I threw myself onto my bed, pulled out my 3DS, and loaded into Animal Crossing. Almost not paying attention, I sped through Isabelle's annoying speech and set up my character. I played this game so often that it was routine to me.
After going through my daily activities of talking to the townspeople, picking weeds, and checking out the stores, I got a bit bored. But I wanted to keep playing, so I started to pick fruit for extra cash.
I prided myself in having collected every fruit possible in the game, and selling all the fruit in my town got me lots of money. It took a while, but I collected all the fruit, and sold it for a fair sum.
As I wandered about my town, I came across one fruit tree that I had missed. Annoyed that I was completely across town from the resale shop, I shook the tree, took the oranges that fell, and kept them there in my pockets. Then, I remembered that if you went to Club LOL before it opened, you could give Dr. Shrunk the fruit. Hey, you could even get a free emotion for it. So I went there.
"Hi, we're not open yet, can I help you?" said Dr. Shrunk when I stepped into the club.
"I brought you something," my character said, handing him the fruit. I wanted to get out of there. The guy was creepy. The only reason I went in there was to get K.K.'s music on Saturdays, and nothing else. Dr. Shrunk took the basket of oranges and looked shocked.
"This many?! Well then, I'll just have to tell you a really good joke then," he said, putting the fruit in his pockets and climbing onto the stage.
The normal music played, and Shrunk began telling his joke. I leaned my back against my bedroom wall, bored and wanting to go away. Just give me the emotion already, Shrunk. His jokes were bad.
"My TERROR joke will cure just what ails you," said the Doctor, pacing the stage. Huh. I didn't have the emotion yet. In fact, I don't think that any of my friends had that emotion yet.
Dr. Shrunk suddenly stopped his pacing, and the screen zoomed in to his face. It had never done that before. "Watch out behind you," he whispered, and my 3DS screen went blank. Wait! I hadn't saved! Frustrated, I threw my DS down and leaned my head against the wall.
I was hungry. I went out of my room and to the kitchen, and started rummaging through the cupboards. My mind flashed back to the screen zooming in to Shrunk's face. 'Watch out behind you,' he had said. Well, he was a weird guy.
Nothing in the cupboard. I flattened down from my tiptoes and shut the cupboard door. And when I turned around, I screamed.
Dr. Shrunk stood behind me. He was my size, a bit bigger, and his eyes glowed red. I backed myself up against the counter and shrieked. I grabbed a pan from the sink and swung it as hard as possible. Dr. Shrunk's plastered smile only grew wider. The pan hit his skin and clattered to the floor, not even affecting him.
"Very good," he said, in the chirpy voice that was always depicted in the game. "Your use of the TERROR expression is phenomenal."
I screamed and pushed past him, rushing for the door. Heart pounding, I yanked it open and ran as fast as possible away from my house, into the field across the road. But I didn't get far past that. My body slammed into something and I tumbled to the ground. My head throbbed, and my vision was blurry, but I could make out the freakish pink skin, antennas, and red glowing eyes.
"Oh, no, no, no," Shrunk scolded, wagging his finger. Or paw. Or whatever it was... Whatever he was... "My job isn't done yet." He leaned in closer to me, and his red eyes and wide smile filled my sight.
"Let's teach you some more expressions."
