"Brian!" I scream, but no one answers. In what feels like an eternity, but is really just five seconds, I'm transported into a digital world.
I feel like curling up in a ball and crying, and I try, but since the game is still doing the countdown I can't move.
"OOOOONE!" The man's voice bellows, and suddenly flowers start matching towards me. "Crud," I say as I realize that I have no idea how to actually be in a video game.
Images of Brian making me jump over "bombs," (they're really bouncy balls,) flash through my mind, and I suddenly realize that I kind of know how. Possibly.
I'm limited to four movements; Jump, which is button A, slide, which is B, and throw tomatoes, which is X, and run, which is Y.
If I combine X and A I can do this awesome twirl, where I go up in the sky, and as I twirl, I throw tomatoes. But that takes a lot of work and skill.
"I wonder if I think 'B' I will slide." I say, and I try it. Before I'm ready for it, I'm on the ground sliding through ten flowers.
Flower petals fall to the ground like confetti. I do a celebritory jump and fall back to the ground, falling on a flower.
"Yes!" More flowers start to come, only these are bigger. I know I can't jump on these, but I can easily walk right under them-- or run. I start moving my stubby legs as fast as I can while saying 'Y' over and over again in my head.
"Finally," I pant after I've passed all of the huge flowers. I know that the level is over, because I've played this level a hundred times before. So I know it's okay to relax.
Now that I'm not in "game mode," I can move without thinking about the alphabet. I collapse on the ground and pant.
"LEVEL ONE, COMPLETE!" The voice bellows throughout the whole game, and I think I see one of the flowers wince.
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Game__On
Short StoryJamie and Brian are brother and sister, video gaming obsessed siblings. Whenever they play video games with their friends, they always win, when they have free time-- they game. But when they get transported into a video game, all they want to do...
