"Foster! No! Don't you... Frick, frick, frick!" Nev hissed, leaning forward beside and pounding the buttons of the controller harder or much louder.
I grinned at her, she was cute, really really cute actually. (Not quite the "type" I'd gone for in years past but cute enough and cool enough that I didn't think I cared.) I wasn't the type of guy that couldn't admit if a girl is better at him at video games but... Even though this was Nev's room, Nev's console, the game that Nev had said she was "King" of... She still wasn't as good as me. I was holding back, mostly letting her get close enough to a win that she didn't give up. Not letting her win, so she didn't tell me to give up. I wasn't being mean, I didn't enjoy her struggling, even though she was so cute as she did it. I wanted to be alone with her. Was unsure if my sister would throw a fit if we were just sitting in here, post game. Or if Nev would realize we were in her room and get nervous, she'd been pretty bashful the first couple times I was around her.
"Damn it!" Coming up off the bed, doing a few steps that were damn near stomps and getting close to throwing down the controller. All which was still so cute.
Stopping her tantrum, planting her fists on her hips and glaring at me. Still holding the controller she was totally the image of gamer girl anger, I could barely stop myself from smirking. I put my hands up, controller in one of them, shrugged like I was as surprised by my continued victories as she was. But the smile won out, she was just too freaking cute! Was she on the chubby side? Yeah, was she the "curviest" gal I had ever liked this much? Yeah again. Did that give her very large breasts and a very delish abundant booty? Yeah once more. The blonde brown hair pulled back into the somehow fun and cheery ponytail was almost as endearing as her "glare" from behind her glasses.
"You almost got me that time." I lied, well she had early on, when she'd leaned forward and a sliver of her back (that I hoped might be butt crack) had shown between purple sweater and black jeans.
"If you weren't so cute I'd punch you in your nose." She said in the most adorable way ever, it also helped that she had just admitted she thought I was attractive and that she was pouting now, not looking angry.
"Uh... What are you two up to in here?" My sister asked as she slipped into the room, she didn't knock, she didn't say it after she saw that her friend and I were feet apart, she said it as she entered.
"Your brother is king of this game." Nev said as she sagged, I don't know if she gave up because of Marissa or just finally gave up.
"Don't tell him that, he'll get a big head." My sister said as she strode all the way to the side of the bed, where she leaned against the post and looked back and forth between her friend and I, like she expected one of us to be undressed in some way. Or showing signs of arousal. Or that we'd heard her coming and there would be some indicator we'd just leapt apart from making out. "You've been in here this long, I totally leveled up my family like twice." Her playing a video game on the big TV out in the other room had been why we hadn't left when I'd come over to pick her up. That she'd been 'so close to leveling' since I wanted to hang with Nev I hadn't fought it as hard as I did when it was just Layla here. Her arms up and bent like she was operating puppets she pointed back and forth at us, asking. "You've just been playing this game?"
"What... Else would we be doing?" Nev flushing, the earnest expression on her face for all of ten seconds after the question and the way she'd begun the sentence before realizing what exactly my sister was talking about. Well it sort of made me suspect she was a lot less experienced than a girl as pretty and cool as she was should have been. And yes, I upgraded her to pretty. Cute but also pretty.
"A boy and a girl in a room alone together," Marissa once more inspecting us as she spoke. Purring playfully, "I don't know, what would you be doing?"
"He... he's your brother Mari." Nev said in the squeakiest voice I'd ever heard.
I nodded, thinking the same thing, almost pointed at Nev to back up her statement. I guess the last time I'd had a crush on one of her friends had been... A long long time ago, but she'd flipped out hard enough to leave a lasting impression. So Marissa was surprising me with how
seemingly
cool she was being. Okay, she was being sorta childish, in how she was going about it but still... She looked like she was excited for me and her new-ish friend to be into each other.
"He's handsome, isn't he?"
"Yes! Oh yes, very handsome!" Nev was quick and unambiguous, making me blush with how attractive she seemed to think I was.
"Then why... Why not?" Leaning against the post of the bed, which nearly reached the ceiling, Marissa brought her two pointer fingers together. Mushing them around, not just meaning kissing but full on making out. Somehow Nev darkened even more, turning away from both my sister and me. "You were in here together for like an hour and I never saw you talk to a boy like you talk to him. Plus he always asks if you're here when I ask him to pick me up or he hears I'm walking over here. So? Why not?"
"Oh I... Sheesh! That... What? I mean... Would he... Would anybody even want to kiss me?" It was almost painful to watch. She had to verbally and mentally back away from asking about me specifically, she was that timid, or intimidated.
"Of course he would!" Marissa said.
"Of course I would!" I said, Marissa and Nev both shifted as if they'd forgotten I was here. Or that I could speak and hear. "I was doing my best to... Draw the game out," Not admitting one way or the other that I could have won much more quickly. "Just to be in here alone with you."
"Really?" Nev squeaked in hope.
"Really? You impress me Foster." My sister smiled and nodded while I shrugged and nodded. Blinking as she held a fist out for me to bump, I did, she was being so weird! So cool. Turning to her friend (Who not long ago had just been her friend's roommate.) she said, "Come over here and kiss my brother already."
"Oh... Hmmnnnnahhh... That... It..." God she got cuter and prettier by the second, as she blushed and stammered over the idea. I didn't blame her. I don't think any girl had ever kissed me first, I'd always kissed them. "See... There... He... But..."
"Just go up to him and kiss him, it's easy and the pay off... Nevy the pay off will be so sweet and amazing." At the end Marissa's tone got a little dreamy, imagining the last time she kissed somebody I'd guess.
"It's okay," I started, meaning to say something about Marissa leaving and me kissing Nev, maybe another less awkward time, but Marissa jumped in.
"It's not okay, she has to kiss you. Just move up and put her lips to yours." Marissa said it in the way a mom tells her kid to apologize for something, or 'say thank you.' A little upset and embarrassed that she has to say something. "Nev! Just move up and put your lips to his, it's easy. Like a handshake."
