Fs2004 - — Carenado Aircrafts

Alex laughed nervously. "Old GPU is finally cooking itself."

He smiled, rubbed his eyes, and went to dinner. But for the rest of his life, every time he saw a well-modeled screw head or a perfect leather stitch in a real airplane, he swore he heard a faint, 22kHz whisper of a kid laughing as he flew into the digital abyss. FS2004 - Carenado Aircrafts

"I'm not real," Alex whispered.

Inside the virtual cockpit of that virtual plane sat a younger version of himself. Twenty years younger. The kid had a thick head of hair and wore a faded Aces High t-shirt. He was smiling, his hands on the throttle, ready to take off into the infinite sunset of 2004. Alex laughed nervously