Turns out that my sleep schedule is super bad now.

  I turned off all of my clocks so I never know the time in my room.

  I woke up today and waited a few hours before I headed downstairs to meet with Aria in the m. It did end up taking me a few hours to get ready though.

  I ended up just wearing a sweatshirt and pants, nothing out of the ordinary. It was still winter, but I was used to cold weather at this point, so I was going to be fine.

  I left my bedroom, a downstairs, only to find the house in plete darkness. It wasn’t until I got to the kit and saw the time on the oven.

  7am.

  And since I had already been up for a while already, I must have woken up super early.

  Deg I should not go bay room, I sit down in the living room and waited for the others to wake up.

  After sitting down, I open up my status and look at a few things I was w on.

  MP: 30/30

  Light Magic lv.1 - 322/500

  Dark Magic lv.1 - 53/500

  Intelligence Boost lv.1 - 370/1000

  I spent 5 hours w on MP st night before I went back to sleep, during which I switched between light and dark magic.

  I was currently at my dark magi the cycle, so I created a small darkness stru the living room. If I were to hit someoh this, I could seriously hurt someone, if they were low level.

  In just about a sed, the struct disappears. I had poured all of my mp into it, and none of it was to make it st any amount of time. stricts like that one have a few categories that impact the amount of mp is used for them. The strength, the mass of the strud the length of time it sts.

  With my MP drained, I get back up and pick up a gaming sole by the television. It's a hybrid sole, so I use it without turning on the whole television.

  ?

  About 30 minutes into my waiting for mp to recharge, the light in the living room was turned on.

  “Ugh, I o get used to this” I say to myself, hiding my eyes from the light.

  But, someone else speaks up as well.

  “Zenith, you're in the living room” Dad said. Based on what he and mom were wearing, and the time, they were heading to work.

  “Um, yeah. I didn’t know what time it was, and I was going to go out with Aria today. THinking about it now, I also don’t know what time we agreed to do that. So I decided to just wait down here” I said sheepishly. It was the first time I had seen anyone in a long time.

  While I was talking, Mom walked over to me and rubbed my head like she did when I was a little kid. “That's great. You just take your time”.

  “Thank you” I said.

  “Well, we have to head to work, but you have a good time with Aria today” dad said. “Call if you need anything”

  They started to walk away, but before they left, I quickly got up and gave them both a big hug.

  “I mean for everything. Thank you”

  “Zenith, there is no reason to thank us” Dad said.

  “Were your parents” mom said.

  “I just… I just wao say it”

  ?

  MP:0/46

  Light magic lv.1 - 439/500

  Dark magic lv.1 - 161/500

  Intelligence boost lv.1 - 595/1000

  It was around noon before Aria came downstairs.

  A little after I drained my MP again, she came up behind me and hugged me from behind.

  “You know, I’ve been waiting by your door for a while” she said.

  “I’m sorry. I came down to wait for you”

  “That's fine” she said.

  We stayed like that for a while, but at some point, we o get a move on.

  “Um, Aria” I said, “We should get going”.

  “ we just wait a few minutes?” Aria said. “I haven’t been able to hold you like this for a long time”

  “Aria”

  “I know you need a phone”

  “No, I was going to say we do this more if you want”

  “Hmm, someone wants to be spoiled” she said, as the hug gets tighter.

  “I don’t know what you mean” I say, blushing.

  “I don’t want you to push yourself” she said, ging the subject.

  “I want to push myself a little” I say.

  “Then I would love to” she said.

  We left the house pretty quickly after that.

  ?

  I ended up sitting outside of the cellur store after a while of time spent there. Turns out that it retty busy day for some reason, and I got overwhelmed inside of the store.

  Aria was uanding, and told me she would get a new phone, and have it take over my number.

  There was a bench outside of the store in the mall we went to and I was sitting there.

  There were a lot of people in the mall, even with it being a school day, I think. That wasn’t a good judge of things, but it did mean that young children and older adults should be elsewhere.

  When I was on the bench, there was a good gap between me and the rest of the people. I could watch them all gh the day for a while, while I was waiting for Aria. In fact, I found it pretty calming.

  It gave me a ce to think.

  I had not bee sihe stuff with Mana, but that told me a few things.

  I couldn't referehe texts for many reasons now, but I remember them still.

  I made her when I was a kid, so what was this skill going to do ter down the line.

  I had looked at what I could do now, and none of it was s. It was good equipment, but not super world ging.

  Not, creating a fake friend powerful.

  But, it does level up, and that means it gets stronger.

  Currently, I am able to get up to only get the first level items, but there are 8 currently avaible. I was also close to sed level of items, the stone ons and the novice armor.

  After about 30 minutes of waiting outside of the store, Aria came back out.

  “Finally, I got the phone. I am sorry it took so long”

  “It's not your fault. They are busier than I expected” I said.

  “Well, let's go to the food court a something,” Aria said, grabbing my arm and pulling me up.

  The food court had a lot of different options, and Aria and I wanted different things, so we tried to go separately.

  Only that didn’t work out.

  Eventually, she got both of our food and brought it over to where I was sitting.

  “Sorry” I told her, kind of sad about what was going on.

  “No problem at all” she said, pg the food in front of me. While she ate, I picked at my food, but also started setting up my new phone.

  It was the version of the phone I had previously, which was only about a year old. I felt bad fetting the brand new one, but Aria said she didn’t care.

  It also turns out that she had bought herself a new o the store as well.

  “Why did you buy a new one?” I asked her.

  “I wao. I have money” She said.

  “But your phoill works?”

  “But I could buy a new one if I want to” she said.

  After a few minutes, I get the phone pletely set up, and start to look at all of the things I had missed over the st few days.

  I had actually received a lot of texts and calls over those days, but only from two people.

  Mia had ses cheg on me every day sihe day she came to the house, both seeing how I am doing, and telling me about her day.

  Quickly reading them, I learn that she dropped out of my old school after the frontation with Noah at my house, and now is going to school oo finish the st 2 and a half years of highschool.

  I don’t really know what I should do with this, so I just react to the st text with a thumbs up to be nice.

  I don’t really know where I stand with her now, since I had stopped being her friend because of Noah, but that was over now.

  The other texts are all from Nyx. She had both called aed during this time, seeing if I wao do things with her.

  This I felt bad about, since she was the one who called, and she was a good friend. I was nervous about how to deal with this, so I put it off for now.

  “Zenith, is everything ok?” Aria asked me.

  “Yeah, of course” I say, looking up from my phone.

  “Hey, I ask you something?” Aria asked me.

  “Oh, sure” I say\, putting my phone down to pay attention to her.

  “Why did you break your phone when Nyx called you?”