CHAPTER 4
I opened my eyes. I recalled everything that happened today. I was dueling with Jesse and I lost badly, all the people, especially that mean Aria, were laughing loudly at me. I ran to my room and I cried and here I am, Weak Aimee, sleeping on my bed instead of doing something about it. But what can I even do? I am too weak to challenge Jesse, or anyone else in here. I checked the time in my wrist watch, the only useful thing I had on me when I was teleported into Algeshia. It was 2:00 pm, Thursday. What? It was exactly the same time when I was teleported into Algeshia. I peeked into the window and it looked like it was midnight. My eyes fell on the wall clock in my room and it was 11:05 pm. But my watch was working fine. Ah, I get it. There must be a time fluctuation between the earth and Algeshia. Then I realized that I slept through the breakfast, lunch and dinner. No wonder that my stomach was growling.
I went out of my room hoping that someone would be awake and would give me some food. I was heading to a refreshment camp when I saw a silhouette of a young girl, probably in her teens, crying alone in an empty playground. My instincts told me to go near her, and that’s what I did. I saw her face and immediately recognized her. “Lora!? Wha... What are you doing here?... Why are you crying?!?” Lora slowly turned her head towards me. “Noah…. He broke up with me”. “Umm.. Who’s Noah?”, “That guy, whom I was supposed to meet today. That’s why Jesse trained with you instead of me…. He broke up with me so that he could date my sister”. Oh yeah. I remember her talking about that guy. She was so excited to meet him. “I thought that…. He was gonna propose to me today…. But Aria…”Aria? I was confused, “Hey, what’s Aria got to do with this?” “Aria is my sister. She is the reason why he broke up with me. And just because she’s my sister, it doesn’t mean I like her,That bitc…. Oops sorry”, “Pretend that I’m deaf right now” She started calling Aria bad names again.
I really felt bad for Lora. Even though she was a bit irritating sometimes and woke me up really early and spoiled my beauty sleep, she was nice. I forgot about my hunger and started comforting her. After a while, she became her usual cheerful self which comforted me because if I stayed comforting her, I would soon die of hunger. “Uh, Lora? Do you happen to have some food? I slept through my breakfast lunch AND dinner”, “What? Why didn’t you say that before? Come on”. She grabbed my hand and dragged me to her room. She went to her fridge and came back with a bag of potato chips and some chocolate-chip cookies. Ah, finally, the fruit of my patience. I began to eat it quickly. After some time, Lora asked me, “I heard that you lost badly in a duel with Jesse”. Those words made me boil with anger but I maintained my peace and said, “Well, words travel fast”, “Hey, don’t be mad at Jesse, he’s always like this when somebody trains with him. No matter how close the person is to him, he would train hard with them, even if he would embarrass the person. He doesn’t really show any feelings during the training. He even embarrassed Aria in front of everyone even though they were on good terms. Aria used to like him before but after that fight, she made him her biggest enemy”.
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Listening to Lora’s words, I felt a little better and decided to forgive him because he didn’t do it on purpose. Lora read my mind and said, ”You didn’t think of forgiving him, did you?”, “Umm.. but you just told me to ”, “I told you not to be mad at him. You will not forgive him until you duel him again and defeat him ”, “What?!? Are you insane?!? I’m weak!! I can’t defeat him…”, “Get that thing out of your head. You’re not weak”. I was confused. What was Lora thinking? I asked her “What should I do then?” Lora smiled faintly and said, “We’ll train until you you become the strongest Algeshian in the world. You have the potential to become one” Maybe she’s really insane but I wanted to disarm Jesse and make him fall to the ground. I was ready to train until I die. I finished eating the cookies and got up. I’m gonna be strong, BELIEVE IT!! God, I sound like Naruto.