Sleep

Part 25

It was now past lunch time and the pain was mostly gone. It just felt like an ache from over exercising the day before, not that I'd felt that for years. My headache was still present, but it was a lot less prominent now.

I hate drinking.

"Fuck!" Came from next to me on the couch, Cartoonz swearing as he got killed in the game he was playing, Rainbow Six Siege. My favourite.

Snickering lightly, I nudged his arm with my water bottle, earning a glare my way. Moments of silence later, I snorted and it set us both off, bursting into loud laughter that had me grabbing my head in pain as I laughed.

"Oh my god," I dragged out the word, "don't make me laugh you bitch. You're meant to be a professional gamer."

"I'd like to see you do better!" He huffed, handing me over the controller. I hadn't played at all today, instead opting for watching his rounds as he kept himself entertained. He was really good admittedly, but I was just teasing. It was better on computer because of tilt aim, but I was used to controller by this point anyway.

Taking the item from his hands, and the headset afterward, I settled into position, leaning slightly forward in my seat as I chose my operator. Glaz, of course. Easily my favourite character, even on the levels such as this one where there weren't ideal long range spots. A lot of people say he's shit, but not every person needs kills. He does damage and makes it easier for team mates to take people out. Assists are good too.

I ignored the person in chat who whined about my choice, and glanced over to my opposition, seeing the frown on his lips too. My microphone was off and I didn't need to listen much as we tracked the hostage, so I started speaking.

"So, I just noticed, where's Delirious?" I was lying of course. I'd thought about it earlier on but didn't want to bring it up and seem like a weird fan.

"I convinced him not to come. He's further away and we don't exactly know you too well so showing his face could have been bad." He said, before quickly adding- "No offence."

"None taken. That makes perfect sense, I was just curious." I brushed it off, still a little disappointed. Although Luke was cool and had been entertaining to hang with for the day so I was still happy.

"Oh sure you were just curious." He said with a chuckle, but I ignored him as the attack phase started, going the opposite way to all four of my team mates, placing my explosives on the wooden paneling of a window. Exploding it, I peaked in, climbing in when I deemed it safe.

Sneaking slowly from the room and down a hall, I crouched in a doorway just down from the hostage room, listening as someone moved around in a nearby room.

As soon as I saw them walk through a doorway, they were dead. Moving quickly to a room opposite me instead, I peaked into the room he'd come from, landing a shot on the second guy but not killing him.

Two of my team dead, two of the enemy team.

Valkyrie ran up from the hostage room, shooting at me and landing a hit, before I took her out, getting killed myself by the person still crouched in the other room.

First round went to us, 2 kills and one assist. Next round started, and I took Valkyrie myself, checking the leaderboard. Second. Damn, I wanted to land MVP if our team won, which I expected it to. Attack, I'm a team player. Defence? Well, let's see if I can get my ace.