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Chapter 4 - Getting to Know Karl Branden

Karl is a big teddy bear. He is 40 years old. He loves to interact with others. Karl has a dad's body, wild salt, and pepper beard, he is graying, he is 6". He acts like a teenager. Karl is divorced, and he has a son that lives with his mother. He is an alcoholic. Karl likes to drown out that his wife left him for another man and has a better life now. It wasn't enough for Karl to do the best he could for his family. Karl lives in Fargo, North Dakota. Karl works at a popular fast-food place, Chopped Steak King. He takes an order at the drive-through. Karl lives in a studio apartment. He doesn't even have a bed, just a futon. In the divorce, he lost everything. He tries to be nice to everyone, even though he is drinking himself to death. Karl falls in love too easily. Any woman that shows him any attention falls for them. He loves it when women pay attention to him, it makes him feel wanted. Karl is a follower, not a leader. Karl feels that if someone is talking to him, they want him, and he would do anything to make women pay attention to him. He gets lonely fast, so he drinks. He was on an app called Facing book when an ad for a bingo game popped up. Karl clicked on it. It was flashy. Busters Bingo was flashing on the screen. It offered to you to chat with real people from all over the world. That got Karl interested, so he downloaded it. Karl opened the game and was looking at the game's mascot, Buster the deer. He did what the game was telling him to do. He put his name just as Karl. A monkey cowboy is what he picked. He thought it was funny. Karl played the games and drank all night. The next day he found out that he drunk and bought the special game package called "High Society". It cost 20 dollars a month. Karl didn't deal with it, he just left it and got ready for work. Karl tries to date, but all the women look at him like a brother, not a lover.

That makes Karl drink even more. He finds himself playing the bingo game more and more. He loves going into the slot rooms and flirting with all the women. They treat him like a king. He loves that no one knows what he looks like or his actual age. Every woman that comes into the slot rooms falls for his charms. All but one, Lacy. Karl fights with her because he secretly loves her. He pokes at her like you would a bear. He loves that she targets him the most. It makes him feel that she sincerely does like him and wants him as he wants her. Karl feels sad when she is not in the slot rooms. He tries to find her in all the slot rooms. But he sits and waits for her to come into Pillar Heist. He clicked on her name once and looked at her inventory and saw that she has the most gems in that room. Karl thinks she must like this slot game the most. So, he sits and waits day after day. Just waiting for her to come in. He flirts with all the women that come in and leaves the room. He wants to make Lacy jealous. Karl believes that it works. Because she always starts in on everyone when they get too sexual. He smiles even when she calls him slow. To Karl, that is a pet name for him. He loves how she always tells the truth or calls people out on their bullshit. It makes him want to be with her even more. Sadly, Karl is too scared to tell Lacy how he feels. It got worse when a new player came into the room and women started paying attention to the new guy instead of him. He clicked on the new guy's profile. His name said, Randy. Karl scoffs at his profile picture. It's of a guy with no shirt. Karl is just hoping that Lacy won't fall for him. Karl waits to see what happens when Lacy comes into the room. When Lacy shows up and lays into some woman for flirting with him, he tried to talk to her, but she told him to fuck off. That made him laugh so hard. Karl does not know what it is, but he does not trust this Randy guy. Almost all the women are eating up whatever he says. Karl is just watching everything that is playing out in front of him. Keeping notes, he stops talking. Some women ask where he went, Karl would just type right here. Randy tried to talk to Karl, but Karl wanted nothing to do with him. Karl is drinking his favorite beer, "shoot beer". Karl told everyone that he is going to get off the game. Everyone says their goodbyes. Karl logged out of the game and drink more until he passed out like he does every night. Karl wakes up with a nasty hangover. But he gets ready for work anyways. He just hopes that Randy won't be on tonight. Karl does not want the spotlight off of him. He wants to be the only rooster in the hen house. He wants Lacy to talk to him and not Randy. But Karl will have to wait until after his shift at work. Karl did his 8 hours and went home. He grabbed a beer and logged into Busters Bingo. He got his daily rewords and played in the daily competition room. Then he played a little in the bingo rooms before going to slots. Karl sat there and waited for anyone to show up.