Chapter 6
It was an hour and we still haven't found Emily, we didn't think she'd be at her dorm but now it was at a last resort. I knocked on her dorm door. No answer. I knocked again.
"Coming!" said a voice from inside.
"That wasn't Emily," Taylor whispered.
"No it wasn't" I whispered back.
"She sounds familiar"
I shrugged. "Not to me" The door opened and it was a girl I've never seen before she had red hair and a necklace which looked like a key.
"Hello," she said to me. "Hello to you as well Taylor."
I looked at Taylor "Who's she?"
"Ki Swan," the girl said. "One-thousand six hundred points, fighter. Nice to meet you, uh…"
"Max," I said.
"Max got it" Ki said. "Anyway you guys need something?"
"Just looking for Emily Peters" I said.
"Why? She your girlfriend?" she asked.
But I took it seriously and was genuinely flustered. "What? No! I-I"
Ki laughed. "I was joking. I figured that wasn't why you were looking for her. So why are you looking for her?"
"We think she's framed Max." Taylor said.
"For?" Ki asked.
"Have you checked the records recently Ki?"
She shook her head.
"Mind if we come in and show you?" Taylor asked.
"Nope I don't mind feel free, just don't touch Emily's stuff she's kind of psycho about it."
"Wasn't going to," I said.
"Me either." Taylor said.
We all walked to the computer on Ki's desk. I couldn't find her VGHS widget.
"Where's your VGHS widget?" I asked.
"Oh, I don't have it on my home screen." Ki said.
"Why?"
"I don't use it much."
"Well anyway, someone apparently hacked the system, and put me at number one," I explained.
"Ah, I see." Ki nodded. "And you think Emily did it?"
"Yes so do you know where Emily is?"
"She left early this morning saying something about improving her first person shooter skills?"
"So we can assume she's playing Field of Fire somewhere right?"
"I'd guess getting tips from Brian and Jenny in the FPS 101 classroom."
"Thanks!" Taylor said. Walking to the door.
"Thank you Ki," I said. Following Taylor.
"You're welcome, you guys, see you later."
"Same to you," I said.
We walked out the door and started walking to the FPS 101 classroom.
…
Inside the classroom Emily sitting in front of a computer, her light brown hair tied vigorously into a ponytail. We walked up to Emily.
"Hey Emily," Taylor said.
"Can't talk too busy," Emily said concentrating on her game.
"Well too bad cause we need to talk." I said to her.
"Ugh, Fine." Emily groaned. She pressed the escape key, pausing her game.
She looked up and saw me and Taylor then scowled, "What do you want?" she growled.
"Did you frame me?" I said getting right to the point.
Taylor face palmed.
"Excuse me?" Emily asked.
"Did you frame me?"
"For?"
"For hacking the VGHS system and putting me at number one."
"Why would I do that?"
"Because you're the only one that has something against me."
She smiled. "Alright, I did it. I admit that. No one can hide anything from you Max, That's what I liked about you."
"Forget it Emily." Taylor said. "He's not into you he's into me-" She cut herself off. She blushed scarlet red.
I could feel myself blushing too. Emily had a big smirk on her face.
I was trying to compose myself. "S-So... you did do it."
"Yeah, ever since you rejected me I was trying to figure out to get my revenge and I finally have figured it out."
"Yeah, well great work that did now I'll go tell Calhoun what you just told me."
"Not he'd believe you" Emily said.
"Is there anything Max can do so you can come clean?" Taylor asked.
Emily thought about it for a moment. "Go on a date with me."
"No way!" I exclaimed "I told you before I don't like you that way!"
She scowled. "Fine how about this. You and Taylor against me, Field of Fire first team to get to six deaths loses! If you win I will admit to Calhoun that I hacked the system."
"If we lose?" I asked.
"If you lose I will tell Calhoun that you indeed did hack the system."
This was risky; A) Taylor and I win and get Emily expelled. B) Taylor and I lose and I get expelled. I couldn't leave Taylor ...
"Well?" Emily held out her hand. "Do we have a deal?"
I looked at Taylor, she nodded.
I took her hand. "Deal."
…
I was already in the game I had already selected my gun it was a machine gun.
The announcer said. GAMERGIRL16 has entered the game.
"Alright Taylor so what's the plan?" I asked in my headset.
"Not sure," I heard her say.
"Just rapid fire?"
"No that wouldn't work."
"She's been practicing remember, open fire won't work on her."
Another announcer came on. The game will begin in
3….
2….
1…
START.
I saw Taylor's game avatar. I heard her say, "Okay follow me."
I followed her game avatar all the way across the map.
We stopped at a base, "Okay so here's the plan…" her character got shot and went down.
"Dang it!" Taylor said outside of the game.
"It's okay," I said. She looked at me and nodded.
"So like I was saying," she resumed. "you'll go left. And I'll hang a right. Then we'll surprise her!"
"Got it!" I said.
I followed her instructions. I saw Emily just sitting and looking around for either Taylor or me. I aimed and fired Emily strafed to the side, she turned to me. "Nice try but you missed,"
I smiled. "Wasn't trying to shoot you, trust trying to distract you!"
"What?" she asked surprised.
Her character fell to the ground. Taylor and I high-fived. "Nice distracting!" she said.
"Thanks," I smiled. Our eyes stayed locked for a moment. Then I broke our eye contact and went back to the screen.
…
It went back and forth for a while we kept getting Emily and she kept getting either me or Taylor. It was until the score was 5-4 we were barely winning! "She's getting to us!" I said hiding behind a barrier. Bullets flying around us.
"I know," Taylor said. "She also knows all the battle plans we've done! There's nothing we can do!"
"Could we try grenades?"
"We could but it'd be risky she'll be able to see the grenade before it blows up!"
"It's worth a try it's the only thing we haven't tried!"
The bullets stopped. "She must be reloading," Taylor said. "Or she's trying to listen in on what we're saying."
I peeked around the corner. Emily's character was reloading her gun. I grabbed a grenade and threw it at her. The grenade landed and started rolling towards her. She must have saw it because she jumped away and the grenade exploded.
I looked at Taylor. "Worth a shot." I said. Emily was just staring at where the explosion was. She looked at us. "What do you think you're doing?" she yelled.
"Trying to win!" I yelled back.
She looked to my right. "Where's Taylor?"
I shrugged "No idea."
I saw Taylor behind Emily, holding a grenade. Emily started looking around. Taylor jumped behind a rock.
Emily looked behind herself and saw no one. She turned back to me. "Where's your girlfriend?" she said mockingly.
"I don't know I told you." I saw Taylor creep back from behind the rock still holding a grenade. She pulled the pin and set it right behind Emily and silently ran behind the rock.
"Hey Emily!" she was still looking around.
"What?" she snapped turning towards me.
I smiled. "G…G"
She looked confused. "What?" she turned around and saw the grenade. I can tell she was about to jump but it was too late. The grenade exploded.
Our screens showed a different screen that showed 'Victory!'
We sat silently for a moment. We looked at each other.
"We did it!" Taylor squealed. We stood she threw her arms around me in a hug. When we parted. We locked eyes.
Emily cleared her throat. "Well I guess a deals a deal, I'll go tell Calhoun that I hacked the system." She walked out. I couldn't help but feel bad for her.
Taylor squealed again and we hugged again. We parted and locked eyes again. I smiled she smiled back. I started to lean in and Taylor leaned in as well. When our lips met it felt like the world around us came to a complete stop. I could be here with Taylor all day.
Well I'm sad to say, this story is coming to an end. There's just and epilogue now, (THAT WILL BE SHORTER) that will be up today as well I figured to just end it!