Surprised encounter

When Ren had just defeated the boss he had went to the gate to floor 3, and when he got there he logged off and went to sleep. Sakurai had just woken up and walks downstairs to make breakfast, he turns on the T.V to see the weather but breaking news instead interrupts him. When he looks at the news to see what happens he is not so surprised, on the breaking news today is two reports talking about how the new mysterious player had beaten the floor 2 boss in such little time, they kept going on about 'Ren' and how they think he got up there so fast but Sakurai just turns off the T.V and carries on his morning. Today Sakurai wanted to go a local cafe before he went to go run, so he started walking down the street to a cafe close by. When I walked in the cafe was crowded and the only table available was a large booth but the hostess said that she might sit other people with me if I didn't mind, so I didn't mind and sat down and ordered a scone and a coffee. My food and drink arrived and I scuffed them down fast and I was ready to leave when the hostess came over with a group of four, and as soon as I got up and tried to leave one of the members from the group had tugged my shoulder. When I had turned around in a aggressive manor I was generally stunned by who was there. The person who had tugged me was one of Chloe's best friends Shizu, but as much as I wanted to ignore her she was persistent enough to drag me back to the booth. When she had seated me back down, her and her friends grazed at me as if I was a criminal. I tried to say something but I was cut off by Shizu, and to follow up she started to talk about Chloe. Shizu was talking about how chloe has been ignoring everyone and not doing anything with her friends in real life, but in the game she was actively playing with them. Shizu had then said it was all my fault for being so rude to her and I almost lost it when she said that after everything they had done to me in the past. Sakurai then insinuated everything that they did to him before, but they just didn't care for that at all, but soon after that Sakurai had given up on talking with them and had left the restaurant.

While I was on my run I was deeply thinking about past events, especially with Chloe in mind. While I was deeply looking in the past a few memories flickered to me from time to time, and each time I could see chloe with a worried look on her face like as if she was in awe for me, but I could barely control myself to believe that right now. When I had finished my run I thought I could call her but I wouldn't know what to say, so I didn't and instead I continued to worked out and push my limits to clear my mind. After I had worked out for a few hours I was on the edge of passing out, so I had gone to shower then eat. While in the shower the thoughts came back to me, about chloe, the thoughts this time were more detailed than ever. This time I could see how I made her cry and doubt her purpose of living, it was a treacherous thought to have but I endured it. After I got out of the shower I was very light headed, probably because I barely ate today, so I went down to make some leftovers from a few nights ago. I had warmed up the leftover pork and scoffed it down quickly and then headed up to my room to go.....escape.