multiplayer

Part 6

All for me.

I woke up in the same bed, to the same alarm, to the same room, to the same life. I took a shower and sat down at my desk to answer emails and scroll through the news, my phone and picked it up, "hi, is this a Casey Holt?" "uhh yes? Whos this?" "this is the post office, and your PO box needs to be emptied" "I have a PO box?" "yes, it says it was created by a Carter James, could you pick it up this afternoon?" "I don't have a car with enough trunk space" "we will send a truck, have a good after- "her voice was cut off before she could finish.

It was around 1:30 when the truck rolled into our driveway, I had been streaming for about 3 hours and was in the middle of a game, ash came into my room sliding on the tile floor "you have a package on the doorstep" she had that creepy smile like when I was about to walk into one of her pranks. I opened the door to a very tired mailman the dark bags under his eye seemed to consume his face, "sign" he handed me a tablet and I scribbled my signature on it, after that I watched as he brought package after package out from the truck some big some small, I watched as he brought out the last box and walked out the door "thank you!" I called, he looked back confused and returned with a huge clear bag full of letters, "uh thanks?" he walked away and zoomed off the truck speeding down the street.

I sat down at my desk and looked over all the boxes of varying sizes spread out Infront of me, I took out a steak knife I grabbed from the kitchen and started prying open each box and looking over the contents. After an hour of opening boxes, I opened one revealing another long item, "I swear to god chat! If this is another fucking spear!" I unwrapped it, "why? Just... why?" I lifted my 7th spear into frame and stood it up against the wall next to the others.

I ended my stream and sat back and sighed looking at the wall now covered in spears, and posters of different games and anime characters, my computer dinged and I looked away at paid attention to the new notification saying Carter was calling me through discord, I answered and saw ash was also in the call along with 5 others, "alright so I invited you all to this call because we have entered all of you in the main event at Pax west in about 3 months, this is a required tournament meant for a trio so figure out your teams, hope everyone has a good night" he left the call leaving all of us sitting there and slowly following in his footsteps and leaving.

I walked into ash'sroom, "so who where you thinking?" she was in the middle of a game, and theonly answer I got was a bunch of clicking and gunshots, I gave up on waitingfor a answer and headed up to the roof where we had a clean view of the city,this life was unpredictable new challenges seemed to pop up left and rightmaking life harder, I looked over at the mini fridge near the grill and grabbeda beer, the taste seemed to become more comforting the more I drank