I was sitting in her room, a box-like device on my desk. It wasn't necessarily a box. It was a projector, like a hologram, or something such. I spent almost all of my time working on the device. It had four small projectors on each side and they didn't just project towards the wall, they slanted upwards, and when it turned on the projectors would project different sections of the image. I had found some old game cartridges in one of the boxes under my bed and thought it would be cool if I'd enable the projector to project the images of the game being played. All I needed was to build a controller. Of course, that was the hard part...

"Akima!" my mother shouted from down stairs. My mother was a generally laid-back person, except when she finds out I've been in my room all day or spent all day at the movies illegally sneaking into three different movies. "Akima!" she shouted again. I opened my door and yelled down the stairs,"Busy!"

I could hear my mother sigh. "Akima, why don't you go outside and make some friends? We've lived here a month and you've done nothing but stay in our room or at the movies," she griped at me.

"I am not physically or mentally able to make friends with people from places where I only know where the movie theater is."

"I'm pretty sure you could make a time machine if you tried, so I'm pretty sure you can make friends."

"It's impossible to build a time machine because you have to travel faster than the speed of light, but that's physically impossible! Even if you get as close to it as you possibly can, you can never travel the exact speed of light!" I explained. My mom looked at me with the most confused look ever. "Uh huh... I did not understand any of that." she mumbled and she walked into the living room and shouted one last time, "Go make friends!"

I walked into my room and grabbed my jacket. Since I was in my room all day so far I hadn't brushed my hair. I grabbed my brush and removed the tangles from my cinnamon, chocolate, and golden colored curls. My hair was parted to the left and I had slight dark circles under my blue eyes from lack of some sleep. My skin was a peachy color and I had freckles dotting my cheeks. I pulled my blue jacket over my pink shirt that said, 'Hey Cancer! I hope you get cancer and die,' in black letters. I went into my room and put on Hakuna Matata socks and a pair of light-pink vans. My vans and skinny jeans concealed my socks and I grabbed $20 off of my desk and left my house.

I decided to find an arcade. Best place and best way to make friends. Video games.

I had used Google maps on my phone to find a local arcade. Once I reached it, I walked inside I glanced around quickly and found the machine that you use to get tokens. I inserted the $20 and pushed the 40 tokens button. Forty tokens piled into the small slot area and a $10 bill slid out of the change thing. I grabbed my tokens and change and walked up to a game in the middle of the 3rd row of games. Galaga. I inserted a token and started playing the game. I heard some one come up behind me and they started talking to me.

"Galaga, huh? It's an old game but still pretty cool," he started and started rambling on and on about Galaga. I just continued my game, but then he inserted a token into the game next to mine, which was . "You don't talk much do you?"

"If you actually knew me I'd talk your ears off about science and machines." I responded as I pressed the buttons with speed and precision.

"Oh. Im Fred by the way." he said as he clicked start on his game.

"Akima." I said and then I simultaneously lost the level. The game flashed insert coin on the screen, but I decided to play something else. I walked down the second isle of games and found a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game. I inserted the 2 tokens that it required and started to play.

When I got to the 3rd level the Fred guy found me again and played the Popeye game next to me, and continued to talk. I failed once I got to level 7 and decided I should go home. I put my extra tokens in my pocket and same with the $10 and turned to leave, but Fred stopped me momentarily. "Hey wait! Before you leave can I at least get your number?" he asked. I shrugged, he seemed like a nice guy and he was about my age, I assumed.

"Sure, why not?" I said and he handed me his phone. I typed in my number and handed him his phone back. He smiled and I returned the smile with a smile and left the arcade.

Once I had gotten home the first thing my mom asked my was, "Did you make any friends?" Normally I would've been fine with her asking questions, but I wasn't even half way through the door when she asked.

"Yes, I made a friend."

"Who? How old are they?" my mother started bombarding me with questions.

"Mom. It's just a friend, I didn't discover a unicorn. His name is Fred and he's about my age." I said as I shut the front door. "Now, I am going to go make a sandwich and go to my room." I said dutifully and went to the kitchen to make a peanut-butter sandwich. I finished making my sandwich and went to my room with my sandwich.

I entered my room, which was green on the walls and had poster from stuff such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter every where. My How to Train Your Dragon blanket was on the floor next to my bed in the left corner of my room. My desk was next to my bed and I sat in my spinney-chair withmy sandwich and continued to work on the projector.

OK! That's it for now. Please review what you honestly think! I'd really appreciate it.