Part 3- The Fatal End
Jimmy played quite a lot over the weeks, hardly doing his homework and always getting in trouble for not paying attention in class because he was thinking of runescape too much. Mark played a lot less than him and wasn’t as dedicated and as a result, Jimmy called him a noob a lot to impress the high level players of the nerd clique. He began to even call his little sister a noob and even said the word lol when watching funny movies in the cinema with Mark. Jimmy decided to become a member one day, so he asked his mom. She refused to allow him and gave him a long lecture on the value of a dollar. However, Jimmy wasn’t paying attention, he took her credit card without permission and made himself a member, paying for it to re-credit him for two years straight, costing him exactly $120, his mother would kill him if she knew what he had just done. He logged into a member’s server, full of excitement and met up with his high level nerd friends. They went to castle wars together and even did some pest control rounds before Jimmy went on his own to do some member quests. Mark came online and Jimmy messaged him.
“Hey!” he greeted Mark. “Guess what? I’m a member now!”
“No way!”
“Yes way!
Why don’t you ask your parents to make you one?”
“Good idea, hold on, let me ask them.”
Mark asked his parents and was also refused and given a long lecture on the value of a dollar.
“Man, they said no.
“
“That’s a shame, noob, lol!”
“Wanna come finish dragon slayer with me?”
“Sorry, but I’m doing it in a member world so I can beat him easily with my cool new gear.”
Mark suddenly felt distant from Jimmy, he barely came online again and he rarely hung out with him since Jimmy was too busy hanging out with the nerd clique, going to gaming cafes and discussing runescape related topics. Jimmy was playing runescape one Friday, he had boycotted his paintball team, deciding to go fight the King Black Dragon with his new friends instead of hanging out with Mark. After defeating the King Black Dragon several times, they walked back to Edgeville where the most unlikely thing happened to Jimmy. He was watching a level 3 skiller showing off his red partyhat at the new wilderness ditch, teasing players by jumping across it and doing the dance emote.
“Watch this!” the skiller said, and ran into the wilderness.
Everyone watched as he suddenly stopped running and a skeleton started attacking him. He did not move, his health went down….slowly….slowly until finally….he died. Everyone in Edgeville scrambled to loot his corpse and so did Jimmy, who, with amazing luck, nabbed his red partyhat. He ran back to Edgeville, with hundreds of people following him saying things like ‘give me that. It’s useless’ or ‘z0mg! phr33 partyhat p10xz!!!.’
Jimmy burst with bliss and he began to do the runescape dance in real, all his friends surrounded him, admiring the red paper crown that rest upon his pixilated head. He paraded around runescape to celebrate, the owner of the partyhat even private messaged him, asking for it back, Jimmy put him on ignore.
Suddenly, Trouble came into his room with the bright red ball in his mouth. Jimmy took it from him and tossed it out the window as usual. Trouble came back several times until Jimmy grew frustrated, logged out, walked out to his front door and threw the ball as hard as he can, across the street. Trouble ran after it and was unfortunately hit by a pick-up truck. Jimmy stood there, frozen in shock.
“Trouble!” he screamed, then ran over to his poor pooch’s body.
“O boi, wetin happen?” his neighbor asked him from his bedroom window.
“Trouble is dead!”
“Nawow.”
Jimmy knew he couldn’t let his mother know about this , so he got Trouble’s body and buried it in his back yard. Shortly after mourning, he returned to his room, depressed. However, he wasn’t depressed for long, he thought runescape would cheer him up, so he continued playing it, feeding his addiction.
The week of Jimmy’s final exams had come. He did not even prepare for it, he just kept playing runescape and he had already gotten to level 100, with full Guthans and of course, a red partyhat. He would even go to high runescape-class parties where he met famous players such as Zezima and The Old Nite. Mark logged in one time and asked Jimmy if he would go woodcutting with him in the free servers.
“Sorry, there are too many auto bots there.” He replied to him, and Mark logged out.
Jimmy did not even answer the questions on his exam papers, he only drew pictures relating to runescape on them or gave runescape related answers to the questions that somehow related to runescape. One questions in his history exam stated ‘What are runes?’ and he would answer ‘Runes are magical stones used to cast spells, they are created from magical rocks called rune essence through the skill called rune crafting.’
He went home that day with his nerd friends without care for his exam scores, Tod and his thugs did not bother him anymore. Mark started hanging out with the popular kids since he was so funny, but Jimmy took no notice of it.
At the end of the week, Jimmy received his exam scores, he went home and looked at them. He had gotten an F in everything but English and Math, he couldn’t let his mother see them, so he decided to dump them in the trashcans outside his house, but as he was about to do so, his little sister caught him.
“I’m gonna tell ma!” she threatened him, then skipped to the front door to report on him.
“Come you little twerp!” he hissed and grabbed her by the neck.
He covered her mouth to prevent her from screaming, carried her to his room and taped up her mouth. He began slapping her around, pulling her hair and screaming in her face.
“Do you still want to tell mom? HUH!” he yelled.
Tears poured down his sister’s swollen face and she shook her head.
“Good.” He said, satisfied, then let her go.
Just when his sister left the room had he realized what he had just done. He retreated to his bathroom, locked himself in and began sulk.
Two days later,on a fresh summer day, he returned home, not feeling a bit of guilt for what he had done two days earlier. He began playing runescape as soon as he arrived. His mother came into the room, holding a piece of paper in her hands.
“Have you seen Trouble lately?” she asked him.
“No.” he plainly replied, not even looking at her.
“By the way, can you explain to me what this is?” she waved the papers at him.
“Not now mom, I’m pking!”
Jimmy was player killing with his massive clan that he had made up in just a month, with over 50 members above level 100 combat level. He felt so confident with his little army that he carried his red partyhat with him. His mother suddenly disconnected his internet and Jimmy screamed in horror.
“Look at these grades, young man!” she held his exam scores at him. “You’re going to have to repeat the eight grade! And look at these!” she showed him her credit card and internet bills. “$120 dollars along with $400 dollars for the past few months! You better work this summer and make up for all this or I will remove your television and internet rights altogether and you will not be allowed to ever hang out with your friends on weekends!”
She threw the papers at him and stormed off. Jimmy went back onto runescape and found himself standing in Lumbridge. He roared in anger as he found out his partyhat was gone.
“Lol, missing something?” The Dark Mage messaged him.
“Give me back my partyhat!” Jimmy demanded.
He put him on ignore.
Jimmy suddenly pumped with rage, he grabbed his baseball bat and wore a yellow paper mask with a smiley face on it. He barged out of his house and saw Mark riding a scooter nearbye. He rode up to him.
“Hi, where are you going?” he asked.
Jimmy just kept walking, he was heading to The Dark Mage’s house. He over to it and knocked on his door. The Dark Mage answered it and Jimmy immediately drove the baseball bat into his face, shattering his glasses. Mark watched in horror as Jimmy beat the hell out of The Dark Mage. He kept swinging at him until the short, nerdy boy was on the floor, his face stained with blood, wounds and bruises.
“Tell me your password! Now! Or I’ll finish you off right here!” Jimmy demanded.
“ Iamzezima, just leave me alone!” The Dark Mage sobbed and Jimmy stormed off, Mark still with shock on his face.
“I’ve got to do something….” He said to himself.
Jimmy hacked into The Dark Mage’s account and took back the red partyhat then got the account banned by going around and asking for people’s passwords. He felt happy that he got his revenge for a moment, but he suddenly felt sick to the stomach. He went to his toilet and puked his lunch out. He then grabbed a shaving razor from his bathroom mirror and began to cut his wrist because he felt so depressed. He treated his cut then threw up again and went back to playing runescape. It made him feel so good for some reason and he played throughout the night.
The next day was the day before the end of school, his nerd friends did not even come near him, they had probably heard what he had done to The Dark Mage. He ate alone at the cafeteria that day. He just sat at his desk throughout the day, thinking of runescape and the dismissal bell marking the end of the school day. Jimmy walked home alone and was jumped by Tod and his thugs. They gave him the beating of his life and covered him in bruises. Where was Mark when he needed him? Nevertheless, he went home and continued playing runescape, not even stopping to eat lunch or take in the fact that he had no more friends except his runescape girlfriend, whom he payed to ‘date’ him. The next morning, before school ,he booted up his computer to play some more runescape, it was the last day of school and he felt slightly blissful, but his bliss suddenly demolished when he found his account had been banned for password scamming. Mark called him through his cell phone.
“I’m sorry, Jimmy, I just had to do it, you were getting too addicted to the game!” Mark apologized to him.
“YOU MOTHER *insert bunny here*, IM GOING TO KILL YOU!” Jimmy yelled, seething with rage and threw the phone to the floor. He dressed and went over to his mother’s room without her knowing. He opened his mother’s closet, fished around for an old red shoebox, opened it and pulled out a fully loaded, six-shot revolver in it. His mother had told him where she kept it just incase they needed it some day in an emergency. He walked slowly to school that day, nothing mattered to him now that his account was gone, carrying the revolver. He arrived there five minutes before the bell, everyone in the hall fled at the sight of the gun. He came over to Mark, who was talking with the nerd clique. Jimmy cocked the gun and took careful aim at them. It would be a grim summer day…..and five shots rang out before he turned the gun on himself……
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