Hi all! I forgot what I was going to say here... anyways enjoy!
Ugg. Work, life, bills. That seemed was to be all my life was, and I was only 16. Yea, I know, 16. There's a story behind that, but that I'll save for another time. I managed to get an apartment in the bad part of town, and a job at the local pizza joint. Most people don't question it. They think that I'm in high school. Hah! If only… However I know that I have a higher level of intelligence than my co-workers, even my boss commented on that once. That, coming from him was the highlight of my month. Not because I like the guy, or he gives out compliments, but he is definitely one of those people that is impossible to make happy. Though not everything in my life is bad though. My neighbors are nice, and we help each other with what we can, and trust me it's a new person every week that's in need of something or another. I pitch in, knowing what it's like to be helped. Every building around here is so run down, that it isn't even funny, and trust me, no matter how many times you live in one of these apartments, by yourself, you are not alone. I found out the hard way, when I found a mouse hole in the apartment. I managed to save up enough money to get a gaming system, and that is how I manage to escape reality. My favorites are: Minecraft (I use the computer that I fixed up), Mariokart, Call of Duty, Skyrim, Smash. And those are just a few.
Anyhow, I just left to go to work, after finishing a session of Minecraft. It's sort of boring, mostly because I don't have internet to connect to multiplayer servers and such. But it certainly kills time, and to be honest I had plenty to slaughter. I clock in for work, Joe's Pizza's fastest delivery boy in all of the south side of town. It's nothing really, I just ride my bike everywhere, since I can't drive. But mostly, it pays the bills. It's a good thing that the bike is actually the pizza place's, cause I know I can't afford something like that. Anyhow, tonight was pretty slow, only 20 deliveries for me, I usually do about 30 on an eight hour shift. Once I leave work, and clock out, I walk back home in the cold weather: a local bank sign says it's 12 degrees out and I only have a light jacket, so I run to keep warm. I take the backroads and side streets to my apartment complex, mostly so I can avoid getting hit by a car, and more so that I can avoid getting asked if I wanted a ride to my destination. That always ends up awkwards. In fact, I had one lady so concerned that she was calling CPS on me, little would she know that the joke would be on her. So I took off and ran. Now I know the saying, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth," but, as you can see, I stare at the teeth of that horse and find another way around the issue. Not many people know my real name, only my boss, and the landlord, for application reasons. They just call me by my street name, John, and well, yea. So I am known as John, no last name, no real history, and I just live here and work at the pizza joint to sum up what people know about me. It's funny, I look on the streets and I see the school bus come by (I had the early shift, and the pizza joint is near the medical building on this part of town) and pick up kids. Man, I am jealous, but I know where my place in society is, and can only go up from here.
I forgot my keys as I was leaving this morning, so I picked up my spares. I undid the 'decorative' light and retrieved them, unlocked the door, and put everything back. There's a reason behind the hiding spot, since everyone else's keys are under the welcome mats, it doesn't take much to get in the door. Anyways, I sit down in my room and turn on my computer, and get comfy, and out of my work uniform. It goes through the boot process, but with a blurp on the screen (blurp is more or less like a spasm and it looks weird on a monitor), I ignored and prepared the delicacy of a meal, ramen noodles. I came back to my room, where a picture of one badass screenshot of my character in my skin, in full diamond, sword fighting Herobrine in an intense battle. It looks badass and silly at the same time, mostly because my skin is the one-eyed one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater, (for those who are wondering, that is my actual Minecraft skin, in IRL) I clicked the dirt block icon and started the launcher. My microwave beeped (not a benja reference) and I went to get my meal. I walked into my room, I clicked play offline. I didn't see what was going on at first, because I was hungry and was trying to eat, but a bright flash of white light and Herobrine engulfed the screen, and I was sucked in.
Did anyone tell you about the theory that when you are sucked into a black hole, you are strung along, molecule by molecule until you are one giant noodle? Yea, not the most pleasant thought in the world but it is what it felt like. The only difference was that I wasn't being pulled apart, but my stomach certainly didn't agree with the sudden movement. And that is saying something, because when I can, I'll go and seek thrills to kill time in the summer. AND the slight thing about 1s and 0s floating around nailing you in the face, and that really, really hurts. I am in this limbo-like area for what seems like hours before a flash of light, similar to that of the one on screen filled my vision. "Damn, why is so bright here? I can't see anything." Suddenly the light faded, and I looked around me. I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore…...