"Hey, man, you've gotta look at this." I looked up from my 3DS to see my best friend walk through my door. He was carrying his phone in his hand, which he waved at me once he reached my desk. "It's a newly discovered glitch. Awesome, right?" He leaned on the desk and grinned at me. "Can we try it out?" I shifted in my chair. My legs had felt numb all day.
"Uh, alright?" I shook my head.
"Great, lemme explain the thing." He described the glitch to me, and I listened, in a bit of a daze.
"Hey, man, haven't we done this before?" I couldn't remember going through the motions, but the entire plan sounded familiar. I tried to think about the last time I played Animal Crossing, but it was like reaching through honey, sweetened and dulled by sleep.
"No, uh…I don't think so." He looked at me, concerned. "Are you tired or something?"
"No, no, it's fine!" I suppressed a yawn. "Let's do the glitch. What's in the room we're supposed to find?"
"That's the coolest thing! There are different reports. Apparently, some find a completely black room, while others see static and white spots."
"Huh." A surprise? Don't see those very often with glitches. "OK, let's try it out."
"It's shovel time." He leaned on me, nearly pushing me out of the chair. "Hurry up, equip it." I glanced at him and rolled my eyes.
"Alright, alright." Geez, so pushy. I got to the Reset Center. "Hey, can I see the guide?"
"No!" He pulled the phone to his chest. "Uh, it's almost out of battery." He hurriedly powered it off. I returned to my game.
"OK, fine." I dug the hole and slipped into the secret room.
"What d'you see?"
"Uh." I walked around. The room was small, a little bigger than a starter house. I circled once. The black floor glitched every once in a while and sparkled white, gray, sometimes blue.
"C'mon, there must be something interesting." I continued circling the room, completely sucked into the glitches. They were unpredictable, yet they seemed connected. I stood on a white piece of floor and spun. The glitch moved. "Hey?" My friend waved a hand in front of my face.
"Oh, um, yeah, it's really…really interesting." I swallowed and nodded. "Pretty neat…" My voice faded away as I continued circling. "Oh wow!" I went to the right-most corner and saw the bottom half of a gyroid. "Was that there before?"
"I don't know. You've been keeping the DS all to yourself." I walked around its edge.
"I wonder what it's doing there," I muttered before yawning and rubbing my eyes.
"Hey, were you up late? You should really get some rest." He took the DS from me. "I'll take care of this. You should take a nap." I yawned again.
"Alright. Just don't spend any of my bells!"
"OK, OK!" He laughed. I crawled to my bed and fell asleep in a few minutes. My dreams were torn together as if ripped from half-finished sketches. Flashes of white, gray, sometimes blue…they spun faster and faster until a voice, master to the color, spoke and settled them.
"Sleep well, part of the whole, missing piece of our world…Reset."