The Vampire Cat System

After hearing so much about the game from Sophia, and seeing how great the graphic of the game was the sound of the game was getting even better for Bernard. With so much being said, Bernard couldn't wait to start playing Rebirth, but then he couldn't help but look at Sophia, he was sure she had sent him the invite for a reason and not just because she wanted to show him her customized character, as he thought about this he could not help but think about why she invited him it was likely she had something to show him beside her customize character.

"Since you are here how about you watch me fight one or two matches, so you can have a better understanding of how REbirth works?"Sophia suddenly turn to stare at him, with a little smile on her expression, as Bernard looked at the little smile on her face, he was stunned he realize this was the first time he had ever seen her smile, once he had seen her smile before however, it lasted barely two seconds, only this time Sophia had broken her previous record by surpassing two seconds not only that she had been smiling at him for quite a while now.

For some reason, Bernard felt as if Sophia had changed, not only the way she acted around him but even her expression and her attitude seemed to have become soft from her usual cold and emotionlessness, from what he could see this started after he had saved her, even now usually she was relatively quiet however for a while now she had been talking enthusiastically, just from this alone Bernard could now establish with a bewildering certainty that she was truly changing.

Despite still being cold and emotionless, ruthless at her core. Sophia's heart could not help but feel a little glimpse of what loving someone feels like, after Bernard had risked his life to come save her, her perspective about him gradually changed she realized he cared about her like a friend, whereas she was always seeing him as nothing more than an abomination of two Aboriginals and someone that she just wants to uncover his secret.

With his constant affection and care, he had somehow managed to crack her emotional defensive wall. The more time she spent with him, the more she realized he wasn't a bad person and definitely wasn't faking it.

Despite how much she didn't want to accept this fact, and was trying as much as possible to hide all her emotions it was much easier said than done because even that was not working, since showing too little would cause even more worry than too much, so without her realizing it, she already had begun to grow attached to him and had rather developed some kind of attraction she couldn't explain towards him. It was the type that made her afraid of being ignored by him or even worse abandoned.

Although the feeling made her feel a sense of warmth and comfort, there was still a part of her that was scared of the emotions she was developing, since she now had too much to lose. What were the odds of Bernard liking her? even though loving someone was easy, but to be loved back wasn't as much.

No matter how much common love was, Sophia doubted it was that easy to come by, especially from the opposite party that is why she had to play her cards well, and play them as close to the chest as possible, before revealing even a hint of her feelings, she needed to know what his standard was, would he accept her? Would he give back as much feelings she was developing for him?

She didn't want her love to be one-sided, how much of this feeling was considered good enough to be expressed?

How much divided being considered being seen as a friend from being seen as a lover? Her mind would always be filled with anxiety every time she thought about all these things, however, there was that voice in her head that could alleviate that anxiety and even make her more cold and emotionless about any feelings she was gradually developing.

It was a voice that never gets away and that was always lurking around in her mind before she was born the voice was always there and after she was born the voice was still there, it was this voice that had led her through her life and the cruel things of the world, this voice had always been her light in her dark, without the voice she would feel lonely.

However, as her love grew, so did the voice that was always talking in her head as well, she would always feel conflicted any time the voice echos, more than once she had tried to ignore the voice, but it was rather futile because it would never last, how could she get away from the voice that had been there throughout her life so easily? She was not used to being so helpless and confused, on one hand, was the voice and on the other hand, was the feelings she was developing for Bernard.

Which one was she supposed to choose? Her time was very limited and she knew just one decision might ruin everything, yet there was this part of her heart that was trying to hold on to the feelings she was developing for Bernard since she could feel he was another light she needed in darkness.

"err Sophia you look beautiful when you smile." Bernard suddenly said as he looked at Sophia.

"Hmm, thank you."Sophia tried to keep a poker face and the next second she stopped smiling like the usual Sophia at school.

'Huh? why did she stop smiling? Maybe she doesn't like it?' Bernard thought, even though it seemed like he was just trying to flatter her he was instead just being honest.

While Bernard was just standing there looking like a gargoyle, Sophia did something that made both of them to be transported into a different area, as he returned to reality Bernard noticed he was now in an arena of some sort, as he was wondering what was going to happen next he soon realize the seats in the arena were gradually filling up as if people were coming to watch a match, meanwhile between this large group of people he realize he couldn't see Sophia anywhere, as if she had disappeared however he doubted she had truly disappeared and thought she would be around but just that he couldn't see her.

Just like he thought, a person had shown up in the middle of the arena, the moment this person appeared all of the people sitting on their stood up and like a chain reaction they began cheering up for her, and calling out her name Sophia!