"What do you mean I can't play anymore!" I screamed in Tagalog. I stood numbly at our door, still in my school uniform and bag slung over my shoulder. That Top card was burning to be loaded.

"Your grades are slipping." My mother replies. I grabbed my blue messenger bag and was about to trash it to the floor when a thought struck me. I stomped to my room: second room in the hallway. Our house was small and had only three bedrooms and the essentials. I slammed the door and kicked the broom.

School was horrible. I failed to study for a test and got a low score. Some "friend" of mine lost my periodic table. I got out the 50 peso Top up card. A week had gone by already and I've only played with D twice.

I dumped my uniform and got into jeans and a Ragnarok Penshoppe "Paheal" Priest shirt.

"Don't be angry, dude." He'd given me a thumb's up. I'd failed a time test that time and was ranting to him about it. He still calls me dude from time to time.

"When bad things happen, take it easy. Even if jerkus tao comes in and insult. There'll be others day when you can go out and defeat that stupid Vagabond Wolf! Carp them! Sees the day!"

"Carp Diem! It's 'seize the day'" I smiled wryly. "Where do you get this stuff anyway?"

D blushed at being corrected. "Some other person played me."

What! What if that person discovered our secret!

"She liked to make poems and stuff and kept saying these Roman phrases." D continued.

Another one of D's strange abilities, the ability to sense the person. He could easily tell if a player's a girl or boy, sad or happy. It's pretty useful. One time D flirted with this novice gal. I warned him that it might not be a girl. He still continued and we got…two million zennies! D explained that the girl was just another character that the player was building up and she was glad she found someone so nice to talk with.(That was one reason I wanted to play.)

"My sister was playing?"

Heads are gonna roll for this...(My sis's phrase not mine.)

"Yes but she was really fun to hear. She likes to make impromptu poetry and make mesit and recite! Wanna see?"

"No! Did my sister found out!"

Question mark.

"About me having a freaky talking avatar, stupid!"

"Stupid!"

He just stood numbly,hurt it seemedand at the worse possible moment, my load ran out.

"I didn't mean it...D." My week had been horrible and it's going downhill. I've got to make things right.

The next day, I risked everything that ever gaming manual suggested. I strolled into a shop, sat up and slipped the headphone on. I took a deep breathas I pressed the icon...


I've been so busy I almost forgot I had an account!