The Monitor Masquerade

Level 3

A week had pasted and I had received a friend request from PrinceofHearts every single day. "He's blowing me." I said as I opened Life is Strange to finish the game for the 4th time.

"You just have to breath. Maybe he isn't that bad after all. You'll never know until you talk to him." Jordan said. Everyone else was at work so it was just us talking.

"I doubt it."

"Come on you should just talk to him. He was pretty cool."

"Don't remind me. I still can't believe that you guys talked to him."

"He was pretty chill." Like clockwork, the friend request came up on my screen and I let out a moan. "Another one?"

"Yes!" I wanted to ram my head against a wall. "Why is he so persistent?"

"Only one way to find out Kel."

"No way."

"What are you now shy online too. Come on, this is you're stomping ground. You have the upper hand here. Just give it a try and if it ends up a dumpster fire then block him."

"I hate it when you're right." I ended the call with SirMichael and proceeded to call PrinceofHeart.

"Hello Miss GraceKelli. Nice of you to finally take notice to me." He didn't say it in a flirty way, but more of a cocky lower rank sassing an officer.

"How else would I get you to stop sending me friend requests."

"You could just accept. Or let me re-explain what happened on that game."

"What you and your friends were pissing around and thought it would be fun to scar a kid's life?"

"That wasn't-"

"If you hang out with people like that I don't want to be your friend. End of story."

"Alright Miss Badass I bet you hang out with some nerds or something in real life? I wouldn't hang out with your friends I'm sure."

"Jokes on you, I don't have any friends IRL."

"Really? Why? I haven't the slightest idea why." He said sarcastically.

"Why do you want to friends with me?"

"Just coming out with it huh? No small talk or anything. Okay. I have never met someone who is as good of a gamer as you are let alone a girl and I find that very interesting and I want to be friends and play video games with interesting people. Is that a fair answer?"

I twisted my cord around my finger a couple of times. "It's an answer but not an acceptance."

"Your reputation proceeds you GraceKelli...What's your real name?"

"You don't need to know and I don't want to know yours so there. Problem solved."

"Well it won't be a good friendship if I don't have anything to call you other than dude, bro, and GraceKelli." I didn't say anything. It was a habit of mine. I would get into my head and think of 100 different things to say, but sadly say none of them. "I bet your name is Grace. Its Grace isn't it?"

"You got me there!" I said uninterested. "Look how about I just call you Prince okay?"

"Don't you want to know my real name?"