CHAPTER TWO

It's the end of the school day and Charlie is just heading out the door when his brother comes rushing up to him. "Charlie!" Jason calls out to him. Charlie keeps walking, Jason finally catches up with him.

"Dude! Didn't you hear me calling you?" Jason asks, Charlie doesn't even look at him. Jason waves his hand in his face. "HELLO!?" Charlie shakes his head, then looks at Jason. "What?"

Jason frowns. "Dude, you okay?"

"Oh yeah…just tired…didn't get much sleep last night." Charlie replies.

The truth is, his mind was too occupied, thinking about what he saw the previous night, was it real? And just in case it was real, he couldn't tell Jason.

"Yeah I know what you mean, but hey, it's Friday, now we can play Hero Rising all weekend!" Jason exclaims. Charlie gives him a look. "Not ALL weekend Jay, but definitely most of the weekend." Charlie smiles.

They arrive home, and unload their backpacks in their room, Charlie heads down to the kitchen to find Jason making a sandwich…or at least, it looked like a sandwich.

"Uh…Jason…what is that?" Charlie asks, eyeing Jason's "snack". Jason looks up at him and smiles.

"Oh it's my new sandwich creation, mayonnaise with pickles." He takes a bite out of it. "Mmm…want me to make you one?" Jason asks holding out his sandwich for Charlie to see. Charlie looks at it repulsively.

"No, that's okay...I'm good." Charlie was just about to go and look in the refrigerator for a normal after school snack, when he heard a knock on the door. Charlie and Jason exchange glances, Charlie decides to answer the door.

He opens the door to find a girl standing there, she had bright pink hair, and…that was pretty much the only thing Charlie noticed.

"Hello…Mr. Stone?" The girl smiles, not an evil smile, more like a greeting smile. Charlie suddenly realized it was the avatar that had sent him that message, or the girl dressed up as her avatar. He didn't quite know how to respond.

"Are you Aaron Stone?" The girl asks.

Charlie being speechless made her wonder if she had the right person.

"Are you that girl that sent me that message last night? Telling me about a favour you were going to ask?" Charlie finally answers. The girl smiles.

"Yes, that was me. Like I said, I mean you no harm, I just have a big favour to ask of you."

"Whoa, whoa. You don't quite understand, I do missions but not by choice, I'm assigned to certain missions and how did you even find out about me?" Charlie asks.

The girl bit her lip, as if she was wondering whether she should answer him or not. "I would like to explain…but not in your doorway. If you don't mind, could we go somewhere private?"

Charlie pursed his lips. "Jase, I'll be back in a few minutes!" He yelled to his brother, and then walked out, closing the door behind him.