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Stage One: The Sidekick

Michael's face was lazily propped up against his hand as he scrolled down Tumblr. His co-workers told him it was a pretty alright site so he made a blog and followed some people. He got so many hate messaged thay any message he got he ignored it completely. after a few hours of scrolling he resurfaced Tumblr to see a message in his inbox. He groaned to himself and clicked it to see what ignorant prick wanted to critizise his knowledge on the many video game related posts he reblogged. It was anonymous, and surprisingly...wasn't hate. Michael raised an eyebrow at the message reading it over,

'you seem like a really cool guy,I just really like your blog and thought we could get to know each other since we have a lot in common'.

Michael sat back on his bed and glared at it, it had to be a trick. There was no way after so much hate that someone out of the 356 followers he had would actually like him. Nonetheless he replied,

'Thanks man, and sure it'd be a hell of a lot easier if you were off anon though'.

Michael went back to the dashboard for a few minuets before seeing the inbox being occupied again. He was now interested as he went to answer it.

'I would but I don't really want you to see me yet, my blog has my face all over it. But so you know its me I'll just signature the messages BM

-BM'

Michael scoffed and shrugged as he replied again to the anon, starting the convorsation by asking him what he found so interesting about his blog. Michael didn't post his own content unless it was a new score on something or a stupid text post that complained about something trivial. They talked for an hour or two, quickly learning each others favorite video games and trading snarky remarks. Michael glanced at the time at the bottom of the screen, its was nearly 3 in the morning. He had to admit, if someone could keep his attention for that long they were worth talking to and overall this guy wasn't that bad.The next message was final for the night.

'Well I gotta go its insanely early over here and I need my beauty sleep. I'll talk to you later Michael, the name's Ray by the way

-BM'

Michael smirked and closed the window and shut his laptop. People always mentioned making friends online was great, he guessed he could understand why. Ray was a pretty cool person and quite frankly he wouldn't mind talking with him again.

The next morning Michael woke up late at 12 in the afternoon. He groaned and sat up, turning on his laptop and checking Tumblr first he was hoping to see the inbox full of the inspiring number of 1 message. He wasn't disappointed at the message at all.

'Hey you up at all? What frickin time zone do you live in dude? I'm bored I wanted to know if you wanted to play some Xbox. Just add me whenever you're up and around. (BrownMan)

-BM'

Michael shut his laptop as quickly as he'd opened it and shuffled out of his room and to the couch to turn on his Tv and xbox. He Added BrownMan as soon as he signed it and received a message right after with a simple "minecraft?". He replied with "ok" and waited for a game invite. What he received was a chat invite. Michael raised an eyebrow and connected his headset, accepting it. " hello?" He sat in silence for a minuet, hearing the other shuffle around his mic. "Hey!" Michael winced at the unnecessarily loud voice. He turned down the volume on his headset. "So you're Ray hu? " he asked now accepting the game invite that had been sent. "Who's Ray?....of course it's me dude." He joked. "Why did you wanna talk like this?" Michael asked, looking around the world that had loaded. "Its easier, you know" Ray said.

A few hours of building later they were just screwing around now. "No what are you doing?! You fuck! You just flooded my basement!" Michael yelled bewteen short chuckles. "What was I gonna do let you get away with taking all my iron?" Ray chuckled. "That was your fault " "how the hell was that my fault?!" Ray laughed back. Their laugheter died down and there was a minuet of silence. "Oh shit, I had plans to out to dinner" Ray said abruptly, Michael guessed he checked the time. "Ooh Its it a date? Either way, they won't miss you, you've got a house to rebuild" Michael joked and began dumping lava to the house Ray had built.

"No its not really like a date but i- God damn it Michael!" Ray tried to put it out with water buckets quickly. Michael burst in to laughter, "how didn't you see that coming?!" He laughed out. "You're a dick" Ray mumbled. Michael's laugh turned to a chuckle. "No but seriously dude, I gotta go and tomorrow I swear you're rebuilding my house." Michael had a small sinking feeling, "yeah yeah, whatever go flirt or be romantic or whatever it is you do" he joked. Ray chuckled before he responded with a "Alright see ya" and just like that Ray was gone. Michael spent a while staring at the screen, almost hoping he'd be back online within the next few seconds. He gave up within the next few minuets of staring at the Xbox dashboard. He continued to scroll down tumblr until he dozed off on his laptop. Smiled to himself, he couldn't wait to talk to Ray again. He made him happy, Michael didn't have many friends. Knowing that Ray was willing to talk to him meant that Michael wasn't as bad as a person as he thought.