Chapter 2

After school I went over to Rory's house, it's been a little while since I've been over there. I walked in and he immediately turned on his Xbox and handed me a controller.

"What game are we playing this time?" I asked.

"I was thinking Resident Evil," Rory said selecting the game.

"Resident Evil? Really?"

"What do you have against it?"

"Nothing, it's just that I've played the game so many times and now I'm bored of it."

"Come on, I just need help getting across this level."

"Okay fine, I'm sick of arguing let's just do it and get to something else."

We both picked up our controllers and started playing the game. The part that Rory was on was so easy, I couldn't believe he had trouble on it. Usually I'm the one that needs help with gaming. We had to kill a bunch of zombies which we did really quickly. We continued playing until my mom called.

"Hello?" I said into the phone.

"Cody, when are you coming home?" my mom asked.

I looked at the time it was seven thirty.

"Do you mind if I sleep over at Rory's tonight?" I asked.

"Cody it's a school night I think you should come home."

"Mom, I'm just down the block, Rory's mom is dropping him off at school tomorrow."

My mom sighed over the phone.

"Okay, but get to school on time, you don't want to miss that field trip."

"Thanks, bye!" I said as quickly as possible before hanging up the phone.

"What was that about?" Rory asked.

"My mom wanted me to come home but I asked if I could sleep over and she said yes."

"Whoo! Sleepover!" Rory shouted pumping a fist into the air.

"Rory please do not make this any more creepy as it sounds."

"Sorry," he said silently.

I just forgot about and we played Resident Evil all the way to the end credits.

"Wow that was fun!" Rory said.

"Yeah, what other games do you have here?" I said.

"I have Halo."

"Nah! Too boring."

"Minecraft?"

"Boringer!"

"What about Amnesia?"

"Okay, never played that before."

"It's super fun, I always get scared whenever I play it."

"Rory, after all we've been through you still get scared by video games?"

"It's just scary, I may have nightmares tonight!"

We went onto the laptop that was in the den and turned it on, Amnesia was already installed on it. Rory liked to play the custom maps that were made by people around the world. We first started off in a castle and we had to find a key while avoiding monsters.

"Is this scary or what?" Rory asked.

"Not really," I said quietly.

"Oh come on, you have to believe you're in the game, you have to believe that you're the person that's about to be killed by the monsters."

"Okay."

I started at the screen for a little while when Rory was working the controls for the game, suddenly a monster broke through the door and made me jump a little.

"Okay that did scare me a little bit," I said.

"You see? You just have to believe that you're in the game."

Suddenly a door opened behind us, it was Mrs. Keaner A.K.A. Rory's mom.

"Hey, boys what are you doing?" she asked taking off her coat.

"Just playing some games," Rory said, "mom, is it okay if Cody sleeps over tonight?"

"Sure, the more the merrier for dinner."

"Cool, thanks," I said.

I looked back at the screen Rory was playing on. He found a map of the cave we were in and continued down the corridor, turns out we had to find a key to escape the building into the woods. Rory checked door after door clicking his mouse on random chests.

"None of these chests have the key."

"Maybe we should retrace our steps, go back where we came and search there. I'm pretty sure we missed some chests there."

Rory moved the character back up the steps where we came from and into the room that we missed, the door opened and contained a key which was for the door we passed.

Rory then moved the character back to the door and opened it into the woods, and the good thing was that the woods was daylight, so the game started to feel less creepy.

"Wow, if I were him I would feel so much relief to get out of that hellhole."

"I know, right?" Rory said.

Rory moved the character out of the building and on the computer graphic ground was a note, Rory picked up and it said to head to a cave which was about half a kilometre straight ahead.

"Great, another dark and scary place," I said.

"I know, why does every scary place in the world have to be dark?" Rory said.

"Imagine being in a haunted house with the lights on."

Rory looked up at the ceiling with a confused look, he was trying to think.

"Yeah, it's still very scary."

I chuckled a little bit, Rory lead the character deep into the woods until we heard something come from the speakers, it sounded like a snap. Like someone just broke a stick with their foot.

"What was that?" Rory questioned.

"It was nothing just keep moving."

After a little while the door behind us opened up, we turned our eyes away from the computer screen to see Mr. Keaner A.K.A. Rory's dad.

"Hey, dad," Rory said not paying attention.

"Rory," It took him a little while to notice me.

"Cody, it's been a little while since you've been here."

"Yeah, Rory prefers being at my house."

"So I guess you're joining us for dinner."

Just after a few seconds Mrs. Keaner came in wiping her hands with a wash cloth.

"Just came in to say dinner's ready."

I've never had dinner at Rory's house, but this time it was real different. At my house my mom usually shouts from the kitchen to my room saying dinner's ready. We both got up and went into the kitchen which smelt wonderful. For dinner we had meatloaf with peas and carrots, this time the meatloaf was edible.