An intruder came in his front, he quickly shot him off, firing bullets right inside the middle of his forehead. Cole was taken aback by how quick the M416 fired even when his forefinger just touched the trigger.
"This is awesome!"
He said to himself amazed.
"Nope! This is not awesome."
"Are you crazy? This is a dream!"
"Yes, it's a fucking dream!"
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Cole heard those voices right away the moment he spoke to himself. And he halted in his actions.
He could not believe his ears of what he just heard. Did he hear right?? Did he really hear the voices of people speaking to him when a moment ago, he could not hear even a damn thing??
Plus those voices....those voices sounded the same as Chris, Matty, and Vin. His friends...they sounded like them. He did not know what to do and what not to do, how to feel...feel bad or feel good.
Wait...did they hear him saying 'it's awesome'?
All those times in the plane when he was screaming, shouting, breaking his voice to call out for Chris and not once anyone heard him, here when he was talking to himself, automatically all his mates could hear him? That was strange...
When at one point, he felt like nobody could hear him. He felt incapable of commincating or even let alone make someone hear his whisper right near their ears.
And here when he was just starting to talk by himself after limitless trying out to call out for Chris, suddenly everyone of his friends could hear him.
That was really really strange...bizarre and something he never experienced or felt of.
"This is awesome!" Cole said again.
It was a test to see if he could hear the voices of Matty, Vin, and Chris again. And very surprisingly he did.
When he heard them once again, he felt his insides warming up...he felt his spirit theat had lost any hope by now elevating to the point of an altitude that even crossed the height of the mount Everest itself.
"This is not awesome!"
"Yeah. This is not awesome. "
"For fuck sake stop saying it's awesome, Cole."
"This is a nightmare."
"Exactly"
Cole could not help but hear them all. He heard them all, happy tears spurted out from his eyes as he could not contain the joy in him.
"This is awesome!"
Cole said it out again. This time from his heart. He did not even know when he said it out loud for he meant the awesome thing as in finally being able to communicate with his long lost friends.
"Fine...fine...I give up!!! But Cole just stop it."
Matty yelled.
"Yes...stop it. It is not funny!!!" Chris joined in.
"Definitely not funny Cole. So just stop....Will ya??"
Vinny ended it.
Cole was about to speak out that he did not mean it like what they were thinking of but by the time he could say it , Matty spoke in.
Nevertheless, he was very happy and glad that for the final time now he could speak and be heard by his friends. That was a good start even if they were still stuck inside this unknown world and had no clue of how to get the hell out of here.
"Guys... I m sweating here. " Matty spoke.
"I had three kills already. " Vin said, pride evident in his voice.
"You kill even the one who is not a threat to you, Vin." Chris pointed out.
"Exactly just like Viku. You could be him one day." Matty remarked.
Cole was listening to them and he got a head shot right after, collapsing down on the muddy ground. He was just so much enjoying listening to his buddies arguing as usual...he felt so nice...so alive that he could not see the intruder that knocked him down in one stroke.
"Cole...you there?" Vinny asked after a while for not getting to listen his voice.
"Yes, Cole....are you still in shock?"
Chris questioned.
Basically, everyone was still in shock but they were trying to get used to the fact that somehow they got trapped in this virtual reality world of the game. How did they get in here?? No one had any idea of it but they knew that it was better to let the first half of the information sink in so that they could move on and figure out the rest of how to get out of here.
Cole closed his eyes, happy this time knowing what would happen to him in the next moment. For he had repeated this scene so many times.
Earlier he felt exhausted but this time, he felt like he could come back and get to connect with his friends once again.
He was inside the plane again. And he scanned for his buddies again but when he did not see them, it made sense because when he was shot, they were still talking so they were very much alive on the ground.
Although he tried to look out for any familiar face that he had played with before. But he could not remember things yet clearly. It was like he was facing the mild cases of anemia.
This time Cole did not wait when he saw that there were no friends inside the plane and so he thought of getting off the plane right away, the seat belt opened automatically the moment he thought so.
He had to look back at the belt one more time for it being open just like that. He had the struggle to open so much in the earlier times.
It was so simple. He just had to think and the belt opened. He with a few headed through the lobby and when it was his turn, he jumped off without thinking twice.
He just could not wait anymore to hear from his friends again. He needed to listen to their voices and feel good again...feel hope to find a way of out of here....
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