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Shannon was shocked when the girl from the previous night jumped out in front of him, as if to protect him. He stared in disbelief as Jason faltered.
He looked like he was considering beating Robyn up just to get to Shannon, but instead he took a step back.
"I wouldn't hit a girl... next time your girlfriend won't be here to protect you dork," he growled to Shannon and his goons laughed as they walked off, leaving Shannon and Robyn behind.

"R-Robyn? You're here? H-h-how...?" he stuttered, somehow thinking that she would only exist in the Game world and he wouldn't ever see her during the day. He stumbled a bit as he got up and picked up his cracked glasses. He sighed as they were the second pair in the past 24 hours that had gotten broken. He needed some prescription ones instead of store-bought kind but he hadn't gotten up the courage to tell his parents that he had broken the first pair. He grinned to himself at the irony; he could fight nightmarish shadow monsters but couldn't tell his mother that he had broken his glasses.
He shoved the broken lenses into his pocket and turned to face the girl.

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"Some idiot pulled out in front of me, ran straight into the side of their car," she said with spite, still fuming over the incident.
Her arms were crossed over her chest as she explained to the man, not having seen that Patrick was here. The toe of her boot was tapping against the floor, an obvious annoyance in its rhythm.
No telling what it would cost her to get her bike fixed up, or if it could even be fixed up. She had saved up for so long and had managed to pay the entire thing off just a couple of years ago. Now she might have to do that all over again.