Chapter 2: Testing The 'My Matchmaker' App
"Alright, let's see what this app can do." Edward said as Rye scans him with the tablet. Rye then shows the trio the front side of his tablet for them to look at what the game looks like. The background is orange with pink hearts. One the left shows Edward's scanned face in an orange box while on the right shows a question mark.
"That's what the game looks like?" Atlas asked.
"That's right!" Rye responded.
"The background has a fitting touch." Said Lefty.
"It sure does!" Rye said. "Alright, Edward. I need you to press the orange button that says 'Spin the wheel'."
"Sure thing, Rye." Edward said he presses the button. The wheel spins up rapidly until it slowly lands and stops at an image of a girl with brown hair.
"Oh, look! The wheel landed on Alissa Prosdocimi. How nice!" Edward said.
"Well, would you look at that?" Rye said in a surprised tone.
"Remind me, who is Alissa Prosdocimi again?" Asked Atlas.
"Alissa J. Prosdocimi is a girl of Italian descent that Edward met in the fifth grade when he was placed in the same classroom as her." Lefty explained. "There was never any type of smoke between them until that Friday happened."
"What happened that Friday?" Atlas asked again.
"This time I will explain, Atlas. Sweatshirt Hart took me and my class to the gym inside the school on the third floor. After he left, the gym teacher gave us an activity in which everybody had to participate in the game 'Tag'. The gym teacher chose three people to be taggers, and he didn't give us a base where we can't be tagged, so we just ran around the gym to avoid being tagged." Edward said.
"What did you do to avoid being tagged?" Atlas asked.
"Everyone ran away from the taggers while I stood there and tried to grab one of them, and that was when tension erupted. And by tension, I mean that is when she tried playing the victim by saying that I hit her which I did not. All I did was make an attempt to grab her and that's it. But everyone, including my own family, turned against me." Edward explained.
"Did you try to defend yourself when it happened?" Atlas asked in a curious tone.
"No one gave me a chance to speak up because they're too stubborn to listen. They just jumped to conclusions, and blamed it on me." Edward said.
"It must've been that hard for you to endure all that." Atlas said.
"It really was hard. Thanks to that incident, I can't stop thinking about her." Edward said.
"I guess that might be why the machine made Alissa your love match." Lefty said.
"Maybe, but I highly doubt that me and her would be a thing. It's been 11 years since I left her school. She probably won't remember me like that after a long time. But hey, only time will tell though. If I were to meet her again, I would probably start over and become friends with her." Edward said.
"I agree." Rye said. "It's not like anyone you haven't seen in 20 years will recognize immediately."
"That's true, Rye. Anyways, let's continue the matchmaker thing." Edward said.