Gamer

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I sat there scrolling on my phone doing what I usually do everyday. It was the evening and I sat at my window, occasionally looking up at the darkening sky. It had shades of red, orange and there were hints of a beautiful bright pink. The clouds looked like fluffy cotton candy, but our society in the 21st century are unable to appreciate these things. We like to stay quietly on our phones, watching something, doing work, or communicating with our friends, except I, Kim Taehyung, didn't have any.

I had just got out of the shower, my scarlet coloured hair forcing me to shiver with every drop of water that trickles down my neck. I was waiting for my mum to call me down for dinner, so I could swallow down her homemade lasagne rapidly, and get on to my computer with a large screen which sat perfectly on my shiny, white desk.

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Finishing my little portion of lasagne as quick as I could, I rushed myself up our long staircase and ran into my bright room as I didn't turn off my lights. I got on to my computer, but why was it so amazing? My favourite part of the day is when I play games on it, it let me escape reality through endless numbers of portals and jump into different universes where all my problems could be solved with a little thinking, where I could just restart if I mess up, where reality was unheard of.

I logged on to my all time favourite game "Legendary Sword." It was the perfect game for me, I played online with all these friends I never knew, all these people who I could talk to about anything without having to worry about my reality. We could have groups to talk or our tactics to defeat the opposing team, or to just talk about anything and everything. But today it was different. In the group I was already in, no one was there today, only two other people who I could sense will stop coming in based on their conversation.

Jaefighter_: I downloaded Earth Saviours too, it's amazing.
.Destr: i know right, everyone else stopped coming in because of it.

I thought about the game they were talking about. Was it truly that amazing? I decided to download it, wondering what all the fuss was about, how everyone played it without me.