Low. (Janoskian FanFiction)

Chapter 7

James ran his fingers through his hair and smiled. Karigan sat next to him on the couch, with her legs crossing over his thighs perpendicularly. She looked at the TV screen in front of her, her hands on a platinum XBox control. She was sitting straight up, her eyes locked with the screen. Her fingers ran from button to button, pressing the A then the X then back to the A. She moved the joystick up and down, controlling the movements of her character on the TV.

"Come on... Come on..." She shook her control with a determined face, her eyebrows joined together with force. She gripped the control violently and pressed the buttons harder, as if that made any difference in the outcome of the game.

James gripped a black controller, his movements more calm and controlled. He had a smile planted on his face caused by Karigan putting on a face of effort. They were playing Halo: Reach with Jai and Kate, who were sitting on the floor. They played on XBox Live, to keep their scores in the console. They were in multiplayer mode, playing Infected, which consisted of one player being infected with the alien virus, and the others were armed with plasma guns. They had to kill the alien, to prevent them from being infected by them. The problem was that the aliens were fast and could kill you instantly with a swing from their swords. James, Jai and Karigan were infected, and only Kate remained.

"Come ON!" Karigan yelled at the screen, her fingers starting to sweat.

"OH NO YOU DON'T." Kate objected, as she slammed her finger against the control, sending a lucky shot and killing Karigan. "BAZINGA, BITCH!" She stood up and started to victory dance, for it was her first kill in the whole game.

"OH WELL FUCK YOU TOO!" Karigan exclaimed with an angry tone that flushed her whole face. She turned back to the screen as they all respawned. 

Kate sat down with her knees to the level of her chin, her eyes locked with her part of the screen. The buttons on her green controller were slippery from the sweat that emanated from the tips of her fingers. She just moved her joystick to run away from James, whom was now infected.

"Come on!" Kate pressed her teeth together as James came up right behind her. She started to yell, but a gun was fired and James died.

"YOU SNEAKY SLUT." James said, aimed at Jai, whom grinned across his face, with a triumphant smile.

"Thanks." Kate high-fived Jai and they continued to defend themselves in the post apocaliptic alien world.

Karigan walked around with her gun aimed at the nothingness, slowly crawling to the right. Her armoured character turned to the left, just to see a rushing alien bolting at her. She panicked and started shooting at everything but James. He laughed as he infected her with a quick blow. 

"Hum." Karigan looked at James with a poker face. He laughed at her and smiled a lot at her, which turned her face into an angry pout.

"Sorry babe, it's just a game." He smiled at her, but she just turned her pout at the screen. James thought she was insanely adorable when she did that.

"Girls become beasts when you put a XBox in front of them." Jai concluded with a smile, and James laughed in agreement, but the girls were mainly focused on killing each other on the screen. Jai turned back to his white controller, that moved with his character.

James watched Karigan stare intensely at the TV without blinking, and smiled widely. She was gorgeous and fun. He had never met someone like her, fun, spontaneous and lovely at the same time. He gripped his controller then turned back to the screen his eyes now sparkling with happiness. 

"OH FUCK!" yelled Kate as Karigan sliced her with her infected sword in the back. Karigan laughed at her and smiled up at the ceiling, her bluish eyes gleaming with victory. James loved to see her smile so openly.