front of her.
They both bowed down to each other and shook hands with each other.
She told him, "Wow, I really enjoyed getting to know about you, my friend."
"Thank you, and you too.", he replied.
After kissing each other in the cheeks and hugging each other, they both said goodbye to each other before they headed to their respective homes, with xyuro waving goodbye to Kamran, who hopped on his motorcycle to go back to his house.
Later that night, by the time they were both in their homes, she received an text message from him, saying "I had a really lovely time that day. Hope you got home safe."
"Thanks, I'm glad to hear that so I'm home now.", she responded.
"I'm glad you're okay. Let's get together again next time.", he replied back.
Soon, the text messages evolved into phone calls between each other, before it was time for them to hang up and fall asleep.
Eventually, xyuro woke up in a dream where she found herself in a mountain hut in a place reminiscent of the Zagros.
"Where am I?", she said.
She then saw her new friend Nishant and asked him where they were, to which he told them that they were in the middle of the mountain.
After eating some food that they had prepared themselves, they headed outside.
While they were in the middle of hiking on the trails throughout the range, they saw 2 traders talking to each other about something in different languages.
She told Nishant, "Nisha, I don't understand what they're talking about."
"Me neither.", he responded.
They both saw a local man named Shahin and asked him if he understood what the traders were saying about, to which the man told them that they're talking in Kurdish about the roses of Isfahan.
"So, speaking about the roses in Isfahan that they were talking about in Kurdish, here's a message that I want to give to you before you go.", Shahin continued. "Here you go."
He gives them a message written in Persian advertising an smuggling delivery service based out of Iraq along with a random phone number and tells them "If you arrive in Isfahan, please go find Mrs. Paniz. She'll help you find the roses the dudes are talking about."
They thanked him in Persian, before they decided to climb down and headed to Khorramabad.
Arriving there, they saw a taxi and asked the driver if he can drive them to Isfahan and he agreed.
While they were in the taxi, they saw Kamran sitting there and looking at his phone in a black chador.
xyuro waved at him, and upon recognizing her face, he waved at her in return.
xyuro then asked him, "Hey Kamran, what place are you going to?"
"I'm heading to Isfahan so that we can look for the rose that Shahin was talking about together.", he told her.
She replied, "Thanks, that's so sweet but I'm travelling here with my best friends."
"That's great.", he responded to her.
5 hours later, they arrived at a hotel in Isfahan, where Paniz was waiting for them to come join her at a flower garden.
As soon as the group of five arrived at the flower garden, Paniz walked them throughout the entire garden until they were now back at its entrance.
"So, what brings you all here in Isfahan?", Mrs. Paniz asked the group of four.
"We're here because Shahin told us to meet you here from the Kurdish-speaking guys that there was a rose in that area a few hours ago.", xyuro answered.
"I know the place of the rose Mr. Shahin's talking about. Come follow me.", Paniz said to them in Persian before allowing them to enter her car.
Soon, they arrived at an another park a few minutes away from the other garden, this time to find the rose.
Meanwhile, later that evening at the hotel, xyuro and Nishant were sitting and watching something on TV from the comfort of the bed, when Kamran walked in with a bathrobe and started sitting between them in the bed.
He asks her, "What are you both watching on the TV?"
"We're watching one of your vlog videos from 2 years ago, at a time when you were starting college in mainland France, remember?", she told him.
"Back then, you both were still in high school, right?", he said.
"Yeah, but I've graduated last year and she recently did 2 months ago.", Nishant responded.
After talking for a while, they ended up laughing and parting ways with Nishant, who went to his other room before the two of them fell asleep, until xyuro woke up in the real world the following morning and realized that it was a dream all along.
She thought to herself, "Wow, I never thought I would dream of finding the rose of Isfahan and ending up with my friend like this."
"Oh well, time to go on about my day.", she said before getting out of her bed and minding her own business that day.
2 days later, after xyuro got home from campus and was done studying random stuff related to her major, her friends Nate and Nishant showed up and knocked the door, to which she opened and let them in.
Nate asked her, "So, how's the date with your boyfriend Kamran?"
"It was great, and we made a promise to see each other again the next time we could, but we're not officially dating yet.", xyuro answered.
"So, how was your dream trip to his country with him?", Nishant said out of curiosity.
"No, I actually didn't go to his country because of the sanctions and he told me that he doesn't feel safe in his own country 7 months ago but I had a dream where we travelled there with him.", she replied to him.
He sighed and said, "I see. I thought we actually went there, but it's dangerous for the three of us to be in his country right now."
Nate and xyuro agreed, and they moved on to other things, before they all agreed on the two men having her become their manager and starting their own VTuber agency out of her house.
Is this the beginning of a new VTuber agency led by xyuro and her friends Nate and Nishant? Will they still somehow manage to make it succeed or fail depending on the decisions they make for its future? Find out next time in Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi Season 2!
To be continued...
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