The World of a Fantasy

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven: Back To Reality

Sara Hart is a very good girl that takes time to slowly understand a person's emotions and has always been close to her family. It was just her birthday, today, that she had gotten the newest gaming pod and it made her extremely happy. She was so excited that the game happened to open up its server today, so she excitedly rushes to rush the game after her birthday celebration while her parents are also having a good time. Her family was small, just her parents and herself, a small family of three.

Sara's fascination for role-playing games was the root of why she was extremely excited about experiencing the new fantasy game. That root was mainly due to her family's special situation and, as the only child in the family, she had become engrossed in games ever since she was a child. As a gamer girl, she felt that she was a special girl and that everything was possible with due effort. Likewise, getting to the top of the ranking is a must for her as she is extremely competitive at role-playing games.

Sara quickly gave herself a quick remodel of her hairstyle and a few quick tweaks to her character and went through the brief tutorial as a Blade master. She also enjoyed the thrill of leveling up so fast that she was excited about the real open-world game, and finally started her journey through a beginner's village. Her beginning village was an awakening village which is near a couple of villages as well as a couple of other towns.

Throughout the first day of Sara's new experience in the game world, she slowly explores every new thing that she has found. Currently, she was enjoying the mystical view of the night and the view of the landscape. She was quick to fall in love with the fantasy, mystical, and magical world. Furthermore, her beginning experiences made her exhilarated for future discoveries.

After a few hours in the beginning village, Sara finally manages to complete a few beginner quests because of the inflated players. Her current levels were at seven, the few beginner quests offer quite the number of experiences. Even so, her current party is strong enough to move on to the field to farm higher-level mobs. By the end of her first gaming day, she had already leveled up to fifteen and had already changed her class through the emblem of change (Warrior). She also got her third skill through a skill book dropped from an elite mob.

Sara's gaming had come to an end when her parents had decided that she would have been inside the pod for far too long and she needed a break from her gaming. So, she could only stop playing for the day and excitedly told her parents of her few adventures with a trill. Even through dinner, she was still so engrossed in the game and could not help continuously explaining how good the game was. At every bite, she would ramble on and on about her exciting adventure and her parents eventually gave her an eat-more-less-talking expression which finally made her tone down a bit.

After dinner, Sara was informed of her parents' work and would not be home for the next couple of days since both were on a business trip outside of the country and it might even take longer if the business talk extended their stay. Today was such a day that she had not felt as lonely as in previous years, since her parents came back on time for her birthday and even celebrated her birthday with a grand present. She did not mind her parent's business trip and planned out her next few weeks of gaming.

With such happy thoughts, Sara went to bed expecting tonight and the next day to be the same as before. At seven o'clock in the morning, she took a small shower, combed her hair, applied some lotion to it, and a simple breakfast consisted of three sunny side eggs & a few slices of bacon along with milk and toast. By the time she was done cleaning up her mess, it was already nine o'clock. She was pumped to begin a new round of adventure and simply logged into the game.

Sara received a few messages from her current party members and where they are currently at. With a quick check of the location on the map, Sara quickly moved on. When she was at the gate of the town she faintly heard her name, but she may have misheard it unless it was from her party. Rushing on, she could faintly feel that something was catching up with her at every turn or movement. The chase went on for an hour or so, with her leaving behind the chaser with an elite mob and running away with a laugh.

Standing before the indicated location, she received a message from one of her best friends. The news was bad. Unbelievable even, but seeing is believing, so she logged out to see it for herself.

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(Day (Since Game Starts): 3 (Morning))

The morning sun had already been up, and John Smith, in his game pod, had finally disconnected from the game server. The moment he opened his eyes to look at reality, he could feel how weary his body had become. His mind was exhausted, his face haggard and his body was sapped with energy. He is now only moving by his own will.

The first thing that he did was use the restroom. He felt that his bladder was full and his stomach tight. He quietly settled his business before taking a quick shower. After a refreshing shower, he slowly made his way through the hallway to the kitchen. The setting of the furniture did not change one bit. Briefly, he could see the shadows of his mom cooking in the kitchen and his dad reading the newspaper on the sofa with his reading glasses on.

The feeling of his home now was desolate, dark, and most importantly, he was alone. He slowly made his way to the kitchen, opened up the fridge, and took out some eggs and bacon for his meal of the day. The portion was large, since he was extremely hungry, he had gone. He spent a day without food and he found that his stomach was egging him on to get some food to fill his needs. In the end, he got scrambled eggs with small pieces of bacon.

For every bite that he took, he would remember his mom's cooking. The taste of the bacon pieces made him remember his dad's lesson on how not to waste food. By the time he finished his tasteless scrambled eggs with bacon, he could not help letting out a few drops of tears. His 'dream' gave him hope, but the reality is still as cruel as ever. Washing the dishes alone in the sink, he used to remember how he would help his mom wash the dishes together side by side. Clenching the sponges, he tried his best to hold back the desolate feeling and finish washing the dishes.

He still could not help feeling lonelier as he walked around the house. Taking his weary body to bed, he had drained too much of his mental strength and he had to rest his throbbing head. Only when he got to relax in bed did he feel much better about his situation and think of the dream that he had the night before last night. He slowly drifts off into a deep sleep when he begins to think about what he had experienced yesterday when he had his dream. From the beginning to the end of the gaming session, he could not help letting his emotions take over. Thus, end chapter eleven.