who does she think she is?! (MKULIA)

Video Games

After scrolling on TikTok for what felt like way too long, MK finally speaks. "So...what exactly do you do for fun here?" I look up from my phone and meet her gaze. She's a lot closer than I thought; the rolling chair being so close our knees are practically touching.  I clear my throat, 

"What?"

She rolls her eyes, "There has to be something more you do here, do you have any games? I'm bored." There's no way she has the audacity to be bored after I so generously let her stay here. And she wants to play a game? Seriously?

"I mean, I think my brother has some video games here but-"

She stands up. "Alright then, let's go." She starts to head for the door of my room, and instinctively I stand up. Maybe I'll just play one game with her, it might not be the worst in the world. Just one game.

"Fine, my brother's at some trashy college so his whole room is free, including his stupid video games." 

MK whips around and walks backwards as we head down the hallway to my brother's room. "There is nothing stupid about video games! They are strategic works of art overlooked by simple minds like yours."

"Seriously? Video games are the things that cause you to have simple minds, much like your own."

MK laughs, "Using my own insult against me? Wow Julia, I thought you were better than that." As we walk into my brother's room  I knock against her shoulder, causing her to fall right on the beanbag chair in front of the TV. "Hey!"

"Whoopsies," I say as I get two controllers. I hand one to MK. "I have no clue how to work it, so you turn it on Ms. 'I know everything.'"

"Knowing how to turn on an Xbox is not knowing everything, but thanks for the compliment anyways."

"W- I wasn't-"

She laughs and opens some car game, "I know what you meant."

Oh, she's good. She's really good. Somehow she can bother me in a way where I want to punch her, but at the same time want to kiss her. 

Platonically! 

You know what I mean when I say that. I don't mean that in a gay way or anything, I'm not. I just want to kiss her spiritually? Yeah. That's what I meant.

"Julia? You know how to work this game? It's like soccer with cars, it's super easy. We can play training if you don't know."

"Of course I know how to play," I lie, "I'm not dumb."

"Okay, princess. Whatever you say." She chuckles and starts a match. Right away I'm super confused, how do you move forward? I press the A, B, Y, and X buttons and I only jump and boost. How am I supposed to move without the boost? Is it only a limited amount of boost. MK sees me mashing buttons and laughs, "Uh huh, right. You know how to play."

"Shut up! I got this!" I start to press more of the buttons and move around the joystick but I just jump in place and boost around. MK sighs and walks over to my beanbag, squishing in next to me, "What are you doing?"

"Showing you how to play, since you clearly don't."

"Can't you move your beanbag over here instead? I don't see why you have to be so close."

She shrugs and repositions herself higher on the beanbag, "Happy?"

I roll my eyes, "Whatever. How do you move?"

She points to the back of this controller, "Hold this down to go forward, see?" She moves my hand to the back of the controller. Her hands are a lot warmer than mine, and they're kind of rough compared to my smooth ones. But, they feel nice; in fact when her hand grazes mine to move it, it sort of tickles. That explains the heat that shoots through my body, causing me to sweat. It's only because it tickles, not at all because this girl's hand is on mine. I press on that back button and the car moves forward fluidly. I look at MK when it happens, and her face must be just as red as mine. It's now that I realize that her body is pressing against mine, meaning her face is merely 3 inches away.

For some reason, she doesn't look away.

For some reason, I don't either. 

I have no idea how long we stay like this, but I feel as if there really is a magnet pulling my face closer and closer to hers.

"Okay, so you understand?" She quickly stands up from the beanbag and awkwardly puts her thumbs up, "All good?"

I nod and look down at my controller, "Uh-huh."

"Ok cool, I gotta uh...go to the bathroom. I'll be right back. Don't worry if I take awhile."

"O-Okay," I keep my eyes on my controller. 

What just happened?

As she leaves I go back on my phone and scroll on TikTok to forget whatever that was I felt. I don't want to think about that, or about MK. I just need to clear my mind.

5 minutes. 

Then 10.

Then 15.

Now I'm getting concerned. She's probably stealing my shit! I walk down the hall to the bathroom and knock. "MK? You in there, girl?"

No answer.

Wait a minute, I never told her where the bathroom was. 

Where did she go?