• Albel walked out of the game simulator. He was just enjoying a good action game, one of his favorites: Digital Ocean. He just loved playing the somewhat evil Aleb, as he seemed to fit Aleb’s description and mindset. Albel walked out and back to the lobby of the gaming simulation where there were a bunch of couches and replicators for the guests to use. He wasn’t sitting down for long before his childhood friend Sophia walked up and put a drink in front of his face.

    “Ahh! Watch it or I’ll get you next time!” He said when he saw who held the drink out for him. “I thought you were swimming down at the beach and were going to stay there for longer! I figured I’d be able to swat a few more flies before you came back!” He said to her. While she had said that, he had also said that he would head down there after a few battles of Digital Ocean. Unfortunately, he had gotten involved in a couple of storylines that took him into a few fights at a time, so he counted each set as one so that contributed to the time it took him to have those few fights.

    “I was waiting for you the entire time and I finally got tired of it because you took so long! I thought you were just going to fight a few battles!” She said. Of course, she was right. Albel had to admit that if she had taken that long for something she promised to do with him, he would have been mad as well.

    “I got involved in a couple of storylines! I wasn’t able to quit after them, besides, I was doing so well fighting all those maggots!” He said in his traditional manner of speech. It was also how Aleb talked, so that just proved how much they were similar. He enjoyed talking that way when his parents weren’t around, because they would have frowned upon it if they heard him. He always thought it was cool though; it made him sound tough yet also sensitive, just like he was.

    “Riight, and this just so happens to come up when you promised me you’d be somewhere with me? Sounds like you had it planned!” Sophia said. You could tell she was mad, and she didn’t get mad easily.

    “Bah. How about we go shopping or something to make it up?” He asked her, knowing she would come around eventually. Even if he screwed up so badly that she stopped talking to him, saying that would work, at least as long as he bought everything that she wanted. Because he did this a lot, his spending money was rapidly dwindling. Thank the lord he had a job back on Earth!

    “Humph!” She went. “Alright, just make sure you have a few thousand Fol this time though! This isn’t going to be so easy on your wallet!” Albel didn’t like where this was going. Usually she spent a couple hundred Fol worth of clothing or jewelry before she was done with him, but a few thousand Fol? That was almost one of his paychecks!

    Maybe this was just a mistake. I could easily spend that much on gaming…

    He thought. Every game you played without taking a break cost 500 Fol for the Battle Simulators, less for everything else. He was doing so well today that he was thinking of returning later when everybody else was asleep so he could have the whole area to himself.

    “Well Albel? I might just make it more if you wait to tell me when we’ll go!” She said cheerfully.

    “How about tomorrow?” He asked. “And where all would you like to go then?” He always wanted to know, despising secrets. Sometimes when Sophia was trying on her clothes, he peaked on her for a few seconds, most of the time he got caught and was forced to spend more on her, but every now and then he got away with it so he didn’t mind her shopping for clothes. Bras and underwear were even better, but she was more on guard then too, so his chances were limited but possible of peaking at her without getting caught. Jewelry shopping wasn’t nearly as entertaining as the clothing shopping, but still fun at times.

    “Clothing shopping mainly, maybe Victoria’s Secret. Why?” She asked. Albel got happy because of what she said, so he just replied his usual of he was curious so he could plan some shopping for him to do while she was doing hers. His mind however, was planning on spying on her when she was changing. Albel wasn’t the smartest egg in the universe, but he certainly was able to build a little spying “fly cam” that was actually almost as small as a cell. He could watch the feed live or when he got back from shopping with Sophia. For a while, it looked like he was staring out into space. “Albel? You ok? You sure you want to go shopping tomorrow?” She asked him. The minute he heard that, he got mad at her again.

    “I set the date for tomorrow so that I could get it out of the way as soon as possible! I’ll be able to make it.” He said, his voice iced with anger.

    “Excuse me, but could you two take this somewhere else? We need to work on one of the Battle Simulators that some kid like adult Albel broke because he used it so much. If I could met him then I would congratulate him for being able to do so because it is so hard to do!” An employee of the hotel said to them after clearing everybody else out. He looked like he was unhappy about having to work on a Saturday, but nobody cared.

    “WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!” Albel shouted angrily. He wasn’t fond of being anything like a kid, except for playing games. He couldn’t give them up for the world! Before Albel could hurt anybody, Sophia dragged him out of the area and back to their hotel room.