"Wake up. Time to dance." A voice came from nowhere.
"Who is it?"
"Don't you remember me? Rage, the guy you saw yesterday. Emi is here too."
"I must be drunk."
The image of Rage appeared in front of me.
"You are not drunk, you are now inside the DDR machine. Now select a song, and here we go."
Discs appeared in front of me, guess I have no choice but pick a song.
"I am going to pick Butterfly."
"This is a song for the real dancer." Emi said.
A gauge appeared above me and arrows started rising from the ground.
"Now dance." Rage said, with his energetic voice.
It looked like I have to dance now. I had no idea how to dance Butterfly but I have to give it a try. But for some unknown reasons, I think I am doing well because after I finished the song, Rage said. "You are doing good and finished with an A grade, with 102 Perfects, 32 Greats, 3 Goods, 1 Poor and 3 Misses. Maximum 63 combos."
"OK. See you in your next dance." Emi said.
At this moment, I woke up. 9am in the morning.
"Morning Kenny." My sister Carmen said this to me as I walked down the stairs.
"Morning."
"You did not sleep well, did you?"
"How do you know, I just got a nightmare."
"DDR hangover? Haha." My sister laughed.
"Shut up. I am not playing this game again."
"You are. I will bet 10 bucks if you are not going to mention DDR for a week."
"I will win your ten bucks."
I did not mention DDR for the week so I won her ten dollars. However, after a month, I saw Rage again, but Emi was not here. This time it was at the central bus stop next to Playdium when I was going home after school.
"Hey Kenny. What's up." Rage said.
"Nothing much, just a lot of school work."
"Still DDR?"
"No, no. Not recently. Too busy to play."
"Gotcha. I'm waiting for Emi and her friends and then DDR."
"That's good." I said. "And you know what? I had a dream about us and DDR a month ago. We are both in the DDR machine and we are dancing."
"That's a good one. I had a similar dream before except you were not there. Look, Emi is coming."
Not far away Emi was getting off the bus. She was wearing jeans and a jacket this time.
"Hi guys, and you are here. I haven't seen you for a while." Emi said. "Coming for DDR?"
"Nope, going home." I replied.
"Then see you later."
As I see their shadow disappearing into Playdium, I had a feeling that Rage and Emi really looked like a couple. Then the bus came.
As soon as I entered my house, the phone rang.
"Kenny, it is Howard. What's going on?" It was Howard.
"What do you want?"
"Do you want to come to my house? I just bought DDR for Playstation and a dancepad."
"Damn it. How many time I had told you that I am NOT interested in DDR or other Bemani games?" I answered angrily.
"So you are not going to come? Fine." He hanged up.
