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"The title is SBurb."
"Well, okay," Nick said as he turned and left. I went the opposite way he was going and found my bus. I smiled a bit as I climbed on to my bus. Jojo was seating in her usual seat and mine was empty. I slid next to her as I shrugged off my backpack.
"Why are you sitting next to me?" she asked without looking up from her iPod. "Go sit in your own seat."
"No," I said, moving closer to her. She elbowed me away.
"Why not?" she stared down at it, moving her fingers a bit this way or that.
"'Cause I have BIG news."
"How big can it be?"
"Ah, bigger than you getting into Penn State."
She glanced up at me. She seemed pissed off more than anything. "It wasn't like it would be a surprise." She went back to what she was doing. I grabbed her iPod and swung to the empty seat in front of us. "Hey!"
"Listen to me for once in your life. JEEZ!" I grabbed the iPod tighter as I spoke again, "The news is that I got someone else to play with us."
"How much did you pay them?" She said with a straight face.
"I didn't pay him."
"Of course it would be a guy. Kala, I've told you so many, many times that I feel like a recording. You cannot ask a guy to do things for just because you're pretty."
"I do not resent that." I smiled, "Anyway, it's Nick, so we're like in friendzone. See? Now you can stop harassing me about it."
"Although you asked for his number. Not from him, but Samm. That just proves how incapable you are to talk to him."
"Touché," I muttered as I handed her back her iPod. She grabbed it and passed my backpack forward. I pulled it up and said, "But wait. I asked him if he wanted to play and talked to him for a few minutes before I got on the bus."
"Oh, did you now?" She became distracted by her iPod again.
"This is why I took it away. You don't pay attention at all with that stupid thing in your hands." I sighed, knowing the only way I could contact her was either via text or chat. She lost her phone a few days ago, so I started to chat her up.
"-karateSphinx [KS] began pestering juggledScholar [JS] at 14:52-
KS: FreakinG TalK TO ME
JS: y0u 0f 4ll ppl sh0uld kn0w th4t
JS: 1 H4TE TH4T
KS: I KnoW
KS: WhicH IS WhY I DO IT
KS: IT GetS YouR AttentioN
JS: c4n y0u n0t d0 th4t
JS: 1t w0uld help me n0t t0 be p1ssed 4t y0u
KS: I WilL StoP WheN YoU ListeN TO ME
JS: f1ne" Jojo glanced up at me.
"What did you want to tell me so bad that you had to disturb me like that?" She leaned back.
"Okay. So you know how Nick is playing with us? Of course you do. I just told you. But what I was getting at was that we have four players now. I mean I could have chosen anyone, but no. Nick has official joined our little gang of players," I said, speaking as fast as I could do and still be comprehensible.
"You do realize that he is going to be stuck to us until we finish the game?"
"Of course. I have everything planned out. I'll be the client player to Samm. He'll be yours. You will be Nick's and Nick would be mine."
She leaned forward and smashed her head against the seat. "I don't even know what a client player is."
"Okay. So in the game, there are client players and server players. The server player, which I would be to Nick, helps the client player as much as possible during the gameplay."
"That makes more sense than the idea of a client player alone. So I'm a client player and a server player?"
"Yep! Or it wouldn't complete the circle," I smiled. "If it makes you feel better, we both have Samm and Nick, but as opposite players."
"So, I don't interact with you at all?"
I frowned. I hadn't thought of that. "You will later. I think."
"You didn't make it so the three of us played by ourselves. No, Nick had to get involved. You know what? I quit. There. Now, you can have the boys to yourself."
"I thought it would be better to even the player number. Come on. Jojo, don't be mad at me."
"I told you, don't call me that. That was cute when we were five, but not anymore."
I muttered, "I'm sorry. Please don't be mad at me."
"I'm already pissed off that Nick is joining, so you can't help that!"
"I said I was sorry!" I turned to face the front. As I stared at the seat in front of me, I sighed.
"Alright, Kala. I didn't mean all that stuff. You know I didn't. It was frustrating that we were about to play the game by ourselves and you added another player. I was really hoping that it would only be the three of us. Like it was, when we were little."
I looked at the face of my other best friend. I smiled weakly. "That's the Kala I know and love," Joan smiled back. She shifted backwards and I continued the staring contest. She lost when she went back to her iPod. I stared at her for a while before I realized I was falling in love with my best friend. I opened my mouth to speak, but the bus stopped and she got off. I sighed when the hope that we would be together was out of the question. I was about to leave at my stop when I got a message. I crossed my fingers, but it was a person I didn't recognize.
