Chapter 33

An hour passed. Gene and I silently scanned through our notes. It wasn't long before I heard a light thud.

"I can't concentrate, Beatrice. I can't stop thinking about the game." Gene pressed his cheek on the table top. He looked rather dejected.

"We can't study like this! What if we just continue the game..." I reached out for the box where we placed our games in.

"Wait, Beatrice! What if the next Chapter is also a cliffhanger?"

I gasped. "Then we'd have to finish the game!"

"We'd lose a lot of study time."

"But if we don't, we still can't concentrate! What if we read spoilers?"

"Our in-game experience will be ruined and we can never get it back." He looked dead serious.

My face matched his level of seriousness. "We're in a difficult position indeed."

We sat in silence trying to think of a solution. Unfortunately, neither of us could come up with anything.

"We have no choice. We have to try not to think of the game!"

"Yeah."

"We can do this, Gene!"

"Let's do this!"