Collision Course [+ Additional Levels]

Level Eleven - Forgetful Times

"Hey, and don't forget the bread!" Karan called after his sister.

Mira rolled her eyes, making sure her long orange hair didn't get caught in the door when she closed it. "Please, let a woman do her shopping already, Karan," she laughed. "And besides," she paused to look at him, "I'm not the one who forgets the bread."

"Hey!"

Mira's laughter could be heard even after she closed the door.

Karan sighed and raked his hand through his hair, but couldn't help grinning. "Thought it was just that one time though..."

"Nah." Somebody passed by him with their nose in an open notebook and a pencil tucked behind one ear. "You've forgotten the bread numerous times," Andrew told him, lifting a steaming coffee mug to his lips and taking a sip, not once glancing at Karan as he sat at the table. When he set the notebook down, it contacted the table with a harder sound than usual, making Karan frown. Before he could comment though, Andrew pulled out a laptop from underneath his notebook. Of course, Karan thought—he'd been carrying that thing everywhere for the past two weeks. "And the eggs," he added, opening his laptop and going back to staring at his notebook.

"Aw, come on, man. You've gotta give me more credit than that," Karan said.

Andrew didn't lift his head, but Karan saw him lift an eyebrow silently.

Karan rubbed the back of his neck and let out a chuckle. "Well, at least I learned my mistake," he said.

Andrew took another sip from his cup. "Mm, hm."

Karan raised his eyebrows at him. "Are you even listening to me?"

His friend scrunched his brow and nodded. "Of course," he replied without looking up at him.

He chuckled. "What are you working on? Your eyes are, like, glued to those notes." He pulled up a chair to sit beside him as he spoke.

Andrew lowered his cup onto the table and looked up at his laptop's screen, tapping a few keys into the device. "Moe's condition," he replied, half to Karan, half to the laptop as he traced his finger on the mouse pad.

Karan sighed, leaning back into his chair. "Come on, Andrew. He's fine. Whatever the effects of the bite was, they've passed. Flushed from his system. He's alright now."

"I'm not so sure," Andrew said, taking his pencil out from behind his ear and looking down to jot some notes into his book.

"And why's that?" Karan asked him.

It was a simple question, but it caused Andrew to frown. He still hadn't told them about what he had found out about Moe's ranting in his sleep. They had asked him about what he had found in his research about coily and snakes, and he had admitted to them that Coily was part of some game, and had told them that Moe had indeed repeated some of the things that Karan said he had heard him say, but he hadn't told them much else about the matter. He couldn't, really. How could he?

"Hey, guys? I think when Moe was unconscious last week, he had somehow gained enough knowledge from a video game that's not even from the twentieth century that he's also never heard of before to mumble information about it in his sleep. Oh, and he also talked to Coily, who I suspect may have actually been there very snake that had bitten him! The last bit there is a theory, of course."

Yeah, no. That wasn't happening. Thankfully, he hadn't had to tell them that Coily the video game character didn't have any link to what Moe had been rambling on about, though in reality, they likely forgot about the whole thing since Moe's been awake. He dreaded facing them with that conversation, and he hoped they dismissed the connection when the time came.