"You're the only man that makes me feel beautiful." I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"Hey, love birds! It's game time!" Rob called over to us.
James put his lips against my ear. "Let's take them down."
"Okay, partner." I reached down and squeezed his ass.
He laughed and grabbed my hand. "Rob is right. You are feisty. And all mine. I can't wait to move and have you all to myself again. There are so many things I'd rather be doing than playing videogames right now."
The way he was looking at me made me gulp.
He led me over to the couch and pulled me onto his lap as he sat down.
I laughed as he wrapped his arms around me.
"You guys can't seriously play like that. Come on, I need help killing Brendan." Rob handed us each a controller.
Instead of moving off of James' lap, I looked down at the controller. "Wait, why are there two joysticks?"
"This is going to be hilarious," Rob said and restarted the game.
"Wait, you have to tell me how to use this."
James kissed the side of my neck. "So, the right joystick lets you move your view up and down. And the left one lets you move your guy around."
"Why did they make it more complicated? Aren't advancements in technology supposed to make things better, not worse?"
James laughed and kissed my neck again.
After we selected our characters, the screen split into four quadrants. It took me a while to even realize which one was me. Unfortunately, I was the one continuously running into a wall. "Crap, why is this so hard?" I slid off James' lap and tried to focus. I was stupidly good at N64. I was a huge nerd growing up and I loved sitting on the couch after school playing videogames. And I even used to crush my boy neighbors in Golden Eye. But this wasn't anything like N64. I was currently running around in circles staring at my feet.
"Speaking of hard," Rob said. "Penny sitting on your lap got you a little excited there, James."
"What?" James looked down at his pants. "I don't have..."
Rob snuck up behind him in the game and shot him in the back of the head.
"Asshole." He shoved Rob's arm. "Game on. I'm going to kill you next."
"I have a better idea," said Brendan. "Let's see who can kill Penny first."
"No! Just give me a second to figure this out." I had just tilted my head back up when blood filled my screen.
"Gotcha!" Brendan said.
"Damn it, Brendan!"
He started laughing as my girl came back from the dead. Rob immediately shot me in the face and started laughing too.
"What is wrong with you guys? Just give me a minute to learn what to do."
James had started laughing with them.
"Hey." I nudged his shoulder.
"I thought you said you were good at videogames," he said and smiled down at me.
"I am good at videogames! I don't know what this crap is." My girl reappeared on the screen again. James' character was standing there holding a gun to my face.