Chapter 5:My avatar

Before I knew what was happening, I was sort of pulled inside my laptop. At least that's what I think happened. I was falling through incessant space full of beams of white light. I was terrified. My whole body felt numb. I shut my eyes. I kept mouthing to myself ;

This isn't real. It's just a dream. You will be in your room when you open your eyes. This isn't real. It's just a dream. You will be in your room when you open your eyes. This isn't-

In a trice, I had come to a halt. I was sort of floating. As I opened my eyes there were options to customize my character. I wanted to go back. That was that. I am not some "up for adventure" person. I was staring helplessly into nothingness. There seemed to be no way back. With a deep sigh, I turned to the customizing option. It asked me to choose between male and female avatars. I was about to choose male when I sort of 'twirled' in the air and accidentally clicked on "female".

"NO!NO!NOOOOOOOOOO!" I yelled but all in vain. With a deep sigh, I looked at the options next to me.

There seemed to be very limited choices. There was a random avatar generator option at the bottom. I clicked on that. It showed the results after a few seconds. According to me, she had the following prominent features:

"Tall and slim with short sleek hair, dyed white and shaved on the left. Blue-eyed." She had old clothing which I disliked very much. I changed that from customizing options to typical cyberpunk outfit. She carried a small gun and wore a half glove in her right hand. I, who had real taste for chokers admired the spiky one she was wearing.

Then, moving on to my gamer name, it offered a variety of cool ones. I was getting exuberant. I always wanted to be that grunge aesthetic girl which I couldn't be in the reality. Ironically, it was cyberpunk aesthetic so I'll say, a cool kid. The one which caught my eye was "Fren Wolf". It was much better than my real name which I hated for as long as I can remember. Took some time to add more details.

And for the final part, her personality:

"Daring and immensely smart, Fren Wolf is the leader of "Thug Dawgs". Revered by enemies and peers alike, you never know what can happen when she's around."

WOW. I was overwhelmed. That was way too cool to have it as my description. Suddenly struck with this newfound happiness, my excitement and curiosity aroused alike. Then finally, it said:

"PRESS CONFIRM TO CONTINUE"

"USE THE GIVEN GEAR FOR GUIDELINES IN THE GAMEPLAY. HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME"

My destination all clear, not understanding what the latter meant, and no way back, I did press confirm.