27 Chapter 27 Stella Gets The System (2/2)
He would have given up anything for just one more day with her. He refused to live his life like that again.
”I already said I would stay with you?” she was obviously confused.
”You don't understand. I don't want you to leave for any reason. I want you to stay with me. I lost someone once…” his voice trailed off, and Stella came over to sit next to him on the bed.
He looked at her, and sniffed. He was trying to keep the tears from falling, but a few slipped out anyway, and he wiped them away.
”But, Master, I'm only a little girl. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's supposed to be your job to tell me…” She was so confused at his break down. He knew he had been putting in long hours for months. Could this be what it was like to fall apart?
”I'm going to give you a gift. Something you can't tell anyone about, except my dad. But not until I talk to him. With this gift, you will be able to choose your own path. Be whatever you want. Just… just don't ever leave me, okay?”
”Okay,” she said, nodding.
He watched as her eyes went out of focus, then she almost fell off the bed. He remembered what that was like.
”What do I do?” she asked. ”It wants to know if I accept…the system?”
”Accept it of course,” he said with a small smile. Now he knew why his father had reacted the way he had.
”Wow,” she whispered, looking around.
”Just remember, that you can't tell anyone about it, okay? No one can see what you see, when it concerns the system. Also, it can talk to you, and answer questions.”
”It wants me to choose a life goal,” she said, looking at him.
”Then choose one,” he said, smiling wider.
”Oh, umm, what should I choose?”
”I don't care, but you should really get photographic memory with your first ten points. It will help you learn everything way faster.”
She nodded, uncertainly.
”You can spend an hour with me at breakfast, lunch, and supper, nine hours sleeping, and two hours for etiquette. Everything else you can spend training whatever you want. I'll tell dad in the morning so he can arrange batter tutors for you.”
”Okay,” she said, absentmindedly, as she explored the system, he had just gotten her.
Joseph really felt that this was right.
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