Womanizer

Lying down on the bank of the small lake was a beautiful woman; the very same woman that Enzo saw in the convenience store a few weeks ago.

She was wearing a pretty white sundress with pink flowers scattered across it and matching white sneakers. The sundress covered all of her assets, but did a terrible job of hiding them. Her long silver hair was tossed behind her and fanned out on the grass. She had her palms resting on the back of her head and eyes closed.

Enzo stared at the woman, once again mesmerized, for a solid minute or two before he finally made his move.

He stood up from the park bench and walked over to where the woman was lying on the grass.

Enzo wasn't trying to be quiet, but he wasn't necessarily loud either so she didn't notice him approaching until he was a few feet away.

Enzo could tell the woman noticed him because when the sound of his shoes hitting the grass was close enough to her, he saw her eyes and head twitch a little bit.

She did not open them and continued to lie still as Enzo sat down and proceeded to lie on his back beside her.

Enzo kept his eyes open and stared up at the sky.

Out of the corner of his eye he was able to see the woman open her eyes and look in his direction.

Enzo was only four feet away from her on the grass, so he didn't expect her to just ignore him.

A small smile formed on his face as she scoffed at him before closing her eyes again.

This was an insanely hot woman. Enzo knew a normal approach would not work on her, because he assumed many people had asked her out before. As an average looking guy he would have even less of a chance with her, so he needed to play his cards right if he wanted to get this girl. Enzo's plan was to have no plan at all. If he went into this with the intention of asking her out, she would probably detect it immediately. He was just going to try to become friends and if it worked out that way then good, and if not then so be it.

After a few minutes of silence Enzo finally spoke to her.

"You play LRO?" He asked.

Enzo was still looking up at the sky but he could once again see her look in his direction from his peripheral vision.

For a few minutes there was no reply, she just stared at the side of Enzo's face.

"Yeah, you?" She finally answered in a quiet voice.

"Yup." Enzo responded.

"You may have heard of me before. My IGN is Predator." Enzo lied.

The woman's eyes widened.

"Really?!" She practically screamed.

Enzo let her believe he was telling the truth for another few seconds then, "Just joking", he replied in a nonchalant, deadpan tone.

Enzo turned to see the look on her face.

Her eyebrows were furrowed in a deep frown and she was propped up on one elbow.

"Pfffffttttt. Hahahahaha!"

The look of deep confusion on her face was just way too funny, Enzo couldn't hold his laughter in.

A smile formed on her face as well seeing Enzo laughing so hard at his own joke.

"You're weird." She said playfully before lying down on her back again.

When Enzo finally calmed down he decided to actually introduce himself.

"My name is Enzo by the way, and my real IGN is Atlas."

There was again a minute or two of silence before she answered.

"I'm Bella."

She waited a few seconds before continuing.

"And, I actually have heard of you before if you aren't lying this time."

"I'm not."

"What's your in-game name?"

"Eevie. I am currently number 10 on the leaderboards."

"Really?" It was Enzo's turn to be surprised, but he took her statement with a grain of salt because she could just be trying to prank him like he did to her.

She turned her head to him.

"Yeah."

Enzo couldn't confirm her statement at the moment because he hadn't checked the leaderboards in a while, so he decided to just believe her for now.

"I'm number 41 right now, but I was number 9 at one point." Enzo couldn't help but brag slightly himself knowing she was so high up on the leaderboards.

"Why did you drop to 41?" She asked.

This time Enzo took a few minutes before answering. He couldn't decide if he wanted to tell her about the bloodline quests and why he had to take a break from fighting. Ultimately, he knew it was stupid to tell a complete stranger about things like this no matter how beautiful she is. However, he didn't want to lie to her at the same time. Lying so early in a friendship would build a foundation of lies and just give way for more lies to happen in the future. But, lying and not telling the whole truth aren't necessarily the same thing.

"I wanted to make some money so I took a short break from hunting."

He didn't give her the full reason, but also didn't tell any lies.

"Oh. My situation was similar. I needed to make money for something first, which is why it took so long for me to get on the leaderboards." She responded.

"What did you need money for?" Enzo asked while hoping she wouldn't ask him the same question.

"I needed something expensive from the auction."

Enzo had a hunch he knew what the item could potentially be, but he still asked her just to confirm.

"Was it a flower?" Enzo asked.

Her head snapped in his direction and her eyebrows furrowed into a frown once again.

"How did you know?"

"Because I needed one myself, and only someone who knew about them would have known beforehand that there was a big possibility of the flowers being auctioned off."

Enzo felt there would be no harm in telling her about the bloodline quest now that she obviously had one herself, he just had to hope she didn't have one that conflicted with the quests he and his friends had.

"Which quest do you have?" He asked.

Information is the key to winning in most things. If Bella told him which quest she had first, then he would be able to lie to her if she had one that conflicted with theirs or he would be able to tell her the truth if she did not.

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Read the author's note from chapter 67 before reading this one if you haven't already. So, I have decided to change the species of the werebear. All of the other main character's I am going to keep, but I have been trying to figure out what to change the werebear to. I am thinking maybe foxman or ratman species, but I don't know. Whatever it is will have the thief class so if you have any suggestions for something like that then please let me know. Also let me know which book you want next. So far I have one vote for robot, one for slime, and one for dragon. The next vote will decided which one is book 2.

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