Press Start! (Mystic Messenger: Yoosung Kim/Reader)

Chapter Eight: Folie à deux

From [First Name]123: 

"Where are you, Nobody? I've got a lot to tell you!"

With a swift-click to the "Send" button, your Whisper became a permanent fixture of NobodySpecial's inbox. If only it had taken all of your anger and frustration with it...

A couple of days after you had made the request of Assistant Kang for a personal computer of your own, one had mysteriously arrived at your doorstep with an attached, messily-written note that appeared to be signed, "From V."

"Dear [First Name], I hope the shipping information of this package doesn't alarm you. 707 and I are the only ones entrusted with the knowledge of your whereabouts. The apartment you're currently residing in, although Rika's, is technically under my name. In order to eschew suspicion, I simply ordered the computer under my name and had it ship to this address, a commonly-used listing on my Amazon account. Anything further requested will arrive in such a way, but will almost always be sent for you."

When you thought of that letter, you could not help but to think sadly of V's predicament. How closely entangled was his life with Rika's if he owned the very apartment she was living in, registered his online-shopping addresses here? You'd overheard from the chat that they were due to be married, but somehow that knowledge, and the weight it carried, really only cemented within your mind fully now.

GAME PAUSED.

As soon as the computer had arrived, you made short work of the installation process. Since you were not allowed to alter the condition of Rika's laptop, you instead opted for clearing away some of the spent balls of paper and piles of pens on the coffee table in order to have a sturdy setting for your new laptop. Although the RFA was important to you, it was inevitable the first thing you would do with the laptop would be to install LOLOL onto the device. Eventually, when the installation was finished and you'd logged back into your [First Name]123 account, you'd sought out your only gaming companion. Frustratingly enough, the game indicated that NobodySpecial had not not been on for a few days now and, additionally, had not sent you any further Whispers. Deciding that you had no choice but to be responsible, you had left the game running idly for hours. Maybe Nobody was busy today with IRL concerns? Maybe he'd found a better messenger application than you? Whatever the case, whilst your avatar remained motionless amidst a sea of pixelated trees in the game window, you went about responding to a few emails on Mystic Messenger from Jumin and Jaehee about your newfound vocation. 

When out of sheer boredom your thoughts began to wander back to Rika, V, and the laptop that the latter had procured for you, you realized that you had yet to thank the RFA head-honcho. Exiting out of the Email section of the application, you switched gears towards the IM section. Maybe V would be online and you could properly express your gratitude.

Yoosung: hi! xD

Before you could properly determine who was and was not online, you found yourself initiated into a solitary chat with one of the RFA members, Yoosung Kim the young college student.

[First Name]: Hello, Yoosung. :)

It wasn't what you had intended, but this was definitely one way to kill boredom.

Yoosung: I'm so excited to have a new member

Yoosung: I couldn't resist messaging you first~ >//<

[First Name]: you don't have to explain yourself. I could tell from the group chat how curious everyone must be about me.

Yoosung: we NEVER get new members!

Yoosung: so I wanted to see if you were settling in okay. C: If you need anything at all feel free to ask me, okay?

Yoosung: I'm probably the most normal guy here, anyway ^^;

Behind the bright screen of your smart phone, you quirk a brow in perplexity. 

[First Name]: what do you mean by that?

Yoosung: everyone else is rich or famous

Yoosung: me? I'm just a college student

Jaehee has joined the chat.

Jaehee: And not even a top-ranking one at that.

[First Name]: hello, Jaehee.

Jaehee: Although, Yoosung, you could change that if you stopped playing so many silly games.

Jaehee: -_-

Jaehee: Hello.

Yoosung: I could NEVER give up LOLOL!!!! >.<

Yoosung: I've devoted too much of my time to quit now!!!

If you'd of  been drinking anything at the moment, now would have been the debut of a marvelous spit-take. D-Did he just say LOLOL?

[First Name]: You

[First Name]: Play

[First Name]: The

[First Name]: League

[First Name]: ???

After your rapid-fire responses, there was a moment of stagnation in the chat, and then--

Jaehee: Good lord.

Jaehee has left the chat.

Yoosung: [FIRST NAME]

Yoosung: y-you know it? >///<

Yousung: [First Name] i think i'm in love~