The next day is a Monday, Jeremiah and Arnold meet up before school.
"It is clear that Mr. Weiss is a tad bit odd or maybe even frightening." Jeremiah said.
"We could take shifts watching him." Arnold suggested.
"That sounds like it's against human privacy but it doesn't sound too bad." Jeremiah said.
"Ok we'll keep an eye on him then. With these four 1080p eyes of mine, he couldn't pull a thing." Arnold said.
"You don't have 1080p eyes, it's not even invented yet." Says Jeremiah.
"Wow, I thought you were going to say humans don't see in 1080p." Says Arnold.
"Oh so you do know something." Says Jeremiah sarcastically humorous.
"Since when are you funny? but I've got to go now, see you later." Says Arnold.
"Ok sounds fine. See you later." Said Jeremiah.
Jeremiah then heads into school. He heads to his assigned homeroom but then just before he is called to the principal's office.
"You sent for me?" Asks Jeremiah.
"Yes, it's about my offer from the last time we've spoken. Have you considered taking the job?" Said the principal.
"I've considered it and I've decided I'll take the job." Answered Jeremiah.
"That sounds fantastic. We will send your diploma to you. You will not start today or anytime this week. You may leave for today or stay and hang around, it is up to you. I will be busy gathering your paperwork and we can start the process tomorrow." The principal said.
"That sounds fine. I'll just head out then." Jeremiah says.
Jeremiah heads out of the school and of course finds his way to his favorite Internet cafe, the DCA.
It was like any normal day. The day felt so average but of course an average feeling only gives way to the complete opposite. "Why do I feel like something will soon happen?" Jeremiah says before he enters the DCA.
"No one is here? I'm here alone but with people I don't know." Jeremiah thinks to himself. "Where is Arnold?" Jeremiah wonders.
Jeremiah goes to a pay phone that is located right outside of the cafe. He calls Arnold to see if they can meet.
"Hey do you want to meet at DCA now or what?" Says Jeremiah expecting Arnold to say yes.
"I'm busy right now, I can't." Said Arnold.
"Are you at school?" Asks Jeremiah.
"No." Arnold simply answered.
"I thought you went, then where are you?" Asks Jeremiah.
"All I am going to say is that I am busy, so I didn't go to school. Are you not busy?" Says Arnold.
"No of course not. Should I be?" Said Jeremiah.
"Yes, you should be. Am I your only friend?" Said Arnold.
"Ahhhh….. you are." Says Jeremiah with his hand over his face. Wait a minute…Gasp "Am I not your only friend?" Jeremiah said over dramatically.
"No, you're not. You should Make more friends." Said Arnold.
"What? You want me to get used to more human interactions? It's not even that easy." Said Jeremiah.
"Well it's not that hard." Says Arnold. No really, says no one but Arnold. Only Arnold would say that.
"What?! You make one new friend and suddenly you're so popular. I bet you feel like the President." Jeremiah said sarcastically.
"I mean, you can vote for me but no you should honestly have other friends as well and still have me. I'm just busy that's all." Explains Arnold.
"Ugh fine. Then I'll see you next time." Jeremiah says.
The call ends here but how will I introduce a new character? Eh I won't.
Jeremiah enters the cafe again. When he gets into the cafe he notices Dr. Weiss is actually working his own cafe. "I can't believe it, is he doing regular people work?" Jeremiah thinks to himself. "Ok I will try to be as casual as I can and there are people around my own age in here. I will try to make more friends." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
"Jeremiah? why are you here?" Chris says in a nasty tone.
"Why am I here? Chris has never been here before so why'd he start coming to DCA all of a sudden. I didn't even see him come in." Jeremiah thinks to himself. "I come here often, why are you here?" Jeremiah says to Chris.
"My friends from school invited me here today." Says Chris.
"You have friends from school?" Jeremiah says in a surprised tone of voice.
"Tch. Yeah and you don't. I see you're not with your one loser friend, lame-o or whatever his name is." Says Chris in anger.
"It's Arnold but yeah what you've said." Jeremiah says as he walks away from Chris.
"Chris isn't that your brother? He is famous right?" One of Chris's friends say.
"Shut up!" Chris says to his friend in anger.
Jeremiah finds a table to sit at. For a while he sits alone and draws on his notepad. Until he falls asleep. In this dream he has he is still in the cafe. In the same exact spot he fell asleep in, he is still at that same exact table he fell asleep at. But this time, no one is around. All the people are gone and the cafe is completely empty. The cafe illuminates a dim green light.
Jeremiah gets up and walks around for a bit. He wanders to the back of the cafe but no one is there as well. He comes back into the front of the cafe and people are frozen there. Many people are standing still. They can't move and they don't move. On their bodies are covered with a pixel static. Dr. Weiss walks right past Jeremiah.
"Hey!? Do you see me?" Jeremiah yells out for Dr. Weiss's attention.
"....." Dr. Weiss was silent, he didn't respond.
"You won't answer back? I know you see me." Jeremiah says to Dr. Weiss in a angered tone.
In that very second Dr. Weiss began to act very strangely. He began to devour people who appeared to be covered in pixel static. Jeremiah watched in a disgusted face.
"Stop! Stop! What are you doing?" Jeremiah yelled in a cracked voice.
"Stop! Stop! What are you doing?" Dr. Weiss taunted back at Jeremiah, mocking him and laughing. "Jeremiah, leave." Dr. Weiss demanded.
It was at that very second Jeremiah woke up from his sleep, still in the cafe. Everyone was still there. Everything was still the same. It was normal. It was the most normal.