" Why you're still standing there, Nodochi? Come on, the game store will be closing soon. " I remember the words I said to Nodochi when we're about to go to the game store but suddenly I don't know how Nodochi found his childhood's friend. Which is a girl. The girl name Ashley Fionna who transfered from Singapore back to Malaysia. She's now study at the same school as Nodochi and me. Talking about Nodochi, it's been 2 months since he played Era Orbit Online.

Nodochi is not a shut-in or very addicted to Era Orbit Online, it can't be. He plays game just to release stress, but sometimes the game itself make Nodochi's stress make even more worse. I was gonna suprise Nodochi that Ashley studied at our school and same class. I sit at the back row, left side near the windows.

" You're spacing out, again aren't you? " Ashley approach me. She is a talkative person and already make a half friends of this school. I mean, she already made 50% friends just 2 months study here. Maybe because she was a bookworm and attractive. She's not a sport person but got a good shape tights.

" Who you're calling that, Nochan~ " I mock her. She's been calling Nodochi, Nochan and for me was Dechan. Weird taste.

" Ehh, it's just a habit okay! " she blushed. Even for two of us, without Nodochi still have a silent moment. The silent moment sometimes strike my chest and makes me want to cry. I want to find the answer. Where is Nodochi. Is he really okay? 

' Dude, I'm okay. '

Again. The words kept appear in my mind. I release a big sigh.

" So, what are you going to do today? Sleep? Play game? " Ashley ask.

" Well firstly, I'm going to Nodochi's parent house to ask where the hell did he go. After that, I'll go home and play the game that Nodochi ask me to play to. " I yawn for a second.

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" Then let me join you. I'll follow you then I'll play the game to. I already register the ID at the game store yesterday. I thought I was the first one who is going to invite you playing the game. "

" You know it's VR, right? Do you have the console? "

" Of course. "

" Then, that's settle. Let's go now. " I grab my bag and open the classroom's door, Ashley followed me from the back.

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I unlock the keylock from my bicycle's tyre. I set a mango key on the tyre just to make sure no one's steals it or accidentl swap. I look on my watch, it shows 6:30, evening.

" Move you're ass quickly, Ashley! " As I saw her running downstairs, I shout.

" I will sprain my ankle, you know! "

" Whatever. " 

She sit at the back of my bicycle sit. My bicycle is kinda special because it has 2 sits, and of course 2 tyres.

" If I say hold, hold my stomach tightly okay? " I said.

" Why? " she ask.

" You will know the reason soon. "

I push my pedal using my foot, hardly because of the tall roads. it's like a mountain bike tracks from the top until bottom.

" Why did you became friend with Nodochi, Dell? " Ashley ask while holding my stomach, her head lean against my back.

" Hmm? Well, when i was in a kindergarten, I saw Nodochi playing blocks all by himself. That day, I ask him why he play the blocks all by himself. He said that He don't know. "

" Then? That day you became close with him? " 

" Yes. But it seems that Nodochi don't remember me. When I met him again in middle school. He looked at me for a second, than look another way. For me, I think he look at me like I'm a stranger. "

" Talk about forgetting, he also din't remember my name when we met at the train station. "

" What happened to him? " I look up on the sky. The stars start to appear one by one. Shining like a torch light.

" Ooh. We're arrived. " Ahead of us, it's Nodochi's parents house. Ashley get down from the bike and quickly walk towards the house. She press the doorbell button.

" Hey, wait for me! " I put my bike beside a lamp post, without locking it.

" Hello? This is Ashley and Dell. We're here to visit Nodochi! Is anyone home? "