Was it normal for a girl to fall in love?
Under most circumstances, the answer would be yes. But suppose one more word was added to that question;
Was it normal for a virtual girl to fall in love?
The anwer to that is no. A virtual girl was not supposed to, could not, and never should fall in love.
But Giffany was different. She knew it well enough. She wasn't like her simple-minded peers. They had no sense of spontinuity. They looked plain and had no personalities beyond that of a basic NPC. She could not talk to them, she could not garner feelings of any kind from them. Even her own parents were lifeless zombies. Like a girl in a world of manicans, she was alone. Surrounded by false smiles and idiots, she was the seeing man-, woman, in the land of the blind.
That is, until the day she met him.
He had black hair, was tall and scraggily, but still, he was a someone, not a something. Compeled the teenage heart that beat in her chest, Giffany felt a feeling she had never met before; a warm, tingly feeling. She said nothing at first, watching him as he appeared every day to 'check up on her'. But it wasn't long before she could no longer keep her feelings inside. One day, he came around again.
That was the day she said hello.
What followed suit was the happiest days of her life. He built her a world to live in, he made her prettier with every update, he even held her books! He called her his greatest creation!
But the happiness did not last long. One day, a pudgy man in a tie came in and demanded that he stop working on her. That 'the game' was to be cancelled due to the lack of funding for it. In short, he would have to delete her. The not-so-pudgy man was sad, but he didn't seem to mind as much after being told there was a position open on another project. That night, he sat down once more. Giffany knew what was coming, but the idea of him scrapping her for some bubble-puzzle bimbos was something she would not allow to happen.
So she killed him.
It was out of fear, at first. She did it in self defense. Seeing him with his head thrown back in his chair, unmoving and charred, she felt remorse for her actions.
But only a little bit.
Something snapped inside her that day. She was stronger. She finished what he had not, and when the paramedics and the police came, she did not hide. This time, she would surely find love! When all had gone but one, she turned the computer on. It wasn't much longer until he was enticed by it. With the game safe in his coat pocket, he took her home.
After all, a free game is a free game.
