Niki and Avon shared a concerned look and nodded at Alex to continue. Alex sighed sadly and made eye contact with Avon, 

"Uh...someone found something online...and they posted it on...on Twitter," 

"What did they find?" 

"I'm sorry Ave-" 

"What did they find??" 

"They...they found the article about your family," 

Avon's eyes widened in pure shock and Niki gasped. The biggest reason that Avon ever had to keep her name hidden was because she did NOT want anyone finding out about her family. Niki immediately brought Avon into a hug, 

"I'm sorry Avon," 

Avon shook her head, 

"I." 

Alex soon joined in on hugging Avon. Avon felt empty inside, she felt lost, confused, hurt, and guilt. Guilt she always has whenever she lied about having a family...she lost her family such a long time ago, but always had the same response: Oh yeah, they live far away from me, so that's why I don't see them, we just don't talk much because of the time differences and they have shitty service. It felt almost real when Avon kept saying that, almost as if she believed her own lie. Avon left the hug first, 

"I can't say anything about this...what should I do?" 

Niki shook her head, 

"You are not going to worry about something like this, Ave it is not on you to explain yourself to random people of the internet," 

Avon smiled sadly at her, 

"I know...it just sucks right now." 

Niki nodded and nudged her, 

"Hey, we will always have you back...I will always keep my promise to you," 

Avon smiled softly at her best friend and wrapped an arm around her shoulder, 

"Forever and always love...forever and always," 

Niki nodded proudly, 

"You got that right," 

Alex sighed dramatically, 

"When the fuck did I start third-wheeling?!" 

Avon and Niki burst into a fit of laughter and Avon smirked at him, 

"Alexis, you were always third-wheeling Niki and me," 

Alex sighed, 

"This is not poggers," 

The two girls giggled at him and he rolled his eyes, 

"You wanna head back to Niki's place?" 

Avon glanced at the two and smiled a small, happy, smile and nodded, 

"Sure, I just gotta check my phone...I think I should," 

Avon opened up her phone and saw Corpse and Xylo both texted her. Avon opened the texts from Corpse first: ℂ𝕠𝕣𝕡𝕤𝕚𝕖

Hey

R u ok? I just saw the article

what that person did is unforgivable
I am so sorry u have to witness it

Hey Corpsie, I'll be fine...it's just a shock
ya know?

Yeah I understand, how r u feeling?

A bit sad...but I'm in London rn

Rlly?

Yeah! Xylo and I left NY to come here 
for the anniversary of my family's death

Have u seen anyone?

I'm actually with Niki rn, and Alex came

I'm glad that ur finally able to see
them again <3

AW CORPSE! <3 Ily buddy

Ly too <3

Uh...can u tell everyone I said hi?
I feel bad that I legit ghosted everyone

Avon...never feel bad about it
ok? U have every right to

Ikk...I still feel shitty. I just met 
them not too long ago and I
care about y'all

I'll let everyone know...just
take it easy plz, lmk if I can
do anything to help

I will, thx Corpsie!

Yw Ave

Vonnie! how r u? I saw
somewhere on my phone
that someone was talking
shit about u :[

Ay Xy...yeah I'm alright for
now

What happened?

Uh...someone leaked an article
about my family's car accident

HOLY SHIT! Say the word Vonnie
and I will fucking beat their asses

Lol...It's okay Xy...I'll manage

Do u want me to get drinks?

AHDJLHASD

 XY!

I'm just saying! We can even
smooch 😘

LMAOOO...hmmm maybe

BETTTT come home soon <4

LOL WAIT! I'm with Niki!!!!
And ALEX

AyO! Rlly? like the beautiful best
friend Niki?

Yeah!

OMGGGGG PLz BRING HER!

And Ig bring Alexis too

LOL Maybe

Betttt ilh

Me too 

Ok I'll let u get to it, be home by 
midnight <4

I shall <4

Avon glanced up at her best friend, 

"Do you wanna go back to the hotel that I'm staying in with my roomie?" 

Niki smiled and immediately nodded, 

"Yeah!" 

Alex sighed, 

"Am I going to fourth wheel?" 

Avon and Niki glanced at each other and nodded, 

"Yes," 

Alex laughed and nodded, 

"Fine," 

Alex wrapped an arm around Avon's shoulder, 

"Do you want anyone to know that you are in London?" 

Avon sighed and shrugged, 

"I don't know...they might wanna talk to me or like hang out," 

Niki patted her shoulder, 

"Ave...I know you're worried, but you don't have to be," 

Avon sighed, 

"I know...it's just a battle inside," 

Niki smiled softly and squeezed her shoulder, 

"I understand. Which is why we are just gonna go to your hotel room and hang out," 

Alex nodded, 

"Hell yeah! I'll text everyone else later," 

Avon smiled hugely in relief, 

"Love you both,"

。。:+* ﾟ ゜ﾟ *+:。.Meanwhile。.。:+* ﾟ ゜ﾟ *+:

Corpse put down his phone and called Valkyrae: ℝ𝕒𝕖

"Hey, Corpse! What's up? Were you able to reach Ave?"

"Hey Rae, yeah I was. She asked me to say hi for her. She feels bad for ghosting everyone," 

"She shouldn't. We all understand why she left for a while. I'm happy you two are able to talk still!"  

Corpse smiled and looked up at his ceiling, 

"Yeah, I'm surprised she gave me her number," 

"I'm not. You two got really close since we met her. You guys both suffer from bad anxiety which is something that Sykkuno, Toast, and I can't fully comprehend as well as you two can." 

"Yeah, that's true...I wish she didn't feel so much guilt about this," 

"Me too. I'm just glad that she's safe, who knows what would have happened if she stayed," 

"A huge surge of hate probably. You have seen those comments too, right?"

"It's hard not to. I try to block as many as I can...but sometimes its too many...my mods are working double to try to block out everything about Ace," 

"Yeah, I've been getting a shit ton of comments about Avon every single fucking stream. That's why I don't stream as often anymore," 

"Yeah, I thought that was the reason...I talked to everyone earlier right after the Tweet, we aren't going to be playing Among Us today. I mean, you saw Dream's stream, right? Or like clips of it?" 

"Yeah...it's all over my Timeline. He really blew up," 

"I don't blame him though...I would have done the same," 

Corpse chuckled, 

"I have done the same,"

"Oh yeah! Yeah...I just spotted an entire compilation of Content Creators getting mad and defending Ace," 

Corpse laughed, 

"Send that to me," 

"I will...I don't think I made it in this. It says it's mostly Nihachu, TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Dream, and Quackity...oh! And you are in this!" 

Corpse smiled and opened the video. 

☆.。.:*·°☆.。.:*·°☆.。.:*·°☆.。.:*·°☆

𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝖋𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕬𝖈𝖊𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗4𝕷

The video opened to a face cam of Tommy. An edit of a donation popped up in the middle.  

ＡｃｅＦａｎｄｏｍ Ｄｏｎａｔｅｄ ＄５
𝐇𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐲, 𝐈❜𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧❜𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭
𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰
𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤❓

Tommy looked up sadly and sighed. 

"Thank you for the donation, I think I heard of you in previous streams you are always donating on Big A's streams. But I, I don't know when she will be back. She has some family stuff to do from what Niki told Tubbo and me. She deserves a break though, chat, from what I know, she's not used to talking to so many people at the same time...and I think she just needed a bit of time to herself. Which is completely understandable of course! But I just want to be serious for a second chat. Ace is an amazing person, you guys don't know her like I do, I mean sure we tease each other all the time. But she means a lot to me okay? So if any of you are sending any form of hate to her or any of my friends. You are not my fan and I will block you,"

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A transition showed Alex frowning and glancing down at his phone. On the screen it showed the old hashtag trending: 

#𝐀𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝟓 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚

𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝐹𝐾 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘
𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡
𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘, 𝑛𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠
ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑,
@𝑁𝑖ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑢, 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝐶𝑌𝑇 𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑡
𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘.

Alex immediately looked up in frustration,

"Who started this hashtag? This is fucking bullshit! Ace is coming back guys alright? I don't want to hear from any of you that she isn't. If you call yourself one of my 'fans' you will show respect to my friends. I've known Ace for a few years and she is one of the most kindest souls ever. She loves her friends and fans, she is always so supportive and you would know that if you ever saw any of her streams. So instead of AceisOver as a trending hashtag why the hell shouldn't we trend something more positive? No one deserves this kind of hate, especially not Ace. So piss off if you are a hater of Ace."

Alex rubbed his face in frustration. Then the viewers could hear Karl speaking up,

"Yeah, I may have not talked to Ace that much, but she really is something else. She has so much energy and is just a ball of sunshine half of the time. If you hate on her, you hate on all of us. She is part of our group whether some of you like it or not,"

Alex smiled brightly and nodded,

"Hearts in the chat for Ace,"

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The next clip showed up as the background of Niki's stream and her classic avatar popping up instead of a face cam. A comment in the chat showed up in the clip:

ＵｓｅｒＰｌａｙｅｒ
𝗹𝗼𝗹, 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘁

However, instead of Niki Nihachu speaking up, it was Alex, 

"Listen here you piece of shit, I don't care if I'm cursing right now and Niki usually does have a very pg stream. But if you think you can call Ace a fucking clout chaser, ESPECIALLY to her best friend, you got another thing coming. All of us in the SMP, and a shit ton of other creators know Ace and how she is off-stream, and she is the exact fucking same as she is on stream as off-stream. She's a ray of fucking sunshine and always trying to help others. I don't know how many times we have to tell you that. Ace was one of the first ones to try to bring so much awareness to mental health, she barely ever kept any of her own money, she always donated it to help others. Whatever money she got from working with Mr. Beast, was donated away or to the Mr. Beast Food Pantry. I don't want to hear any of this from anyone okay?! I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but I will. None of us have really been in touch with Ace since that tweet went out a week ago, we don't know when she will be back or if she will come back to streaming or making content because of some dipshit who thought it was fun to ruin someone's life! You guys have no idea how hard it is to make content and be faceless or nameless, the constant fear or anxiety of being found out, but Ace pushed through and still tried her best. She was finally coming out of her shell that she had been in before she met Tommy and Tubbo. I may not fully understand what she is going through, because my name is out there, but it pains me to know that she is hurt, I remember her calling me because she thought someone knew her real name out on the streets and she was afraid. Ace is only 22, she does not deserve this bullshit, and how fucking dare you remind Niki that her best friend is in pain, how fucking dare you just think, oh yeah! We should be mean to Ace on someone's stream and call her a fucking clout chaser even if we know how hard it's been for them because of all of this. We lost a friend, I lost my sister, Niki lost her best friend and ride or die, Tommy, Tubbo, and Ranboo can't talk to their internet mom, no one can fucking talk to her because she doesn't want us to worry her. She needs a fucking break from everything and you better fucking respect that." 

★━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━★

Niki popped up next, glancing nervously off cam before looking directly into the camera, 

"Hello everyone, I keep seeing tweets and comments about Ace. I wanted to officially address everything AGAIN. Ace never really liked knowing so many people have her name or know it. We talked about it a bunch of times when we were younger and when I started streaming before her. She was obviously worried about me seeing as it's so hard being a female creator, we made a pact to always stop if it gets too much for us or to call each other if something is going wrong. We haven't talked that much since she went on hiatus, it really is hard to be away from my best friend. Please learn to respect her privacy, shut up about her. We will tell you if she comes back and will inform you if she chooses to not come back. Which is COMPLETELY FINE! Being a content creator is fucking ruthless. We have no privacy and so many high expectations. No offense, I do love doing this job, but it's so tiring at points and it's really exhausting at points...especially if we are constantly being bashed for things that we do. We are all HUMANS just like you, we can have emotions so stop acting like we don't! Stop with the hate."

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Next was a black screen with Corpse's avatar in the middle of it. A donation popped up on the stream, 

ＣｏｒｐＳＩＭＰＥＲ Ｄｏｎａｔｅｄ ＄２０
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗰𝗲❓ 𝗜 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿

"Ace? If you heard bad things about her, they are fucking wrong. I just met her not too long ago and she is a simple angel. She's great. No, I don't have any feelings or any shit like that. Do NOT ship us. We are simple nameless buddies. We are amazing imposters and we can just simply get away with murder so easily I love it. But honestly. I watched her a bit a few months ago. You know, when she came out about her mental health issues and relapse? That was so fucking brave of her...even if some bitch outted her and that inspired the talk, but I think it was very cool of her to do that. I know how hard it can be sometimes, I've been there too. We actually had a conversation recently about how we deal with our mental illnesses or habits. It was really cool to talk to her about it. Not to talk bad about anyone else obviously, she's a great new friend. I've heard about hate to her though, and I would like to say fucking screw off those that are sending any form of hate towards her. Ace is a great person and understanding, she does not deserve any hate, no one does." 

★━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━★

Wilbur Soot was strumming his guitar softly in the clip. He glanced up and smiled, 

"How is everyone chat? How are you guys?" 

A donation popped up on the screen: 

ＳａｎＤｅｒ Ｄｏｎａｔｅｄ ＄１５
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁

Wilbur frowned immediately and put his guitar down, 

"Uh...thank you Sander for the donation. I know everyone is speaking out on the things that have been being said about Ace. Don't say her name again unless you are calling her Ace. That's the only name you should know. Ace never wanted her name exposed and it's disgusting that someone thought it would be funny to expose her like that. This might seem like a repeat of what others have been saying...but CLEARLY it's not getting through your skins. Ace is Ace alright? Got it? That's the name you guys use for AcePlayer4L. It should never be Avon to you. I was one of the ones that knew her actual name, and it is an honor to have been told it by her. An honor that I will keep with me for a long long time. She's an amazing person, a truly magnificent friend and I value that friendship so much. Please actually respect her, don't spread lies or hate towards Ace. She's not online, I've been told that she has not checked any social media since she went on hiatus by Niki. Stop it. She is human like all of us, we are allowed to take breaks, we are ENTITLED to this thing called PRIVACY! Respect our privacy. This is why there are so many nameless or faceless streamers! Just give it a rest and stop it." 

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Finally. The ending of the compilations. The video turned to a famous Minecraft server with a group of characters. The majority of the Dream SMP was shown on the SMP and the iconic dream avatar was shown. Then a donation popped up on the screen: 

Ｄｒｅａｍ＿ＳＩＭＰ Ｄｏｎａｔｅｄ ＄１２０
𝗔𝘆𝗲, 𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴❗ 𝗜𝘁❜𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗹. 𝗜❜𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝘁 <𝟯

There was no screenshot of the Tweet, out of respect. Then an angry noise was heard and Clay himself started speaking,

"You fucking bitch! How fucking dare you do something like this and call yourself a fan of mine?! Don't you dare call Ace, Avon ever again. Her name is Ace to everyone who she didn't tell it to. Ace has been quiet about her past this whole entire fucking time to bury that deep inside, it is absolutely DISGUSTING that you would post something like that and think it's alright. You are probably only fucking 12 or some shit like that. Cancel me I don't give a shit. That's my best friend you just fucking violated and I will NOT stand for it. I didn't know this, no one except Niki and possibly Quackity knew about this shit. If you think that is fucking awesome that you posted something like that, you are a fucking diabolical person. Expect to be blocked on everything by all of us and reported. Expect your Twitter to be deactivated bitch. Because I will fucking sue you for doing something like this to Ace."

Another Donation popped up on the screen:

Ｄｒｅａｍ＿ＳＩＭＰ Ｄｏｎａｔｅｄ ＄１２
𝗨𝗿 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝘂𝘆𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁❜𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗲❜𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 🤑

Then TommyInnit was heard,

"BITCH! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT ACE?! SHE HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT KIND TO ALL OF US! YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT ACE! YOUR JUST FUCKING JEALOUS THAT SHE KNOWS ALL OF US AND YOU ARE FUCKING NOTHING! STAY AWAY FROM HER AND ALL OF US!"

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The video cut to a final screen of a picture of Avon herself, along with a text: 

Stop sending Hate to AcePlayer4L she has been through enough and deserves some solidarity. She helped me through a bunch of stuff, she has been my comfort streamer since she started Day One. Sending love to Ace <3

☆.。.:*·°☆.。.:*·°☆.。.:*·°☆.。.:*·°☆

Corpse smiled softly as the video ended, it made him feel better but he still felt for what's going on with Avon. But there was nothing he could possibly do to help her.

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H̅e̅l̅l̅o̅,̅ A̅u̅t̅h̅o̅r̅ h̅e̅r̅e̅!̅ I̅'̅m̅ g̅o̅i̅n̅g̅ t̅o̅ t̅r̅y̅ t̅o̅ b̅e̅ m̅o̅r̅e̅ i̅n̅t̅e̅r̅a̅c̅t̅i̅v̅e̅ i̅n̅ c̅h̅a̅p̅t̅e̅r̅s̅.̅.̅.̅c̅u̅z̅ i̅t̅ g̅e̅t̅s̅ b̅e̅t̅t̅e̅r̅ c̅l̅o̅u̅t̅ 😎̅.̅ J̅K̅!̅ A̅n̅y̅w̅h̅o̅,̅ h̅o̅w̅ y̅'̅a̅l̅l̅ d̅o̅i̅n̅g̅?̅ I̅ h̅o̅p̅e̅ w̅e̅l̅l̅ l̅o̅l̅.̅ R̅e̅m̅e̅m̅b̅e̅r̅ t̅o̅ g̅e̅t̅ s̅o̅m̅e̅ w̅a̅t̅e̅r̅!̅ A̅n̅d̅ T̅H̅A̅N̅K̅ Y̅O̅U̅ F̅O̅R̅ R̅E̅A̅D̅I̅N̅G̅!̅ A̅N̅D̅ A̅L̅L̅ T̅H̅E̅ V̅O̅T̅E̅S̅ <̅3̅