Ch. 5
I woke to someone shaking my shoulder. As I opened my eyes, Akira's smirking face filled my vision.
"What are you smirking about?" I asked.
"Look at the time." She replied.
Glancing to the clock in the corner of my mind, I silently cursed in my head. I had been asleep for over 48 hours.
"Your point being?" I replied.
"You said you were fine, and then you go and sleep for over two days. You were most definitely not fine. Not to mention that I woke you up, so you probably not rested up yet." She retorted.
"You might think that is fine, but sure don't. For cryin out loud, you almost died! And I believe you remember what happened after my I nearly died?"
"I remember. You're right, I wasn't fine. But I am now. So if you'll excuse me-"
BAM! Akira's palm smashed into the table, shaking the cup of water that sat upon it.
"Ohh… You infuriate me so much! How hard is for you to realized that I care about you, and that you risking your life like this terrifies me!"
"Do tell, but why do you care about me? We are using fake names in a net game over the web!" I yelled back.
"Because if you die here you die there." she answered in a quiet voice.
Taking another look at her face, I realized just how much she had been worried about me. I had to change that. She couldn't care about me. The chance of me dieing was so much higher. And not because I was a soloer. I had to get her to stop caring. With that in mind, I said things I regretted much later.