That night, I logged back onto Minecraft and called Mitch on Skype. Two minutes later, he joined the call.
"Hey Ray," Mitch said, "What's new? Ready to play Hunger Games?"
"Caleb beat up Ty, Adam, and Jason today."
He paused. "What?"
"Ty was doing this rally thing and then the football players just came over and…" I started to get tears in my eyes and sniff to hold them back.
"Do you want to me to come over to your place? To meet in person?"
"No, it's fine."
"You sure?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. Do you not want to play Hunger Games then? A different game maybe?"
"I was thinking… King of the ladder."
"Should I invite Jerome and Mat?"
"Okay."
A few minutes later, Jerome joined, "Are we doing this or what, Benj?"
"Yeah, dood. We are. Hold on."
"Is Mat coming?"
"No… he told me he had school stuff, so I won't bother him."
"What about Jordan? Or Quentin? Or Ty? Or Adam?"
"Jerome. Don't mention them."
"Who? Adam? Ty?"
"Yeah."
I stopped their conversation, "You don't have to do that, Mitch. It's fine if we let one of them join."
"Ray? You're on with us?" Jerome asked.
"Yep," I replied, "We're gonna play King of the ladder."
"Awesome. Who's gonna be our fourth player?"
"I'm checking for who's online," Mitch told us, "Adam. Is it okay…?"
"Yeah. It'll be fun," I answered. He joined our call.
"Hi guys! I heard we're playing King of the ladder. Who's with us?"
"It's you, me, Jerome, and Ray."
"That girl from last night that beat us at the Hunger Games?"
"You do know that I'm in the call right?" I mentioned.
"Uh… yeah. How would I not?" Adam sarcastically implied, his voice shaking a bit.
"Are we gonna start the game?" Jerome asked.
"Join this server," Mitch notified us to open a link. We easily found the King of the ladder server and chose our teams. It was a free-for-all, with me being blue, Jerome being red, Mitch being green, and Adam being yellow.
"Three, two, one," Mitch announced, "Hey doods. It's Bajan and I'm here with Sky, Jerome, and SuperSmashRay. We're doing King of the Ladder..."
"And if you don't know what King of the Ladder is, then you should definitely catch up. On everything," Jerome joked.
"You guys!" I laughed, "All I want to do is win this and brag about it to everyone."
"Oh no she didn't!"
"Yes I did!"
"You're going down!" Adam yelled and ran to the ladder. Mitch, Jerome, and I gasped.
I quickly ran to a chest on my right and grabbed a fishing rod, steaks, and a wooden sword. Everyone else besides Adam did the same. We all rushed the ladder.
"You started too early!" Mitch yelped, "We were supposed to take the stuff from the chests on go."
"I wanted to get a head start, so I can win!"
We all laughed and continued with the game. Jerome was the first to get to the top.
"I'm King of the ladder!" he screamed. I knocked him down with my fishing rod.
"No you don't, bacca!"
"Hey! I'll get you back!"
"Ha ha! As if!" Adam was the one to push me off the top, "Uh… what color am I again?"
"Aren't you yellow?" Mitch reminded him, "As in chicken nugget budder?"
"Oh yeah! That's right." He pressed the yellow button.
"Why'd you tell him?" I jokingly inquired, "You ruined my chance to win!"
"Not quite." At this moment, Mitch blew Adam off the top and caused him to hit the ground and lose a life. Mitch pressed the green button.
"Dammit!" Adam wailed. Back in the yellow spawn area, he put the same items in his inventory. Meanwhile, Jerome and I were having a one-on-one fishing rod battle.
"You think since your name is Super Smash Ray, you can super smash me into the ground."
"Yep." I replied.
"Ah ha!" Jerome managed to make me drop onto the ground. I lost a life and ended back up in the blue spawn area.
"What's the life count?" Mitch asked.
"I have two, Ray has two, Jerome has all three, and you will have two!" Adam declared.
"What?" Mitch was pushed off the top of the ladder by Adam and ended up losing one of his lives.
"Ha ha! Got you there!" Adam shouted. He pressed the yellow button.
"This game is never going to end!" I said, climbing up the ladder.
"It actually ends quicker than you think," Mitch told me, "Most of the time, no one wins the game, only by other people losing all their lives."
"I see."
After five minutes more of pressing buttons and losing lives, it was me and Adam with one life each, and Jerome with two. Mitch had been disqualified because of depleting the rest of his lives. All of us were on the ladder, attempting to hit each other off. Adam finally fell.
"Man!" Adam announced, "I was so close!"
"Ha ha!" Jerome announced, "I will win! Timer's almost up! Bacca will be victorious!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it." I knocked off Jerome with my fishing rod.
"I still have one life left."
"I know." Before he even reached the ladder, I climbed to the top and pressed the blue button, "See who'll be victorious now! Maybe my super smash will work!"
"Can't believe you were doubting it at first," Adam commented, "You beat us at the Hunger Games. It was pure luck."
As I was busy listening to Adam, Jerome had made his way to the top of the ladder and boosted me off. I landed hard on the ground and lost all my items.
"Yeah! Bacca's the winner!" Jerome announced.
"But none of that counts," Mitch told us, "Cause we gonna do sumotori!"
"Sumotori!"
I burst out laughing because the boys were being so crazy, "I'm going to win this one though. Jerome is the first one to go!"
Once the budder sumotori arena was built, we switched out of creative mode back into survival. Adam got thrown off first, then me, leaving Mitch and Jerome.
"Oh buddy!" Jerome tried to get a hit on Mitch. I watched from the side of the arena. Adam's character flew next to me, "This should be good!"
"But… Jerome," Mitch begun.
"Yeah?"
"I'm the winner."
"Huh?" Jerome was flung off the sumotori arena with only a few hits from Mitch.
"The loser comes out a winner!" Adam declared.
"Well, thanks for watching. Check out Sky and Jerome in the link down below. Make sure to slap that like button with yo forehead! Ba bye!" Mitch, Jerome, and Adam stopped their recordings.
"I gotta go," Mitch continued off camera, "I'll see you tomorrow, Ray."
"Tomorrow?" Adam questioned.
"Yeah," I explained, "I'm gonna do another Hunger Games with Mitch tomorrow night. We've already planned it."
"Oh, okay. I'll see you!" Adam logged himself out of the chat.
"I'll see you at school Benja," Jerome told Mitch.
"Yep," he replied, "I'll see ya." Jerome logged himself out of the chat a few moments later. Mitch then continued to talk to me, "Goodnight Ray."
"Goodnight Mitch." Smiling, I logged out, shutting down the call.
This chapter was just a little bit of fun before the real drama begins. Hope you liked it!
