The forgotten World

19. Bad Idea's

Dad opened the safe and through half the reward money my way “I trust you’re not going to waste it?” I looked at the money “I have other requests I can do, but your my dad, I could never accept full payment for something like this, save the rest, spend it on the business or something, I’m not going to need it” he closed the safe “is there anything else I can do before you leave again?” I looked at my room “actually…” he cut in “it’s still yours, if yours want it” I looked at him “just for the night” he looked at me slightly saddened by the fact he knew I was going to leave the next day “just for any night” I clapped my hands together slightly excited “so, when’s the next Brisbane trip?” he looked at me like I was a totally different person “hold on, let me look” he turned around and rummaged through the desk for a while “Thursday next week” I nodded “ok, I’ll stay until then” he smiled “you will?” I nodded “when we go to Brisbane I’ll show you something you never knew existed in the world, I’ll show you where to find me” dad nodded “sounds like a plan” the conversation kind of ended there with the office phone ringing and dad answering it.

I walked into my room and looked at my now very dusty stack of magic the gathering cards I had left on the book shelf and I paused when my hand past over the blue and Red Izzet themed Deck, I picked it up and started looking though it only to stop when I found the one card I liked the most out of my entire collection Ral Zarek. I put the deck in green cover slips and put it in a deck box. It would require updating but I would do that latter, I put the deck box in my bag and sat down on the computer chair at my desk and flicked open the lap top wounding how many e-mails and game updates I had missed in the half a year since the car crash. I looked at the screen for the longest time after opening steam wondering what to play; just about every game had updates. And so I opened Skype, made sure I was set to invisible and waiting for Skype to load the millions of messages I was sure to have missed. I went and got a drink when one of the Skype groups said 9999+ messages unread. When I got back two more said the same thing and when the counters stop rising I took a screen shot. I clicked each chat and scrolled to the bottom unsure what to say or how to say what I’ve already told so many people. So I went to my mood message and started typing, it read; hello everyone that is still on my contact list, it’s me Ian/Ral Zarek/Coventeena just wish you to all know I’m not actually dead and I’m sorry I have been gone for the last half a year. Then I pressed set mood message at the same time I put my visibility to visible. I then regretted my action, private message chats lit up like a Christmas tree and then group chats list up like a Christmas tree with extra lights. And so one by one I got to everyone, told them what had happened, copy and paste had made it so easy and then when I finally looked up from everyone I had been talking to it was almost ten o’clock and then I realised I had been at Skype for three hours solid telling everyone the same thing and a wave of sleepiness hit me I logged off Skype and closed the lap top screen steam was still updating games.

I turned off my light and fell into bed. I slept like a baby, and that was no joke, it seemed like every half hour or hour I would wake up and had to roll over or something. I was lying in bed awake when the sun started creeping though the window and I shut my eyes one last time trying to get some sleep. And this time it worked the next thing I remember was the office phone ringing indication it was after eight o’clock. I staggered out of my room and down the hallway to the toilet only to find it occupied by dad, so I waited outside. After answering my morning nature call I put the kettle on and made myself a cuppa tea. Returned to my room and reopened the lap top screen and steam was still doing game updates so I logged back on to Skype and then a heap of messages come though from my friends overseas. I was so glad to see private massagers from Shadow, Lach, Saya, Chel, Darren, LiLi, Miranda, Kora, Maya, Asron, Aki, Den, Akuma, Teddy and even Alyssa and Luis. I answered each one in turn.