A/N: Another week, another chapter- technically a day late, but I'm not all too concerned about sticking to a schedule. New chapters will be every week or so, unless something dramatic happens with my laptop (but that seems to happen pretty often). But until that happens, enjoy another chapter of First Best Friend!
Light entered Hana's half-closed eyes, forcing her awake. She checked the time. 10:47. Damn, I slept in…
Suddenly, she sat bolt upright, remembering the events of last night. A girl, Sombra invaded her home, forced Hana to let her stay, and ate her Chinese food, before sleeping on her couch. A quick look told her that the girl had disappeared. Maybe it was just a dream?
Hana pulled a thin dressing gown over her pajamas, and pulled open her blinds, to see a shockingly bright sun bursting through thin strings of clouds. Just my luck. I'm on a winter holiday, and this is the weather I get? Maybe Mei is right…
She stretched a little, before weakly pushing her door open and meandering downstairs to her kitchen, where she poured a bowl of cereal and clicked her small kettle on.
'Hey, conejita."
The Hispanic voice caused her to drop her cereal on the floor, spilling milk, Shreddies, and shards of ceramic around her feet. All the while, she remained facing away from the girl in her kitchen for as long as possible.
"Can you turn around? I wanna see your cute face, conejita." This was accompanied by a quiet giggle, and light footsteps following on. She snuck past Hana. picked up a roll of tissue paper, and knelt down, cleaning the floor around the gamer. "I guess you have a nice culo too."
"Shut up." Despite not knowing Spanish, and not knowing what Sombra had said, Hana had already had enough of Sombra for the day.
Sombra ignored Hana's comment, and stood up, throwing the soaked tissue paper into the bin. "So, what are we doing today, roomie?"
"Well, I'm going to stream the new SoulStorm game today, and you're going to sit quietly and not interrupt me."
"SoulStorm? ¡Que guay!" Sombra pulled another piece of tissue paper from the holder.
"Yeah, I got it in the mail yesterday. And you're not playing it."
"Awww, ¡conejita!"
"Yeah. Boo-hoo."
"But it has a split-screen mode! We could-"
"I'm streaming anyway. Sorry." Hana was as unapologetic as possible.
"Please? I'll be a good girl…" Sombra clasped her hands together as she begged.
"Ugh. I guess, if we have time."
"Yay, thanks! I love you, conejita!"
"Shut up and let me eat now." Hana pushed her out of the way and walked towards the cereal box.
"Cranky", Sombra said playfully, picking up the bits of ceramic from the floor.
Hana pulled the jumpsuit over her slender body and pulled out a small tub of pink facepaint from the waist-height drawer. As she began to paint the familiar whiskers onto her cheeks, her mind floated to Sombra. Why is she here? Why did she choose to stay with me? Is Talon behind this? The thought made her gasp slightly. Hana heard a faint knock, followed by "Are you OK, conejita?", to which she didn't reply. Continuing her train of thought, she considered the possibility that Sombra was simply there as Talon's arm. Should I get her to leave? Or should I play along with her game? Hana looked at the mirror properly and saw that her hand had inadvertently finished her whiskers for her. She sighed, and tried to focus on assuming the persona of . It was difficult for her to do so sometimes, especially in moments of personal turmoil such as these. But between her loving fans, the charities that she supported, and her own sanity, she had to do this sometimes. The persona was a release for her, where she could use up the pent-up energy that MEKA and Overwatch had trained her to bottle up during missions. She had no choice but to do so: her life had little passion otherwise- no hidden talents, no love life, and now no missions to go on.
Hana opened the door to the bathroom, to find that Sombra was standing inches from the door and, now, her face. "Hey conejita, I like the outfit! You can really see your curves!"
Trying to stay in character, Hana smiled towards her 'friend'. "No response this time, puta? I guess I'm lucky."
Hana walked past Sombra, turned on her PC, loaded up SoulStorm 3, and proceeded to set up her stream. Sombra walked over to Hana and stared at her PC.
"Hands off." Hana finally broke character to speak in a half-aggressive, half-tired and stared down at the Hispanic girl.
"I know, I know. Eyes only. The computer is muy bonito, though." Sombra slowly stepped away, retreating to the pink bed, on which she lay in a half-relaxed, half-seductive pose. Hana, now trying to get back into character, took a long chug from the first of many cans of Mountain Dew. "Can I-" Sombra started, before seeing that Hana, now had pulled her signature headphones over her silky hair, making it clear that she did not care much for Sombra. Instead of listening and replying, waved excitedly at the camera in front of her, before speaking into her microphone energetically.
"Hey, guys! Welcome to another stream, we're gonna be playing the new SoulStorm game today, so let's get into it!" Sombra pulled her phone out and, deciding that she had nothing else to do, logged onto the stream and began to watch.
After half an hour of watching, Sombra became bored, and began manipulating numerous purple screens in front of her and, out of habit, checking to see what she could do in the room. Resolving to stay above hacking Hana's PC, she tried her hardest to find something even more tempting, until she saw a small piece of code that connected to Hana's chair. Not one to pass up on an opportunity, she read over it and determined its function. Soon enough, Hana was now moving ever-so-slowly downwards. Sombra began giggling, unheard by her roommate until she removed her headphones to ask about the fact that her feet were now touching the floor.
"No sé, chiquita. No sé." Sombra tried to sound as innocent as possible. Attempting not to break character, Hana pulled her headphones back over her head and continued her game. Meanwhile, Sombra kept searching for ways she could mess with Hana. Eventually, she came across a string of coding for Hana's headset, and realising her sudden thirst, formulated a plan. She slowly raised the noise canceling, until Hana was sure not to hear anything. Then, she slowly crept towards Hana's table, plucked two cans of Mountain Dew from the side, and crept back to the bed. Pouring the green fruits of her plan into her mouth, she switched the stream back on and heard an exchange begin between Hana and someone on her raid party.
"You're trash, little girl. Why are you even here?"
"Well, I'm new to the game, but I thought it was pretty eas-"
"You think this is easy? Are you joking? I've put hours into this game already, and you've barely reached level 10."
"I'm just here to have some fun-" Sombra watched the look on Hana's face get a little downtrodden, but she seemed to be staying positive.
"Shut up already, why don't you just leave?"
"I-"
"Little girls like you shouldn't even be pla-" Sombra pulled her headphones out of her ears. She had heard enough. In a few swipes, she had broken her resolution not to hack Hana's PC, tracked the IP of the trash-talker, and broken through his weak firewall. Then, she took over his audio feed.
"Hey, pendejo, who do you think you are?" Hearing him jump a little, she smiled devilishly.
"You're not in-game, how the hell are you-"
"You didn't answer my question, joto. Who are you to talk to the one and only like that?"
"I don't see why I ha-"
"But I do. Answer my question or I'll make sure that by the end of the day, someone's gonna shove un putero de mierda down your throat."
"You think I understand what you're saying?"
"¿Eres tonto? I know where you are at the moment. You're in Argentina. You full well understand what I'm talking about." As she spoke, she pulled up the SoulStorm banlist and left it open.
"You know where-"
"Shut it, pagafanta. Now beat it, before I get tus huevos stapled to your chin." Before the man had time to retort, Sombra added his name to the banlist, and set it to be removed after a week. She noted down his gamertag and closed the banlist. She looked up, to see a confused, slightly upset expression in Hana's eyes as she stared at the screen. Briefly apologising, she quickly shut down the stream, and turned around to look at Sombra.
"D-did you do that?" there was a slight catch in her voice.
"Do what, conejita?" Sombra grinned at Hana in a friendly manner.
"You did, didn't you?"
"The trash talker? Yeah, that was me. Banned him for a week."
"Did you talk to him?"
"Yeah, but we don't need to get into the details."
"Thank you. I don't know what I would have done if he kept talking…"
"It's over now. Want a hug?" Hana blushed a little and looked down at her feet.
"N-no, thank you. I'd just like to go to sleep now."
"Sure, I get it. You want me to order pizza?" Hana didn't speak. Instead, she walked to her bed, threw Sombra's empty cans off the covers and onto the floor, and pulled the covers around her. She completely ignored her roommate's presence at the foot of the bed. Sombra shifted over to Hana and pulled the covers closer to her chin. "I'll order pizza. Have a nice siesta, conejita."
A/N: So, thanks for reading! This was a fun chapter to write, and I had a lot of fun compiling a little document full of Spanish insults to use in the story. I'm going to keep this author's note short this time around, considering nothing interesting is happening in my life. I'm going on a hike on Wednesday, but nothing else. By the way, if there are any mistakes in here, please point them out, because I tend to write my stories on mobile, so there are typically mistakes in my writing even after proofreading.
'Conejita'- '(little) rabbit' (referencing 's rabbit logo)
'Culo'- 'butt'
'¡Que guay!'- 'How cool!' (the upside-down exclamation mark is used in Spanish to begin exclamative clauses, and makes it easier to distinguish the exclamative part of the sentence so you know which parts to stress. For example, when Sombra complains about not being able to play Soulstorm 3, the only part being exclaimed is 'conejita' rather than the whole sentence. You really didn't need to know that.)
'Puta'- a woman who has a lot of sex (Sombra wishes…)
'Muy bonito'- very pretty.
'No se, chiquita.'- 'I don't know, (little) girl.'
'Pendejo' - lit. pubic hair, but in this usage, asshole/idiot.
'Joto'- "sissy"
'Un putero de mierda'- 'A f***ton of s***'(Sombra, being an adult, is clearly gonna be pretty bad-mouthed, especially towards those who insult Hana.)
'¿Eres tonto?'- 'are you stupid?'
'Pagafanta'- a compound insult, made from the verb pagar/to pay, and the brand name of the Fanta drink. Together, it describes someone who pays everything to begin sexual relationships with women but still fails.
'Tus huevos'- lit. 'your eggs', but in this scenario, 'huevos' refers to testicles.
'Siesta'- short sleep (usually during the sweltering midday of summer Spain), nap.