𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐄 ━━ 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘛 𝘚𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘕𝘐𝘖𝘓𝘖

CHAPTER 18

"Okay, your hour is up." Kyle tells me, pulling off the vr headset from my head.

"Dude, that's crazy. You even added a girl in there. It felt so... real." I tell him, "Yeah. And there's different setting for the each of you. On your setting the girl's name is Annika, on Chris's setting the girl's name is Lyla. And then on Nick's setting, since his boat floats the other way, there's a guy and his name is Leo." Kyle states.

"Leo?! Oh my God, he sounds hot, lemme try this bitch!" Nick exclaims.

Kyle puts the headset on him and Nick enters the virtual reality.

"So what was it like in there?" Chris asks, "Really cool. There was this girl named Annika and she had this huge group of friends and like one of her friends had a sister and apparently she was my ex. She was crazy though. She like tied me up and tried to burn me to flames but then Annika saved me and shit. It was really cool. If Annika was a real person, I'd be so down bad for her. Like she was so nice and funny in the game." I answer.

"Woah buddy be careful. Don't want you writing a whole wattpad about a girl from a video game." Chris jokes, "I'm tellin ya man, she was something different." I reply.

"What else did you do?" he asks.

 "Nothing much. It was just like normal life except with a girlfriend, and a crazy ex." I answer. "Oh my God and we got high. I wanna do that more often, in the game it felt so good. I felt.. like... free." 

"Matt, you know you'd lose your sobriety if you did that. What happened to staying sober?" Chris asks.

"Getting high is pretty fun." Kyle says, "That's why I added it to the game."

"Just once." I tell Chris, "You can. I don't want to fuck up my lungs." he replies.

"Hey, I'm gonna go to foot locker real quick, I've been meaning to get new blazers." I tell Chris, "Okay, just meet me here when you're done. Or if I go to the food court, I'll text you." he replies.

We confirm our plans with a quick and simple 'kay' before I walk off.

I pull out my phone, responding to a few text messages I got while I was in the game. 

The bright screen shone on my face as I glanced down at it, typing quickly to my friends. Two female voices fill my ears as I walk past them. I only stop walking when I hear my name being called with a tap on my shoulder.

"Hey, Matt Sturniolo right?" a girl asks me, "Yeah, um. Sorry, do I know you?" I ask.

"Oh, no." he laughs, "My best friend watches you and your brothers on Youtube and sometimes I watch with her. I just wanted to know if I could get a picture with you to show her." 

"Oh yeah of course." I smile.

We both pose doing the sign of the bulls hands and she snaps the picture.

"Thank you." she laughs, "Yeah of course. Also tell your friend I said hi." I reply, "Will do." she says with a smile.

"Okay well I'm gonna get going, it won't be long before I have to meet up with my brothers and I have things to do, but it was nice meeting you...?" I say, "Myley." she finishes.

"Nice meeting you Myley." I smile, "You too." she smiles back before walking away.

( ANNIKA'S POV )

My feet brush through the water side by side as I watch the sun set in the far distance. The air was cold, cold enough to where I had to pull the sleeves of my hoodie over my fingertips. The September breeze hitting against my face as it blew past me, creating riffles in the water below me. I hum the tune of we fell in love in october under my breath, fiddling with the ends of my old hoodie.

"Hey Annika." I hear someone say behind me.

I turned my head slightly, looking back to see Klaris joining the seat next to me.

"Hey Issey." I smile, "Whatcha doin?" she asks. "Just watching the sunset." I answer, "Can I join you?" she asks, "Well you're already sitting down so I guess so." I shrug.

"Oh, Myley said she's coming over tonight." Klaris informs me, "Okay, I'm fine with that. Just tomorrow morning I'm gonna go back home. Gotta check on Jamie." I reply.

"Can't you save that for your mom." she asks, knocking shoulders with mine, "I could but I still like to help out every now and again. Even if he is 16. And plus, I like hanging out with Jamie." I answer.

"Yeah. I like when he hangs out with us. It's nice hanging out with guys for once." she laughs, "Yeah, we really need to work on finding guy friends." I reply, my laughter mixing with hers.

KIERA SPEAKS: i am so sorry BUT I SWEAR IM NOT ENDING IT HERE LIKE I THOUGHT I WOULD i've found myself getting better results when i keep my books longer and i though i should actually end this book with it being real and not all fake. so with that being said. everything and everybody in the vr game was fake (amelie, hailey, melanie, lily) and i will be adding new characters in the next chapter. that way im still incorporating most people that replied to that announcement a while ago without there being too much characters. so all of her friends from before this chapter is fake (THAT MEANS BITCHY BELLA TOO YAYAYY) and there are new characters. jamie is still real and so is annika =, kyle just didn't know that when he made the vr game :)

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