Dreaming in Digital

I was with Shortbread. It seemed like we had both just finished work in the afternoon. We came out of a small mall and went to the picnic bench just outside the entrance to the grocery store, taking a seat. Shortbread and I were talking, but the last thing I remember was her telling me she had to go buy food to barter for something else... I think it was another food. She left her backpack with me, as she left, two girls came with the intent to take the table from us... or we were their targets for something else. I don't remember what happened between this time, except that they were in conversation, but I could feel some sort of hostility coming from them. When Shortbread came out, I don't remember exactly what happened, but we were ready to run. Before they chased us through the parking lot, I walked up to the girl in a light blue coat, which stopped above her knee. She looked a lot like my character avatar from TinierMe (and the girl she was with also looked like Shortbread's avatar, wearing a red shirt). I pounded my fists at her a few times before we dashed away, toward a group of people who we knew and knew us. They were the characters from Yu-Gi-Oh season one, except they were... a little different in personality. I remember we escaped with them because the girls wouldn't come near them. We followed them going up a spiral staircase outdoors, with Seto Kaiba carrying someone over his shoulders. He wasn't at all serious and mean, as he was in the North American version of the anime.

I was with Shortbread on DeviantArt. We both had our computers and she was logged into her account, as I was to mine. A girl we were both watching posted, on this day, 50+ deviations. I was annoyed. Shortbread started writing a journal entry, asking people to please post once a day; I decided to copy her. Some time later, I was with Free from Soul Eater, and possibly Eruka. We sat in a dark room, almost like a movie theatre. Free was doing something, but I can't remember. He was helping me get rid of my annoyed feeling I felt earlier.

I was sitting with Shortbread. We were half-hiding (from bullies, I felt) but also sitting as if we were safe in a treehouse, though we were out in an open field, on a picnic blanket, looking at something on the internet though some kind of handheld device. I looked up "Knight" and found something interesting. I asked her to look it up too. We were doing something to help in our research to create our Soul Eater original characters.

I was at my university house for the third year. The sky was grey outside and seemed like it was winter. The sky was gloomy. I was talking to Shortbread in MSN Messenger and we were on a game that seemed like laser tag on the massive multiplayer online roleplaying game we use to play called Dark Ages. I was pretty good at the game, shooting everyone on sight. When I was playing, it was as if I were playing laser tag in real life. I stopped after a while and talked to Shortbread on MSN. I felt like wandering my location, since my residence is in the suburbs. I remembered a plaza that I saw on a map of the area before and I decided to check it out. I sent a message to Shortbread and a bunch of messages I sent to her popped up. I scrolled up and saw in green, a message from the program reading, "//acisisica// has updated her IP." I dismissed the message and told Shortbread that I'd be back soon, since I was going out to find something to eat.