Alex Wittens (18yo Female Bi-Sexual High School Senior)

I have the day off, my mother finally trusted me home alone in the last year of high school. It had only taken 13 years to do so and I am going to make the best of the peace and quiet. After a late breakfast I pull out my books and started getting some study in. Before I knew it, three hours had passed and I was startled by the doorbell ringing.

I made my way downstairs to answer the door and was greeted by a man in an all black suit who immediately asked me, "Is this 37 Anspin Avenue?"

"Yes, yes it is. I'm sorry who are you?"

"And, are you, Alex Wittens?"

"Yes, I am."

"Do you have some form of identification Ma'am?"

"I'm sorry, I still don't know who you are and I'm not showing you anything until you tell me."

"I have a delivery for an Alex Wittens at 37 Anspin Avenue and have been instructed to take copies of identification due to the delicate nature of the package."

"Oh, ok then, weird."

I was perplexed at what the man was talking about but figured I had won some sort of prize that I wasn't completely sure about so I fetched my purse and grabbed my driver's license from within. Going back to the door I handed the strange man my license and he scanned it with some sort of electronic device. Seemingly satisfied he handed back my license and removed a small black box from his coat.

"All of the instructions can be found within, if you need any help I have been instructed to stay until you are satisfied."

"Ahh, no, I think that I will be fine, thank you."

The man turned and took his leave without saying another word leaving me standing at the door holding the small box that he had given me. Intrigued, I shut the door made my way to the dining table eager to open the box and see what all the fuss was about. The box was no ordinary box either, it was made of a shiny black material but not metal, Onyx if I were to venture a guess. This just added to the intrigue this small object was causing me. Seeing no obvious signs of a way to open the box I turned it over in my hands and out of nowhere several letters showed themselves across the surface of the box. "W D R" in a plain type of lettering is shining with enough light to show itself but to not much to provide illumination anywhere else.

Pressing my fingers to each of the letters made them shine in a new light and once I had touched all three the top of the box slid across revealing its inner secrets. A phone, it was just a phone and one that looked a little out of date as well. At least the box was kinda cool, when I picked the phone up it felt lighter than it should so I looked around inside the box for a battery. The only thing I found was a small leather bound book that looked like it belonged in an antique shop not in a high tech phone case.

The book also had the same three letters on it "W D R" and they also lit up slightly when my fingers grazed them and my interest was piqued yet again. I opened the book and the first page revealed the meaning of the three letters, Wish, Desire, Reality with a subtext, "All of these are now yours". This was a curious marketing strategy for a phone and an old phone at that but I turned the page and began to read.

Fifteen minutes later I had finished the book, the instruction manual of sorts and it read more like a fictional story than anything else, I didn't know what to make of it. It said that the phone could alter reality, that it could fulfil my wishes and my desires. It didn't seem just like some marketing blurb so I took the whole package up to my room and started doing some searching online. From the research I found online it was part of an augmented reality game, a sort of online meets real world video game experience and this one was a scavenger hunt of sorts with no detail on its origins. Also no one had any pictures of the phone, they were all going off second hand reports from other users.

I start the phone up and it leads to a screen that I enter my name and supply a password which then brings up a screen showing what the front camera can see and a text box with a flashing text bar and an on screen keyboard. I point the camera out my window keeping my eyes locked on the screen, everything looks pretty normal except for a man jogging down the street that I didn't recognise. Keeping the camera trained on him a targeting reticle pops up following him as he goes. I quickly type onto the screen, "Stop jogging.", to my surprise the man stops and stands there. Wow, he must be a digital addition to the augmented reality and what the manual meant when I could control it. Typing further, "Turn around and crawl back the way you came", the little digital man turns around and gets on all fours, crawling back the way he came. I can't help but laugh at the absurdity of it and think to myself that this will be fun to see what else pops up in the world through my augmentation.

As I am laughing I get a look out of my window without the camera screen and see the man I had though was merely a digital avatar actually out on the street crawling back the way he came. What in the hell was happening, had I actually done that, that couldn't be true, this was just some elaborate augmented reality there's no way the phone could actually cause the man to do what I had typed.

I grabbed the manual and read through it again, the controls had occurred exactly as described in the book. I was reading it with fresh eyes, eyes that had just seen something impossible, it was impossible wasn't it? I checked out the window again and the man was still crawling up the side of the road. I let go of the phone not knowing what the hell was going on and noticed a pop up that read, "Corruption Level Increased +1".