Chronicles: Second Earth Online

Chapter Three

(A/N: This is also an edited chapter. The chapters that has no date on them are the REAL chapters while the others that still have dates on them still needs to be reconstructed but the soul is still there. So if you have time, please go over the next few chapters.)

Saturday finally came, the day Second Earth Online will be released on the World Market. The game's introduction that transpired last Thursday hit the mark for the most watched news and people started to wait until this day for the releasing of the One Hundred Thousand final copies of the game all over the world.

Currently, Nexus is slowly consuming his vanilla shake as he continuously roamed his eyes in search for Pierre. After watching the news last Thursday night, he contacted Pierre asking questions about the game but the latter decided their meeting and the discussion to be personally shared.

The fact that he alone has no partner inside this commercial restaurant made him feel all awkward and conscious of himself. After a few minutes, a slim and tall waitress approached him and handed over a silver coupon stating that he won a certain random prize for being the only person inside the shop that is alone. Then a couple of waitresses wearing the same uniform as the one who came in first also approached him and handed a prize coated in a white envelope and took a shot with him that literally surprised his guts out. While the other customers only stared at him with their mixed expressions of pity for being alone, hatred for their disturbance and such.

After the awkward scene, he continued waiting and waiting and waiting but he grew tired of it.

"Nexus? Is that you?" a familiar angelic voice spoke behind him. He turned around and saw one of his inspirations for coming to school along with her friends.

"A-Alexei! What a-are you doing here?" He's surprised to see her here that he's acting all weird.

"Me and my friends decided to buy something for my brother's birthday. What are you doing here? And why are you alone? Oh sorry for being rude, this is Anjie, Lyca, Pia, Nate, girls, this is Nexus, my classmate." All of them smiled at him. Anjie has the curly blonde hair, Lyca is the tallest and probably has the color of a true Filipino, Pia on the other hand is the chubby one wearing a peach blouse and has bangs, and lastly the girl with the red haired ponytail is Nate.

"H-Hi everyone. Uhm, I-I'm waiting for my friend Pierre, we---" his talking was cut off with a heavy tap on his shoulders by someone close to him. It made all the girls go shocked.

"Hey bud! Ooh, what do we have here?" Pierre asked. "My name's Pierre, what's yours? Oh Lexie! Glad to see you here!" he greeted every girl he sees but they are having no interest in him since he acts so close even though they weren't.

"Uh, I guess we'll leave, you're not alone now." Alexei smiled that still took the heart of Nexus who did not reply but stare into her with his heart still beating strongly. Alexei just smiled and slowly shook her head.

"I'll take that as a see you again." She lastly said before going out of the shop with her friends.

"Man isn't she the prettiest, cutest girl you've ever seen? You totally fell for her!" Pierre exclaimed and took the attention of some random people.

"Shut up. You're always so noisy." Nexus started to change the topic. "Waiter!" he shouted, after a few seconds a slim man with clean cut hair and white uniform handed them a piece of Menu that has all of their cuisines arranged in a two-way column. The left part of the Menu has all sorts of delicious foods and the right part harbours all of their drinks, shakes, etc.

The two ordered a literally huge amount of different kinds of food from their appetizer up to their desert that the large table they use was easily full of various plates. But of course, Pierre has got to be the one to pay all of this food since Nexus cannot afford to pay a single dish.

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*BURP!* "Oops! Haha, sorry my tummy's just about to pop." Pierre said, contradicting to his statement, he is still slurping the last bit of his vanilla sundae while Nexus is concentrated on finishing his own. The two of them almost took an hour just finishing all of the dishes.

Nexus tried to open the conversation about Mr. Oddle when all of a sudden, a familiar face of a girl passed their table. The girl was with Alexei earlier, she looks very furious and it seems like she can kill anyone who gets in her way. The girl is probably near Pierre's height wearing a peach blouse, a wrist watch on her right. Nexus and Pierre followed the girl's tracks and they can clearly see her black hair waving from side to side.

She went three tables away from Nexus' and there blasted all of her hatred. "Wow! Just wow! How does a sick person able to come to a restaurant and hang out with a bitch? My goodness Archie! How dare you! I gave everything to you for the last four years and this is all I'll get? F*CK!" She slowly fell to the ground and got everyone's attention. The other girl that she called bitch tried to get away but, "And you bitch--" she was cut off by the person named Archie.

"Pia, please, let's not make a scene, we're just talking about something. Jade's purpose was just business." Archie said.

"As if I'd believe that crap, that excuse should retire by now. Don't' ever bother to explain to me you pig!" and now she totally broke down, the crowd gasped after seeing a girl cry and they sympathize her.

Pia cried really hard, like her loved one just died. Archie tried comforting her by hugging while the other girl started to escape. They don't care anymore with who were watching but as soon as she realized it, Pia tried to break away from his grasp.

"GET AWAY FROM ME! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME WITH THAT FILTHY HANDS OF YOURS! ARGH!!" the two of them stayed like that for a few minutes probably trying to regain energy from what they just did.

"Those two sure knows how to put up a scene." Pierre commented.

"I agree." His friend followed.

The whole customers have heard the boy saying "I'm sorry." For the whole time. The two couple should know, this is not a place for those scene, but watching them like that is a little bit cute.

"Come on, we need to go to a more peaceful place. We can't have proper conversation here when all the time, there is always something or someone disturbing us." Nexus said but Pierre helped him get away from the strangling crowd.

They entered the store in front named Yinni's Coffee. A great place to discuss matters about since it can be compare to a library for its quietness. Nexus is awed by the interior design of the shop. The way the chairs are shaped, the arrangement of the tables, even the decorations are all matching the atmosphere.

They sat near the glass window and ordered. For Pierre, a hot chocolate, and for nexus is a latte. "Now, let's proceed to the discussion, I have so many questions to ask." Now, Nexus opened up the real topic where nobody should disturb them anymore...

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Short update! Sorry... I'll do better next chapter and I hope I gave justice on the crying girl scene. :)