Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-37090617-20181003215425

I'm a heavy gamer, and I love games. I swear I can't get my eyes off the screen. Then there is me yelling into my mic, and many more sounds I make that annoy my family. I could care less though. My friend and I were playing like any regular day for us. "There is people to the left of you." I tell my teammate. "Let's go get him. Seems alone." "Plan here is to use our assault rifles to get him. Thing is, I need more ammo. Can you spare me some?" "I got you." As he reloads his gun I start shooting, and I get the enemy. "SHOTS BEHIND US! BEHIND US!" my friends says, causing us both to move our joysticks on our X BOX controllers. The enemy gets us, and like any gamer nowadays, we both start complaining about the game, although it's not the game's fault. The game has also been out for a long time, and people have start to lose interest in it. "I mean at least Guns Of War: 2 is coming out tomorrow!" My friend tells me. "Yeah, I'm so buying it!" I reply. The game has been hyped for a long time, so lots of people are gonna buy it. I usually buy my games from trusted sellers, but a lot of people are gonna buy the game, so my plan was to go to a non crowded store to buy it. "I'm gonna buy it from Game Land!" I tell my friend. "What's that?" My friend says. I tell him about my plan, and Game Land. Game Land is a new store, but not a known one. I searched online for game stores near me, and Game Land was one of my options. It had 1 star, and 1 review. "Don't buy games from here! They aren't trusted sellers! JUST DON'T!" The review said. The guy's profile pic was of a lame game. I chuckled from how the guy wrote the review. I thought it was a 9 year old because of these reasons, so I just brushed it off. The day came and due to my mom promising to get it for me if I get good grades, I was so excited to go to the store and buy it. I entered the small corner store and it smelled horrible! It looked disgusting, and gross. I asked the worker, who had rotting yellow teeth, a crooked smile, and eyes that moved as much as a tree's leaves in heavy wind. He got the game from the counter and I bought it for a strange price. The game is supposed to cost 60$, but I got it for 5$. Me being so excited didn't even care. I thought of it as being a really good deal and ran back to the car after my mom payed. When I got home, I rushed up the stairs and went to my room. I took out the disk and put it into my XBOX. It took a while for it to boot up, but then I was able to get on it. Instead of the solid grey letters popping up on the screen, I saw crimson, bold sloppy letters, spelling out "Guns Of War: 2" I thought I may have gotten a different edition and immediately went to choose my character. Instead of the normal options being "Reaper" and "Wild Machine" and much more, I was given characters called "Blood Thirsty" and "Death Bringer" which is where I started to freak out. I really wanted to play as the Reaper, but I was stuck to playing with the Death Bringer? I hopped into a game and instead of a normal game with 6 people on each team, I was met with a 1 v 1. I really wanted to be the Reaper and play with 5 other people, but I'm facing one guy. Turns out, the guy can talk to me. "Hello." I hear on the other end. The guy sounds like a weirdo. I ignore it and talk to him. My day was already ruined due to me not being able to play as the Reaper and not having 5 team mates. I continue to play and I can't even shoot the gun at the enemy. The weird thing is, whenever I try shooting the gun, it shoots at my character. "So where do you live?" The guy asks me. "Um... why do you ask?" Kind of scared now. And then, the guy just randomly says my address. I try turning off the XBOX, and yelling for my mom. I get even more scared when I notice my mom texted me a while ago that she won't be home for a while. I can't even turn off the XBOX! I do the only smart option now, which is calling the police. "HELP!" I yell into my phone before the police can say anything. "PLEASE SEND PEOPLE TO ME RIGHT NOW! PLEASE!" "Don't worry, I'm already here." A familiar voice says. After that, I hear footsteps which seem to be coming from the hall way. I do the only smart option, which is to run out the house. My uncle doesn't live too far away, maybe like a 10 minute walk away. I run all the way to his house and tell him my story. He calls the police through his phone and we go back to my house. We wait outside to be safe, and after what felt like an hour, police arrived. They checked inside and say it's safe to go back inside and that the man left through the back door. I'm not sure how he did all this through a game, but I was scared to go back inside. My mom came back fast after hearing the news, and we returned the game. It's been a while since I've played on the XBOX, but I still plan to not play on it anytime soon. 