"It is not just a game, it is a way to escape reality and be someone that I wish to be without anyone stopping me. It is my way on how I could get by and fill this void inside me"
Ah, yet another day passes by, it's just me and my games here in this tightly packed room, with nothing but myself and this screen, this screen that lets me project who I am
"My Ideal world" it's even better than this world that I walk upon, well will you look at the time, it's already 7 in the morning, I better get some rest, but first off I should eat I guess.My name is Lee Alsief, my mother enrolled me to this nearby school, senior high, I don't stand much of the crowds, nor do I stand people
I'm an introvert, people often say I'm just shy, but trust me, I'm an introvert, talking to people drains my energy, I can only keep up a conversation for such a short amount of time, I tend to sleep in between classes because it drains me
From my junior high, this was how I spent my school days...... Alone in the corner, I did make a few friends I guess, and these guys were more or less the ones who understood my condition, until summer came, I was introduced to the beauty of "games" not the physical games, but these virtual and online games
At first I was quite hesitant didn't know much on what is the significance of this so called games, I think there was a trigger on how I was so caught up in these virtual programs in the first place. I saw my friends play these online games, at first I was confused on what they found fun in games, I just saw them looked at the screen and just smile, seeing them like that brings somewhat joy to my heart, seeing them happy also made me happy, trapped in their little world they laughed and had fun.
The trigger for my game addiction would be the time when my father and mother decided to split, leaving me in my mother's care
I don't know, I wasn't really sad on that practical moment, I think a normal kid would somehow cry along the lines, but I didn't really feel sadness when the two of them decided to take their separate ways, but it didn't bother me, well that was what I thought anyway
Somehow I guess I was sad sub consciously and from there that's where I more or less started to play games, at first it was quite boring, just me looking at that flat screen of pixels trying to figure out on how to play and what objectives I should follow, slowly I became attached, addicted.
And now school year starts and here I am going rogue on the very first day of school, I'm like "Nah I'd just skip school" and just go to sleep but my mother says otherwise, she comes in my room yapping about me not going to school, with all that shouting there was no way I could sleep
With my mother getting mad like that, there was no way I would survive to see tomorrow if I skipped out school, and so just like any other kids, I packed up and prepared for school, took a shower, wore my uniform, got my stuff, ate and walked towards this school of mine
Oh yeah did I forgot to mention that we were newly moved in the area, well practically just me, my mother lived here before, in this town called Nas Onilecram. Yeah the town itself is a handful to pronounce, so yeah I was new in this town and didn't much knew anything where to go and what things I could do here, but luckily I was already shown the way to school and so I just walked towards where my memory lead me
After almost 15 minutes of walking I arrive at the entrance of the school, and my golly, the entrance itself was filled with people, people I don't know, it was okay if the entrance was just crowded, but this time, it was flooded, you couldn't see any gaps as to how you're going to enter, I was just like "woah, that's a lot of people"
Knowing myself, I knew that I couldn't fit right in those people, and so I waited until the sea of people can disperse and finally went inside the school campus, slowly the people got fewer and I was able to get inside the campus, as I stepped inside, I was greeted by a senior of that school, I was startled, awe struck by how that senior acted, cool and very nice, I got that impression that this school wasn't so bad after all
Well as convincing as it sounds that the school sounds cool and then the search classroom begins, there were a lot of buildings and rooms that I didn't know much, it was very confusing for a first timer like me to really know which is which, but luckily a senior student helped me distinguish each building.
I started going in the crowd to see my classroom and section, but I couldn't barge in that pile, then suddenly I saw my cousin Maria Wolfstein, and yeah the reunion between two cousins, we were like really loud when we first saw each other in school and kind of caused a commotion the scenario went like:
Me: Heeeeeeey! Maria is that you?Maria: ...... OH HEEEEEEY!!!!!!!
Me: it's me! Lee, remember? Your cousin?
Maria: Yeaah I remember! Wow nice to see you, you look really good in your uniform
With a little matching hug from my cousin and so the conversation went on, me and my cousin were having the same problem, we still don't know which classroom we are in.
Unlike me, my cousin is quite slender and small, and so I asked if she could squeeze right in the crowd and find our names from the list, she agreed and she went to dive in the sea of people, as I waited, I looked around and saw that there was a parish next to the school, and in the surrounding there were two mango trees and it was kind of nice seeing a view like that from time to time, out of boredom just as I was able to walk around, my cousin tapped my shoulder and said that we are in the same class, and so she gave me the name of the classroom which is class "Amitaf" bizarre sounding section.
And so we set out to check the classrooms, one by one we checked and finally, room Amitaf was found, there were not a lot of people at the moment, and both of us had second thoughts on who was going to go in the room first and like that, but in the end it was both of us at the same time going inside the room, me and Maria settled in somewhere around the back of the room, we were only one chair apart but we would lean at our chairs just to get closer to talk with one another, and because we were like childhood friends, me and Maria were pretty much the same as back then, close as ever, and I think it made quite the commotion and rumor around the room that me and here were dating, I know it was kind of awkward when we first head of this rumor floating around, it took a while for us clear the rumor inside the room about me and Maria but it went out smoothly.
We settled down when a teacher came, she was our adviser, and so introductions and stuff went underway, I was lost in space and had a blank mind at that time, I was awe struck looking at the view outside, it took me a while to come back to reality and realize that it was my turn to make an introduction
Just like how I did it in my previous school it was the same as how I did it here in this new school of mine, I spoke and that, I decided to take a power nap, it drained all my energy just to stand and speak around the crowd..... Then someone tapped my shoulder
I decided to just ignore that tap, in fear that it would just be someone baiting me or making fun of me, but the more I ignored it, the more furious the tapping, it wasn't annoying or anything but it did made me want to see who was the source of that tapping, and so I looked around, it wasn't Maria, nor was it my seat mate who happened to be my friend right off the bat, but instead it was someone from the back, it was a girl, she was plain, simple, a bit of a tomboy but cute, she was the one who tapped my back, and so we engaged in the conversation. "What's up?" she said as she waves her hand at me, and I was lost for words, didn't know what to do at that time, I just raised my hand a little and waved and said "Yo"Awkward silence followed after that, ah what am I doing? I said to myself, it was a staring contest between me and that mysterious girl afterwards

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RomanceA slice of life and a point of view story of one high school boy who, who seems to have some kind of weird phenomenon within him that makes him makes choices for his own, revolving around his school life and love one