Lily229

“Sit, sit Lily.” Beckoned Anto. He took her arm and led her over to a round table with seven chairs placed around it. “Sometimes we get a few more guys in here but nothing to major. If you see a shady looking guy, don’t worry he doesn’t bite to hard.”

“Sylent’s going to kill you when he finds out you’re talking about him like that,” warned Xiro as he sat down on the opposite side of Lily and Anto.

Anto flashed him a devilish smile as he pulled a chair out for Lily. “Who said I was talking about Sylent anyway?”

Lily sat and Daisuke sat down to her right, Anto to her left. Lily ran her finger over the top of the table. “Kind of on the dusty side, don’t you think?”

H_I sat down next to Xiro and shrugged. “I already told you, this place doesn’t get used that much except when we just wanna hang and talk. But enough but us.” H_I put his elbow on the table and leaned his head into his open palm. He starred at Lily with a pervy smile on his face. “Tell us more about you.”

Lily looked around and smiled. “Bet you guys don’t get a lot of chickies down in here do ya?”

Daisuke laughed. “It’s that obvious huh?”

Lily smiled and nodded. "Yeah. It’d save time to just hang a billboard over the door.”

“Actually, H_I’s married and has children,” said Anto. “He just works here on the weekdays.”

“And hangs with us instead of doing his job,” added Xiro. “Yeah, not that exciting of a life that one there.”

H_I flashed them both death glares. “Anyways. I heard you’re new here, saw your thread that is and….”

Lily heard a loud ‘ding’ in her head. She shot her head up, was the man summoning her again to congratulate her on her using the bracelet? “Did anyone else here a ‘ding’?”

They all shook their heads. “You must have a PM is all. We get that sometimes too. So fucking annoying if you ask me. Hey, Shino, are we ever going to get that fixed?”

Shino blinked at him and shrugged.

“Is he alright?” asked Lily.

“Who? Shino? Yeah, he’s alright. He’s always like that. Never talks unless he feels it’s important. Don’t think of him as rude or nothing,” replied Anto.

Lily nodded and stood. “Does anyone know where a PM room is?” At the time she came here, she was so dizzy she didn’t even know where here was. They said the west wing of NL, but where was that suppose to be?

Daisuke nodded and pointed toward the door. “It’s just right outside this room and across the gall, can’t miss the giant yellow sign.” He smiled at her and raised his right eyebrow. “You do know how to use a PM right?”

Lily saw where he was getting at. She refused to be shown up again, she was not a Noob she was Lily. She gave him a confident smile and a shrug as if she didn’t care. “I’ll figure it out eventually.”

She turned on her heels and walked to the door. With her hand on the knob Daisuke replied. “Well, if you need any help just come back and get me and I’ll do my best. That’s what I’m here for after all.”

She tossed a nod and a smile over her shoulder and walked out of the door. As soon as she heard the click of the door all her confidence melted away. She had freaked when it came to the thread which was carefully explained to her, how the heck was she ever suppose to figure out a PM. She looked up a big yellow sign that basically screamed at her ‘PM ROOM!’.

She looked both ways before crossing the hallway. If no one was in the PM ROOM then perhaps she could somehow dispose of the bracelet in there and never have to think about it again. Once again she reminded herself that she was not obligated to ever become that Rose person again.

Lily walked into the room and a scanner immediately hit her. A voice of the woman in the toll booth came on. “Member Identification Code: Lily229. Password :******. Accepted.” The wall parted down the middle and opened up a stairway that lend down into a small room with five cubicles. She saw that each cubicle had one computer screen, a keyboard and a chair. Her heart sank when she spotted one of the cubicles occupied.

A young girl with bright blonde hair tied into huge pigtails on each side of her head was busy typing away onto the keyboard. The girl was typing, but to Lily it seemed more like she was massacring the keyboard with her deadly fingers of fire. Her fingers were moving so fast that Lily wasn’t even sure if the girl was typing words or not. The girl paid no mind to Lily as she sat down in the cubicle farther away from her.

Lily leaned back to see if she could see if the girl was looking at her or not. Her plan was to make it seem as if she was checking her message then, slip off the bracelet, tuck it under her chair, and walk back to Daisuke and the others as if nothing had happened. She could always check her message later. Just then another person walked into the PM room.

A young boy wearing a schoolboy’s uniform came and sat down in the cubicle next to her. The boy looked no older then nine. “Hi, I’m Marco. That’s a pretty looking bracelet you got on. What’s your name?” He gave her a big, toothy smile; a few of his teeth were missing.

Lily returned an uncomfortable smile to him. “I’m Lily. It’s nice to meet you Marco.” Dammit it kid! What horrible timing you have!

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