They all said, “Gmod,” at the same time. Instantly the room that was surrounded in white became a sandbox game. They all managed to get to the same game in which Chase hosted. The sandbox menu turned into a giant green plain of grass with nothing in it, but three people. “So what do you do in this game?” Nikeya asked. Chase and Alex Smiled had the moment they turned around to answer her they both shot her character with a shotgun. Her character disintegrated and then disappeared. Nikeya screamed waiting to feel pain. But pain never came only text box that said, “Respawn.” She said what was in the text box and then appeared back in the grassy plains. “What was that for?” Nikeya asked in an angry tone of voice. Chase and Alex were both still laughing. She didn’t know much, but she knew how to open the menu and that’s exactly what she did. Instead of a bunch of options there where objects in sections. She looked for the weapons, and looked for the most dangerous one she could find. She found a nuclear bomb and a bomb shelter that would keep her safe from it. She quickly spawned the bomb shelter and then spawned the bomb. She decided to make the bomb drop in from the sky in ten seconds. Chase and Alex were both still laughing too hard to see what Nikeya was doing. The bomb shelter was miles away from Chase and Alex, but she was already there. She pressed the countdown button and went inside the bomb shelter. The nuclear bomb was almost at three seconds before the boys noticed it. They both panicked and tried to go to their menus to find the bomb shelter. But they were too late the bomb had dropped and their characters were dead. It took them seven respawns before they could spawn in without taking damage or dying. She started to laugh at them but not as hard. She despawned the bomb shelter and used a teleportation device to get to the boys quickly. They looked at her in shock, “How did you figure out how to use the menu so quickly to find the bomb and bomb shelter?” They both asked her. “I just did what you guys told me to do in order to open the mirror and get to the game.” She responded still slightly laughing. “But you took the long way. We did the shorter way and we still couldn’t get the bomb shelter in time to stay alive.” They both said that with a bit of their pride slowly draining from them. Nikeya just raised her shoulders and said, “I just timed it right.” “So now you should have a basic feel on what Gmod is?” Alex asked hoping he wouldn’t have to explain. “Yes, it’s a game where you can do just about anything and everything in. Am I right?” She said and asked. “Exactly.” Alex sighed in relief. “We’re gonna play this game until tomorrow. Then we’ll all go to busch gardens and come back to play a different game. This will give you some more training in gaming before tomorrow. Every twenty minutes the map will change.” Chase said. “Sounds good let me just call my parents first so they can know where I am.” Nikeya said and said. “How do you get out of here?” She asked feeling as if she already knew the answer to her own question. “Just say, Quick Leave, and you should zone out with all the applications still going. But it’ll be like you are going AFK until you come back.” Alex answered. “Okay, thanks I’ll be right back. Quick Leave.” Nikeya left, but her character was still there. She regained control of her real body which didn’t feel the same anymore. She took her helmet off and then stood up to stretch. She stopped stretching then pulled out her phone and called her dad she asked him if she could stay overnight at Chase’s house. Her father replied with a question, “Is Chase a girl?” She responded in a sad voice know what his answer was gonna be, “No, Chase is a boy.” Her father told her, “Well take your answer and reverse the name to Nikeya and then reverse the gender.” She thought in her mind what he had said. ‘No Nikeya is a girl.’ “But dad Chase isn’t that type of boy. We’re only friends.” She said to him. “Nikeya what did I say. Unless I know him and his parents then you are not spending the night at his house.” He said coming close to using his stern voice. “But dad you do know his parents they rebuilt our house when I was a little girl, don’t you remember?” She asked him hoping he would remember. “I DON’T CARE WH-,” It took him a little to register what his daughter had said. But after a while it got through his thick skull and he realized who his daughter was speaking about. “You mean you found him, after all this this time?” He asked her exchanging his stern voice for a more compassionate and understanding one. “Yes dad I finally found him. I finally found Chase Hinderson, but he doesn’t seem to remember who I am or what he promised to me a long time ago.” She said almost wanting to cry. “Baby its okay it’ll take some time. It was nine years ago.” She started to cry on the phone and her dad could hear her cry. “I know it hurts but you can just come back after nine years and expect him to remember that. Just try your best to get him to remember and if you try hard enough he might remember and he might have the same feelings that he did back then.” He told her understanding what she might be going through. “But dad I wish he would remember now. I wanna be with him like we were when we were little.” She cried and her dad felt bad for her. “Okay you can spend the night at his house. But no seven minutes in heaven. Got it?” her dad said. She tried to muster an okay and a thank you but she couldn’t because she was crying so hard. “I’ll just assume you’re trying to say thank you and I’ll bring you a change of clothes at eight-fifteen so I’ll be there in twenty minutes. Just send me the address to his house and I’ll leave the clothes at the front door.” she put her dad on hold, and then texted her dad the address to Chase’s house. Her tears kept getting in the way as they kept on falling onto her touch screen phone. She then took him off hold. “I got your message I’ll bring your clothes soon. Please try to contain yourself and don’t do anything that you’ll regret.” He told her as he hung up. She sat on the carpet with her legs being held close to her body by her arms.