Thursday, July 12, 2007

   3rd chapter sry it was a day late
You: I'd played a few old-fashioned games like this before" A lot of text, kind of boring. But because the name was fred I wondered if old fred was involved in making up this game so I played along. What would I do if Fred showed up in my driveway? GET IN, I typed. Fred starteds Driving. Where do you want to go? You: TELL HIM I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE CITY. Fred drives. There was some la-di-da stuff about driving past cows and horses, just like when Fred and I had come out here, which was weird. But I answered all the questions. Once we got to the city, the game asked me where I wanted to go. I thought about it. Did I really want to go back to the holmsteads? Agter they'd gotten sick of fostering teenagers and kicked us all out? And anyway it was just a game. I figured that once I got as specific as a single address it would work anymore. But what the heck. I was getting borfed with the game. I typed in Nates address. Are you sure? the computer asked. I blinked YES, IM SURE. As you approach Nates house you see him coming out, what do you do? HUG HIM I typed. You're still in the car. Oh duh I typed GET OUT OF THE CAR. He doesnt see you because hes talking to someone. WHO IS HE TALKING TO? Jessica and Tanika. I stared at the screen ads my stomach knotted up. This was truly bizarre. I knew Jessica and Tanika. They were twins, and they'd been hott gor Nate as lond as I could remember. I DONT BELIEVE YOU For, like, ten seconds, a visual flashed on the screen sure enough it was the front of Nates house. Jessica and Tanika each had one of his hands and they were pulling him down his front proch steps as he laughed and tried to resist but not very hard. My stomach hurt and my heart pounded. I felt like logging off. What a stupid game. What a creepy game. I knew It wasnt real' I knew Nate wouldnt even talking to those twin tarts, but it still bothered me. Fred had given me a sadistic game. What was up with that? And it made some tiny corner of my heart question. Would Nate really be faithful to me now that I was gone? what do you want to do now? the fame asked. I was disgusted with it. SCRATCH THEIR EYES OUT? You cannot interact at this level. Yeah whatever. All of a sudden i got an idea. Before I could think. I typed it in, I WANT TO SEE MY MOTHER. In no way did I think the game would do something like that. I didnt even know if my mom was still in pittsburg although thats where we'd alway lived. She could be anywhere. But the game made fred start driving me He drove out of Nates street on the south side crossing the river on a bridge I recongnized and then passing neighborhoods I didnt know. My heart was really pounding now Ever since Mom had that bad time when I was eight and gave up I'd wanted to see her again. but all I got from my social workers were excuses. It made me wonder: was there something really wrong with mom? was she sick? DEAD?



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