Blade Knight Chronicles

Volume 1: Chapter 22

The very next day, Emily woke up and noticed that she was holding her game controller close to her as she is lying down on her bed.

'How long did I play?' Emily thought to herself. She slowly got up and suddenly felt something cold stuck to her head. She took it out and realized that it was an ice pack. 'How did I end up having this on my head?'

As she placed it on the drawer beside her Emily saw that there was an open notepad there. She picked it up and saw that there are tally points on it.

'Oh right. I forgot that I lost to her again,' Emily thought as she recalled playing the game against Sarah, 'Dang. How is she so good at this game anyway?'

Suddenly, her phone vibrated beside her laptop in her workbench. She got up to grab it and saw messages from Sarah.

"How does it feel to lose to me for the nth time?" Sarah messaged her.

Emily's eyes twitched while she read that message and began to reply back, "Ha. Ha. Very funny. I won't lose to you next time!"

Then Sarah replied back, "Speaking of which, can I stay at your place for a bit? My parents are gonna go somewhere and it might take them a few weeks to return home."

Emily replied, "Really? Don't you have anyone else in your house? Like a relative or something?"

"Unfortunately, no. They too have a business trip on that day." Sarah texted back, "Could you tell your mom that I'm coming over for a sleepover? It is almost the start of summer break after all,"

"Sure," Emily replied as she put her phone on the workbench and went out of her room. She walked towards her mom's room and knocked on the door. Knock. Knock.

"Mom? Are you in there? I wanna ask you something," Emily asked, but there was no response. She knocked on the door again and still no response.

Emily reluctantly grabbed and twisted the doorknob as she opened the door to her mom's room. To her surprise, her mom isn't inside. Confused, Emily walked out of the room, went downstairs towards the kitchen but there was still no sign of her mom.

"What are you looking for, Emily?" Aunt Samantha asked,

Emily turned around and asked, "Where's mom? Shouldn't she be back by now?"

Aunt Samantha sighed, "I tried calling her but her phone's not responding,"

"Wait, what?" Emily exclaimed, "That's so unlike her,"

"I know but I called the company that she's in and they said that she was off in a private discussion and was not allowed to use her phone there." Aunt Samantha explained,

Emily's eyes narrowed slightly, "You don't say..." she said,