Codename: Ghost - An Arknights OC Fanfiction.

Look Forward (Edited)

"Shhh! This is going to be a secret, so no one can let him know, alright?" Everyone present agreed to that, and so preparations began as everyone quickly played whatever part they could to make the whole party operation a success. 

Well, Texas is just standing there, but still.

"But we only have until tomorrow, as the operation isn't done yet, and tomorrow is the only day we're free" Amiya added, though that wouldn't prove to be a problem, as Exusiai simply raised her hand and extended her thumbs up,

"Alright, leave everything to us!"

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A day has passed.

After a whole night of thorough planning and preparation, the only thing now left incomplete was the absence of the guest of honor himself, Ghost. All the operators look back on their restless one night efforts, a somewhat proud feeling filled themselves, before all of them went into hiding inside the room. It is a surprise, afterall.

The person who was entrusted to actually bring Ghost there was not Exusiai, for obvious reasons, but instead was Jessica. She then made her way to the dorm Ghost was left in yesterday, and as she opened the door nervously, she saw Ghost was still in the same place since she last saw him in. 

Slowly, she walked up to him, only to finally notice that he was actually sleeping when she got close enough.

"Ghost..? Wake up, please..?" She awkwardly tried to say to the sleeping Ghost as she gently tapped his shoulder to wake him up, afraid she might startle him by accident. And without any difficulty at all, he woke up. He looked at Jessica for a second, then looked back downwards at the floor.

"Jessica...what did you need?" He asked her in a soft, but really dry voice. A totally different tone than the tone he had as he yelled yesterday. To be frank, she was absolutely anxious, worried if anything wrong that she'd say would trip him off like yesterday. With that, a nervous Jessica tells him,

"A-actually, A-Amiya is calling for you...p-please follow me" She then got up and started to walk while signaling for him to follow her. Without much of a reply, Ghost slowly stood up and started walking behind her, maintaining a fixed distance from her. Throughout the way, he couldn't stop only looking down at the floor.

But every once in a while, he'd glance up just to look at where they're going, then he'd return to looking back down. Jessica noticed this, but didn't know what she could do to help him. She only hoped that the party would cheer him up, for whatever it's worth.

When the two reached the room in which the party was supposed to be held, Jessica said she had some other matters to attend to, and told him to go in first without her. Ghost didn't thinl much about it and went ahead and entered the room, only to be greeted by pitch black darkness in the room. Since it was dark, his hand felt around the wall to find the switch, and the very moment he flipped it, the dark room lit up and exploded with the voices of many participating operators who had been hiding in the dark, saying in unison,

"Congratulations on joining Rhodes Island!"

Confetti were shot and balloons were all released into the air. The room was filled with cheerful and colorful decorations and a table filled with delicious food, all from whatever they could muster up in a single night. All hands clapped for Ghost and congratulated him. They all ushered him to sit in front of a table, and the celebrated Ghost could do nothing but comply to this ridiculous turn of events.

Suddenly a voice could be heard shouting,

"Give way please! Something hot and delicious is coming through!" That voice belonged to Exusiai, who was swerving through the crowd, wearing mittens while her hands held a freshly baked apple pie. She then arrived at the table where Ghost sat at, and put it in front of him