A System Awakens!?

Jason slowly opens his eyes to a somewhat familiar white room. The fluorescent bulbs blind him at first. Jason can feel a dull ache behind his eyes but it quickly vanishes. He sits up in the white sterile bed and his head begins to throb. A set of curtains surrounds him; isolating the bed from the rest of the room. Behind the curtains he can see some vague movement 

He has been here a few times before this. The Nurse's office. 

His head won't stop pounding.

"Jason! Thank God you are awake. Are you alright?" Ms. Gold almost jumps out of her seat and through the curtains when she finds him stirring awake.

Carry Gold is the nicest person in this terrible school.

She is 25 and her slightly sunken eyes were clearly from her constant worry. She stays up most nights worrying about her students and some of her most consistent patients. She is beautiful even with the worry on her face. She has long straight black hair and deep brown eyes. Her olive skin and curvy body makes her the object of desire for everyone in the school but her sweet-strong willed personality kept everyone professional.

She was used to advances but they were all tame because of the delicate balance of trying to find a nurse to work at the school. So if anyone even thought about going too far with flirting, another teacher would step in.

No one could touch the one person in the school everyone likes.. without consequences.

Jason reaches for his head. "Yes, Ms. Gold. Head hurts but I'm fine." Jason says.

"Don't move, young man. You might be concussed. You're head was bleeding bad when I found you and we don't know if anything might be broken." Carry begins running around the room grabbing tools to run a diagnostic now that Jason is awake.

His head continues to ring and he just wants to get home to rest. Sure he loves staying at the office with Ms. Gold but this is not the way he wants to. He preferred to talk about the games he was playing not being injured like a dog. He hates making her worry, especially everything she has done for him over the past two years. 

"Stay still, I'm going to make sure you don't have a concussion. Just follow this light with your eyes." She begins a routine concussion exam. He slowly follows the light with his eyes showing normal pupil dilation. She then runs through some questions with him. She checks for swelling around his head and slowly unwraps his bandages.

"The wounds.. they're gone. What the heck happened to you?" Ms. Gold questions Jason. He's not sure either. He was looking up and the next thing he knew he was knocked twenty feet away. He isn't sure if he should tell her. It isn't exactly the most believable thing.

"Nothing serious. I just felt something hit me. Am I fine though?" Jason asks trying to be as vague as possible without lying. His head is hurting more but he can handle it. If it means not letting her worry. 

Ms. Gold sighs. She knows enough about him to know he's rushing through this.

"Yes. You are fine. Barely. No concussion but Jason please be careful. Don't make me have to worry about you too."

She grabs his hand softly. He looks down at her tender hand. He can see the work she has done through the soft strength of her hand. He grabs it back and nods. He starts to get ready to head home. He can't make her worry. He doesn't know why his head still hurts, but it was nothing compared to all the pain he was feeling already. 

"I'll visit soon." He says as he leaves. She waves him off and she makes sure to ramble a few more warnings on the way out. 

It doesn't take him long to get home. Although he was only unconscious for 30 minutes. It was enough for the sidewalks to his family's apartment to be clear.

Jason slowly opens the door to find his sister sitting down doing school work.

"Jason!! You're back. What took you so long?" His little sister, Ana's voice rings in his head and he winces but forces a smile. 

She looks almost just like him.

She is only 13. She has long wavy black hair, dark brown eyes and a big smile. Behind it all though you can see how sick she is. Her eyes are sunken, her pale skin looking so frail it would crack under any touch and her crutches sitting right next to her.

Jason sits his bag down and plops down by her side.

He scruffs up her hair and says,"Just got held up. How's the studying?"

Jason lays back against their small couch and pulls out his phone and begins scrolling. 'God I'm so tired maybe some sleep would get rid of the headache.'

"It's going great, some boring stuff but pretty easy. You feeling alright? You never ask about studying?" She knows how little he usually talks at home. Something is wrong. 

"Just tired." He groans.

"Well just sleep then." She says.

"Yeah, Maybe I'll just do that." Jason grunts and stretches as he gets up. He doesn't bother to brush his teeth or shower. He just plops down on his bed and groans in pain. His wounds were gone, like nothing happened, but the fatigue still remains. His head screams and he folds the pillow around his head. 

[The host has lazed about while his sister studies diligently.] 

Suddenly the pain subsides and he unfolds the pillow. He slowly opens his eyes and a slightly transparent blue screen sits in front of him. The grating mechanical voice still hanging in his ears but now the words typing out in front of him. 

[Welcome Host to The Idle System! Aren't you lazy..]

'Lazy! Wait, I got slammed into a railing earlier today and you are saying i'm lazy. What the heck is this?' Thinks Jason. 

In seconds every piece of information of the system downloads into his brain and he falls alseep

[Can't even handle that. Wow procrastinating even learning about the system.]