I use the copy and paste method when typing up my chapters onto fanfiction, that way when I retype it I can correct mistakes and edit parts to they sound better. Well, my computer decided that it wanted to overheat TWICE and shut down down on me when I was almost done editing.
If it does it a third time I'm gonna scream.
Day 22: Competing
"We're going to win this before you do."
"Is that a challenge?"
"It's a promise."
"Taylor, I think you should know that what you just said was a challenge, and you just promised the results." Taylor glared at him Saguru and he smirked. Kaito sighed from next to him.
"Really, it's not something to compete this harshly over anyway," he said, crossing his arms. "You two are just being ridiculous."
"I don't think we are." Taylor turned to Aoko. "Aoko, do you want to kick Kaito's ass in this game?"
Aoko got fired up, grinning. "I'm always up for beating him!"
Taylor turned towards him triumphantly. "See? Competition is always accepted."
He groaned. "This is going to go awful if this is a competition."
"It'll be fine." Saguru assured him before looking at Taylor. "So how do we play?"
Taylor grin grew wider as she opened the box. "Alright, it's called Traitor."
"What a promising title." Smack. "Ow!"
"Anyway, basically there are two teams- in this case the good team and the guys-"
"Save the trash talk for when we actually start the game, please."
"I'll say it when I want to say it, you damn tea addicted-"
"So the two teams try to get to the top the fastest?" Aoko asked, interrupting them as she read off the box. "That doesn't seem that hard."
"Well that's the goal," Taylor explained. "But the items you have can be used against anyone, regardless of whether they're on your team or not. You can lay them for anyone, and you can move ahead of your team and still win even though they're not with you."
"So you can choose to stay with your team or abandon them for victory?" Kaito asked. "Why wouldn't you just go on ahead without them?"
"Well the points, mainly, 'cause you want to get the highest number of points possible." She continued. "You have to choose: do I want to get first place or the highest number of points?"
Saguru took the box from Aoko and continued reading it. "But you can join the opposite team if you want to."
"Mm-hmm. You can betray your team by continuing on without them or join the other team, but the other team could easily destroy you if they decide to attack."
"Hence the name Traitor." Kaito finished. He looked through the item cards and monster cards. "What do these cards do?" Taylor took them and shuffled them before placing them back on their respective spots on the board.
"I'll explain when we get that far. We have alcohol, right? Good. Now, it's time to pick our characters…"
Later
"You betrayed me?" Saguru gaped while Kaito laughed. "Well, I shouldn't have assumed otherwise. You are a thief after all." Kaito instantly stopped laughing and shot his head to stare at Saguru while Taylor laughed instead.
Aoko smiled. "Ah! I get it- it's because Kaito's character is a thief, right?" Taylor laughed harder and Saguru smiled, nodding and giving an innocent look to a pouting Kaito. "Well, I guess that sucks for you; there's no way Taylor-chan would betray me like that!"
"No, I totally am." She chuckled as she set down a glue trap. "I'm going to glue Aoko in place and make her lose a turn and then play the speed shoes and move double what I roll which is… a four. I move eight places which makes me at the same spot as Saguru." She met his gaze. "Wanna group up?"
"No!" Kaito yelled, slamming his hand down on the table. Taylor squealed and grabbed her drink before it could spill. He pointed at her. "You betrayed us just to team up with your boyfriend from the start, didn't you?"
"Of course not," Taylor said, appalled and cradling her half-empty drink in her hands. "I did it so I can have a better chance of winning- no offense, Aoko."
"It's fine," Aoko sighed. "I don't fully understand this game anyway."
"If you don't fully understand the game, then why don't you group up with Kuroba?" Saguru asked, looking through his cards. "He seems to understand the game well enough."
"Hmph! As if I would want to group up with her! She's all the way in the back of the board!"
"As if I would want to group up with you anyway, bakaito!"
"What was that?!"
Taylor and Saguru ignored the commotion next to them. "I'll team up with you." Taylor grinned.
Much Later
"Play that card on me and you'll regret it."
"I don't usually regret the things I do."
"You will if you play that card on me." Taylor and Kaito met eyes and stared at each other, the former with a serious look while the latter had a playful smirk. Then, slowly, Kaito put the card back in his hand. Taylor nodded and leaned back in her chair.
Then he pulled the card out again and laid it back down on the table. "I play freeze ray on Taylor and Saguru, since they're sharing a space."
"You bitch!"
Much, Much Later
"Play that card on me and you'll regret it."
"I don't usually regret the things I do."
"You will if you play that card on me." Taylor and Kaito met eyes and stared at each other, the former with a serious look while the latter had a playful smirk. Then, slowly, Kaito put the card back in his hand. Taylor nodded and leaned back in her chair.
Then he pulled the card out again and laid it back down on the table. "I play freeze ray on Taylor and Saguru, since they're sharing a space."
"You bitch!"
Much, Much Later
"You can't betray me! I was going to betray you!"
"Well, I decided that I was going to betray you first." Saguru said, rolling his die and setting his cards down on the table. "I roll a two and move my character to the winning circle- so I win, yes?"
Taylor groaned and rested her head on the table. "I can't believe this."
"It's going to get worse." He told her. "You miss a turn because I glued you, so it's Kaito's turn now."
"I'm going to play my share card and roll for both me and Aoko." Kaito announced, moving them four places and landing two spaces behind Taylor. "See, aren't you glad that we joined teams?"
"I'm pretty sure that was my idea." Aoko claimed, looking at her cards. "Pass. And I can't roll because Kaito rolled for me, right?"
"Right, and Saguru won already so he doesn't have a turn, so it's mine." She set her cards down and grabbed the die, hoping it was a three. It was a two. She groaned and moved her character forward.
"There's a trap on that space." Saguru said, eyeing the board. "You lose another turn."
Taylor screamed.
Finally
Taylor placed her head in her arms while Aoko patted her back sympathetically. "I came in complete last place." She moaned.
"There, there, it's just a game, right?" Aoko cooed, trying to make the American feel better.
"She got the least amount of points and finished in last place." Kaito said, looking over Saguru's arm to look at the tallied points. "That's a little sad."
"It's because she was trying to finish before everyone else." Saguru said, holding back a yawn as he looked at his watch. "It's late- do you want me to call a taxi?"
"Naw, I didn't drink enough to worry about making it home safe or not. We don't live that far away anyway." Kaito said, putting on his coat.
"I plan on sleeping in tomorrow morning." Aoko yawned, taking her coat when Kaito offered it to her. She looked back down at Taylor's moping form. "Thanks for letting us come over and showing us that game, Taylor-chan."
Taylor propped her chin on the table. "Thanks for coming over, I had lots of fun."
"Likewise," Aoko bobbed her head while Kaito nudged her to the door. "I'll message you when we get home."
"I'll message you when we get home," Kaito said instead, eyeing Aoko as she tried to stifle another yawn. "She'll probably fall asleep as soon as we get there."
"Alright, bye-bye." Taylor and Aoko waved at each other until they disappeared past the archway to the front door. Saguru followed them to lock the door but came right back afterwards.
"This got intense today." Saguru commented, sitting back down at the table. "I didn't realize that you got this competitive with games. Makes me wonder what you're like with other team strategy games."
"Let's not find out."
This one took far too long to do. Between my computer crashing to editingit to procrastinating on it to read manga and sending it out late (I only regret it a little bit, since the manga was good, I suppose), this one was a hassle to complete even though I really enjoyed writing it. Definitely in one of my top prompts. Plus, this one is longer than others so you can forgive me for sending it out late right?
...Right?