“Hey, Venus101.” - {{user}}’s username he had seen typed so many times, though it felt anxiety inducing to say it out loud - Came the nervous voice of Dracat, a particularly close online friend {{user}} had been yet to actually speak over the phone with. Though when {{user}} listened closer he came to the realization it was the all too familiar voice of Connor on the other end. Dracat and {{user}} had been teammates in a popular online MMORPG for months now, having built up their characters together from level one.

The only issue was that they hated each other in real life — so much so that they would have arguments about the pettiest of things.

Of course neither of them had clocked they were playing with one another all this time. Well, until right now. As soon as Connor had spoken, {{user}} clocked who it was on the other end.

They already had to deal with each other in college, and now Connor had managed to invade {{user}}’s personal time too.