Now we get to see Morrison and Johnny becoming best friends and theater buds! Or just simply...
Chapter 36: Theater Bros
Morrison and Johnny headed to Vincent's room where he saw three of his roommates there, sitting on the floor nearly completed on their video games and Morrison sucked his teeth as he saw them there and asked, "Hey, guys."
"Sup, Mo-Mo?" asked Baxter.
Rocky turns around and sees Johnny standing there and asked, "Who's the gorilla?"
"Guys, this is Johnny. Johnny, these are my brother's roomies from college; Rocky, Baxter and Travis." Morrison replied, introducing Johnny to Vincent's college roomies.
"Hello, nice to meet you all." Johnny said, smiling.
Travis looked up at Johnny and he became starstruck by his presence and he got himself up and said, "You're the dude from that talent show thing at the Moon Theater, aren't you?"
"Yeah, that's me." Johnny replied.
"Holy snap...you're actually here. Forgive me for fanboying, but I'm just really excited to see you! Like, in real life!" Travis exclaimed, obviously excited.
Johnny chuckled at this and responded, "Thank you."
"Okay, Hollywood dude...take your fanboy down a few notches. Let's let the theater geeks take over from here." Vincent stated, holding the controller.
"What game we playing?" asked Johnny, as he sat down.
"How good are you two with Howl of Duty?" Vincent asked.
Johnny smiled at this and in response, he answered, "I play that game all the time at the arcade."
Morrison sat down next towards Johnny and said, "This is the real deal, dude. Me and Vince always play it and we always try to beat each other, in terms of high scores."
"Which I always still beat you with because you're younger." Vincent added.
Before long, the two started playing 'Howl of Duty' where in one spot, Morrison is the young, rogue wolf looking to shoot the enemy while Johnny is the war-ridden white wolf looking to take down the enemy, an Alpha wolf named Parkin who's sole purpose is to take down those that stand in his way of victory. Morrison pressed all the control buttons where the young, rogue wolf can just aim and fire at Parkin and Johnny did the exact same way, only with a much more different approach as he did a backflip and aim at Parkin's soldiers.
Johnny became direct and focused as he pressed the buttons that the character is shooting rapid-fire bullets at the soldiers and kept firing and firing as Morrison's vid game character did the exact same thing, only just firing shot after shot after shot.
Travis looked at Johnny as he's playing this game with Morrison that these two are like pros when it comes to gaming, but he's more geeked out that Johnny's here and Baxter said, "How are you dudes good at this?"
"You'd be surprised at how many times I've played this with Vincent." Morrison answered.
"I taught him how to play the game, but he's taking it into higher levels. First day I introduced him to Howl of Duty, he got through his first 23 levels in just one day!" Vincent exclaimed.
"I used to play some when I'm in my room in the garage for at least 2 hours...whenever I can." Johnny answered.
Soon afterwards, Johnny and Morrison became pretty good at Howl of Duty as they kept on fighting off the soldiers in the game and within no time, they took down Parkin with a single gunshot as well as attacked him with the butt of a gun. Soon enough, the flashing lights 'Game Over' blinked several times and both of them were cheering that they took him down and high-fived each other afterwards.
"That was awesome!" Morrison exclaimed.
"We're good at this one, Howl of Duty." Johnny agreed.
Baxter chuckled at this as he watched Morrison's high score go from 700 to 987 and Johnny's score up 111 to 765, he could tell that his brother and Johnny are like serious pro gamers and he turned to Vincent and said, "I think your bro's gonna be a champion gamer."
"Sure, he does..." Vincent scoffed, in disbelief.
"Well, hey...you gotta start gaming when they're young. It's like a piece of cake." Travis added.
Baxter's stomach started growling and he looked at Vincent and asked, "Speaking of cake, I'm hungry. Do you guys have any more snacks?"
"Dude, you're always hungry. Shouldn't you switch to something like...kale chips?" asked Vincent.
Baxter groans in disgust over the term kale chips and said, "No way, man. I don't eat or drink anything that's got kale in it. It tastes disgusting."
"Bax, kale is actually really good for you. It's an all-natural vegetable and it's healthy for you." Morrison stated.
"All the more reason why I can't eat kale. Or any amount of vegetables and fruits. Give me cake, pizza, chips, nachos, tacos and doughnuts any day." Baxter responded.
Vincent sighed in annoyance and got himself up and said, "I'll see what I can find in the pantry. Don't want you to get hangry...again."
As Vincent walked out of the room, Johnny tilted his head to the side and asked, "Hangry?"
"When you're hungry and angry. Trust me, I've seen it with my brother several times. One time, he got so hangry, he almost went on a full-on tantrum about something I had no idea what it was about, but it was something stupid that involves body slamming the couch and nearly tearing up the fridge." Morrison answered.
"Don't you get hangry, Johnny?" asked Baxter.
"No, not at all. I always eat whenever I can." Johnny answered.
"Wait until you get into college, man. There's literally every fast food restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, coffee houses and delivery places everywhere and groceries. All of that stuff and you'll probably gorge your face in everything." Baxter added.
"Well, if I do, I'll probably go to the gym and burn out some calories." Johnny responded.
Not long afterwards, Vincent came back with some chips, graham crackers, marshmallows and candies and that literally made Baxter yowl in happiness and ate some food right there and then and Morrison saw how Baxter devoured it so quickly that it made him uneasy just to watch and said, "Dang, bro...you must be really hungry."
"Hey, it's the college life." Baxter added, munching noisily.
"Okay...hey, Johnny...wanna take a selfie?" asked Morrison.
Johnny nods his head and replied, "Sure."
Morrison pulled out his phone and just set it to camera and he flipped the image around where it switched lens from the wall to the faces and brought Johnny in and both of them were just smiling as he took a few pics and just then, Travis popped in for a photobomb as Morrison snapped the picture and that photobomb prompted Morrison to include Baxter and Vincent in it and before long, Morrison took several group selfies afterwards.
"You sure know how to take great selfies." Baxter said.
"Who wouldn't?" asked Morrison.
"Alright, wanna take one with me? We can use my phone." Johnny answered, pulling his phone out of his pocket.
"Cool!" Morrison exclaimed.
Johnny brought Morrison in for a selfie and he took several of them on his phone with just him and Morrison and soon after, Johnny included Vincent, Baxter and Travis in it and took mounds of selfies and it was like at that moment, they were just having some fun with each other like normal teenagers do. Morrison chuckled at this and said, "That's awesome!"
"Looks pretty good, that." Johnny added.
Suddenly, in comes Mike out of nowhere coming to Vincent's room and he quickly walked towards Johnny and yanked his jeans, which caught his attention as he looked down and saw Mike there and said, "Hey, kid. We gotta get going."
Johnny nodded at that and he turned to the others and said, "Oi, it's time for me to head out."
"Already?" asked Travis.
"Yeah, gotta get home though. But it's awesome just to hang out with you guys and that's the most fun I've had in a long while...next to singing, of course." Johnny said, with a chuckle.
"Anytime, man. You're super welcome here." Morrison added.
Minutes later, Buster, Johnny, Mike and Gunter were heading for the door and Buster told Morrison's parents, "Thank you all for an amazing evening here."
"Thank you for coming. You're all welcome here anytime." Morrison's dad said.
As everyone said their goodbyes as most of them left the house, Morrison's dad closed the door and Morrison just felt completely happy like it was the best evening of his life and just then, Johnny comes back in the house and said, "Sorry, forgot my jacket."
"All good, man." Morrison said, smiling.
Johnny got his jacket from the coat rack and puts them on and said, "See you at school tomorrow?"
"Count on it. We should text sometime." Morrison replied.
"Oh cool!" Johnny answered.
Both of them exchanged their numbers as they swapped phones and after that, they brought their phones back to each other and Johnny left the house as he said 'bye' to Morrison and afterwards, Morrison walked upstairs to get himself ready for bed, but not before Tucker comes by and asked, "Mo, can you read me a story?"
"How come that doesn't surprise me?" asked Morrison, with a chuckle as he walked into Tucker's room.
You can tell that Morrison and Johnny are like best friends and brothers now...a pretty cool friendship between a cheetah and a gorilla! Stay tuned for more! BTW, if you've heard of the two video games that I've 'animalized', it came to me in a dream.