Game On {1}

Chapter 11

"I don't think koalas are rare delicacies in China, David." Evanee stared at the taller boy and shook her head. "I'm pretty sure people don't eat koalas, period."

David rolled his eyes and didn't bother replying, now knowing that he was wrong. The five teenagers were at Jonathan's house and currently bored out of their mind.

As they continued chatting and arguing on about random topics, Tyler abruptly stood up from the single couch in Jonathan's living room. Four pairs of eyes turned to him in curiosity.

"Mondays suck ass but we are going to make the most out of this shit," Tyler started. "I know that you two have to be home around nine, Evan has to be home by eleven, and I don't know about Evanee."

"Ten."

Tyler nodded and clapped his hands together. "Well its already four so we have five hours to go anywhere. Suggestions?"

There was a small pause as each of them tried to think of where to hang out.

"Skate park?" Jonathan asked. The other guys turned him down seeing that he was the only one who enjoyed skating.

Another short pause of silence fell upon them.

"There's a laser tag place near here that I used to go with my aunt. Its pretty big and a lot of people don't know about it, so we probably we could have our own private game," Evanee suggested.

"Sounds good," David said, headong towards the door. "I guess we'll be going in Evan's car."

After Jonathan said goodbye to his mother upstairs, the five of them walked back to the school parking lot and crowded inside Evan's car. Evanee had to sit in the passenger seat so she could give Evan directions to the laser tag place.

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"I thought you were exaggerating when you said its big," Jonathan said in awe. The building was in fact huge and they weren't even in the actual arena.

As they entered the doors, the four boys could see where they'd actually be playing. Through a small window, the dark arena could be seen. It was basically a gigantic room filled with UV lights to light up the place and different obstacles to hide behind or under. Evan could even see a second floor they could climb up to, so they'd be able to shoot from atop.

While the four boys crowded around the tiny window, Evanee went up to the round table in the corner of the room. A young woman stood there staring at the teenagers in confusion and amusement.

The young, blonde woman smiled as she saw Evanee walk up to her. "First time?"

"Theirs, not mine. Five people, two rounds," Evanee told her, pulling out her wallet. "Make the first round free for all and second one teams."

"You got it. That'll $50."

The total seemed a bit large, but that was because each thirty minute round was $5 each. David had headed towards them just in time to hear the final price and called the rest of his friends over. Like the good friends they were, they each contributed their $10.

"Great. Well I'm Kelly. I'll basically be supervising your game today to make sure there's no funny business going on." She was right to since the four boys could get a bit rowdy. "First off, we'll need some codenames."

One by one, the boys gave her their codenames and entered it onto a card. They all went by their Youtube Channel names, while Evanee had chosen LyteNyx.

Kelly eyes went wide for a second as she heard the name. "Wait, LyteNyx as in the top of leader board."

The boys watched the exchange in confusion, wondering what Kelly was going on about. The blonde girl grabbed a remote and pointed it to a TV screen hanging over the doors leading to the arena.