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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7 Where is the Money?

A board, a white mustache man with a white hat, some strange text highlighted by a red bar around it, and on the edges of the board going all around it were many small squares with colours, strange symbols and images of some people. She could even see one man behind some bars there, he seemed sad and trapped there. But more than anything she couldn't help and look in awe at the silvery objects that she had found in the box where the board was. One silver object looked like a car, then there was a shoe, a hat and a furry looking creature of some kind.

Touching the board, touching the objects, biting them lightly, setting them up nicely on the floor, Lili felt so awed by all of it. These things like everything here in Alex's home were all such fine things. But still she couldn't see the money in any of them, no matter how hard she tried to see it there.

Confused by it all, she tried to look to Alex for support, but he seemed occupied. For a good long while he had been doing something with that board of buttons that seemed to be making things pop around on the screen before him and the one next to him.

He also made strange noises from time to time and spoke to the screen saying. "Testing, testing, oh I think I need to adjust this. Wait is it too loud now? Ah, why isn't it working? Just work and let me stream god damnit."

He sounded frustrated, but why, she didn't know. Looking at him a feeling then suddenly came to her, she began rubbing her legs lightly together as she then said to Alex. "Alex, I need to pee."

Hearing this Alex didn't even turn to look at her as he just waved his hand at her and said. "Yeah whatever, just go then. The doors right there next to my bed. And you don't need to ask me for permission for things like that, ok. Just do whatever you want and make yourself at home here."

Hearing this Lili merely nodded her head and said. "Ok." And then she headed for the door and opened it. Coming to the small hallway she headed for the stairs and intended to go outside when suddenly she heard Alex yell from behind her.

"Lili, where are you going?" Confused Lili looked back towards Alex and said. "I'm going outside to pee."

Now Alex seemed confused as he quickly came to her, grabbed her by her arm and dragged her back inside and to the other door there. Opening it Lili saw a hard stone looking floor there, white walls, a nice looking sink on the left with a big mirror, in the center a rectangular window with a solid white chair under it and then a small white pool on the right that stood on four black metallic legs.

Then Alex looked at her and said. "Here, just use this bathroom ok. You don't need to go outside to do your business when you're here with me. Just make yourself at home, oh and there are towels in the basket in the corner, if you want to take a shower. And there is toilet paper there as well. Just do whatever you need to do ok, I'll be right outside if you need anything."

Nodding her head happily at Alex, Lili felt so happy. Alex was so nice to her, to let her as a commoner use his things like this.

Feeling the need to pee rise. She slipped past Alex and before his eyes climbed into the pool and crouched down to pee. But suddenly Alex yelled in a panic. "No Lili! What are you doing? You can't pee there!" Quickly he came and grabbed her hand and helped her out of the empty pool and led her to the white chair. Opening it's lid, Alex then said. "For god's sakes Lili, do your business here ok. The bathtub is not something to do ones dirty business at, ok. The bathtub is only for cleaning yourself and nothing else. So use the toilet, ok? And only the toilet, no peeing or pooping anywhere else, ok?"

Confused, Lili looked upon the toilet as Alex called it and then climbed on it and crouched again. When Alex then again seemed panicked as he raised his voice at her saying. "Are you serious Lili? Just what are you doing? Your not supposed to use it like that! Do I seriously have to show you everything around here? Didn't your parents teach you anything?"

Alex grabbed her again and made her sit down on the toilet, as he began a lengthy explanation of all the things within the bathroom. Listening to his wise teachings while sitting quietly upon the toilet, Lili felt so informed. Alex was truly a knowing man of so many things.

Then lastly under Alex's guidance and watchful eyes she got to pee in the proper way as it was seemingly done here. To her all this seemed so strange, sure she had seen these bathrooms before, but they didn't look like this as they were all broken and in pieces. So she never used them, just like none of her friends never did.

Having done her business as Alex called it, they then returned to the room. Where Alex immediately went to the computer as he called it and she went over to find the money in the game. But as she did this, Alex suddenly started talking really loudly and happily to the screen there as he said. "Hello guys, it's your boy Alex back here today with another stream. This time with none other than the stunningly cute little Lili."

Then he started looking around as if expecting something to be there next to him. Then he turned to her and seemed annoyed as he said. "What are you doing Lili? The streams already started."

Confused, Lili looked at the board before her and then back at Alex and said. "Mmm, but aren't we going to play games?"

Once again Alex seemed confused as he said. "Yeah, video games. We are gonna play, video games ok. Not board games, that's a whole other thing. Now come on Lili, stop messing about and come say high to the stream already. I wanna teach you how to play, ok."

Hearing this Lili felt a bit disappointed. She wanted to know how to play this game and what all the things there meant. But she wasn't one to give up so easily, so she took the silver four legged furry animal and went to Alex's side and showed it to him. "Look Alex, it's a furry animal."

Looking at it Alex didn't seem to know what to say as he just said. "Hmm, yeah that's great Lili. You found a nice little dog, good job. Now could you please focus on this."

Saying this Alex grabbed the little dog from her hand and placed it on the nice table, as he then pointed at the screen saying. "Now say hello Lili. There are already two people watching us now."

Looking there Lili was amazed to see so many colours and strange symbols there and a big reflection of her and Alex there. Seeing it Lili smiled, waved and said. "Wow, you're right Alex, look there is you and me. Hello me, hello Alex."

Hearing her words Alex suddenly sighed heavily and used his open palm to hit himself lightly on the face as he then started pointing at things saying. "No, Lili. I didn't mean us there in the center, I meant the, well the now 7 people in stream down there. Look there are the numbers of the people and there on the right is the text that they are writing to us. See and I can also write things to them if I want, right here. But I don't need to as they can see and hear us, pretty good ok?"

Alex was moving quite fast for her to really understand what he meant by the things he was saying. As she could not only see the seven that now turned to eight, but she could also see a two and a fifty three there next to it as well. Seeing it Lili figured it to be a timer, but for what she didn't know. Then there was the text that Alex spoke of, some had a symbol and colourful text and then some more text. While others had no symbols and only the text and some more text next to the colourful text.

She didn't get it, but for Alex's sake she did as he asked and waved happily at the text while saying. "Hello stream, I'm Lili. I'm Alex's girlfriend."

Alex seemed to get embarrassed as she said this, when he then pointed to the thing called the camera, that was above the screen as he then said. "No Lili, don't look at the screen, look at the camera so they can see you better."

Seeing it Lili felt intrigued, the thing was quite blocky and small. She wanted to touch it and see what it exactly was as it didn't resemble anything that she had ever seen before. But then Alex pulled at her hand and said. "No, don't touch it. Just say hello to it."

Looking up at the thing, Lili was curious, but decided to just do as Alex said for now and so she said hello again to the thing. And apparently people really liked her saying this, although she didn't see anything change in the camera.

After that the screen changed again and the stream was moved to the left side screen away from her. Then Alex pressed down on the small black thing called the mouse and moved it. And then a black screen popped up, followed by loud sounds of music.

Unsure of what it was, she took a few steps back, and looked around. Alex looked at her in concern while saying. "What's wrong Lili? You're not sensitive to loud sounds are you? I can turn it down if you want?"

Shaking her head in denial of this, Alex relaxed and by the looks of him she figured that it was ok. The sound seemed to be coming out of the machine before her. There seemed to be no danger here and so she came to Alex's side again and watched what it was that he was doing.

The table was a bit high for her, but before her she could nonetheless see strange moving images. Images that looked like art to her. It resembled that of the screen in the brick house with the dancing people in it, but this didn't seem real. No, this screen seemed more like that one inside the Little Betty. She could remember Gunner using the screen to spot the demons and then press the trigger to make Little Betty's gun blast the demons into small melted bits of liquid.

But no, this screen before her was even more fake looking than that of the Little Bettys. It seemed so strange, like one of those schematics that held drawings of the orbital fleet and its many machineries and such.

Then as Alex selected something called a Blood Elf priestess, that was a beautiful looking piece of art in the form of a woman, a woman with hair and ears like hers. She then suddenly saw text with a strange symbol and a number five emerge on the middle of the left side screen. And for whatever reason it made Alex suddenly seem surprised as he said. "Oh wow, holy shit, look at that Lili. We just got our first donation. Oh wow thank you Snoopy63 for the five dollar donation. I'll be sure to save it for Lilis future gaming pc so that we can play together and bring you all the best of content in the future."

Then Alex turned to her and said. "Come on Lili, thank Snoopy63 for the donation."

Lili didn't really get it at all, but she having learned from before looked to the camera and said. "Thank you Snoopy63, for the donation and the five dollars."

Saying this Alex seemed to get really satisfied with her response as he then looked at the text and said. "I dare you, to get your girlfriend to sit on your lap as you teach her how to play. Do it and I'll give you another twenty."

Saying this, Alex then suddenly turned a bit stiff and red in the face as he then turned to her and shyly asked. "Is that ok for you Lili? Do you want to come sit on my lap and play?"

Why was Alex so shy, she didn't know. But he looked cute and she wanted to sit on his lap so she excitedly nodded her head and said. "Ok."

She wasn't sure what they were going to play, but Lili had an idea. And so as she got on Alex's lap and he turned the chair towards the screen, she leaned against his chest. Her head was just under his, he smelled good and as she looked up at Alex she closed her eyes and pushed forward her lips and waited.

She could feel Alex's heart rate then quicken, as he then spoke in a panic. "Wa wa what, what are you doing Lili? We are live, we can't do that now. Please just focus on the game on the screen."

There was something hardening in between Alex's legs that was poking at her butt lightly. He was releasing an intoxicating smell, his chest was right up against her and his large fat arms were so close to her as they reached out to touch that mouse and those buttons.

She felt a need to kiss him and didn't he also want to kiss her before, but now he didn't want to because they were live. What did it mean she didn't know, but she felt a bit disappointed. Fighting back her emotions and wants she showed a small pouting face at him and then looked to the screen before her.

Then the same thing happened as before, except that there was a bigger number now. Seeing it Alex seemed to become happy, but his thing did soften and wasn't pressing against her as before which did make her wonder.

"Thank you Snoopy63 for the twenty. And no, I'm not going to kiss her in front of you perverts. I don't want to get banned. But seriously thank you for the donation, it means a lot to me. And Lili also appreciates it, I'm sure."

Again Alex was talking to the screen and the camera, but why? He told her to say hi to the camera, but he was looking back and forth between the camera and the screen as he talked to it.

But sitting there on Alex's lap, time seemed to quickly start to fly as Alex taught and showed her many things about this world's most popular MMO game as Alex called it.

Alex taught her that moving the mouse, actually moved a little arrow on the screen. And with that arrow she could then change the look of the pretty elf priestess. And with the thing called a keyboard and the buttons on it, she could give the priestess a name. Although a lot of names were apparently taken already. So Lili named her character according to the elf's appearance and in honour of Snoopy63. She named it Pretty Lady 63.

Learning to do all of this was not easy for her, but somehow she managed to do them. And then finally she pressed the thing in the corner to finalise her character. Then the screen changed again and then from a wide selection of other characters with bigger numbers, Alex guided her to Pretty Lady 63. And then she apparently entered the game.

Then a cool cinematic began to play. There she could see an awesome, but fake looking landscape moving before her, while she listened to an epic tale of the high elves.

Apparently the high elves had been living in a magical and prosperous kingdom for nearly seven thousand years. Life was good for them, until one day when the undead came. Led by the evil knight named Arthas they destroyed the Elves source of magical sun power. Things were not good for them after that it seemed. But now the remaining elves have managed to band together, they began finding new sources of magical power to help them fight back the undead and reclaim their magical kingdom once again. So now she as one of them needs to go and help them do just that. Oh and they called themselves the blood Elves now, something to do with losing their original holy power or something.

To Lili this was quite a tragic tale. The undead were so mean for some reason, why were they killing the pretty elves, killing was bad and she couldn't help but find the thought of losing one's holy powers of light to be so sad. And so she could relate to these magical Elven people's troubles. It even brought a few tiers to her eyes and made her turn to Alex to ask. "Why? Why is Arthas and the undead so mean towards the elves? Why Alex?"

Alex seemed baffled by her as he said. "A a, I don't know. I mean I think it was to resurrect the evil necromancer. But overall I think it's just because Arthas is evil and wants power to fight against the Legion. But honestly I don't think it really matters. Because evil is evil and that's that. You shouldn't think too much on it Lili as a lot of the time evil simply just doesn't have any rhyme or reason to it. So you shouldn't feel bad for it or try to understand it too much and just fight it you know. Like just level up your priest and go fight those floating things over there."

This was not a really satisfactory answer to her, as not all necromancers were evil. This she knew from experience in her past. Although they were quite wasteful with the skeleton troopers they had. But Alex was right also in saying what he did, for she never did understand the demons intentions in the past. They merely were as Alex said, purely evil things without any reason to them.

Looking then back upon the screen, Lili fought back her tiers and commanded her character to move, by saying. "Move and attack those floaty things." But the character didn't move.

And then Alex seemed to become confused again as he started to explain. "What, no Lili. It's not going to move by you just telling it to move. You need to make it move by pressing the buttons here."

Seeing it Lili let out a. "Ooh, I see." In her past the Little Betties reconnaissance drones moved simply by their operator telling them what he wanted them to do, so she thought it to be like so here, but apparently not. She had never touched the buttons on the Little Betty, but as she touched these buttons here and made her character move, she finally understood why the Driver always liked to make the Little Betty move.

Truly moving a character in this game was fun and exciting. She luckily learned fast under Alex's guidance and soon she even learned to kill those little floating things that looked like blue floating worms.

Doing this Lili felt happy, there was a constant smile on her face, she laughed and had fun. Alex also seemed to be having fun and he even gave her many compliments as they played.

For a long time this went on and more people came to watch the stream, they got a lot of donations also, comments and even some dollars. Seeing all of it, Lili finally felt like she understood it all, dollars were those popping things on the screen with different numbers and that symbol. But where did they go after they came to show themselves on the screen and then disappeared? How was such a thing used to get land or pornstars, this she didn't know.

But then it all came to a quick end as Alex got startled by the sounds of people yelling and moving downstairs. They called out to him. "Alex were home? Are you up there? Come down and let's eat, I bought you a big Mac!"

Hearing this Alex seemed to get startled. Seeing it, Lili immediately hopped off his lap and took a fighting stance and asked. "Intruders."

But Alex merely came to her side and dragged her back to the chair as he said. "No they are my parents. Don't worry I'll handle this. You just wait here and continue playing. I'll be right back."

Watching Alex go, Lili felt bad, this situation felt dangerous. She could see and feel it within him. She felt worried, what should she do now? Should she do as Alex said and continue helping the elves or should she go fight these parents of his with him?

Oh, if only she had the money, then maybe she could use it to get her the answer to this. After all money could get you anything you wanted, right? But sadly there were only dollars here on the screen and no money. Alex had said that playing would get them the money, but she just couldn't see the money anywhere? Where was the money?