Chapter 6: Wild ride

The ride is the wildest thing Parker has experienced in his entire life. His hands are tightly wrapped around the seatbelt as the car nearly flies down the road. The woman stays calm and poised as she drives and in his head, Parker names her the drift goddess.

She comes to a screeching halt in front of the university building and Parker gets down with wobbly legs. His knees are jelly and his heart is racing a hundred miles per hour.

"Have a great day, darlin’" the woman says with a cheerful voice and a loud kissing noise. She finally drives off, leaving a dazed Parker to blink in shock.

[System: fix your life and that would be one in your fleet of future cars]

"Really? I can get that wealthy?" Parker asks the System in disbelief.

[System: of course. But if you’d like, you can spend three more minutes out here and fuck up the rest of your mission.]

Oh that’s right. He needs to get to class and he needs to take that test. "Damn it" Parker says before he turns around and races the rest of the way to the class. The campus is a very big place, and no one cared about the loser with dark hair and cheap clothes running around, but Parker is about to change that. Soon, everyone will care about him, they just have to wait and see.

He bursts into the noisy classroom through the front door just in time to choose a seat secluded at the back. He likes that spot. Not only does the professor ignore him, he also gets to stay far away from Ben and his group of friends.

He slides into a seat and someone joins him on the left side.

"N-nice to see you, Parker" a boy around nineteen years old with thick glasses says, and Parker gives him a nod. The boy proceeds to sit next to him and he looks surprised. "I’m Tim" the boy introduces himself and Parker nods.

[System: pay attention to Tim. You’ll need him in the near future.]

Parker looks at Tim again. The other young man is just as unremarkable as him, maybe even more unremarkable. His glasses are thicker than Parker’s, and his clothes look like he bought them from the eighteen hundreds through a time machine.

"Er...I know a lot about this subject, you can ask me anything if you want" Tim says and Parker nods solemnly. He doesn’t know what to do with that information yet.

"Alright, everyone settle down" the professor announces as he walks into the class with his busty daughter, Jessie, behind him. Parker smiles to himself as the memories from last night start to replay. He really did make Jessie cum just from going down on her. He can still taste her on his tongue.

Maybe this second chance system is seventy percent heaven and thirty percent hell.

[System: you’re eighty percent disappointing and twenty percent halfway disappointing.]

"Why are you so rude? Are systems meant to be this rude?" Parker asks the System under his breath and he imagines the system giving him the middle finger.

Is this a system or a demon?

"No cheating. No side talks. Focus on the paper in front of you, and the test will be over in forty minutes" the old professor yells as he passes the papers. He goes from table to table and makes sure to look in the eyes of every single student.

Phew

Thank goodness he spent his night well. With how terrifying the professor’s face is, Parker is sure he would have failed. The man looks like he came to specially make students fail the test one way or the other.

"Start now" the professor says and Parker locks his attention on the paper.

[System: pay close attention to it. Don’t make a single mistake. A single failed question can lead to failure of your mission. Remember, you need this trip.]

"I’ve got this" Parker whispers and starts to answer the questions with diligence. It might be as a result of being mentally forty-three years old, but he did everything perfectly. Every question gets answered but when he gets to the last one. He gets stuck.

"This wasn’t part of the answers from yesterday night" Parker hisses at the system in panic.

[System: you’re all on your own.]

Oh shit. He doesn’t know the answer to the question. His palms are starting to sweat and his legs are starting to bounce around because of his nervousness. Was the system trying to set him up to fail?

Why would it give him a second chance just to make him go through his pain and failure all over again?

"Psst, Parker. Psst" Tim calls and when Parker turns his head, he finds Tim holding his test paper at an angle that will permit Parker to see. "Go on, write it" Tim whispers and Parker immediately copies the answer.

Ah...maybe the system wasn’t a demon set to destroy him after all. It was just a system after all.

"Sorry, System" Parker says.

[System: F.]

"Huh?"

[System: U. C. K. Y. O. U]

Parker grins at the systems tantrum. Okay. Now he was sure he likes the system and this second chance at life thing.

[System: mission one is fully complete.]

[Stats: charm: 110. Wealth: 0. Intelligence: 1100]

Parker visibly relaxes in his seat with a sigh. He did it. He was so happy to finally have one thing in life to be happy about. He passes his paper forward to the seat ahead and the person passes it forward till it all arrives at the mean professor’s table.

"Thanks for the help, Tim" Parker says to the guy next to him and Tim grins at him.

"Wanna hang out with me?" Tim asks and Parker wants a second to see if the system has anything to say about it. Since he gets greeted with silence, he assumes he has the go ahead to hang out leisurely for the day.