April 22, 2011

Forecast… Clear in the morning, then Cloudy all through the night

"ACHOO!" My head was thrown forward and smashed against my kitchen table, I smashed against it hard enough to start seeing stars. I shook my head for a moment, and placed my right hand on my forehead. "Son of a motherfucker! That hurt… So much for hanging out with anyone today."

I had gotten sick almost overnight, I guess running to school on a rainy day is enough to do that to you. Now add on the fact that I was still sore from training with Chie yesterday… and you can absolutely do almost nothing! So, I had texted everyone that I wouldn't be at school. So I did something that I knew I could do no matter how sick I felt… eat and play video games! I had just finished eating, so… vid game time! I walked, slowly with a blanket around me, to the couch. Which already had my controller on it. Now don't start getting into the which one is better fight here, because… I had a 360 and Halo in it, well Halo Reach… I planned on beating it for the, um… one, two… three thousandth time today. After I did that, I was gonna kick the snot out of Hazama in Blazblue! (What can I say? I'm a guy of many taste.) Anyway, I started going through the levels of Halo with ease until I got to the recon level with Jun. (Seriously! I hate that level! It never gives enough ammo!)

Anyway, as I was getting to the part where you fight the gaint tusked… aliens as well as some Grunts. My phone went crazy, starting to play the beginning of my ringtone… like six times in a row before continuing with the bleeps. I almost threw my controller out of my hands with how much it scared the shit out of my! Still, when I realized that I had nothing to fear, I reached of the phone and flipped it open, I had a lot of texts from everyone! (Everyone being Yu, Chie, and Yosuke…) Most of them just asking how I was doing… Not that it bothered me… just; they did scare the ever loving shit out of me! That's when I noticed it was lunch time for them, and the moment realization hit me… my stomach started to rubble enough for me to grab my stomach. God only knows how freaking hungry I was that day…

So I went on slow, kinda painful search for food… All I had left was… a bag of chips… I really should go to the store more often and stock up before I start living somewhere. That would have been helpful too. Well, when you're hungry you'll eat anything you can get your hands on… if you're a guy. Anyway! So I returned to my gaming while eating the potato chips. After about, maybe three more hours of Halo, and the disco glitch, funny no matter how many times I see it! I finally beat the game… again. So I switched the games out, again, it was slow and painful, I made a note to myself at that moment; next time you train with Chie… take pain killers when you wake up! I slowly returned to my seat on the couch and started up the game. I went about playing the game for about two hours, just when I was about to stop playing the game, I started to hear people standing outside of my door… at least two voices, maybe three… I really couldn't tell at the moment, I got up from the couch and made my journey to my front door. I could clearly hear that there were two people, that's not what surprised me… what surprised me, was I knew two of those voices. "Would you hurry up and knock!?"

"Would you just be quiet," The first voice was that of a girl, the second was that of a guy. "He's sick, so he might be asleep!"

"Yosuke would you just knock!?" That's not when I figured out who they were, when they started fighting, that's when I knew who had come a knocking at my door. So, I opened the door to be greeted by Yosuke's fist knocking on my forehead.

"What the!?" I recoiled so he couldn't smash his fist into my face… again! "Chie!? Yosuke!? Holy shit Yu! Speak up for once!"

"Oh crap!" Yosuke recoiled in fear as he figured out that he just basically punched me. I just rolled my eyes at him. That was also when I got the chance to look at the clock… four o'clock, yep, just wasted a whole day eating chips and playing video games… Mission accomplished! "K-Kreed! Are you alright!?"

"Been better," I sniffled at my friends, and stepped out of the way of the door for them. "Come on in."

"Um…" All three of them just looked at each other, my guess, trying to figure out if I had the plague or not. I sighed and walked away from the door back to the couch, the destraction was all I needed to want to continue playing the game, until I noticed they were still just standing at the door. For the love of god! I had a fucking cold! Not flesh eating bacteria! "Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"I have a cold," I looked over the back of my couch to look at them. "Not the stomach flu… or flesh eating bacteria, which would suck…"

They all just shrugged at each other and stepped through the door. All three of them then began to investigate my house; it was like they had stepped into a whole new world. I couldn't blame them; my mom paid no expense trying to make the place look nice before I moved to Inaba. "Welcome to my evil lair. The sharks with lasers on their heads, unfortunately, shot each other; they made so damn good fish and BBQ though!"

Yu smiled, he was apparently the only one who got the movie reference. Hell, I was surprised that any of them got the joke… Chie just gave me a look that asked if I was crazy. "Sharks…?"

"It's a joke Chie…" Yosuke was the first one to notice what I was doing, and almost immediately ran to jump onto the couch. "Holy shit Yosuke! Where's the fi- Achoo! God damnit all! The fire."

"Dude," Yosuke just stared at the screen for a moment. "I had no idea you liked Blazblue!"

"Hell yeah I do!" I gave Yosuke an evil grin as I entered the character selection. I had the extended version, so I had Relius as a character. "Toa is my favorite character… EVER!"

"What are you two blabbing about?" Chie walked into the living room and sat down on the same couch as me. Oh, should probably tell ya the layout of the room, huh? Okay, so TV is in the corner farthest from the front door, flat screen. (God Mom! Make the richness show!) There are two couches, on along a wall, another along a very short divider, what was it dividing? The kitchen and the Living room. Okay there ya go! Anyway! So Chie looked at the screen and her eyes widened. "Oh my god! I love this game too!"

"Holy shit!" I about threw the controller down and did a little jig, which is… If I was able to move at that moment in time… heh. "I have made the coolest fucking friends… EVER!"

Yu sat down next to Yosuke on the couch along the wall, this room could honestly fit at least ten comfortably, the house on a party day… we got to about… um, sixteen fit comfortably in the kitchen and living room… don't ask about the party yet… we'll get there, after a long time, so just keep your questions for later! Where were we? Oh yeah! "I got another controller if you guys wanna play!"

Chie and Yosuke about jumped in their seats as Yu finally SPOKE for the first time today! "Sure, make it a tournament if you want."

"YES!" I point into the air, grunting in pain of course, still going with it, and sniffling again. "Everybody get character! I call Toa!"

Yosuke shot to his feet, almost falling over, yep, that excited. "I call Bang!"

"Really…" I glared at Yosuke now. "One of the lamest characters… really?"

"Hey!" Yosuke started to get a little defensive, for god sakes! Bang was worse than the Eragon movie! Yeah, that bad… it didn't help prove Yosuke was strait; of course neither did Kanji, but we'll get to that too. I promise… Everything will be revealed in time. Don't give me that look… Anyway. "Bang is awesome… and he trains Toa!"

"Toa kicked Bang's sorry ass in her story mode." Chie brought the one argument that I had thought of… Holy hell that scared me. "Besides, I want Hakumen!"

"Ragna." Stated who he was gonna play as, of course he wanted the main freaking character, still Ragna was kinda cool. I clapped my hands together. This was gonna be fun, I then thought of something interesting.

"Hey," Ever turned to me as my evil smile appeared on my face, everyone knew that this couldn't end well. "Let's make it interesting!"

"Interesting how…?" Yosuke folded his arms against his chest, he knew that no matter how this day ended, it was gonna hurt him in some way, and he was right!

"Whoever wins…" I leaned back in my seat, still in pain… "Gets one thousand yen from each loser."

"Deal!" Chie and Yu agreed almost instantly, Yosuke just looked at them like they were nuts, hell they all knew I could afford it. Yosuke thought about it for a moment, still thinking that this was gonna hurt him in some way. He was still right!

"What the hell," Yosuke shrugged and stood up. "Deal, so where's the other controller at anyway."

Now you might start asking yourself… why do we care about you guys playing video games. Well, I have no clue… Just bear with me here. Anyway, Chie sat next to me with the white controller, while I had my red controller. As we waited for the loading screen to go away, everyone was talking about what happened at school that day. They also mentioned bring my homework over, great… just what you wanna do on your day way from school… Anyway, the screen finally changed as our characters were introduced. "This is gonna be fun, bring it on Chie!"

"Good luck Kreed," Chie finally started to mash the buttons, and actually started to kick my character to the curb… "You're gonna need it!"

I was calm as Yosuke started to get excited and he started telling Chie how to play the game… the game that she seemed to be a pro at. "Hit him with your special, come on! If you do that you can win!"

"Yosuke," Chie didn't take her eyes off the screen for a moment. Still, I was waiting for a specific moment. "Shut up!"

Yu just laughed, yeah he was finding this funny. "What did I do!?"

"Just zip it!" Me and Chie both yelled at him, yet Chie actually looked at him, that was what I was waiting for! I quickly put in the combination of buttons as the game showed that I did it right, and my character jumped on Chie's, metal blade claws out! "Hey Chie, THIS IS FOR THE TUNA!"

Everyone just stared at the screen as my character slowly kicked the snot out of Chie's, the moment that combo was done, I put in another one. Chie hardly had time to react, as my character slashed her claws from one end of the screen, to the other. Chie's character had one hit left, so I made my character throw a milk bottle at hers. "That is how it's done!"

"Wh-" Chie could hardly believe it, especially sense it was a one round game… heh. "B-but!"

"Sorry," I smiled brightly at her, I was actually trying not to get kicked in the nads, still. When I saw Yosuke's face, I knew I was safe. Mainly because he busted out laughing, I knew at that point, the tournament would have to wait until another day… Chie quickly jumped up and basically kicked the shit out of Yosuke, Yu and me both just sighed, we knew our fun had ended for the day. Damn Yosuke!

Time Change: Daytime to Evening

"Hope you feel better tomorrow Kreed." Yu had Yosuke dangling from his shoulder; he wasn't hurt that bad, he was just a freaking drama queen. Yeah, I know, did I just now figure this out? No, I knew this. Yu and Yosuke walked out the door; Chie was still on my couch, with a pouting face on. Yeah, Yosuke ticked her off. So I plopped on the couch right next to her.

"Well," Chie had her arms crossed. I thought about what to say, so that I didn't end up like Yosuke was acting. "That was a fun day."

"Until Yosuke ruined it." She wasn't really that mad, after all, I could tell the two had been friends for a while now. Ten bucks said she was actually mad at herself for ruining the day. I actually had fun today.

"Na," I smiled at her. "I had fun, a lot more than if you guys hadn't- ACHOO! Showed up… Sorry."

"It's fine, I'm the one that should be sorry." Chie sighed again. That moment, I remembered something that I needed to give her. I quickly jumped up, I wasn't as sore anymore, so I could move easily. Anyway, I quickly ran into my room and grabbed what I was looking for. I ran back into the living room, Chie was now getting ready to leave. I stopped her at the door.

"Wait!" I held out the DVD that I might to give her yesterday, or sooner. "Here, I didn't know if Yosuke was gonna buy you a new copy, so I just picked this one up for ya."

"TRIAL OF THE DARGON!" Chie was jumping with joy when she saw the title, she quickly swiped it out of my hands. I smiled as she jumped up and down with the DVD in her hands. Yet I blushed when she threw her arms around my neck. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"Y-you're welcome…" I patted her back twice, then she let go of me. Her face was also light red. Yet just enough that it was difficult to tell that she was even blushing. "Well, have fun, see you tomorrow, hopefully."

"Bye." She then proceeded to exit my house. I smiled and went to bed, when I woke up the next morning… I was better, everyone else… well, they had gotten my cold. Oops, forgot to warn them about the chips…

Sorry took so long , I got sick over the weekend... Hence why I made this chapter. So hope you enjoyed, feed back is welcome.