Teen Romance Fantasy

Act 22 (Ch)

You thought the situation couldn't get any worse? Wrong. Somehow I ended up playing with Sarah, her boyfriend, that other girl, Luna, Tristan, Louis, Mikhail, Anthony and Tyson. Louis and Mikhail randomly appeared out of nowhere and once they saw us, Louis simply decided to join us. He even asked Anthony and Tyson to join us. Tristan on the other hand... he saw us and decided to join. Neither Kadir nor Eric wanted to play for some reason. Eric was fine with cheering for me and Kadir noticed that he was bringing too much attention to our group. He insisted on search for my mother and my sister. I told him that May was probably walking around the school with her friends but he didn't listen to me at all.

Despite the fact that Eric wasn't even playing, he still made me explain the rules to Sarah. Eric simply grinned at me mischievously. He really made my blood boil. There must have been some kind of ulterior motive. Why else would he have acted like this?

"... and if you get a Tank hero, you should place it like this in defence mode. Usually you should call back your Tanks if their hit points are low but if you have the Blessing of Hephaestus spell, you're more or less safe for one or two attacks."

"Wow, that's genius Christian! I hope I won't forget any of this. I'm not really good at card games or strategy games or games in general..." Why did she have to smile like this?! Did she want to kill me?!

"Oh... I'm sure you'll manage. If you struggle with the rules, you can just ask me for advi-"

"You're really good at this Christian. Have you played Prophecy before Seeker came out?" Louis suddenly interrupted me. I had a feeling that he intentionally didn't let me finish. His attitude was kind of questionable. Nevertheless, I shook my head and stared down on the table, where my cards lay.

We decided who would start by rolling two dices. Mikhail started. He placed Lulu in attack position in Rorona, the magic forest. Next was Louis. He attacked Lulu with his Mister X. Louis rolled the dice and got a four. Lulu barely survived. I placed down my dragon hero Ancholos in the Burning Ruins. Ancholos gained additional 20 attack damage.

I was surprised when Sarah placed her Theo, a Joker hero, in the magic forest as well, together with a spell she didn't turn around. I didn't know if she actually had a strategy or if she was simply doing something that I explained to her. Whatever the case, she suddenly looked in the direction of her boyfriend, who simply nodded once.

"Did I do this right Rosie? I saw you playing like this with Simon the other day. Raymond said that you made a really smart move." What was Sarah talking about?

"Oh dear, did he really? I didn't actually think much about it." The girl, whose name was apparently Rosie, had an equally beautiful accent as Sarah's boyfriend. I wasn't quite sure what kind of an accent it was but it did sound rather harmonious.

The game continued just like this. Luna was the first one to lose. She wasn't bothered as much as I expected her to be. She just gladly cheered for Sarah's boyfriend. Round by round players lost until we made it to the last round. Now it was just Tyson, Louis, Tristan, Sarah and me. 

Tyson's style of playing was something you could only describe as manipulative. He didn't attack a lot. Instead he made us do the dirty  work. The entire time he was waiting for me to give him an opening.

Louis and Tristan both understood what was going on and decided to stand up to Tyson. They helped me out a lot, since I could now play passively and Sarah, well she was just having fun without a care in the world. It surprised me quite a bit, since she was winning until Tyson decided to go with a suicide attack. Suddenly Sarah lost quite literally everything, just like Tyson. Louis, Tristan and I on the other hand lost everything that held or strategy together. I came off especially bad. Nobody had won. We all lost the game.

"Quelle surprise! You played as if your lives depended on it." Anthony shouted excitedly. He jumped from one leg to another, as he had done for the past couple of minutes.

"Well, I would have won if that idiot had put some thought into what he was doing." Louis was directly looking at Tristan, who wasn't too pleased about his comment.

"Sure jackass. Do you always have to give others the fault for your own shortcomings?"

"My own shortcomings? Says the right one. Try using your brain for once. Right, you can't do that. Why else were you held back a year?! And don't give me that bullshit about your family drama."

With lightning speed Tristan's threw his fist at Louis but Louis caught it just in time with his left hand. I could tell that for some reason it must have still hurt Louis. He instantly let go of Tristan's fist and looked down on his wrist.

"What's wrong?! Does it hurt?!"

"Come here! I'll show you what it means to be hurt!" Louis took a step forward. Anthony and Mikhail tried their best to hold him back but somehow Louis broke free. He was getting dangerously close to Tristan. Tyson stayed between them but Louis easily pushed him to the side. Eric was there just in time to catch him.

"That's enough you two." Nobody had expected Sarah to raise her voice. We were all too baffled to say anything. Instead we stared at her or at least I stared at her. This courage. It was just like back then. Her eyes were different. Cold. Soulless.

"Why are you interfering now?! This isn't about you so stop acting like you're the centre of attention! After all this time, you should know better than to mess with me." Suddenly, Louis was grabbing Sarah by the collar but she didn't mind.

"And you should know better than to threaten me." She held Louis wrist with her left hand until he let go. He took a step back and played around with his wrist, as if he was seriously hurt. All of a sudden Sarah's gaze darted to Tristan, who seemed seriously uncomfortable.

"If you want to fight, then do it somewhere that you won't get on anybody's nerves! Now get out of here. I don't want to see any of you two right now."

Without another warning, Louis left together with Mikhail and Anthony. Tristan on the other hand asked Tyson if he wanted to take a look at the art gallery together. Tyson was too stunned to say anything and instead just nodded. Together, the two of them left. Finally, Sarah sighed, before her boyfriend whispered something into her ear. She looked rather calm, despite everything that had just happened.

"Well, it was fun to play with you. Thank you Christian! We should definitely do this again another time. Anyways, see you around!" Just like this, Sarah bowed down in front of me and left with her boyfriend and Rosie. To Luna's demise, she wasn't allowed to follow them. She was pouting, when she had to walk in the other direction.

Eric instantly ran towards me and asked if I was alright.

"What was all that about?" He asked out of breath.

"I have absolutely no clue."

What the fuck was that?