Drawn to Fire

'BZZZZ… BZZZZ' I looked over to my bedside cabinet to see my phone vibrating and I rolled over and picked it up to see a picture of my best friend.

"Hey Megan!" I said smiling.

"Hey Kai, how are you?" Hearing her voice made me smile more, it was the holidays and I hadn't seen her for a number of days, over a week actually, mainly because I had just been on holiday.

"Yeah I'm great, you?" I said in reply

"Good…" Her short reply caused there to be a slightly awkward silence between us which I quickly tried to end.

"So what can I do you for?" I asked casually.

"Oh I was just wondering whether you wanted to come over… even though it's a bit early…" She trailed off, but I couldn't miss an opportunity to see my best friend again.

"Yeah that would be great, I'll be right over!" I said happily.

"Oh and don't forget your Platinum… You still haven't beaten me yet…" I could almost hear her grinning down the phone, which got my competitive side going.

"Oh don't worry I wont forget, get ready to be destroyed!" I shouted confidently as I put my Phone on speaker phone so that I could get changed at the same time since I was still only wearing my boxers, it was summer so I could get away with wearing them at night.

"Hah, like your Dialga has any chance against my Palkia!" She said haughtily, which annoyed me further.

"Damn you… Ow!" I suddenly tripped over my jeans as I wasn't really concentrating on what I was doing.

"Kai… Are you ok…? What are you doing anyway?" She asked inquisitively, of course I wasn't going to tell her I was getting changed.

"Oh nothing, I just tripped…" I said picking myself up.

"Over what?" She said pressing further, almost like she knew I wasn't telling the truth… Although I did just trip so to be honest I was telling the truth.

"My carpet… you know what it's like…" There was a sudden pause and then she replied.

"What are you trying to imply… Kai?" She said in a jokingly seductive voice. I shook my head in a not-very-impressed manner before replying to Megan trying to imply that I was saying I had taken her into my room for a certain reason… She has a weird sense of humour.

"Funny…!" I said sarcastically. We weren't going out, and we never really had the intention of going out with each other, not saying I had never thought about it… I heard her giggle down the phone, that was her laugh, it was more like a five-year-olds giggle which generally made me laugh too.

"Don't be late!" And with that she hung up. I quickly whipped a T-shirt on and picked up my Nintendo. I charged down the stairs and jumped into the lounge for a second just to inform my mum where I was going.

"Hey Mum, I'll just be over at Megan's for a bit… Be back before lunch… Probably!" I then ran out, but before I had taken my third step my mum's voice called out.

"Kai… Now remember… She is a girl and I don't want you alone with…" I quickly cut her off with a disgusted reply.

"What! No, EW mum! Seriously…! She's my friend!" I then decided to make my exit and run out the back door. I got my bike from out of the shed and wheeled it to the front of the house. I put my Nintendo in my pocket which it just about squeezed into and I hopped onto my bike.

I began peddling gently now, I wasn't in much of a rush to be honest, and she only lived a few streets away so it would take me five minutes, at the most. I took a moment to enjoy the whether, it was a fantastic day, no clouds what so ever, blue sky for as far as I could see and the sun was gleaming down over our country side village. It was nicely quiet, I love lazy-days like this, no cars so you could just relax while cycling and generally I would take advantage of that and swerve in and out of the lanes.

I quickly noticed Megan's house, a large semi-detached house with a slightly 'grand' look about it. I ran up the drive where usually her parent's cars were parked, (they had several cars), they were a fairly 'well-off' family, unlike mine. I parked my bike on the side of there house where it wouldn't be in the way of any cars, in case her parents came back, and I ran to the front door and rang the bell impatiently.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I heard Megan's voice complain on the other side of the door. I heard some keys rattle and then the door unlocked.

"Hey!" I waved my Nintendo happily and stepped inside.

"Ah!" She sternly said, as if she was telling a dog off, I gave her a confused look, "Wipe your feet first…" She grinned mischievously, she really was a kid at heart, I'm glad she never really grew up.

"Fine…" I said like a stroppy kid, carrying on with the childish theme. She grinned again and then gestured me inside. It was strangely silent, usually there would be some sort of noise in the background, usually her parents would be watching T.V. or something.

"Say Megan, where are your parents?" I asked just to start the conversation, but it kind of back fired,

"Why, did you come to see them?" She sneered in an annoyed fashion which took me by surprise and prevented me from replying.

"So… Shall we start…?" I said pointing to my DS,

"Sure… If you think your ready…" She grinned again and ran upstairs to fetch hers. I walked into the living room and slumped into their large, and very comfy, cream sofa, and stated up Pokemon Platinum. After a few seconds I heard Megan charge back down the stairs, and she skidded into the lounge holding her pink DS in her hand. She then casually fell onto the sofa and then shuffled up to me, which caught me off guard slightly.

"Uh… Megan…?" I said in confusion as she shuffled slightly, making herself comfortable as she lay her back into my shoulder.

"Uh huh?" She lifted her head upwards and looked up at me in a childish fashion which, foolishly, gives the impression that she is 'innocent'.

"Oh, it's just you are sat on my DS…" We both inadvertently looked down and we could both hear the muffled theme tune to Pokémon Platinum, making us both giggle childishly.

"Sorry…" She said, still giggling slightly, as she put one hand down her side and then pulled my DS from underneath her. At first I gave it a funny look, but then again I thought maybe I should just leave it. My DS automatically connected to Megan's wifi since I spend a lot of time here, playing on my DS with her via wifi. As I tapped on my profile something strange happened, I didn't do anything.

"Huh?" I taped it over and over but nothing happened. Suddenly a message came up saying,

'Update your Personal Profile…?

Yes No'

"Huh…?" I looked over at Megan's DS to see the same message and she gave the same un-expecting noise.

"What's this about…? It's never come up before…?" I said slightly suspiciously.

"Meh… Might as well…" Megan said, not bothered by the spontaneous message. I clicked on the yes option. It came up with a page full of questions, height, weight, age, width, IQ.

"This is weird…" I said still suspicious. Megan filled hers out pretty quickly, well except for the weight one which she looked at scornfully. I did the same but put my weight in, I wasn't really bothered about talking about my weight, I was average, almost exactly. Then a loading bar came up, obviously updating our profiles… but for what? Megan looked back at me and noticed my, still suspicious look.

"Come on Kai, I doubt some rapist has hacked into our DS's or anything!" I was shocked at first by her bluntness, but then I remembered who I was talking to.

"No it's not that…" Suddenly we both hear a simultaneous 'DING' and a box came up on the DS reading,

MATCH!

"Huh?" Suddenly both our DS's began to flash a variety of colours and then suddenly a bright, white light beamed through both of the blinding us.

"Ahh!" I said as I felt an odd experience attacking my body, as if I was falling. Everything was covered in bright white light, preventing me from opening my eyes.

"Megan!" Suddenly everything went silent and I fell unconscious.