The Weekend

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Having awoken somewhat early this weekend morning you had just taken a shower. Feeling fresh you enter your room with nothing on but a towel around your waist. There is a visible tent that you're pitching but you can't help it. Your morning wood was expecting to be pampered under the covers like usual. Unfortunately that's not happening.

Amelia is still asleep with Casey and Sarah is entangled with Keiko downstairs in a tight snuggle. It's weird seeing those two like that as they're nothing but polar opposites. Regardless your access to sexual relief with them are seemingly cut off leaving you in your current state.

You put on your clothes and stuff the two bento boxes into a drawstring bag. As much as you love lazing around with the girls you need to get some fresh air now and then. Perhaps a trip to the city. You need to finally cash in on your stashed bills.

You take the sports bag containing all your "earnings" out of your closet and walk out.

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It's 7:00 AM. You watch the clouds roll by sitting at the back of the city bus. It's a cloudy day again with the occasional peeking of the sun through the clouds. You sit still listening to music.

Cars roll by passing the bus. Men and woman are going about their daily lives as usual unaware of all the things that are happening all around them. You question yourself if you should be a little more bold and arrogant seeing as everything here is "yours" to an extent. As of now you feel as if you are a shadow ruler not recognized by his kingdom. Has passed Crowned individuals become true rulers? Surely there were many that wished for absolute power, immortality, everlasting peace or even to remain as the Crowned forever....then of course the Bringers exist, acting as a constant threat to the Crowned....and evidently here you are, any hopes and dreams of the past Crowned individuals never lasted. Nothing is forever as they say....

The bus comes to a stop at a red light and a few teenagers run across the crosswalk with smiles on their faces. Up ahead is the large river that cuts your home sector from the city sector. Connecting the two is the large suspension bridge, the one that was shut down due to a bomb threat.

Speaking of which, you take out your phone and quickly search up the incident. According to the article there was an explosion yesterday at 5:30 PM. Three cars went up in flames in the street killing 3 people and injuring 5. The culprits haven't been found or identified yet. A guilty feeling stings your conscience....your reality isn't as safe as you'd hoped it'd be.

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You bite into the weirdly shaped sushi pieces from Sasha's bento box. You munch slowly and carefully savoring the taste as she told you to. It's not exactly bad....just inconsistent. The pieces varied in shapes, from tiny to big, from short to long. Other than that it was good, especially with a generous paste of wasabi on the side. Your mother must've aided a tad bit in helping her.

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After having what was essentially breakfast on the bus you pack everything up and stand to get off. You'll have Keiko's box later when you come back.

The scenery had changed drastically from the lonely high suspension bridge and the flowing water below to a bustling city of people, cars and technology.

You take a step off from the bus and look around. Lights from nearby posters, signs and buildings flash at you from a hundred different angles as the sun starts its early climb into the sky.

You walk down the street with the same sense of awe you first felt when you first 'awakened'. The city is, for the lack of a better word, AWESOME. It's techy, Sci-Fi, Futuristic, all that with a small dabble of clean Cyberpunk aesthetic all over it.

A lady sit at a nearby bench speaking to a projection of her kids at home produced by her glasses.

A man walk by you with a metal arm, the Exon-2, the latest state of the art prosthetic. You do a double take looking at the man again before moving on with a smile.

The buildings in the city here rise above the ground as if competing. Skyscrapers are found plenty every few blocks if not every other. Signs and billboards decorate their exterior becoming less of massive reflecting mirrors but a tree of scattered holographic images big and small. Some are even projected over the traffic taking up the canvas of the sky from the view below. Every night here is a spectacular light show.

"Hey! Want some takoyaki!? Get em here kids! Two-fiddy for one stick! C'mon man, it's a deal!"

An old street vendor waves at you as you walk by, he smiles wide welcoming you. You put up a hand to say no and dismisses him with a smile.

"Agghh!~ You're missing out man!" He shouts to you and immediately goes for another person walking by shouting at them as he did you. The alluring smell did tempt you but you refrain from taking any stops.

A few districts into the sector is where your school sits. A rather pleasant place with none of the busy aspects of its surrounding districts, but that's not where you're headed-

-As you begin another thought, the bullet train flies by through the subway station underground making you stop in place to look down at your feet. The concrete underneath you rumble for a small moment. The shaking eventually calms and you continue walking.