Strange Things

In Jake's house...

Jake entered his house and went into his parents' room to see if he could find anything else. Then he found a strange looking device that looked like a mini projector. As he picked it up, he saw a button that read 'play'. He decided to tap it. Then something strange happened...

The device left Jake's hand and went up in the air and started to project a video on his nearby wall. It consisted of his father and mother sitting on a couch in a strange room that he had never seen in his entire life. His mother said,

"If you are watching this video,", she sobbed, "It means we are already dead.".

His father then continued,

"Don't be too sad, grab the device as soon as soon as this video ends and press the open button that is there. Goodbye son...well, for now."

The video ended there and he grabbed the device quickly. He saw the open button there and he swore it wasn't there before. He couldn't even find the play button again. Then questions started flooding his mind.

What was the device? How did they make that video? Did they know they will die? Where was that room that they were? What did his dad mean by 'for now' when he said goodbye? How did the 'open' button get there and how did the 'play' button disappear?

All these thoughts were confusing him. He then pressed the open button and the device disappeared. Then he was hearing strange beeping noises in his head and he found it annoying. Then he heard a strange robotic voice.

"Seems host finds it annoying, it will be stopped to satisfy him. Connection in progress..."

"Huh? What was that? I'm probably hearing things. But the beeping stopped. This is getting confusing."

He went on to do his assignment and when he was almost done, he got a message from Tom on his phone. It read,

'Hey Jake, just wanted 2 ask you to come over to my house. I'm feeling bored 'cos my mom and pops went somewhere and they said they wouldn't be home until 10. Expecting you in fifteen minutes.'

Jake then sent the reply,

'Kk. On my way Tommy.'

Jake finished up his assignment and headed to Tom's house.

In Tom's house...

"Come on Jake. Where are you?", Tom whispered to himself.

*KNOCK KNOCK*

Tom heard a knock on his door and opened it and saw his best friend.

"Jake, where have you been?"

"Oh, I just wanted to finish up my homework so it's not my fault."

The duo played some boy games including a VR game. They played 5 VR games in which Tom won 2 of them, Jake also won two while they drew one.

The decided to play football.

(Author: I use British language so for people that use American language, the played soccer.)