Gustav is on the way to the pharmacy, and for no apparent reason, he is running. While he is crossing the street, with nothing much on the road, he mysteriously trips, falls and lands heavily on the floor.
And damn,that hurts.
His hands are numb and now his knees are bleeding as well.
"Man, that's a good way to start my new life, I am sure it is."
At that particular moment, a pink car stopped by, in a place that is not too far from where Gustav fell. It is already uncommon for someone to drive pass here let alone driving such an expensive car. This specific model is extremely rare and can easily worth up to 90 million credit points. So you do not need to be a genius to figure out that the owner is not any ordinary people.
Gustav knows, of course.
A young girl wearing a white dress opened the door and came down towards him hastily.
"Hey, are you okay?" the girl asked with a clear and caring voice.
This voice is no stranger to Gustav, he listens to it every single day during his third year in high school. He startles and looks up. Who else can she be other than the one and only Eba.
Eba was such a beauty, she is wearing a white dress decorated with pink lace, it matches perfectly with her clear brown eyes and her ponytail. You can tell that she is such a cheerful individual just by the way she looks and smiles at you.
Gustav's memories strikes again, this time it was 4 years ago. It was the annual gathering among his high school classmates. Back then, she was a successful business owner. The suit that she was wearing made her looked extra sexy and charming.
Funny that time is such a wonderful thing, it once put a beautiful ingénue into a sexy young woman, and today, it changed her back.
Perhaps fate played a very important role here, they used to sit next to each other, and now they meet again. Fate is like a cassette tape, putting two individuals back into the origin. And this time, melodious music sounded slowly, each temperament are so wonderful but pleasant and peaceful.
As far as Gustav remembers, this is suppose to be their first ever encounter and the scenario was similar as well.
"Hey, your knees are not looking good, that is a lot of blood," she said. Come to think of it, her car's medicine cabinet had some bandages, so she quickly rushed back to her car.
Looking at her back, Gustav remembered how good she used to look in her white dress. She was so slim and the white dress she wore usually revealed the bottom part of her leg, and it was as white and as fine as jade porcelain.
Damn, she is such an angel to him.
Eba grabbed the bandages and starts to come close to him, treating his wound with disinfectant. She was so careful at removing any little gravel on the wound.
"Why are you crying? You are a big boy already, crying just because of this wound, that does not look strong to me at all," she smiles as she saying all these in a mocking tone.
She has that shallow dimples when she smiles and that can not be easily described with words.
"Nah, just now when I fell down, sand came into my eyes," Gustav replied with a blush while he casually make up a reason. He cried not because he was hurt, not because he was painful, he cried because he saw Eba once again. His heart is like the boiling water in a kettle, ready to spill out any time. The joint feeling between bitterness and happiness just way to hard to explain.
He is doing all that while Eba treats his knees intently and carefully.
Gustav raises his head and looks at her while she was busy patching him up. Eba is just so flawless, a ray of black hair drawn down on her earlobe with a pair of delicate earrings.
Eba could easily be the most beautiful one in his class, and of course there are pretty girls in other classes, but Gustav stubbornly believes that Eba is the most beautiful girl in his whole school.
"Why do you come here?" asked Gustav, and that was the first question he wanted to ask her even in his previous life. After this encounter, he has been obsessed with her, and later into high school, he was so surprised to find out that they were in the same class, sitting next to each other. He used to think it was fated.
After all these years, he realised that even fate gave the opportunity for two people to meet, if one do no take advantage of it, everything will be missed, he was clearly aware of that when it was too late last time.
"My father asked me to come here to find someone but I am not successful," said Eba with a tiny frown on her face.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxgJYMHGSi
She is so simple that she will trust anyone even though they just met.
"Are you sure about that, or I should say, is your dad entirely sure about sending you to this area here, this place is really not that safe, and there are a lot of gangs let me tell you." Gustav was worried because she is so pretty and that would not help her in getting out of any sticky situations.
"How dare you look down on me! I have a black belt in taekwondo, and if you do not believe me, I can demonstrate how I do things in my area." She puts up the standard pose and suddenly she stopped, maybe she remembered that she is wearing a dress today. "Actually, forget it, maybe next time. I don't think trying to demonstrate my kicking techniques while wearing a dress is very appropriate."
Gustav smiles, that familiar feeling is back after talking to Eba for a while. This young girl in front of him is Eba without a doubt. She is so true to herself, so pure, so lovely, so lively and cheerful.
Now it is Eba's turn to look at Gustav, he seems younger than her just by his innocent look. Even though he is not that tall, he is not that good looking, he is not wearing anything fancy, she finds him really familiar and friendly, and maybe that is the reason she said so much to him.
"So, which school are you in, I would say, you are still in junior high right?" Eba thought to herself that the boy she is looking at seems very naive. Only junior high kids would run without looking at the ground and tripped over like him.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKNiyhJ3lb
Although Gustav is 18-year-old physically, he actually has the mindset of a 28-year-old man. He is no longer the ignorance little boy she once met.
"Who said I am in junior high? My kids would be in their first year in primary if the government allow us to you know what, unfortunately," Gustav replied in a joking manner.
"I am already 18, and do not tell me how old you are, let me guess."
"Are you sure, you are 18? I don't think so," Eba looks confused.
Because he was in a poor family, Gustav could not afford the usual nutrition that everybody gets, and that is why he can not convince her that he is 18.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGLK2PG0jJ
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"I just have a baby face and I am sure that is the reason."
"Kids, just admit it, anyway, you just guess how old I am then," Eba started to grew interest in him because he seems like a very funny person. She does not like the boys in her class at all because they either are suck-ups or they are gangsters. Gustav is actually talking to her like a normal person, a natural conversation with proper manners and he does not give her any sense of disgust.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBp9kppZjRR
"How about we make a bet?"
"What bet?"
"I am only going to guess once, and if I get it right, you owe me a wish," Gustav said it with a slight sly laugh.
"What wish?" She started to get worried and maybe she misjudged him too early.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKPWvz8giF
"If I get it right, you have to give me the photo in your wallet, the one you took when you were 12." That photo was the only gift from Eba, he liked her for a long time and he was so surprised that she gave that to him when they graduated.
He will not miss this chance anymore, he is the new Gustav.
"How do you know I have a photo in my wallet, and it was taken when I was 12?" She subconsciously glances at her own wallet and she is sure that since they met, she never even opened her purse. How does he know all that?635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVaQ6dawzG
"Maybe that is fate, okay, let me be honest with you, I am actually a fortune teller," said Gustav and trying to be mysterious. He is having so much fun with himself this life.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKP65VpGky
"Stop trying to be spooky, who would believe you." Although Eba said so, she started to wonder how this is happening. That photo in her wallet is so important yet intimate to her. Even her closest friends do not know that exists. She is so afraid to show anyone that because she was such a chubby girl in that and people will laugh at her for sure.
"Okay, here is the deal, I can only do three guesses a day.First, I knew I would meet you here, second, I knew I would be able to tell how old you are and finally I knew you had a photo in your wallet and that is fate to you, my friend," saying that, Gustav felt weird, maybe he is inextricably connected to her somehow, this life and the previous.
"Alright, so, how old am I then, master?" She really wants to teach him a lesson just by looking at the expressions on his face.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelfrElspyI
Eba was doubtful but yet she wants to believe. Funny thing that she never even reads those horoscope things on the magazines that every other girls do, but today, this is different. It is just too weird.
In fact, many people are willing to believe that fate is really a thing, especially people like Eba.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoD0ENVzfLw
Pretending to count and calculate things, Gustav thought for a long time and said "Okay, you and I have the same age, and your birthday is on the 25th of Marth, so you are an Aries. You like swimming, reading books, eating spicy food and writing, matter of fact, you published a novel when you were 16, am I right?"
Her mouth was opened, for a good whole minute.
"How do you know that?"
"Like I said, I am a fortune teller."
"You are a stalker," she sighed, but wait, they never met before.
Gustav replied while he shakes his head, "Nah, I never seen you before, and I have never been out of this neighbourhood, how can I even do that, right?"
"I do not believe you," Eba is trying her best to deny what he just told her.
"Well, it is up to you, I done my part and from your reactions, I think I got everything right?"
"Anyway, master, we have not introduce ourselves to each other yet, so what is your name?" Eba begins to generate more and more familiar feelings with Gustav, maybe simply due to the fact that he just guessed everything right, or maybe it is like what he said, fate? She starts to become more interested in him.
And all of a sudden, he does not look like a junior high student to her any more.
"My name is Gustav, and I am a fortune teller."
"Okay, master Gustav, and I think it would be polite if you ask me what my name is here."
"Since I know you birthday and interests, how could I not know what your name is?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNWyrXGIiy
"So, what is my name?" She said in a very questioning tone.
"Eba, E...B..A, that is how you spell it," Gustav said.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oi90qpgiw
"You win, Mr Fortune teller, You win, this time," she said that while she tied a bow with the end of the bandage on his knee. "I have to go now, my dad is waiting for me to have dinner."
Gustav looks at his knee and he does not know how to respond to that, it was such a nicely tied bow but damn he is a guy after all.
"So how about the bet, where is my photo."
"I do not remember that I agreed to give you right, I said you can guess, but I did not say I will give it to you, right? You are a fortune teller, I am sure you could have guessed that, oh wait, I forgot you could only guess three things a day, I am so sorry master Gustav, " Eba is trying to be sneaky and refused to give him the photo.
Damn, she is good, Gustav thought to himself.
"I really have to go, remember, do not remove your bandages until tomorrow," she warns him while she starts to get up and walks back to her car.
"I am fine, I can already walk, you just go, and thanks for everything today." Even though he wanted to spend more time with her, he knows that there is way more opportunities coming up in the near future so why rush it now.
"So, master Gustav, how can I find you in the future. Do not get me wrong, I might need a few fortune telling next time, who knows," as she was asking him for his contact, she starts to blush and quickly finds a random reason to cover up because Gustav is the first boy she ever asked for contact before.
Gustav is so indescribably mysterious, he has the unique sense and ways, just like a magnet to her, she starts to feel that there might be something, but she is not sure what that is.
"Let's not worry about that part, I am sure we will see each other again, and next time we meet, do not forget that photo of yours," Gustav said while he starts to walk towards the pharmacy that he was suppose to go.
"If we met, I will give it to you," she said it to herself, feeling sad. Gustav is a funny person, will she be able to see him again, and will his guesses be right next time?
Gustav looked back as she drives away. In his previous life, he did not even say a word when she was patching him up, he is so glad that this time round everything went smoothly.
Being able to reborn is nice, you can start everything again.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2OqUYMmdn
Knowing in a few years time, everything might be taken away from him by Soren once again, he told himself that he has to start buckle up and get ready for all the upcoming challenges.
Speaking of Soren, he has that feeling to go put a bullet into his head right now.
After buying some fever medicine from the drug store, he took it and now he finally feels more comfortable.
Coming out from the pharmacy, he heads straight to the nearby department store, he wants to buy the gaming helmet for Fayth.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIcqOcZVHH
He strolls around for a long time before he finally finds the counter which sells the gaming helmet. There are so many of it, three levels of variations and thousands of different colours.
The cheapest would be 1300 credit points and the most expensive one costs 1.2 million. The higher the price, the better the configuration, but what he needs now is just a normal one that he can play the game with.
It is said that in addition to the gaming helmet, there are as well as some limited edition in-game cartridge which you need to pre-order. The price is easily up to more than sixty million credits.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFe9yY5NN4W
Gustav is not even considering any of these for now.
Swiping his bank card on the machine, he picked a light blue one and carried out the identity binding procedure. After the implementation of identity binding, this helmet can only be used by Gustav.
Fayth's server was opened seven days ago, and the highest level in the server is only level 5, he had plenty of time to catch up.
Being able to have a second chance at life, he is not going to mess around with it this time. He is going to dominate, and he promises himself he will.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUbQDRxL84
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