Chapter three.

"Hey are you ok? " asked 001.

"yeah..." I replied.

We were in void space again, on some foreign sever. 001 called it her home, well it seemed a lot like one of the elf apartment complexes you see on the news. Stylish, elegant even, but always over decorated.

"You made this?" I asked while looking at the surroundings.

She nodded.

"Wow, this is incredible," I wasn't talking about the design or anything I couldn't care less about that... The fact that she could create this and so easily at that. "

"So did you install it?" She asked, her avatar was heavily customized, This time it was a witch's costume, you know, how anime portray witches at least.

I turned my attention to her

"Who are you really?" I asked.

She started looking down, her mood changed completely.

"Ah... I'm sorry, that's a sensitive topic isn't it?" I asked trying out what little I know of empathy.

She grinned a little.

Her smile surprise me. And I could feel myself blush.

"Are you blushing?" She asked with an intense stare before smiling again "you really shouldn't do that in public."

Leave it to technology to be able to digitally project something a simple as blushing.

"W-well it's your fault... " I muttered under my breath.

"I was getting kinda bored," she said in a chirpy manner. "I thought you wouldn't come, so here!" She held out her hand and in her palm was a sweet.

"For comming," she smiled.

I've heard about these, fragmented data that lets you experience various flavours.

I took it, "Isn't this supposed to be expensive?"

"Nope, I made it."

The reason why These are so rare is because they are extremely complex and had to make. The guys who created this system fail more than succeed at this.

I was at an intersection.

Uh... What if I die?

"I- I think I'm allergic to these," I lied.

"You don't like my cooking?" She asked "Even though I tried so hard to make it for you..."

She started looking sad again, "still not gonna eat it and that's not fooling me again."

"Damn! He's smart!" She said and then "well I guess I'll just give someone else that oh so expensive piece of fragment data," she sighed.

"So you didn't make it?"

She turned the other way but I could see that she was laughing menacingly, except it wasn't.

I narrowed my eyes.

"I think I'm gonna through this away."

"Wait!" She cried "He's evil, pure evil.... To throw away a girls hard work without the slightest hesitation."

I laughed a little "that's for tricking me."

"Meanie!" She called.

"I can live with that," I answered proudly.

We looked at each other and tried to hold back our snickering, but we both burst out laughing instead.

"You're funny." She noted and then "that program I made you install, is something I made for you too but it won't activate without that." She pointed at the sweet floating above my palm glowing a faint orange.

"What does it do? The program I mean." I asked.

She thought for a minute. "It has four main functions, but I'll only tell you one right now, it allows you to use your neuro link outside of the N.V.N ."

"Huh? Why would I do that?" I asked.

She smiled.

"The neuro-link has more secrets than you can imagine, anyway that's enough about that! I want you to go to the concert with me." She smiled.

"You mean, like a date?" I asked.

"Phssh... You wish," she smiled.

Who was this chick?

The question became more and more puzzling, the more I thought about it the more I wanted to know.

"Come-on we're gonna be late if we don't go now!" She seemed without problems of any sort and being around her changes me, somehow I feel different.

"Ok," I replied.

Suddenly the new message icon popped up.

Huh?

"Gimme a sec. " I told 001.

"Open message." I stated.

And it came up,

-Hey it's me, um I sorta got your link address from a friend and thought it might be a good idea, to message you at least once. Um so... My home address I tagged at the end of the message, stop by anytime.

P.S. I'm not the same person I once was, I hope you can forgive me. ~ ginger & sugar

With out checking the user profile I knew who it was, and my mood turned sour.

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