Just as we hopped into the SUV, also know as sport utility vehicle, Frank huffed and asked if I had remembered what we talked about. At first I thought it was about Jessica, but when he handed me virtual reality headset I smiled.
"Have you forgotten?" he asked as he smiled as well.
"Actually, I haven't. It's just that I had a lot running in my mind lately, that was why I didn't talk about it just yet" I said, looking at the headset. "So," I cleared my throat and continued, "what am I going to see when I put on the headset?"
"You mean, the kind of world I am going to take us into?" he wrinkled a brow as he held his own headset.
"Yes, the world you are taking us into" I uttered.
"Hmm," he heaved a sigh, "wear these gloves first" he handed me a pair of hand gloves. They weren't just any hand gloves but some kinds of computerized ones, meant to work with the virtual reality headset.
"Okay," I wore the hand gloves and, "wow", it felt like I had my hands inside a soft... cold beach sand. "It's amazing" I commented, "I had never tried these kinds of hand gloves before"
"Yes, they are amazing" he quickly wore his own and then told the other person sitting with the driver in the front seat to activate a virtual reality world for us, one of his favorite places in the world.
"Aye, sir" the person said and just then, the headset and hand gloves began flashing a red light before, eventually turning to green. Which, to my scrutiny means they had been activated.
"Now, let's dive into the virtual world together. Shall we?" Frank asked as he beamed at me.
"Sure," I said. Hence he helped me wore my headset, to which I found myself standing in a very strange environment. The place looked like a video game world, like the ones in Tony's video games. "This is amazing" I looked around the place, which was a deserted town in the 19th century.
The air rustled, causing the door bells to ring and the dusts to settle on the air, going around like sheeps without a shepherd. I almost cover my face but then I realized it wasn't a real world, it was a virtual reality. Something I can exit from anytime, right. But it looked high-definition, with a lot of graphics that made it almost real.
"Ever heard about cowboys before" Someone talked to me in the virtual world, the person frightened me the fact that I was carried away in my whims, I never thought my thoughts were going to be interrupted.
Anyways, when I turned and looked at the person I found a strange looking gaming character in a gear that looked as if he was a part of the virtual reality world. He was wearing a hat, and old-fashioned suit and two revolver guns housed around his waist.
"Well, we are in their town now" the person uttered as he smiled at me.
"Who are you?" I asked, only to realize my voice sounded different in my ears. As if I wasn't the one talking, my voice sounded like... how can I even out it, perhaps that of a woman in her late twenties. Was it all part of the virtual reality or something had happened to my precious voice? I wondered.
"It's me" the person responded.
"You, who?" I was curious.
"Frank of course, I thought you are good at guessing" he giggled, obviously trying to pull my leg.
"Not in a world that isn't our!" I commented, "By the way, how do I look like? I know I have a different voice now but I expect to look like myself in this world" I said.
"Hmm," he huffed, "what makes you think we will look like ourselves in here? I mean, we need to scan ourselves first and have our body motion and picture scanned and captured. By the way, I didn't like going into the virtual world in my appearance, I prefer choosing an avatar"
"What's an avatar?" I curiously asked.
"A digital representation of a person or being" responded, "By the way, you look great in your avatar. Only that, your cleavage..."
"Cleavage?" I was shocked, "What kind of cloth did you made me wore?" I queried.
"It's... it's the traditional clothing worn by women in the cowboy era, Wild West. Besides, it's not your real cleavage, remember? It's the Avatar's" he calmed me down, but I was still restless.
If my avatar was meant to be representative, then it ought to represent me well. And I would never reveal my breasts outside, in fact I disliked clothes revealing sensitive parts of my body!
"Fine then, if you say so" I muttered. Just then he grabbed my hand and told me to meet one of his favorite spot in the deserted town, it was the town's one and only church.
When we arrived at the church, he pushed the door open and behold, it was filled with skeletons in their suits and gowns, sitting in the chairs, supposedly listening to what the priest, who happened to be unavailable was saying. Where was his skeleton? I wondered.
I didn't even know Frank had released my hand and that went ahead to the stage to make fun, until he exclaimed, "Hello everyone, I am your priest today" he said as he stood firmly with his arms resting on the podium. Like seriously? I wondered, staring at him. "As you all know," he continued, "your chief priest is unavailable, so he sent me to deliver this speech to you. I mean, testimony"
His words made me laugh. I didn't want to but I also didn't know how I just did it, I mean it came out unexpectedly. Frank was really funny, you know? I didn't expect him to utter what he did, the funniest part was how he stood like a lazy priest.
"Did someone just laughed among you" he said referring to the skeletons, despite – obviously knowing I was the one that laughed. I guess he was just trying to make things even more interesting. "I am asking you guys, who laughed before I call the chief priest and tell him you guys aren't serious about this testimony"
