-part two-

Drumming her fingers on her desktop, Samantha Williams uploaded her character in 'the World.'

As she pulled her M2D, she pulled her fragile self together, and became her character, Mia Suzuki. As she did so, she pulled Mia's locked personality out of it's mental box, and let her own self fall away.

This made Mia smile a little, happy to be let out again. It happened much less often lately, so she had to make the most of it. All this Samantha being happy though was starting to piss Mia off.

So, with a sigh, she ran off, immersing herself in the crowds of Mac Anu. As she ran the, she became aware of a high pitched ringing sound.

Then:

Everything went quiet. I could hear people running around and I could see them talking. With a horrified gasp, Mia dropped to her knees as burning marks ripped across her skin. Mia screamed, simultaneously with Samantha. Both fell to their knees, the dual humans visible to all of 'the World' and began to writhe uncontrollably.

"Just go home Cassie!"

"Yeah, you don't deserve to be on the team!"

"You're too good for it!"

Cassie Thompson stumbled back a bit and stared at the girls trying out for the soccer team. She was amazed at the complete cruelty she was being treated with. She was perfectly capable of playing, especially after seven years on a select team.

"Just go, you stuck up brat."

"I'm not stuck up!" She screamed back.

The girl who had called her stuck up in the first place stomped over to Cassie and growled. Cassie racked her brains and tried to remember the girl's name, but could come up with nothing. Still, Cassie did figure out that there was an obvious reason why she was being treated that way. She was the stuck up one, large chest, deep blue eyes, long blonde hair. She was definitely one of those girls that looked down on the less pretty and less fortunate.

"You hear me Cassie, get out!"

Cassie jumped back a few feet as she swung out to slap her. Cassie sighed and punched her in the nose. It was the usual crap, try to pick on the innocent poor girl, the harmless little brat. Cassie groaned inwardly. She knew that she was getting expelled again.

Danny Sommers wandered around the fields aimlessly, muttering various phrases to describe the scenery, thinking of his next poem. It wouldn't be very good if he continued writing about the barren planes of Kansas.

No, he needed something more, so he turned his attention to the latest craze, 'The World.' He would have to create a new character, something low profile that no one would guess was a poet in disguise... just as his mother had done before.

He smirked a bit as he thought of his parents. Wouldn't they be proud, he thought, touching their picture lightly. It was too bad that they were gone...

Turning back to his computer, Danny lifted his voice changer and placed it on his microphone as he created his character. Keeping to his charade, he made the character look like a child. As he thought about it, he figured he could probably make himself look his age and still not attract attention, but decided to play it safe.

He keyed in his password and slowly felt himself slip into 'the World.'