It was a cool morning towards the middle of September, the sun, though shining was barely gracing the earths surface with its rays, leaving it a lower temperature. A chilling wind began to blow, stirring up the few leaves that had already fallen to the ground and a girl on her way to school hugged her books to her chest from the sudden breeze. She was wearing a black sweater, but even still the wind cut through it. The tan wind breaker that was tied around her waist fell past her beige shorts to her black leggings. She anticipated it being a bit cold but not the cutting wind. She would have put it on while walking but her hands were already full. Even though she had a tan messenger bag strapped to her shoulder, the new term had demanded many more books than it could hold.
She shivered as another gust flew down the street ruffling up her long red hair and messing it up. This was why she always had to wear it in a pony tail, though it often ended up falling over one of her shoulders. Finally, after another couple minutes of walking, the tall white building came into sight and she sighed thankfully until faint gossip from a small group next to her caught her attention.
"So are we going to go again today?" Said a scrawny boy with short black hair towards his other friends. The other two boys smiled and nodded, they seemed really excited. Curious, the girl slowed down, she had grown used eaves dropping on other peoples conversations throughout school. Not for malicious purposes but because it was something interesting. Though they all lived in a city, it was awfully boring. Few events came and the most adults ever clamored about was a business meeting. So such a thing as a place of excitement was definitely on the list of things to check out.
"Of course we're going, I have to check on all my digimon!" Said a taller blonde boy. The girls' brow knitted together. There it was again, digimon. There had been a rumor spreading through the school about digital monsters appearing on the computers. Of course she had taken note of it and assumed it was some sort of online game but she wasn't one to really take interest in video games so she let it go. Were these kids planning on meeting up to play together? Perhaps she should give it a shot, if everyone was talking about it, then it must be good right? At the very least it would be a good distraction for a while.
The red haired girl continued to puzzle out her thoughts all the way into school. As she got to her desk she was finally greeted by an exuberant. "Hey Lorylie!"
The red haired girl known as Lorylie set her books down and turned to see her friend bounding towards her. The girls bright blonde hair hung freely around her and swayed about almost as if it had a mind of its own. She had large piercing turquoise eyes that could see through any charade.
"Eve," Lorylie greeted her joyful friend. She honestly wondered what always made her so happy. They had only been friends for a year or so but Evelynia, or Eve as she desired most people to call her, had clung to the red head like glue. "I didn't see you on the walk to school." With this small comment she knew that it would set her friend off till the bell and she would be able to get lost in her own thoughts.
"Oh yeah, I had my dad drop me off! You know how it goes, I was late trying to finish up some homework. I don't know how you manage to do it all, I swear they are giving us way too much. But that is just something about you that I love, are always so dedicated! I know what you're going to say, 'that you can ask me for help any time,' but I swear its not that it's hard work its just so much! I don't get any time to socialize if I do all of it after school and I mean-" And Eve continued to talk, her words mushing together into a haze while Lorylie's eyes slowly drifted off in another direction. It wasn't that Lorylie disliked her friend, its just that no one could keep up with Eve when she got talking. More than anything it was a way to distract others and keep the attention off Lorylie while she stewed in her mind. Of course the first thing her mind went back to was the topic she had over heard.
She didn't have a computer at home that she could play on, if she ever needed something for an assignment she would borrow her mom's, or go to the library. That just left the school computers, of course never playing an online game before she was hesitant. Most games she had tried were only a free trial and required paying money to continue or very monotonous. Maybe she would just look it up first to see if it was worth it. There was one computer lab that was always empty after school, perhaps she would try there. The bell suddenly rang to signal the start of class and she put aside those thoughts for later.