He was Almost Absorbed by the System

Chapter One Hundred And Fourteen - Look Into My Eyes

Parting is bittersweet, but daily life will intrude on all moments, be they healing or harming, happy or sad.  Adam had to return to his hometown as he had to work for the next five days, plus there were the three evenings he had to spend at his other job.  He would make the journey to see his lover the following Sunday afternoon, though it would only be for a short time.  Owen kissed his lips in farewell, reminding him that they could still text and meet in the game.  He shared the name of his secondary account that they might not be found out by their Faction mates who would likely struggle to comprehend this turn of events.

"I can always just say that I fell in love with you at first sight," Adam had pouted, causing Owen to laugh and shake his head.  Was this going to be his answer to every awakening from now on?

His half-brother, Mark, left the house quietly, returning to University, where he was studying business management.  He was expected to help his brother in Jackson and Miller when he graduated with his degree.  He did not apologise to Owen and frankly Owen did not care.  If the boy had any regrets, it was simply his own attitude to Karl, Mark and Francis, insisting to everyone they were step siblings, not related by blood.  But he had better things to think about than that family.  His future was with Adam.

The true stumbling block in their happily ever after was not his stepmother or father, but whomever Nellie had been reborn as.  The madness had consumed her in their last life and they had had to sacrifice much to put an end to it.  However, in doing so, she could simply be reborn elsewhere.  Who knew how much of her crazed nature lingered?  Was she still holding onto her obsession? What desperate measures would she use in this world to separate them?  Was she still connected to the System?  Would they be able to send her back into the physical world?  Too many unanswered questions.  They also knew that the System would likely be somewhere in this world as well.  The Master had told them that it hid in these worlds so that the Master could not capture it.  In their last life, it had been a part of The Queen's nest, before it had abandoned her to her demise.

Owen sighed as he watched Adam drive away down the street thinking that what was probably more annoying, was that he had his final physics exam tomorrow.

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Once a month, on Thursday night, Night Life usually held some sort of an event, to raise interest.  After all, it was not as if Thursday's were a popular night to go out, drink and party.  They had had theme nights, such as 70's and 80's nights, Halloween, Christmas etc and youth nights, where no alcohol were served and kids of sixteen and seventeen were allowed to enter.  And of course there were hen nights, strictly ladies nights, which were naturally popular with both single, partnered and married women.  During these nights, the female employees worked the bar, the male employees worked the floor.  Adam felt more like a host from one of those type of bars, displayed, paraded and having to deftly avoid being pinched and touched on more than one occasion.

His 'fan club' always attended Hen nights and always got a little hands on when the alcohol flowed to freely in their veins.  One, a feisty brunette was squeezing his bicep with her manicured fingers and commenting on it's thickness and firmness.  Things went down hill from there.

"Ooo! Let me feel too!" Her freckle faced friend grinned.  He inspected her left eye as she leant forward to stroke his arm.  "Phwar! So hot!"

"Quit hogging him!" pouted the girl with the round face and large blue eyes.  Nope, she didn't have the mark either.

"Say," the well endowed friend queried, "is down there as thick and firm?"  Adam simply raised an eyebrow at the question as he finished collecting the empty glasses and bottles from their table, placing them carefully on the small tray.