Reddie #10 - Fallout Girl

Finally got to the end of the Early Look for Nicky here! There's still one more left to tie up this arc and I still need to do the scene on that one, since it requires me to make & pose the guy as well. Hopefully I'll get around that soon enough. But other than that, enjoy.

Angles here, of which all were done with a brighter light source (including one from #2 with the exact same angle so it's the perfect comparison).

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Nicky tapped the space bar to her computer to the time of music in her head. She looked over at her computers clock, 2029-10-05T22:17. He's Late.

She flipped over to her her friends list. Elisium was playing a game but ARKane was still showing as offline. Where the hell is Noah. Hes late... Again.

After her indirect rejection it had been hard to get things back to normal, but between the both of them they had managed it. Their friendship intact they were finally playing games together again.

Reddie: Where's ARK?

Elisuim: Dunno

Reddie: How? You live with him. He's 30 minutes late.

Elisium: He gets testy when I pry into his social life.

Reddie: And you expect me to believe you don't keep tabs on him anyways?

Elisium: I didn't say that... Amber's been over most of the day.

Reddie: Doing what?

Elisium: How should I know? His doors closed. I'm his brother not his stalker.

Noah finally came online, the blip grabbing Nicky's attention.

ARKane: Hey, sorry was busy.

Reddie: It's cool. VC?

ARKane: Uhhh... Sure.

"Hey Noah, ready to get crushed?" Nicky rubbed her palms together.

"Uhhh sure. Let me just get set up."

There was a shuffling on the mic then a third faint voice. "You're seriously going to play a game now? We aren't done with-" Noah muted his mic. A minute later he returned.

"Sorry about that. Okay I should be good now. "

They played a few rounds of a shooter game. Nicky absolutely crushing him round after round. Then they switched over to a co-op/competitive city building game where they could attack each other at their discretion.

It was going well, Nicky could once again relax and just enjoy the game with Noah.

"Why are you going so easy on the ironing board? You always make it a challenge for me." Nicky heard from Noah’s mic.

"Amber! Will you stop! Please."

"What? First she interrupts us and now I have to watch you go easy on her? What's the deal? What do you get out of being nice to her?" It took a moment for Nicky to realize they were talking about her.

"What is she going to do? Flash her lack of tits at you? You said she doesn't even video chat. How do you even know it's the same girl? You literally haven't seen a picture of her in-" Noah muted his mic again.

The shock broke through Nicky's system, causing her to shudder. Tears welling up in her eyes.

Noah unmuted his mic. "Sorry Nicky I... Amber didn't mean... She didn't know what she was talking about." he paused waiting for a response that didn't come. "You have always been a great friend. Please don't let this get in the way of what we have."

The guilt piled up on her all at once. Choking her up.

"What we have? What do we have Noah? You don't even know anything about me. What do we have, seriously? Lies and passing acknowledgements?... You can't even tell that I like you. That I've always liked you. Instead you're with that... fucking bitch. And all I can think about is how miserable you are. ALL THE TIME! And it actually hurts to see it. I've tried to ignore it." Nicky choked a bit. "But I can't keep doing this. Not if she's going to attack me when we're just trying to have a good time. I... I just... Goodbye Noah. I really did like you."

Nicky ended the call, closed the program and shut down her computer for good measure.

She'd lost a friend. But hopefully she'd gained some solace in defeat.