Old Short Story

William Shakespear said "Be not afraid of greatness, Some ar born great, Some achieve greatness, Some have greatness thrust upon them". Few ever see the the sadness in these words. Achieveing greatness is somthing mearly spoken. Nothing is ever said of those who stride for greatness with every breath they take and movement they make and still never get there. All that leaves is wishing for greatness but greatness is not happiness. Usualy greatness comes at the expense of any chance at true happiness. Just take the great warriors, philosophers, and poets. People rarely get both but the story isnt about those people who have to choose or who luckly get both if any thing its about the people who have neather but want both. Then agin no man would strive for greatness without reason, be it love or pride or some other thing that makes the world move. Those are the things one realy strives to and wishes for. Then in reality I cant say this story is anything like that.

I have never found that thing that ticks in the heart of people that would make me move to its seemingly irregular beat. Mabey love would make me move? But then agin in the seventeen years of my life I hadnt had a girlfriend even once. Dont get me wrong there were plenty of girls that I liked but somehow it just never worked out. Thats just another sad fact to add to my inconceivably long list of sad facts about my life. Thats probably why on my seventeenth birthday I blew out the candels and made a wish. Most wishes never come true but ocasionaly when a person spontaniously wishes for somthing in such an utterly stupid way it has a chance of actualy happening. The one thing to say about love is that it has the fewist and most regrets.

That idea sliped all the way out of my head in a very quick manner almost like an olympic runner sprinting full speed through a shortened finnish line as I stood in a line for hours on my birthday for the opening of a new game. My parents didnt mind becouse they got to through the annual birthday party that only involved them and my three siblings. My two brothers were compleat jocks who had played sports in high school and still looked like they could suit up and play at any momment. Even my older sister is kind of a jock but she is also top of her class so its ok for her. My friends could never make it to my party becouse of one thing or another this year it was work but I cant expect alot when my birthday is in the middle of summer.

It was only natural that I would be standing in line for this game even if it is my birthday. This game is the biggest MMORPG game to come out to date and I was a total game freak. Now as games go I had played alot, a whole lot but I could never finnish the games becouse I would get bored and start a new one. Besides games where a good distraction from my mundane real life that seemed to go nowhere and achieve nothing. Atleast with games I could see my level and notice my improvement.

The only real surprise to the usual group of obsessed gamers in line for the "C9" opening was this supper cute girl standing in front of me in line. I say cute but she was realy amazing, not just amazingly cute for the group of people but the kind of girl who your eyes are drawn to no matter where you are. It seemed odd to me for a girl that good looking to be here with a group of game nerds like us. What was even wierder was the fact that she turned around and started talking about how awsome "C9" was going to be. Im a game freak like the rest but the only real evidence of that would be the T-shirt I was wearing for last years big game. But I was still a compleat game freak at heart so the suddenness of this amazing girl turning and talking in compleatly perfect game speak I just couldnt control myself and started chuckeling. She turned red and then turned around. I regained my composure and started up my end of the conversation with a basic gamer question "So what class are you going to be?". There were many classes to games like "C9" and girls usualy picked clerics for healing or mages for damage so in a way I was kind of curious what a beauty like her would pick. She turned around agin happy to continue the conversation and said somthing I however didnt expect "Im going to be a tall blond warrior!" I just couldnt help it and started to chuckle agin. She was a short girl with long brown hair and she looked more like a princess that a warrior. She turned red agin and in a squeaky voice that was defenatly tented with anger she said "And what are you going to be?"

I didnt realy have to tink about it eather so I said with a smile still on my face "Probably a Mage" She seemed satisfied after hearing that. We continued to talk about the game, other games we had played, movies we liked, favorite foods even. We talked untill both of us had already gotten the game and were about to part ways in the parking lot half a day had passed since we started talking in line. She was walking away when I called after her "My name's Ray" She turned with that same dazzling smile said "My names Apple".

I went home and instaled the game but I still felt wierd about it after all Apple couldnt be her real name. I had installed lots of games before but I was never this impatient to play one. Over the next month of my summer break I played the game much more than I normaly would but mostly I was looking for a tall blond female warrior. I had killed so much time that the new school year had just crept up on me at an astonishing rate. I was sad that I had not seen her on the game even though its a huge game played by millions and millions of people and angry at myself for thinking that a beautiful girl like that who was also cool enough to know about games would like a guy like me. To be honest I was a little mad at her to for giveing me a fake name and a bad one at that.

So I went back to school and waded through the crowd of people forceing there way to front to find there name on a class registry that would tell you your homeroom. I hated crowds and when I say hated I mean I realy hated crowds so I just sat down on a bench that was conviently located 50 yards away from the crowd and waited for them to dissperse. I wasnt realy worried about being tardy since teacher would never consider you tardy on the first day at our school. When the group died down into just a few people who were having trouble finding there name I got up walked over and just as I hoped study hall first period. Study hall is a simple class that is the same no mater what school you go to. The student go in work on things from other classes or just relax and hang with there friends. I personaly wanted the class first period becouse it would let me catch up on the home work from the night before that I didnt do becouse I was playing a game. I scanned the list to see if any of my friends had the class too. I didnt see there names but I did however find one name that seemed both un-real and predictable given the flow of my story book fate. It seems she wasnt lieing about her name being Apple and now that I think about it that makes sense. Who would make up such a wierd name for a lie.

I nearly skipped to class and oddly enough I wasnt late. It seems everyone was checking out ther lockers so I was the only one in the class well except for the brown haired beauty reading a book at the back of class. I walked up and took the desk right in front of her. I couldnt help but laugh out loud at how seriously she was reading this book. The laugh broke her trance and she droped the book or as it would turn out books. It looked like somthing out of a bad tv show but I reached down to help her with her books. For a second our hands touched as we both reached for the same book. As I picked it up and grabed the other aswell she looked at me, turned red, then said "You!?" I chuckled as I tend to do around this girl and joked in a questioning tone "Me!?" The big book was somting I didnt pay much atention to despite its huge size it might have been "War And Peace" but the second book was the realy interesting one that somehow made my chuckle turn into a full out laugh. I handed her back both books and looked her right in the eye when I handed her back the "C9 Player Tips Book". I had her about the Player Tips Books for major games and how they were writen by groups of experienced gamers who had discoverd secrets and wanted to share them while makeing alittle money. She was still red when she said in her familarly squeaky voice "Im not good at the game so......" I just smiled and said the first thing that poped into my head "Realy I thought it was preaty easy but thats just me." She looked like she was going to get mad agin and even though I did like her cute squeaky angry voice I decided it would be better to stay on her good side. "Then do you want to team up?" She didnt seem aginst the idea but her pride wouldnt let her say otherwise "You just need my help dont you?" Ofcourse I just went with it "You are so right, I need a beautiful brown haired partner who happens to be a blond haired warrior." She blushed and I did to when I realized what I had just said.

She was about to say somthing but just then the bell rang for class and almost as if on key students started fileing in through the door at an alarming rate. I was self concious about what I had said to her for the rest of the day so we didnt talk much even though we had two more classes together. I sat in my usual desk and watched the guys go to the back of the room to hit on the new girl and the girls go to try to make friends. Somehow in the chaos of it all I found time to slip her my username and when I would be online. When I did she read it, looked at me, and then nodded.

I went home as quickly as possible, threw my bag on the bed, and started up my computer that was covered in old game stickers. The time I told her I would be on was close so I logged in quick and clicked on my character who looked exactly like me thinks to the facial desighn system to the "C9". My character was Impressive covered in high level mage robes and carying a high level mage staff. I played alot of games so I knew alot of the secreats to leveling up and aquiring good gear. Add that fact to the crazy amount of time I had been playing this game while looking for the blond female warrior who I was waiting for now. I went ahead and set up my speak line for forming a party so that I could talk to her when she showed up. We had planned to meet infront of the weapons store at four o'clock and it was a little past four now so I had my charater looking all around for this blond warrior. I chuckled when this short brown haired warrior in large armor walked up and looked like she did in real life. I might have been confused on who she was if it werent for the fact that she showed up as a team member and had her chat line open. It kind of startled me though when her voice came through my headset with a very shy "hey..." I just shyly replied "hey" and then a few moments later to prevent an acaward scilence from setting in I said the one thing that somehow balanced out our wierdness "Do you want to go dragon hunting?" I said in a very dorky almost whiney tone. The odd thing is that it may be the only time when a girl will say "Yes!"