"Morgan, this is a bad idea." Chuck said panicking.

"Well, we can't stay here, Chuck. "

"I'm uncomfortable with the plan."

"Plan? What plan? This is survival. "

"That's her. We've been compromised. I'm a ghost."

"Morgan, you can't leave me like this. You can't do this to me, man."

"Chuck, what are you doing?" Chuck's sister Ellie says coming in.

"Uh, escaping."

"From your own birthday party?"

"Hey, Ellie. Wow, you look fan... tastic. "

"Uh, you know, sis, the thing is, Morgan and I don't really feel like we're fitting in... at my birthday party, 'cause we don't know any body, 'cause they're all your friends and they all happen to be doctors."

"Doctors who don't really get our jokes. "

"Well, your jokes. "

"Okay, my jokes."

"Chuck, I have invited real, live women for you. And if you won't talk to them, Y/N is here for you too!"

You have been one of Chuck's best friends since childhood. You have always had a crush on him but were always too afraid to admit and the reasons being that one, you were afraid of admiting you liked him and ruining the friendship if he did not feel the same way and two, you were too awkward to do anything about it anyways.

You did not know though that Chuck has always felt the same way too but too scared to admit for the same reasons. And he was afraid of you leaving him for someone else like his last girlfriend did.

"Really? She's here?"

"Of course she is! She's your best friend! Why wouldn't she be here? So please...Let's go." Ellie said grabbing her brother's hand and leading him outside.

"Morgan, you stay here."

"Need a hand, buddy? "

"No, no, no, I'm okay, I'm alright."

Once Chuck and Ellie got outside he felt all nervous seeing all the people out there. Ellie then got behind him and began pushing him more out there.

"Birthday boy, come with me. We're going to be social. You are funny, you are smart, you are handsome."

"Thank you."

Chuck then saw Ellie's boyfriend, Devon aka Captain Awesome coming their way.

"Oh, there's captain awesome."

" Please don't call him that. "

"Okay, I've identified some candidates for Chuck and they are awesome."

Chuck looked over at Ellie for a second as Devon grabbed him and brought him over to the group of women.

"Let me introduce you to Chuck, Ellie's brother." Devon said postioning Chuck right in front of the women.

One of them came up and approached Chuck.

"Hi, Chuck. We've heard so much about you. Are you in a costume?"

Chuck looked at her weird.

"No, I-I... I work for the Nerd Herd."

"Nerd Herd? That is so cute."

Another girl came up and approached him.

"What do you really want to do?"

"Working on my five-year plan. Just need to choose a font."

The girl then looked down and grabbed his hand.

"What happened here? Did you hurt your hand? "

"No, no, it's, uh, from call of duty. The controller chafes after several hours."

"So Ellie said you went to stanford."

" Yes, that's technically correct."

" I graduated in '02. What was your major? "

"Engineering. "

"Oh, my god, I knew this great guy. He was an engineer, um, he ran track and I think he was a gymnast, too."

"Bryce Larkin, he was my roommate."

Chuck was starting to become uncomfortable now.

"Oh, yes. What's he doing now?"

" I think he's an accountant."

"So, do you have a girlfriend? "

"Uh, no... I did a while back at stanford. Yeah. And her name was Jill. We met fresh man year."

"Oh, that was a while back. "

Chuck then started to go off.

"I remember when I met Jill, I was... it was an economics class. I was walking across the quad and she had dropped her bag, and I was like, you know, rushing to... to go and pick it up for her, and, uh... and we kind of, like, did that whole, like, you know, kind of in a cartoon, kind of bumped heads, and... there was a whole gang of us... Jill and Bryce. We had so much in common then."

As that was going on Ellie went over to Devon knowing he was observing Chuck the whole time to see how we would do.

"How's he doing? "

"Not awesome. "

"That's it. I need to find Y/N. She's got to be here somewhere. She can get him out of it."

Meanwhile, Chuck was still going on with his story not realizing all the girls left him.

"So there I was, Jill with Bryce, me on a train home. I guess she thought he was more exciting."

He all of a sudden looked up and realized everyone had left but found his best friend Y/N standing in front of him.

"You good there Chuck? You're talking to yourself." You said smiling trying not to laugh.

Chuck looked up at you and smiled.

"Very funny Y/N." He said with a smile on his face.

"You know I need to tease."

Chuck laughed softly and got up to give you a big hug.

"Thanks for coming Y/N."

"Of course! I wouldn't miss your birthday for the world."

He squeezed you tighter before letting you go and looked at you and smiled.

Ellie then came on over.

"Thanks for my party. Your seven-layer dip... tasted like eight. "

"Chuck, can I tell you something? "

"It really was eight layers?"

You giggled looking at him. He was always such a goofball and you loved it.

Ellie then looked over at you.

"Y/N do you mind giving us a minute?"

"Not at all girl! I'm just gonna head into your place to use your bathroom if that's okay?"

"No problem Y/N." Ellie said.

"Thanks. And hey maybe we can hang out for a little after Chuck?"

"That would be great! I think Morgan is chilling in my room if you want to just head up there after."

"Okay."

You put your hand on Chuck's shoulder for a sec then headed in. Once she was gone, Ellie turned back to her brother.

"Even though we may ask, no woman really wants to hear about an old girlfriend. It's depressing, okay? Stanford was five years ago. You need to move on. It's time. "

"Do we really have to have this conversation again?"

" We've rehearsed it enough. "

"Fine. I'll get over Jill tomorrow."

"Seriously though Chuck. Even after all that , why can't you realize there is someone who has been there for you all the time."

"Who?"

Ellie just looked at him.

"Y/N?" Chuck whispered not wanting you to hear since the windows were open.

"Yes!! Chuck it's so obvious you like her! Why won't you do anything about it!" Ellie whisper yelled.

"It's complicated. She's my best friend. I would hate to screw that up and lose another girl."

"Chuck that's crazy. She would never leave you. She has been with you at your best and your worst and she is still here. That's got to say something."

Chuck sighed and looked down.

"I know. We'll see okay?"

Ellie squealed.

"Good! Now that that's done. You may go."

Chuck laughed and started to head inside. Once he got to his door he turned back to his sister first.

"Ellie. Why bring all these women over to try to hook up with me if you want me to try to get together with Y/N?"

"Honestly I'm just getting desperate at trying to get you a girl. So I have no idea."

Chuck nodded his head and headed inside up to his room. Once he opened the door to his room he found both you and Morgan sitting on his bed. You looked over at him and smiled which he returned. That smile made him forget about everything going wrong in his life. God he wished he could tell you just how much you meant to him.

"Seems like everybody had a really good time, huh? I know I did." Morgan spoke up.

"Super."

Chuck then went over to sit down on a chair.

"Cheer up, Chuck, you talked to some women. "

"You know, it's a start."

You looked down feeling a bit jealous. You hated that they were trying to hook him up with some girl when you were the one who wanted to be with him.

A sound then came on from Chuck's computer. Morgan and you looked over.

"Wow blast from the past. Bryce remembered your birthday, dude."

"Wow! Weird... Just saying." You said

"What?"

"The guy who got you kicked out of school, the guy who stole your girl, remember that guy?"

"Yeah, Morgan, I think I remember Bryce."

Chuck went over to his computer and you walked over to join him

"All right, well... what, uh, what do we got here?"

" Huh, what is it?" Morgan said joining.

"Zork... you remember Zork the old text, based video game? Well, Bryce and I programmed our own version of it back at stanford using a trs-80."

" Wow, you guys were really cool."

"Impressive right?" You said.

" Yeah, if I could only remember what was in my hero's satchel. The weapons that I would use to kill the terrible troll."

" Right. You know what, you're still really cool. "

"And, uh, you're going home."

" Is it that time?"

" It's that time."

" Right. "

"Pedal safe!"

As Morgan left you looked over at Chuck.

"Did you want me to get going to?"

"Uh no! Actually if you don't mind staying for a little longer? I wanted to talk to you about something." Chuck said sounding a little nervous.

He wanted to talk to you about his feelings towards you finally.

You smiled at him.

"No problem Chuck."

"Okay great! If you don't mind though I just want to check this out first if you don't mind. You can look too if you want."

"Sure!"

"Alright. Great!"

Chuck then looked back at his computer and started to play the game and to see what Bryce was up to. The game was asking him how to kill the troll.

"Attack... troll... with nasty knife."

All of a sudden his computer started acting weird and all the images and videos started flashing on his screen.

Chuck stood up beside you as you both stared at the screen. Chuck reached over and grabbed your hand not understanding what was going on.

You both started to get a major headache.

The images and videos did not stop flashing till early in the morning. Once it stopped you both ended up falling on the floor passing out.