Reborn Gamer

That first time watching it, I couldn understand a word that was said, but I got the gist through the scenes. I came out of that movie and asked if we could watch it again. My mom obliged me.

When we left Japan, I made my mother promise to get me a Japanese tutor. I was fluent in English and proficient in French, so why not try my hand at Japanese?

It made me miss my video games, but my mother wouldn hear about it. The Xbox One came out the year I was born and I hadn even gotten the chance to play it. In 2017, the Xbox One X came out and despite my protests, my mother just laughed, she rubbed my head and talked about her next tour.

As a side note, I don know if Ive told you this yet, but French food is amazing. Im still an American at heart, even if I was reborn in France, and I do miss some of the classic American foods, but French food was so good. I can see why they called it French cuisine. Enjoying real French food in France was one of the best parts about being reborn.

I was five years old in June of 2018. That was when my mother bought me a phone. ”Its time you have one, ” she said. ”If you get lost, you can call me. Or you can message all your friends. ”

The only friends I had were group mates and the staff the record label sent with us. I didn count Daliah.

My mother bought me the Aqua, the newest model Stardust Mobile had. If you made me compare it, I would say its like the Samsung Galaxy, the flagship of the Stardust line. To my mom, I was five, and she was giving me a flagship phone. From her perspective, I should have been given an entry-level phone, not that I was complaining.

In France, WhatsApp dominated everything else. All my moms friends used WhatsApp and thats how they stayed in contact. I downloaded WhatsApp and added my mom and her bandmates. And I was added to the band group chat.

Stardust Mobile must have taken a note out of Apples playbook because they went about developing their phones in the same way. Though thankfully they accepted the universal charger and didn attempt to make a special one. Other than the universal charger, they had started to create their own ecosystem.

My Aqua was sleek and black, emblazoned with the silver rose icon of the Aqua on the back. And honestly, it looked pretty nice. I wasn going to lie.

I liked Aphrodites music, but I wasn the biggest fan. I wondered what one of their ultra fans would do if they got a hold of my phone.

We settled on Stardust Mobile. According to their Wikipedia page. The company was founded in 2010, as a subsidiary of Stardust Technologies, which in turn was founded in 2001. In 2015, Stardust Technologies bought BlackBerry Limited, taking over the company. They directed their phone technology to Stardust Mobile, while the rest of the company was incorporated into Stardust Technologies.

Both Stardust Technologies and Stardust Mobile were founded by Alexander Petrov…

Petrov… I knew that name. I clicked on his Wikipedia page and sure enough, he had one son, a boy named Andrei. I didn pay attention to his daughters, but his sons name stood out too. I remembered what Athena had said about the inventor of virtual reality. His name was Andrei Petrov.

I googled Titanic, and sure enough, I couldn find a thing about it sinking. Most people didn seem to know what it was and most of the information that I found about it was from old newspaper articles. It never sank in this world, so it never became famous. Everyone traveling to America by Titanic made it.

I looked at Alexander Petrovs Wikipedia page and his grandfather had come to the United States via the titanic. So Stardust Technologies and Stardust Mobile were companies that didn exist in my last life. Because Alexander Petrov had never been born.

So the Titanic hadn sunk in this world. Everything Athena said was true. That meant that Athena was real and so was Set. And I was now stuck in the middle of some supernatural dick-measuring contest. I really wished that the Athena part of things had been a dream.

So how long before Andrei Petrov invented Virtual Reality? It was coming. There was nothing I could do about that.

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