Oh wow, another short one. I didn't have very much to say I guess... Sorry...

gwin belongs to me.

The eyebrow incident proved to me that I can't flirt, which is fine.

I had decided to just talk to Snake, without flirting, and get to know the guy.

My pessimistic mind already had decided that his personality would turn out to be awful.

But after dinner I chickened out and joined a conversation with Krystal, Gwin and Mei Ling.

We were talking about our own games, Krystal's reminded me of an old TV show that had greatly influenced technology in the twenty and twenty first centuries.

Mei Ling's world was about as simple as hot dogs, it may have looked nice or plain on the outside, but in it lied many confusing secrets.

She didn't blab on about her co-worker's lives, but she did let on a few things, Snake was a clone, one of three. Anyone who worked where they did was either an unknown hero, or an unknown villain, most of them were pawns.

It all sounded very wrong and messed up to me, I changed the subject quietly,

"So what's your story Gwin?" I said, a little too quietly.

"A long one, but my night job's basically to keep demons and other impish creatures from getting to the mortals of the world, every other century my husband does the same." she answered indifferently, "And you?"

"I keep Pirates and Parasites from causing havoc."

The conversation droned on, wearing me out and boring me eventually, I went outside for a walk after the conversation had left me.

"Where are you going?" Mei Ling asked.

"Out for a walk." I answered.

It was another dreary day, the sun hadn't set yet and rain fell freely from the clouds.

The fresh air was nice.

V

I'm indifferent towards rain. But it makes my mind wander.

And my mind wasn't too pleasant these days.

I was a clone...

Was I really worth anything?

Did I count as a human?

Should I care if I didn't?

Did I matter to anyone?

Why was I even created?

To fight?

It didn't matter, I would be fine in about ten minutes.

Samus Aran walked past the tree I was leaning against, not noticing me at all.

Fortunately she distracted me.

Samus wasn't perfect. She wasn't all good or all evil.

Her life wasn't filled with confusion.

She didn't have any parents and her wish was to destroy the creature that had destroyed them.

A vengeful orphan turned bounty hunter, now a hero.

Samus didn't enjoy people. Her eternal companion was solitude.

I'd make a bad friend.

But she still watched me at meals.

Maybe we should talk, she would figure out that it was only a stupid infatuation and move on.

I hadn't thought of that until then. It was probably just the rain messing with my head.

But the idea was sickly comforting.

She would be disappointed, I would be indifferent.

Anyway, all I would ever be really able to do in life was fight.

That made bad company.

She walked by me again, noticing me this time.

"Hi." she half whispered.

She was a pretty creature. But I had seen too many witches in pretty dresses, so to speak, to care very much.

And it was raining. Maybe I was thinking clearly now.

"Hey." I replied.

She sat down underneath the tree next to mine, "Nice day out here."

I nodded, "Yeah... You did great in the fight today."

"Thanks." she had probably been running. Her cheeks were flushed.

I searched my mind for a legitimate question.

There wasn't much I had to ask her that would serve as a good ice breaker.

"Mei Ling told me a few things about your game."

"Really?" I shrugged, "What did she say?"

"Not much."

She sighed, I lighted another cigarette.

"Is it really as bad a place as she said?"

"Worse."

I sat down at my tree.

We both remained silent in our thoughts.

I like this chapter's Snake better than last chapter's Snake.

I think I'm going to take a break... at least for tomorrow... or saturday... but yeah...

Ew... I can feel the writer's block coming on, I'm blaming the school year for staring up.