3***Beginners' Area
"Mom I'm home!" I yelled out through the intercom on the door.
"Just a minute dear.", came the sing-song reply of my mother from the device. After a moment the door opened up, revealing my 5'6", good figured (according to what others say, so no, I don't have a thing for her!), brunette, slightly plump, 38 year old mother, wearing a smile on her face and..... an apron?!!
Now don't misunderstand, she's not lazy or anything. Its just that my mom is usually at her computer working. Her workplace is set so that she can stay home and look after me without having to wake up at the wee hours of the morning to catch a bus or get home really late.
She had to go through hell to get things this way for my sake, so I'm grateful to her.
All of a sudden her expression switched to skeptical. "Uhm, what's this?" she asked, pointing to my bags.
I smiled sheepishly and looked down to the bags in my hands. I had bags of groceries for at least a week for the two us.
There was actually more than enough money on that check to finalize the cost and I had some money left over, and the doggy-save episode I just underwent left be parched and peckish, so I backtracked to the grocery store and bought some food thinking I might as well widen my arsenal.
"Surprise.", I said eventually, "I bought groceries and..."
"Eh?" she interrupted, seemingly confused, "No not that, that." she said, pointing to my bag.
"Eh? Eh?!!" Apparently she wasn't pointing to my bag, but rather behind it. And when I turned around I was meet with a shocking surprise.
"Yap yap!!!" It was the puppy that I saved earlier! And now that I have acknowledged his presence, he was making a ruckus.
"You followed me here boy!" I asked the furry ball of energy, thoroughly surprised. "Yap!" he responded, his tail wagging so hard that his punny body was rocking with the motions.
"Aw, look at you. Your so cute!" My mother suddenly gushed behind me. Seeing her like that reminded me that she loves dogs to death, something that's easy to forget when she's pent up in here for so long she couldn't even go out to buy one!
And at that, I got an idea.
"Can I keep him mom? Please?" I begged her.
"Huh? Sure, I don't see why not." She said, still half distracted by the new member of our family.
Score!!! That's one more up on her!
"So, how did you meet your friend here." my mom asked while stooping down to scratch behind his ears.
"I... found him... and gave him some food!" I said as nonchalantly as possible... Perhaps I tried a bit too hard to be nonchalant...
"Mhmm. Found him you say?" she repeated, sounding skeptical.
"Y-yeah! I found him." I reply, trying to keep eye contact and failing.
She gave me one hard, long stare before saying only one sentence,
"Tell me what you did or you're grounded without games for a month."
"I saved him from getting hit by a car!" I spat out immediately and covered my head for the ensuing eruption.
"You did WHAT!!!" she exclaimed. "Well were you hurt!" At this point she looked ready to go into full out mother mode.
"Relax mom. I only got a few bruises." I called after her but she was already gone.
Having given up on keeping her calm, I switched tactics. "So mom why aren't you working today?" I asked, walking in with my baggage in hand, dog trailing behind.
"Eh..? Oh...!!!" she stopped mid fuss and blushed a little at her attire. "There was an event of some sort about to happen in that game you rant about so much, and everyone jumped online to prepare for it." she said. She's talking about the annual Pre-anniversary BMO Gala, the second biggest event in the game, and one of the biggest events in the world!
I always felt disappointed each year about missing it, but not this year! Now, things were different!
I felt the hand holding my hard work get heavy at the mention of BMO. Alright! Its now or never.
Gulp!
"Actually mom, about that, I....." I started but mom interrupted me, like she knew exactly what I was going to say and had a tailored response ready that she practiced over and over again in a mirror or something (and I can't say I blame her),
"Look Nynn. I know that this is probably a huge event,"
"Mom," I tried, but she continued.
"and that you don't want to miss out on it again,"
"Mom,"
"but I won't be able to buy it yet. So just be patient and I'll..."
"MOM!!!" I shouted, finally getting her attention. "I have the game." I said at last! To say she was stunned was an understatement.
"W-well that's great dear. B-but, how did you..."
"I worked for them for 7 years!" I responded excitedly.
"Oh. I see." She looked, and sounded, disappointed. Well, until she registered what I just said.
"Wait, them?" she asked. THAT'S what gets your attention?!
"I bought one for you too!" I confirmed for her, reaching into one of my bags to take out the consoles. "This way, you can play with me too."
"T-that's good Nynn. B-but I can't now as I'm busy. M-maybe later." she was backing away, stumbling on her words as she did. But I knew what she was up to.
This has happened every time I tried to have some quality time with her for the past 8 years. I let her be all the other times, but not this time. This time, she's trapped. And she needs this more than I do.
"Mom, this is the first time I'm seeing you in an apron in my life. Literally. You have nothing better too do right now so please, can you play with me?" Some thing tells me she would have said no, or tried to find another excuse. But when she looked into my pleading eyes, she gave in.
"Fine!", I leaped in joy, "But after dinner." she added.
"Sure mom." I said, my day being officially made.
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9:00 p.m.
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'*content sigh* Man that hit the spot.' I thought to myself as I finished off the last of the videos form this afternoon and continued setting up the terminal.
"Okay mom, are you ready?" I asked while setting up the game. My mom was busy shuffling around my room, nit-picking at all the stuff in my room she could get her hands on!
In the short time it took me to clean up my desk and whip up the terminal to the WiFi, she has reorganized my BMO action figures, folded all of my dirty laundry, spread my bed twice (first time she was straightening it, the second time she changed the sheet from my limited edition Golden Thunder Beast Knight sheet set, to my limited edition Dark Thunder Beast Knight sheet set!!!), organized my who archive of 7 years of research in chronological date order, and is now flitting about making fine adjustments!!!!
I had to stop her and make her sit down when she adjusted my Silent Sage action figure (rank 12th in the BMO rankings. A sage that specializes in the Silent Chant Mastery), and even then she was fidgeting!!! She's way more nervous than she should be!
"Sure. Now start it up already!" She finally replied when I got her to settle. She still sounded nervous when said that, but she put on the headset anyway.
"Great!" I replied, reaching out my hand to hold hers.
She accepted my offer, and with a small, nervous smile and a nod to my direction. We laid down on the carpeted floor, as my bed was too small for the both of us and I sure as heck wasn't going into my mom's room (for reasons I'll keep to my grave), and I gave her one more look before I pushed the start button.
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My name huh? Thinking about it now, I never really thought of a name for my avatar. Let's see, a name huh... Well in that case, I think I'll go with.....
Nylon
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Shortly later I found myself in a..... a meadow! The grass was nice and green, and it felt soft beneath me, rustling in a breeze that sent my hair rustling in the same manner. There were wild flowers everywhere, making the scenery even more beautiful. As I looked around the morning sun warmed me up with its rays.
'How did I get here?' I wondered in the midst of it all. And then I heard a beep behind me. What I saw when I turned around made the smile on my face grow wider.
BEGINNERS' AREA
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