Pixel woke up to the sound of her alarm clock, she swiftly turned it off and stretched. She lifted herself up smiling widely as she walked towards her computer.

She sat down with excitement written all over her face as she turned it on, after few moments everything was ready, she logged onto steam and quickly frowned.

She waited whole day for this battle only to find out that her rival wasn’t there, her eyes went wide as she scanned her friend list for the 10th time, suddenly she got a message from one of her friends namely KillGen13.

She didn’t remember to have a friend with this nick.

“What took you so long? Well whatever actually, are we playing or not?”

Pixel cocked her eyebrow and responded. ”Emm, sorry but who are you? I don’t really remember adding you to my friend list.”

“Right I forgot, it’s me Retir”

It took few seconds for Pixel to realize what he meant, her frown changed back into excited smile, she wanted to immediately start the game, but then one thought crossed her mind.

”So you admit that your previous nick sucked?” She wrote with satisfaction.

Blaze frowned.

“Yea whatever, so shall we begin the ass kicking?”

Pixel smiled, finally, after whole boring day in school she got what she was waiting for, a chance for a rematch, her excitement level passed 9000 as she wrote and spoke those words.

“Bring it on”

“Damn it! Even you can kick my ass at this.” Icy almost shouted throwing his arms into the air.

“I guess that’s Pixel influence, I’m nowhere close to her level though.” Night stated somehow proudly, he never was really fond of video games but arcade games like this particular fighting game were exception.

“One more time?”

“Hell no, I’m just losing my money here, how about that one?” Icy stated and pointed with his hand towards the Shoot To Win Basketball Machine

Night gulped and answered “Well perhaps later, maybe some air hockey? We will have equal chances there.” Icy shrugged and nodded, they walked over to the table and Night took out few coins.

“Hey look what we have here!” Boys turned around and smiled upon seeing their friend approaching them.

“Sunny! What’s up man, what are you doing here?” Icy said while bumping fist with his friend, Night soon follow suit.

“Not much, I didn’t have anything to do at home, at first I wanted to meet up with Blaze, you know that guy I told you about yesterday, but he was too absorbed in his game.” Sunny sighed and took a sip from his pepsi can.

Night and Icy connected their gazes before simultaneously nodding and turning their stares back to Sunny.

“Like we said yesterday we pretty much know that feeling. *Cough*EspeciallyNight*Cough*” Night frowned and gave his friend a brief death stare before turning back to Sunny with a smile.

“So maybe you want to hang out with us instead?”

Sunny grinned and nodded. “Sure man, so what, are we playing Air Hockey? Or maybe that neat Street Fighter?” Icy frowned while Night smiled as their gazes followed Sunny’s pointing.

“Sure, we can play that.” Night answered with innocent smile making Sunny flinch a bit.

“Emmm cool?”

“So anyways.” Icy stated quickly “Let’s play this first shall we?” He said while pointing towards air hockey table.

“What the hell! How did you even saw me there?!”

“I heard you running towards the place.”

Pixel mumbled something under her nose while next round started, it was already 6-0 for him and her previous excitement although still present, was slowly lowering.

Pixel bought AK-47, and nothing else since she didn’t have enough money.

‘This bastard will be camping again, last time he was at B and most of the time he camps at A so...’ Pixel thought for a few moments before finally deciding to go B once more, this time she walked into the tunnels holding shift to not make any noise.

‘That’s right, slowly, swiftly…’ And that was the moment she loved the most, few steps from entering bombsite, her heart was pounding faster and faster almost wanting to leave her chest, she loved that anticipation and nervousness, is he there? If yes where is he camping? Will I be able to shot him down? All these question swarmed inside her head, and then it happens, she let go of shift key and ran inside the bombsite making quick 360 turn.

For a few moments she stood in place looking around noting everything, she couldn’t see him, relaxing a bit she checked other places she couldn’t see, now with more confidence she walked up to the chests and started to plant a bomb, only to be interrupted by a smooth head shot.

“WHAT THE FUCK.”

“Got you again.” Blaze stated smiling with satisfaction.

“But how, I don’t, I don’t even.”

“I got you from the window, you know that hole in the wall near…”

“I know what that is thank you very much! But..”

Blaze cut her off not letting her finish. ”I was just outside bombsite from the CT spawn side when you ran in, I luckily heard you and just waited for you to start planting, nuff said.’

Pixel face palmed and sighed.

“Heh don’t worry maybe one day you will… Sir I brought your dinner, where do you want me to put it?”

Pixel cocked her eyebrow upon hearing that last statement. ’It wasn’t his voice, that was definitely someone older, also “Sir”?’

After few moments of silence just as the next round started she once again heard her rivals voice “Sorry for that.”

“No problem but who was that?” Her first thought was “His father” but what father calls his son “Sir”?

“That was mine family butler.”

Pixel’s eyes went wide “You have a freaking butler? Dude.”

“I know I know, shouldn’t you focus on buying stuff?”

“I’m going eco, I don’t have much money left.”

Blaze shrugged while walking over to his usual camping spot on A bombsite and waited with his AWP.

He was happy to play against her again, even a bit excited, but that was also what frightened him.

He never really know why, but if there was something concerning him that he didn’t understand it was always scary for him.

And he didn’t understand his current situation at all.

Why did he enjoy playing against her so much? What was different about her that made him want to play against her again?

Sure she had some skills but still she didn’t really give him any challenge, was it that she never even once called him a cheater, thus most likely believing in his skills? No it was something else.

It scared him, but he kept on playing, he knew that the answer is right there, he will find it sooner or later.

And even if it was frightening for him, the excitement he get from playing against her was too satisfying.

Suddenly his train of thoughts was stopped by a flashbang, he cursed under his nose but he couldn’t do anything while Pixel finally shot him down, for the first time today.

“Ha in your face!”

“Well congrats, you shot me down.”

“Bang bang.”

“W-What?”

“Never mind, come on let’s play!”

Blaze smiled and nodded to no one. “Yeah, let’s play.”