Chapter 3 - Critique Gone Wrong

The phone chimed multiple times in his hands as he held it closer to his face, the sudden influx of messages from his friends and work mates was a bit overwhelming. 

"What the hell? Did someone die?" He asked himself wryly. He furrowed his brows as he began to go through the messages one by one, with each message triggering a different reaction within him. 

"Huh! I have work tonight... I don't know if I should go home and refresh before going or I should just dawg it out" he thought. "Or maybe I should just forget about it entirely and do it tomorrow..." 

He caught himself in thought as something dashed across his mind like boot of lighting. 

"Mi-Young!.... Mi-Young" he called out to the girl he had just rammed his dick into. 

"What!" She returned with a tired voice that had an element of anger in it. 

"What's the name of that novel again... The one I was just reading?" He asked while he rubbed a dry hand against the back of his neck. 

"Love academia asshole!" She yelled out from underneath the pillows she used to cover her face. 

He turned to take a look at her and sure enough she hadn't moved an inch since he was done with her. Her ass was still bare with his cum still smudged over it like icing on a cake. He wore a faint smirk across his lips as a result of the pride he was feeling. 

"Oh yeah. Love Academia" he repeated after her as he returned his focus back to phone. "I can't seem to stop thinking about this novel... It keeps bothering me" he finished as he typed out the name of the novel. "I should leave a comment at least... I wasn't satisfied with what the hell I just read". 

HEY, AUTHOR TENZEN SAMA. I'M A HUGE FAN OF YOURS. I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YURI AND RYOTA, BUT I THINK ITS ABOUT TIME FOR THEM TO HAVE A MORE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP, DON'T YOU THINK?. ENDING THE NOVEL WITH JUST THEM HOLDING HANDS CLEARLY TRANSLATES TO ME THAT YOU SIR DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLEASE A WOMAN AND YOU HAVE A SMALL PEE PEE. THEM JUST HOLDING HANDS AT THE END DOESN'T MAKE THEM LOOK PURE OR INNOCENT, IT MAKES THEM LOOK DUMB AND PATHETIC. I HOPE YOU CONSIDER THIS LITTLE ADVICE OF MINE. 

FROM YOUR BIGGEST FAN.... LEE

He left a huge sigh of accomplishment as he dropped his device after sending the comment to the author. Little did he know that the innocent comment would change his life drastically in ways that he never would have imagined.

He immediately put on his clothes and made his way to use the bathroom before leaving. 

"I'm on my Mi-Young... Take care" he called out from halfway across the door. She was still in the position he left her, she didn't respond other than raising her arm to clearly display her middle finger waving in the air at him. He shut the door and made his way out of the house and into the parking lot , into his car and in a matter of seconds he was the road. On the way, his mind constantly drifted to Love Academia and the comment he left the author. 

"Huh...." He let out a dry smirk. "Fucking holding hands... What a joke" he said softly to himself as he pulled over into a gas station. He stepped out of his vehicle and pumped up some gas before making his way into the mini mart to get a few things. A few minutes passed and he was already done, walking out of the mini mart with purpose and making a beeline for his car when someone called out his name. 

An unfamiliar voice. It called out his name again stopping dead in his tracks. "Lee". He turned to reveal a skinny man with thick glasses standing close to a gas pump. He looked well in his early thirties with lots of acne on his face, a wrinkled shrit and wrinkled jeans with flipflops on his feet. 

"Are you Lee?" He asked. His voice crooked and shrill with a tint of fidgetey. 

"What?" 

"Are you 'My Biggest Fan'.... Lee?" The mysterious man asked again, this time with a lot more impatience. 

"What?" Lee raised an eyebrow. "Who the fuck are you, and why are you dressed like a clown in this part of town. You couldn't find a circus or something". 

The man folded both his hands into a fist and he was visibly pissed off at Lee's comment. Sweat tricking from his forehead all the way down to his cheeks and then his chin to his neck. 

"I have read the comment you sent me." The man blurted out angrily, his voice echoed in the empty gas pump station. It was late, so their weren't alot of people around at that time of the day. "I don't mind you speaking rubbish about the characters in my novel... But. I can't tolerate you mocking me and saying that I can't please a woman!!!" The man finished angrily, panting and sweating like a mad dog. 

Lee was confused at this moment, he didn't know what to think. 'What the hell is going on?... He just appeared out of nowhere and is talking rubbish.... The way his voice trembles as he speaks is really bothering me.... It's kind of funny hahaha' Lee thought to himself. 

At this point, Lee couldn't hold it in any longer, his eyes wide you could sense a laughter has been loading." Your voice sounds like a fucking chicken! " Lee blurted out laughing out of control. 

"Stop laughing!" The man shot back. "You dare mock me again!" 

Lee kept laughing uncontrollably with tears starting to form in his eyes. "Now that you're angry, it sounds even more weird!!", he continued laughing. "Haaaaaa! I can't breathe". 

The man stopped yelling and furrowed his eyebrows really hard. He adjusted his glasses and dipped his hands into his back pockets. "I won't forgive you..." The man said with dread in his eyes. 

"Let me guess, what you have their... A toy gun, a water gun? What you gonna do with it?... Shoot me!" Lee taunted him more. 

"Ohh... You have no idea what I'm capable of..." The man intoned as he brought out his hands to reveal a book and pen- one on each hand. The book had a red cover with nothing written on it, and the pen was black in colour with a touch of gold here and there, it also had something engraved in it with gold but it was hardly visible. 

"What's that book gonna do now? Hold on... Is that the book of life and death? Are you going to condem me to hell by writing my name in the book of hell?" Lee kept taunting the man, but the latter refused to exchange words with him any longer. 

The opened the book and the air around suddenly became electrified, Lee couldn't notice because he was too busy laughing. The man began to murmur something in an unknown language, with each word that came out of his mouth, the area around became more intense. 

"Since you think you're so great, try doing it yourself!! You fucking bastard!!" The man yelled out. "Try living as an extra in the novel that you've been mocking you asshole!!" 

Lee stopped laughing immediately, everything started to feel dissy, extremely dizzy. He stagared a little before falling knee first to the floor, "What the hell is going on?" He managed to say as he was starting to loose consciousness. As his eye began to shut, he could see the man backing away from him slowly. 

Although he could see him clearly, he could hear just fine. "Do you think you actually have a chance in that world, do you think you actually have a chance in my world... Live there for the rest of your life". Does were the last words he heard from the stranger man before he blacked out totally and his body started to fade away little by little until it was no more. 

The man disappeared. 

Empty car. 

Empty gas station. 

At a late hour in the evening.