Hi, my name is Carl! Carl James or as my friends call me CJ. And this is my story.
I'm a fairly tall guy, not too bad looking with my dark brown hair and sharp jawline. A had some muscles but I wasn't athletic. Usually hung out with the nerds playing Magic during breaks or playing video games at home.
So I lived in a fairly small town and the girls that I went to school with did not like nerdy. So yeah virgin if you had not figured that out. But now Highschool was finally over and after this summer break, I was going to college with my best friend.
My home consisted of just me, my mom Elizabeth and my sister Emma. My sister was now living at the college I was going to, so I hadn't seen her for like 2 years... Well, she came during holidays and stuff.
My dad passed away when I was fairly young. He took part in the war but never came back.
He was where I got my good looks from according to mom and I got the brains from her.
My mom was a bit of a MILF according to my classmates and my sister was a younger cuter version of her. Comments which I did not appreciate.
So I didn't really have a best friend until Jake moved into town one and a half years ago. He was a short skinny nerdy guy. He had the same hair color as me and thick glasses usually adorned his nose. He had a bit of a stutter sometimes, to his dismay. He was cute in the looks department but with him being skinny, short, and nerdy he was in the same seat as me relationship-wise. He had asthma so he never joined us for PE. Probably that's why he was so skinny. But anyway, we were into the same games and we started playing together and then became close friends. He usually came over to my house and played as his parents were usually out working. They were architects or something in the same firm and had only moved here because it's closer to the airport than the bigger town next to it. Which I'm glad for as the other nerds were a bit too... strangely enough... too nerdy.
And now during our summer break before college, they were going to be gone for a week so we decided to have a bit of a gaming marathon.
I lived in my parent's basement as it was the most spacious and private area I knew. We had set up our consoles and two TVs and were pretty hype to game out with our online friends.
"Haha look at my KDR!" Squeaked Jake excitedly.
He was practically bouncing up and down on the sofa we had placed in front of the TV. My room was walled in by painted bricks with tons of nerdy posters. It had just a small window above my bed behind that sofa, which was more or less overgrown by bushes. I liked it that way. More privacy and no annoying sun would hit the screen.
"Fuck bro! You're on fire!" I shouted back with equal excitement.
"Shit! Now I gotta step up my game noobs!" Exclaimed DarkStar666. Just one in the gang of misfits we played online with.
It was an intense multiplayer game with lots of guns and killstreak bonuses! But I and Jake were having a fun game where we did not use a single killstreak.
"I got your back!" I shouted again as I took out people popping up behind him.
The door to my room opened up with a creek and a tonne of non-screen light flooded down the stairs. Both our eyes squinted in annoyance.
"Boys! Dinner is going to be ready in an hour. Why don't you take a break and go outside before dinner?" My mom pleaded from the stairs.
"Sure thing Mom!" I bellowed in even more annoyance.
The door shut and all the annoying light finally went away. I had to find a way to lock that door even if it didn't have one. Now I didn't think my response to my mom would be heard thanks to muting my headset but unfortunately, Jakes's headset wasn't. What followed was a bunch of comments like little baby, mommas boy, didn't know we were playing with a baby, etc, etc.
"Yeah. Yeah. Fuck you guys too!" I groaned as I logged out.
I raised myself off the sofa and took a swig out of my glass of soda on the coffee table. After a satisfying burp, I turned to Jake.
"Hey, you coming Jake?" I asked with my eyebrow raised. The guy was leaning forward with his controller tightly gripped in his hands that they turned white with strain.
"Dude! CJ! I'm in the zone give me a sec!" He fervently argued. But his look of fervor died down as soon as he got shot in the back. Knew he wouldn't last long without my protection I smugly thought for myself even if I knew he was better at this game than me.
"Yeah fine. W-want to take a walk in the forest?" He looked up at me and asked.
"As we always do my dear friend, as we always do." I chided back.
My mom had suggested taking walks every now and then to keep our physiques in decent shape as once we get old. Just lazing on the couch and eating as little as we did we would still get fat. Especially with all that soda.
So we headed up the stairs to the main hallway. Before leaving from the front door I looked into the kitchen and saw mom prepping.
"See you later, mom." I spoke with dissatisfaction in my voice because of the earlier humiliation she caused.
"Bye Mrs. J!" Jake cheerily shouted as he opened the door.
"Take care boys! Be back before dinner!" She cheerily responded without turning around and her focus was still on the food prep.
We walked around the house and headed for a little trail that started in my backyard into the forest. The old branches and leaves crunched beneath our feet and the sun was shining brightly. Thanks to the hot summer weather you could smell all of nature around us and hear all the birds chirping.
"So do you want to play some JRPG when we get back?" I inquired as my shorter friend walked beside me.
