Sunlight glared through the window cheerfully down onto my face. I groaned; rolled over onto my stomach and yanked the covers up over my head. This elicited a yawn from Uriel; my gray Alaskan husky; who got up from his nightly place next to me and stepped over my grumbly form and jumped to the floor. Uriel landed with a soft thump and scratched the door open, closing it on his way out. It was Saturday, Saturdays meant sleeping until noon, getting up, filching some breakfast-lunch from the kitchen and spending the rest of the day playing Minecraft or reading a book that strikes my fancy at that moment. At night I watch anime and fall asleep around one AM, which leads me into Sunday. Sunday consists of last minute homework, pestering my friends, or mucking around on the net. Anything after Sunday just sucked and I don't like to dwell on the thought of spending 8 hours in a state funded institution that was supposed to teach me things and prepare me for the "real" world. As if, 90% of the teachers sat around on their lazy arses and screwed around on the internet, letting we the students do pretty much whatever until the hour and twenty minute class period is over. Sure, spending almost an entire day playing Dissidia on my PSP and then coming home to play more video games and screw around on the internet was a pretty good existence; but sometimes you just get bored of it.

My door whined open quietly and the floor creaked as Nan crept across my no doubt messy floor to my bed. She pulled the covers away from my face and leaned over me. Soft brown whispers of hair tickled my cheek as she whispered in my ear.

"Get up; you're not going to lie in bed all day." She hissed into my ear and I cracked an eye open to look at her. She raised her eyebrows at me. "I dun wannaaaa..." I turned my head and faced away from her.

"Alex, come on, get up. It's like ten." I grumbled some more and she sighed. "Fine, I guess you don't want your package." That woke me up quick. I sat up and stared at her.

"PACKAGE?!" Nan looked at me curiously.

"Yea, it came this morning. Envelope like packaging, skinny, about yei big," she held her hands apart about six inches apart. "and addressed to you." No, it couldn't be... I leapt from my bed tossing my blankets away and absconded to the hallway. Sliding across the polished hardwood floor, scaring Uriel into a blind frenzy, and stubbing my pinky toe on a pile of books, I took the stairs two at a time. I blew past the living room and went straight for the kitchen table where the package sat. I tore into the envelope and peered inside. Giddiness overcame me.

"Alex?" Nan came into the kitchen "How did you know I left it in here?" I hugged the envelope to my chest.

"You always leave the mail on the table." Nan went to the fridge and contemplated its contents. "You want me to make you anything? You know, before you decide to disappear into your hole for the day?" She looked at me over the door.

"No, I'm not hungry. But if I do get hungry I can come down and get something, okay?" I was itching to bust out the contents of my package and Nan's attempts at feeding me were only prolonging my time of unknowing.

She sighed and ran her hands through her dark hair; "Okay. Well I have to go to class. Think you can hold down the fort?"

"'Course." I cracked a smile at her. "I think I might go out later though. I'll leave the key in the usual place." Nan wriggled her eyebrows at me and leaned on the fridge.

"Going to go see Eric?" Uriel huffed into the room and stuck his ice cold nose in the back of my bare knee, sending goose bumps up my leg. "Y-yea. I always go to see him. He's my best friend." Nan purred an mmmmhmmmm at me and scampered off to get ready for her class. I blew the hair out of my face and scratched Uriel behind the ears. He growled contentedly. I captchalogged the envelope and made my way through the apartment to my room with Uriel close behind.

Back in my room, I started up my laptop and sat with Uriel napping happily beside me, taking up most of the bed. Opening up pesterChum and beginning to type out a message to pester Jena, she beat me to it.

benignEquinox [BE] began pestering forgottenDreamer [FD] at

10:56 -

BE: you're up a bit early

FD: NAN made me get up and start the day.

BE: ha, sucks for youuuuu

FD: whateveeeer

BE: nyeh. you know Eric was asking about you and that game you had us order.

FD: OH! i just got it in the mail! :DD

BE: seriously? just now? we've had the game for months now.

FD: =3= yea i know. but it just got to me. :P i'm so excited! your going to play with me riiight?

BE: you know i dont play PC games. idk why you got me to order it, or how for that matter

FD: i got maaad skillz like that.

BE: yes, your skills are so mad. thats why you run into walls and stub your toe on a daily basis right

FD: w.e. and idk why you have this irrational fear of pc games.

BE: it's not a fear. i dont play pc games. simple as that

FD: it sounds like a fear to me.

BE: whatever. ask Eric to play, he's been waiting for like four months for you to get your copy so he can play with you

FD: really?

BE: yeaaaa

BE: what is the game even about

FD: idk the site said something about consequences of actions and it sounded like and RPG to me.

FD: its multiplayer sooo

BE: ugh you and your weird games

FD: w.e.

FD: are you going to play with us or what?

BE: yea but i gotta go. dad is pestering me

BE: he says i dont spend enough time with him -_-

FD: ok ttyl

BE: :P

benignEquinox [BE] ceased pestering forgottenDreamer [FD] at 11:13 -