Chapter. 54

As lunch was ending everyone returned to their classrooms. Vincent took his seat and glanced to Catherine who was looking out the window. "Slap her!" Vincent pressed his hands on his desk, he stopped himself from putting in any force to stand up and took a deep breath. "Get up!"

"Shut up." Vincent rubbed the side of his head. "Where are these thoughts coming from." The teacher walked in and class started. Vincent could barely hear the teacher and felt light headed.

"He's going too slow." Vincent rubbed the side of his face. "Does he think we're stupid? I could do better." Vincent's stomach started to turn. "Hurry up fucker, I got people to kill!" Vincent silently took a breath to calm down. "Catherine is looking at me, that fucking thot needs to pay. They'll all pay!"

"Shut the fuck up!" Vincent tapped his fist on the side of his head then glanced to his clock. "Today can't be over fast enough."

...

School was over for the day and Vincent and Lyle rushed out of the classroom, the two arrived outside Rebecca and Corina's when the other students filed out the two found their girlfriends waiting for them.

"Are you alright?" Asked Lyle.

"I'm fine. Peter hasn't come by."

"For now wait for us to get you."

"Okay."

"Are you okay?" Rebecca asked Vincent.

"I'll be fine when that fucking thot is out of our lives. We should see what Levi thinks, she's been good at predicting Catherine's moves."

"Let's see if Levi is in any clubs." Rebecca waved her hand to access the school network.

"Think we can find her?" Asked Corina.

Vincent crossed his arms. "How many people do you know named Lavender?"

Rebecca closed her access. "You're not gonna believe this. she's in a gaming history club."

"A what now?" Asked Vincent.

"I guess it's about studying the history of gaming. That sounds fun."

"Think you'll mind us coming to see her." Asked Rebecca.

"Why not? We're all friends!"

Walking down the hall the group found the club room door, Corina knocked. The door opened and male student opened up. "Hello?"

"Hi, is Levi here?"

The student threw open the door to let them in. "Levi! Some people are here for you!"

Levi jumped up from a table and run to them. "What, why, how, why are you all here?"

"We wanted to see how you were doing." Said Corina. "You spent a lot of time with us but we barely know what you like to do."

"Well..." Levi threw up her arms. "This is it." The burst linkers looked around, the walls were covered with old gaming tournament posters, a long table by the window held several consoles, each at least a decade old. In the center of the room was a large table with a console completely taken apart with the other members of the club gathered around the console as they studied the parts.

Levi sighed. "Go ahead laugh. I'm interested in something nerdy..."

"I know that tournament." Vincent pointed to a fighting game poster. "I wanted that live, it got me and sis into fighting games."

"I have that game at home." Answered Lyle. "I used to play it a lot before the system broke."

"What else did you play?"

Rebecca spotted a helmet on top of a stand, Rebecca picked up the helmet and looked inside. "This is cool?"

One of the club member stood beside Rebecca. "That's a nerve gear. A high-density microwave transceiver capable of accessing the user's brain, allowing it to send fake signals to the user."

"Like our linkers?"

"This was the baseline for them. The transceivers not only capable of inducing fake sensory signals but can also block every movement command from the brain to the body, preventing the player from moving their body while in what was called a "Full Dive" to avoid injuries. The transceivers are also capable of blocking sensory information from the body to the brain, thus, while using it, the player is completely insensate to the real world."

"That sounds a little... not safe." Rebecca looked back at the helmet. "Wasn't this used in a death game years ago?"

Corina ruffed Levi's hair. "See? No one thinks you're weird."

"Don't touch my hair."

"Okay." Corina pulled her hand back. "If you'd told us about this we could've brought some stuff for your club."

"You'd do that?"

"Yeah, why not?"

"I don't know. Maybe you'd lose respect for me?"

Corina ruffled Levi's hair again. "Well we didn't, have more faith in your friends."

"Remove your hand."

"Make me."

Levi glared at Corina while fighting back a smile. "Fine. You want to be in here then you'll have to take part in the activates."

"Okay! So, what's the club about?"

"Gaming history. We talk about where gaming started, how it changed over the years, even where genres came from."

"Like what?"

"Did you know that the fighting game genre came from a glitch at let you string together combos if you were fast enough? The creators left it in thinking the window was too small but look what happened, it's the core of the genre." Levi saw Corina smiling at her. "What?"

"You seem so happy when you talk about this stuff, I like it."

"Just shut up and help us put this thing back together." Levi pointed to the dismembered console on the table.

...

The club's time was over and everyone had to leave the school, the group walked out into the parking lot. "Well that was fun." Said Corina.

Rebecca nods. "I had fun too. How often does your club meet up Levi?"

"You all want to go again?"

"Why not? You don't want us there?" Asked Vincent.

"No it's, didn't think you'd all like it since two of you are in sports clubs."

"We can all like many things Levi." Said Lyle. "What makes friends is sharing those interests."

"We meet every Monday. Bring some old gaming stuff if you can."

"Will do. See you all tomorrow then." Vincent waved to the others as he and Rebecca walked away.

"We should go as well, be save Levi." Lyle bowed slightly before he and Corina went to find their truck.

"Till then." Levi turned to find her car with warm smile that refused to break.

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