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"Haunted" System

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Aiden was a complete shut in, only talking to his friends online and living with his parents. One day, one of his friends started writing a book and asked Aiden to make a character for it. However, it would take a while for his friend to add the character to the book and Aiden grew impatient. Eventually, Aiden got the courage to go outside and spend time with his friends in real life, where he then fell down a manhole and died.
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Chapter 1 - A day in my life

Usually, I set an alarm to be up for 10am to get a head start on the day by sleeping an extra 5 hours until 3pm. I get up, skip saying hi to my parents, and lock myself in my room where the world can't see or hurt me. I get onto my computer, open my messages and call my friends so we can all play the newest slop and waste the days away. Usually they are busy at work or school, but I'll always have James to call me back. We love to play games together, he's the only true friend I think I have. The others will join us later, but until they finish whatever they were doing, it's just me and James. Aiden and James, the dream team!

I'll usually play until 7pm, when my parents will call me down for dinner. I'll go down to be polite, but recently I haven't had a real appetite, well not recently, more like for he past month. We'll all sit down together and try to enjoy the food, but my parents don't really speak that much anymore, not only to me, but also to each other. I'll be as polite as I can, but when I leave the table, all I can hear is my mum cry and my dad comfort her. I think they hate me. I do want to go down and apologise, but if I keep myself in my room, I can't cause any more problems, right?

I'll have a quick wash in the shower before I get back on with my friends, and we will play until the sun sets. Then one person will go to bed, then another, and another. If I'm lucky, they'll be 3 of us still online as it hits midnight, but most of the time, it's just me and James. We'll play and play and play, occasionally on of our dads will come in the room and tell us to please go to sleep to no avail. We will play, and play and play until our hands go numb and we are forced to go to sleep. We normally get off at about 2am where I then lie in my bed and stare at my roof. I'll toss and turn in bed, clutch onto my pillow, and scroll through my phone until my body just collapses and I fall asleep, just to repeat the cycle over, and over again.