This guy is weird...
But I can't stop thinking about it.
Why would he only speak to me now? I couldn't get his answer.
I spent the rest of the lunch break spacing out.
...
We were back to class after the break and it was a history lesson.
I hate history as much as Johan annoys me, so I couldn't focus on the lesson.
I looked at my seatmate.
He talks so rarely that I don't even know his name.
"Hey, what's your name?" I asked.
He looked at me.
"Me?"
I looked at him without saying a word.
"My name is Paul," he finally said.
"Welcome to the gaming club then, Paul!" I said.
With him just joining, we just reached the 3 members requirement. If we perform well, the club might make it through the exam period!
...
As the class went on, I kept peeking at Paul.
He looked very focused on the lesson...
"Hey Paul. Are you really listening?"
"Well yeah. I need to improve my grade in history, Spanish and maths," he said.
His eyes were either focusing on the board, the teacher, or his notebook, absolutely nothing else.
"Damn, that must be boring."
"Yeah..." he said while writing down the lesson.
I looked at the sky through the window for a while...
"Say, Paul."
"Yeah?"
"Why did you avoid me all this time?" I asked.
cough-cough!
Everyone turned their heads to look at him before the teacher resumed the lesson.
"So?"
"W-well, to be honest, I thought that I wouldn't be a good friend."
"Why?"
"Well you know. Friends hang out with each other, they eat together..."
"Yeah?"
"Well I don't really like those kinds of things. When I don't play basketball, I just stay home to study, you know," he said.
"Well now that you can't play basketball you have nothing else to do but study, no? That sucks!" I replied.
He stayed silent.
"I'm sorry," I said.
I think he didn't like the way I said it...
"No, that's fine. You're right anyways."
After a long silence I decided to speak up to ease the mood.
"Well now that you're a member of my club, we will hang out more often! I'm going to make you fall in love with gaming! Maybe that could even become your new hobby?" I said proudly.
"Haha, that would really make me happy!" he said with a smile.
I didn't know he could smile like this. He reminds me of Johan.
(...)
Yawn.
My name is Paul Cissé.
I'm 15 years old and I'm a freshman at Delau's High.
Today I finally talked to Laura.
It went better than I expected, and she even said we are friends.
I also met other people such as a boy named Johan. He is Laura's cousin. Even though their hair colors are different and they don't look alike.
I also met Lisa, who apparently knows me. I've never seen her though.
And lastly I learned that all of us are friends with Malik, he's going to be surprised once i tell him. I think it's going to be fun.
The school closes at 6 p.m. and since I finished early, I decided to go to the club room.
When I entered the room there was nobody, however I could see that the TV was clearly on, and there was a game ongoing.
The controller was left there.
"Who left that here?" I said as I sat down.
I looked around before picking up the controller.
...
'Stop being AFK dude you're ruining our game, I'm deffo reporting u!'
...
AFK? So there was someone here just now!
"I'm sure he won't mind if I play a little," I said.
...
'Sry'
...
I typed in the chat before starting to play.
It was a game of Rocket League. I played it a bit with Malik when I went over to his house, but it's my first time playing it in fullscreen.
"We're down 4 with 3 minutes to go," I said.
Luckily there was still time left.
"I'll try my best."
(...)
Fuck, I'm really not in the mood to play RL today. I don't know why but lately nothing is going my way.
I keep failing whenever I try things as simple as an air dribble!
sigh.
Alright, the game should be over by now. I hope those strangers won't hate me too much.
I came back into the room but Paul was there.
"Huh!" I whispered.
He probably couldn't hear me because of the headset so I got closer to watch him play.
The game went to overtime?
Oh, he picked up the game I was playing!
I watched as he drove the ball to the wall and began an air dribble—
He then hit a triple flip reset right into the opponent's goal.
There was nothing they could do about it.
"What the fuck!?" I said loudly without realizing I was right beside him.
"ACK—!" he was startled.
"Oh sorry Paul," I said.
"Ah, it's you Laura... Sorry I didn't mean to play on your account, it just happened like that..." he said.
"Oh no worries! It's actually Johan's account. I've been losing loads of games lately so I took his account so I wouldn't lose too much elo," I replied proudly.
"Oh, okay. I'll apologize to him then," he said while getting up.
"What? Why would you? You just won a game."
As I said this, Johan entered the room.
"Laura did you log into my fucking account again!?" he said while running towards me.
"Haha, catch me if you can you bum!" I said while fleeing.
he took his right slipper and threw it at me
"Hey it wasn't even me !" I said as i ran into the hallway
Leaving Paul alone in the club room.
...