Chapter 8 - Traitor

"Orion, please! Just, just listen and then decide what you think. Please?"

".... Fine, I'll listen...."

"Yay!"

"But! If I think it's too dangerous we're not doing it. I don't want you to get hurt." Orion frowns.

"Okay, I understand, I really do so here is what I have planned....."

Orion decided that it would be fine so we are putting my plan in action today. Sean is scary so I decided to talk to Hunter instead with Orion. Orion keeps glaring at Hunter as we go but I smile excited.

"Hey Hunter! I was thinking if you could help me and Orion? The amusement park is opening a theme day this Saturday and I was thinking if you could bring Sean too so like a double date." I say lifting my eyebrows at him smirking. His cheeks flush a little and a smile comes to his face.

"I'll make sure he comes. That sounds fun. What time should we meet?"

"Let's meet at 13 o'clock in front of the station." Orion says putting his arms around my shoulders.

"It will be fun! See you then!" I say waving to Hunter a goodbye and walking with Orion to the class. We sit down next to each other and I'm taking my books from the desk when something falls to my lap. I look down my blood running cold. There is a note which read:

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Ugh, it's sticky. I put the note on my bag and decided to keep this to myself. This must be the first clue. 'Among the five' could that mean me, Orion, Sean, Hunter and Cole? 'Traitor'.... What could that mean? Am I the traitor since I'm not from here? Or does that mean something else? The voice won't pop out in my head so could it be the traitor? I don't know.... but I have to figure this out so I can leave. Well that's what the voice keeps saying anyway. Orion looks at me. I smile to him and try to act natural. What can I do though...?

After school we walk with Orion to his home. And I guess it's mine too for as long as I'm here since even though I haven't been on the protagonists house ever since the first day, well I haven't been there at all, there hasn't been any missing person reports or anything at all. So I don't know where my "home" is. Orion is kind so I'm relieved that I can stay with him in the meantime. And come to think of it, I don't know what my "parents" here look like either. And since the bullies broke my phone I can't contact anyone. And now that I think about it that sounds really bad.

"Um, Orion, I think I need to buy a new phone."

Orion looks at me weirdly but the expression left as soon at it come. What's with that?

"Oh, that's right. I forgot that you don't have one. Do you wanna go shopping now?" Orion says. Since the bullies had shattered my phone and broke my stuff I don't know how to pay the phone. I don't really have anything here. No belongings beside my school uniform. Maybe I should buy some clothes too. But how should I buy stuff? I don't have any money.

You have 3 600 love points.

"What are love points...?"

"What do you mean?" Orion asks frowning and I then realized that I said that aloud.

"Uh, I.... don't know." I stutter not really knowing the answer. "The uh, voice said I have some love points what ever that means."

You can change the love points to the currency.

"Wh-What?!"

"What's wrong?" Orion says worriedly.

"I, well, nothing's wrong. We should just go to the mall or something."

"Okay. Where do you wanna go first? Get the new phone or...?"

"Let's get the phone first. If anything happens I have some way to contact you."

"Yeah, that would be good. Do you remember your parents number?"

"Uhh..." I don't know what to say, I'm not even sure if I have one in here. "I don't know."

"Well, that's okay. But it's odd, that no one has been looking for you. There were nothing on the tv or anything."

"Uh, yeah... I think so too."

"Well, let's get you a phone. We're almost at the mall."

We went to the mall together. There were a lot of stores from clothing to electronics. First we went to find a phone for me. There were few, in baby pink, lilac and azure blue. I took the pink one since it had a reasonable prize compared to others. And I like the color so it was a win-win.

How do I pay this? I thought and a card appeared on my hand.

Your currency is 3 600.

Thanks.... So since this is 230 I'll still have 3 370 left.

I went to pay the phone but at the cash register come a problem.

What is the cards number???

0000

I typed the number on the screen and pressed ok. Soon the payment was okay and I got my phone.

"Thank you for your purchase. Have a nice day."

"So, what do you need next?" Orion come beside me as we left the store.

"I think I'll need new clothes." I said. I still have enough money to buy them so why not. I needed them anyways.

"Okay, there are three stores for clothes on the upstares." Orion said smiling and as we went to the stairs I noticed a cute backpack on one of the stores windows. Well, I need to buy a backback so that would be nice.

As we went to look for the clothes Orion helped me to decide what I needed.

"You should pick few clothes to wear. I can help you if you want to."

"Thanks." I smiled at Orion and went to the changing room. First I tried on the orange overalls and a white t-shirt. I went to show the clothes to Orion.

"You look very cute in those." Orion said smiling happily.

Next was a powder pink dress.

"That one's cute too."

The last one was more casual. A jeans and a lilac pullover with a lighter color tye-dye print.

"I think you should take them all. You only have one clothes anyways."

"Yeah, I think so too." They'll cost 150 together so I should just buy them.

I'll have 3 220 left after buying them so it should be fine.

Again I paid them and the cashier said: "Thank you for your purchase. Have a nice day."

You unlocked a special event.

"What's with that...?" I think aloud and as I went to look for Orion. I soon found him outside the shops with a bag on his hand.

"Oh, you went to buy something too?" I asked and to my surprise Orion gave me the bag he was holding.

"For you." Orion said and as I looked what was inside I saw the backpack I saw on the store window in downstares.

"Thank you Orion. Though you didn't have to buy it for me."

"I noticed how you looked at it as we went past the store so I wanted to buy it for you."

"Thank you." I said smiling and looking at the backpack. It was yellow and had pink zippers. It really was pretty.

"I think I'll buy you something as a present too." As long as I know what you'll like.

Orion blushed.

"It's okay, I just wanted to buy you something you liked."

"And I'll want to do the same to you."

"Fine. I'll keep that in mind." He smiled and we went to home.

"Thank you, for taking me to this date." Orion said smiling as we walked.

I blushed and realized that that indeed was a date.

"S-sure."

"What do you want to do in the evening?" He asked "After setting up your new stuff."

"Well... What would you like to do? I'm open to ideas." I said smiling and after a moment of silence Orion answered blushing.

"No one has really asked that from me before. Would watching a movie be okay with you?"

"Yeah, that sounds great." I smiled.

After arriving at home I put the clothes on Orion's room in the emptied drawer. Orion asked if I wanted my own room but after the scary accident in the hallway, I didn't really like the idea of being alone. The house was too big anyways.

I was currently opening the new phone and to my surprise it had some apps in that definitely aren't just normal everyday apps. There were Game Menu, what I couldn't open, Settings and something called Seri. Is that a dupe Siri or something? I tapped on the settings and it opened a new window. There were settings for the phone, change background and etc. But on bottom were Game Settings. I clicked that and opened the new window where were things like game difficulty, which didn't change what ever I did, turn on hints and the current route. I turned the hints on. After turning the hints on come another setting on the screen: Allow push notifications.

I clicked it on and then on the screen read: hints will now show on phone notifications.

I went out from the settings and went to Contacts.

"Orion, could you put your number here?" I asked as Orion walked in.

"Sure." Orion said and put his number on and gave it back to me.

Now I had one contact on my phone. I smiled and put the phone down.

"What do you want to watch?" Orion asks looking at the many movies on his shelve. He had quite many.

"How about that one with that hero and villain story?"

"Yeah, let's watch that."

I sit down as Orion put the disc in the Blue-ray Player. Orion then come to sit beside me and he pressed play. Even thought the game has been quite hectic and dangerous, with that murderer lurking around the neighborhood and that psycho nurse, but today was more peaceful even with that cryptic note included. I was able to walk and I got myself a phone finally. I even had a date with Orion and have another one in the weekend. Knowing that voice thought the peace won't last for long. After that thought, a chime of a new notification interrupted my thoughts. I looked at the phone's screen. There was a new hint.

New Hint 20.08

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"What was that?"

"Uh, it's just..."

New Hint 20.09

Do not tell characters about the game.

"I-It was just a notification about some... update."

"Well, it's a new phone."

"Yeah..." I say looking at the screen, "I'll look at it after the movie ends."