Page 287 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 1
"Don't you dare, James."
He immediately shot me.
"James! You're supposed to be on my team!" I started laughing too. I really was terrible at this.
"What?!" Rob yelled. "You're both supposed to be helping me kill Brendan!"
"I can't kill anyone, this game is impossible." I fired my gun at the floor.
"Maybe we should all play a different game?" Rob said. "I know you're fond of pool, Penny."
I could feel my face turning red.
"You're good at pool?" Brendan asked. "We could play that instead. It's too easy to beat everyone in this anyway." He shot Rob in the chest.
"Shit," Rob mumbled.
"No. Actually, I kind of suck at pool," I said. I had finally gotten my character to run in a straight line. I hid behind a column. Someone's character was approaching me from the other side of the column. I still wasn't sure what I was doing, but I wasdetermined to kill whoever it was. And he didn't seem to realize he was walking into a trap.
"Yeah, I guess not," Rob said. "If you were I wouldn't have found your underwear all over the pool table. James clearly demolished you."
Brendan started laughing. "Strip pool? Now that's a fun game."
I tried to ignore them talking and focused on the character approaching my hiding spot in the game. As soon as he walked past me, I fired my gun. My first shot missed, but my second shot hit him in the side of the head. "Yes!" I screamed and stood up. "I just killed someone!"
"Shit, you just killed Brendan!" Rob said.
"Nice," James said. He held up his hand and I high-fived him.
"See, I am good at videogames!" I high-fived Rob too.
"Yeah, I kind of thought you were lying. But you just killed the master himself," Rob said. "Whyareyou so good at videogames, Penny?"
"I was a very nerdy youth." I sat back down on the couch.
James wrapped his arm around my back. "You're ridiculously cute."
"I never would have guessed you were a nerd growing up," Rob said. "That probably explains why you're so kinky now though."
"Rob, come on," James said.
"Oh. Was that inappropriate too? I thought that was just a nice compliment. I guess I don't know where the line is."
"Obviously," James replied.
"Let's play a different map. I'm demanding a rematch," Brendan said. "I refuse to accept the fact that I just got beat by a girl who's never touched an Xbox before."
"You're just mad because she's touching an Xbox instead of you," Rob said and switched to a snowy mountainside.
Brendan laughed. "Fair enough."
"I'm so sorry," James whispered in my ear.
"It's fine." I smiled up at him. I liked hanging out with the guys. I was already desensitized to Rob's comments. And James seemed to really be enjoying himself.
***
After several rounds of Golden Eye, Brendan stood up and stretched. "I think I've redeemed myself."
