"Uhm... You can call me Narwhal" I said, as Narwhal was my In-Game name.

"Will do... Narwhal" Kat said. She had just basically saved my in game life by coming to the rescue as a sniper. I held out a hand to help her up. She ignored it and got up on her own. Her mech stood taller than mine, jet black, with a tattered gray cape flowing behind it. It had a thin yellow outline around some sort of clear material on the head like part to make it look extra badass. Like I said before, She was almost definitely a pro.

"So, It seems you started what, 30 minutes ago?" she said.

"Umm more like an hour. I like to spend a lot of time shopping."

She laughed.

"just like my friends at school." she said.

"Yeah, well it's getting late, and I gotta go to school tomorrow so I better be logging off now." I said

"Alrighty. Maybe we can meet up later tomorrow and get you... a better mech other than that piece of trash."

I liked my mech. It worked at least.

Whatever. If it made me play better I wouldn't be opposed to it.

I tapped the log off button.

the screen faded black, and I lifted up my hand, and balled up a fist a couple times. I pulled off the helmet, and sat up in my bed. I ran my fingers through my hair, and got up to get ready for bed. Later, I laid in my bed, and fell asleep.

I woke up, and got ready for school really quickly. I hopped in the car and drove off to school. I was 16 just recently obtained my drivers license, my name was Christopher, but my friends called me Chris. I was about 5'6" with short messy black hair. I had brown eyes, and was a tad bit chubby.

As soon as I arrived at the school, I disembarked and went about my day, until the first time I saw my Twin friends Alex and Brian sitting at our usual lunch table. I sat don and eagerly told them about my experiences in Paladin Online the previous night.

I was one of the first in our friend group who could do his homework fast enough to be able to download games the night they came out. There were a few other "gamers" in the school, but they played stupid console games like Call of Duty Black ops 7 or some other shitty game like that. The gamers all sat at this table. Alex, Brian, Chris (another one), Shaun, and I. In total there were 5 of us.

"No way. Theres no way you met a pro girl gamer and she asked you to play again tonight." Brian said

"You are no type of attraction to a girl." His brother, Alex said chiming in

"I don't need 2 retards opinions." I said. WE insulted each other like this on a regular basis, but it was all just banter.

"I'll have the game downloaded by the time we get back home."

the other Chris said.

we just called him Wagner, because of me. They all called me Chris, because I was the one who met them all first, as Wagner was the newest in the group. Because of that we often called him Private Wagner.

"Same with me." Said Shaun.

"Damn it! how did you guys finish the homework so fast? Alex and I worked together and we didn't finish faster than you guys." Brian said.

"I guess the saying is 2 heads are better than one... unless both are dumb." Wagner said.

Alex clutched the spot where his heart was and feigned death.

We all burst out in laughter including the twins.

I handed my homework to Brian and Alex and allowed them to copy it, as they had math the next period, and judging by the multiple times their names had popped online and offline, they were trying to initiate the download while their parents weren't watching, but didn't get the chance to, and therefore weren't doing their homework.

I continued the rest of the day as normal, until that night when I was able to log on again.