Chapter 17 - The news
"Well, let's head out now.", I said as I began unbuckling my seatbelt. "Wait", my jelly boyfriend whispered, looking around. "Look!" I looked around to find that there weren't any cars here. None whatsoever as the Gamestop hadn't opened yet. I looked towards my jelly boyfriend, who now had a seductive look in his eyes. "Hey," he whispered, "does this mean that we can do the thing!?" I replied, "Probably not, we're parked really close to the store. The employees can see us if we have sex right now." He immediately began to wear a dissappointed look on his face. "Hey man, when we get home, we can do whatever we want." This brought a feeling of excitement to my jelly boyfriend.
Suddenly, an employee came up to the front doors and unlocked them, turning over the "CLOSED" sign to "OPEN". "Alright, let's get your game!", I said as I unbuckled the seatbelt, taking the keys out of the ignition and opening the door. "Hold on a second!", my jelly boyfriend yelled in frustration as he struggled to unbuckle himself. He eventually found the button to release himself from the buckle's grasp. I walked over to his side of the car to open the door for him. "Ah! Thanks, Mark!", he said as he stepped out the car. As we began walking towards the Gamestop, my jelly boyfriend tried to hold my hand. I nudged him on the elbow, talking through my teeth, "Remember, no intimacy!" My jelly boyfriend felt a little heartbroken that he couldn't hold Mark's hand, but he understood why.
As I opened the door to Gamestop, a little bell rang above our heads. "Hey man! How's your week been going!", an employee shouted from across the front desk to us. "Just fine, thank you!", I yelled back. My jelly boyfriend looked around at his environment. The walls were lined with seemingly endless amounts of video games. He wanted to have them all, but he knew he couldn't just take them off the shelf and put them in his pocket. "Hey!", I whispered to my jelly boyfriend, grabbing back his attention. "The Wii-U games are this way." My jelly boyfriend followed me to a shelf filled with Wii-U games. "Alright, I'll give you some time to think about it while I go look at the PC games. Don't talk to nobody, alright?" My jelly boyfriend nodded in confirmation, deeply thinking about what one he wanted.
"What?! Turn that up, there's no way that can be true!", another employee yelled to another while they were watching the news on a T.V. that was probably supposed to show game trailers. This grabbed the attention of my jelly boyfriend, who walked over to them, looking up at the television as they increased the volume. "Today's top news story is one unlike any other... apparently there's a blue human/rabbit hybrid walking around the Newport bridge? Tom, what can you tell us about this?" All three of them dropped their jaws in pure astonishment, however, for my jelly boyfriend, he was surprised for an entirely different reason.
"Thanks liz, I am standing here at the Newport bridge, where just last night, reports of a 5-foot tall blue bunny were witnessed, and that's not the end of it, either!" The news cut to a video, with the host talking over it. "This video gained massive popularity among the internet, making it an overnight sensation! In the video, you can clearly see these teenagers driving past a tall, dark-blue figure in the dark. While not many people think this creature really exists, a professor at NJC University, says otherwise." Blue... where have I seen that color before...?, my jelly boyfriend thought to himself.
Then, the news cut to an interview of someone who my jelly boyfriend recognized. Way. Too. Well. "'Yes, that video does show something we've been looking for the past few days.' This is professor Arnold Goyer, a veteran in the education department, teaching students for 50 years, and counting! 'You see, one of our experiments had run off, a bunny that was born with a blue color. Obviously, it was a massive genetic flaw that hindered our research, but before we could execute it, it ran off. However, before it left, it knocked over an experimental compound, and we believe it was because of this exposure, that caused this change.'"
"Pssh! What a load of crap! The news really has gone desperate for attention, hasn't it?", one of the employees said to the other. There's no way this couldn't be him, my jelly boyfriend thought. The hair, the glasses, the sinister look in his eyes, his unethical practices... "Hey, shut up, man! I'm listening to it!", the other employee snapped back. "The scientists at NJC University have placed a bounty of 10,000$ on finding this tall, blue creature. If you ever see it, contact them at ScienceNjc ." My jelly boyfriend stood there in unspeakable fear as the man who wanted to make money off of him was still doing the very same things he had done 40 years ago. Was he still trying to find him, he couldn't help but think to himself.
He ran over to me in the PC section, and immediately tapped my shoulder. "We need to talk. Now.", he whispered over my shoulder. I placed the game I was holding back on the shelf, walking back out of the building with my jelly boyfriend. "You two take care now, alrighty?!", I heard the employees yell from inside. Right now, I could tell that my jelly boyfriend was in zero mood for small talk and neither was I, so we ignored them.