The Thing About Nerds

Mr. T and Le Paradise

Everyone who's a cat lady may come to think they're a great cat lady (yes, even M even though we pelt insults such as the usual "Your cats are shit" at her). But those people are wrong. For what awaits you, awaits us all, something, more terrifying, deadly, and possibly even worse than worldwide tragedies such as Ebola, 9/11, NaCl's cooking, or just the amount of stupidity our world has achieved. One cat to rule them all, Mr. T...

It all started long ago. Everyone in the nerd clan was just hanging out in our usual corner that I'd like to call "Heaven of Isolation", always doing something OTHER than being productive. This time, the two lovebirds, Ghostie and Winter were murmuring and giggling about something while the rest of us were staring in confusion (or you know, eating fancy 5-star meals cause its lunch time. What'd you expect? Being productive for once? Ha! Since when did something like that even exist in our lives?). Mahima broke the confusion and silence and asked what they were up to. Little did any of us know, Ghostie explained that they went to a Japanese place yesterday known as "Neko Atsume", a magical paradise where you can own your own little cat park, attract cats, have them play toys, earn fish, and then use those fish to buy more toys which will attract more cats. Sounds an awful lot like capitalism don't you think? With everyone except Pip and I in amazement, I only thought to myself, this is not

gonna end well is it?

These past few days were just the nerds one by one, ditching the old nostalgic stuff we used to do in the past such as Werewolf, Forbidden Desert, or complain about Ms. Morgan and her ridiculous math tests. Obviously, Ghostie and Winter were the first ones to abandon all of this. Next came M, who was convinced by Ghostie to join. Then there was Pip, who although didn't want to own a cat park, decided to at least hang out with the others. Sky and Sam had no other choice, so they also tagged along. That just leaves me, and NaCl.

During Science class, I sat down only to look to my right to see a crazy cat-fanatic Sky stare continuously at pictures of her cats at Neko Atsume paradise. In fact, there was one pic where her favorite cat called Shadow was playing a flute (i'll admit that was cute). Then the next picture, don't get me started, a white furred cat, in a goddamn train, and its eyes... I couldn't tell if it was in pain or if it was perfectly okay. The eyes man. THE EYES!!! Left in disgust, I turn to my left to ask NaCl about this Neko Atsume paradise whatever you call it. She mentions that even she along with Rachel have been to the place lately. That was it, I was the only one left.

All of a sudden, my mind blanks out. Then, black darkness begins to appear and surrounds all around me. Chants of my friends saying "One of us, one of us" grew louder and louder as I had to cover my two own ears to prevent myself from going deaf or even crazy. NaCl snaps me back to the real world, where it turns out I was just dreaming from the boring science lessons Mr. Zaku was teaching us. NaCl then starts writing on my notes. "Join us", it says. Not to mention she also drew a picture of a derpy cat face right below it.

2:36 PM. The school bells ring. 2:38 PM. I say goodbye to my friends. 2:40 PM. I grab my coat from my locker. 2:45 PM. I hopped onto my parents' car.2:50 PM. I arrived at my home. 3:00 PM I opened the garage, grabbed my bike, filled the tires with air, and peddled away. 4:30 PM. I kept peddling. 5:00 PM. I ate food at Taco Bell. 6:00 PM. I still kept peddling. 7:00 PM. Stole some grapes and ate it. 8:00 PM. 9:00 PM. 10:00 PM. 11:00 PM. What comes after 11:00 PM?

Midnight; There I was. In front of the place everyone was talking about. I dumped the bike and then proceeded to approach. I looked up, there was a big sign that says "Neko Atsume" with the words "Kitty Collector" below that. I reach the front entrance, looked at the window to see it filled with posters of that white furred cat Sky was looking at as well as cat puns with the most noticeable being the "Meow Loading" one. In the center of this mess, there was a sign glowing that says "OPEN". I gulped, wiped off the sweat on my forehead, and then entered through the door. This is only just the beginning...

A/N

Hola! Like I said, this is only just the beginning and is LOOSELY based on our adventures as we play an actual game known as Neko Atsume (was totally not sponsored to do that). This is a multiple part story and most of the stuff I say in this story never actually happened but instead is to make the story more... interesting. You haven't officially met me, Jackass Accountant, yet. At some point, you will but for now, have a cookie and please don't hesitate to vote, comment, or just keep munching. Hope you enjoyed my fantasized story.-Jackass Accountant