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I couldn’t help it. I started laughing too. Why was she so terrible at this?

"Hey." She nudged my shoulder.

"I thought you said you were good at videogames," I said and smiled down at her.

"I am good at videogames! I don't know what this crap is." Her character reappeared on the screen again.

I lifted my gun to her face.

"Don't you dare, James."

I immediately shot her.

"James! You're supposed to be on my team!" She started laughing too.

"What?!" Rob yelled. "You're both supposed to be helping me kill Brendan!"

"I can't kill anyone, this game is impossible." She fired her gun at the floor.

"Maybe we should all play a different game?" Rob asked. "I know you're fond of pool, Penny."

I looked down to see Penny’s cheeks flush.

"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,” Penny said. “Actually, I kind of suck at pool.” She had finally gotten her character to run in a straight line. She hid behind a column.

Brendan’s character was approaching her from the other side of the column.

I kept my mouth shut. I really wanted to see if she’d be able to kill him. 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 would have been annoyed, but I was very entertained by the fact that Penny was definitely about to kill Brendan.

He walked past her hiding spot and Penny fired her gun. Her first shot missed, but her second shot hit him in the side of the head. "Yes!" she screamed and stood up. "I just killed someone!"

"Shit, you just killed Brendan!" Rob said.

"Nice.” I held up my hand and she high-fived me.

"See, I am good at videogames!" She high-fived Rob too.

"Yeah, I kind of thought you were lying,” Rob said. “But you just killed the master himself.” He looked over at her. “Whyareyou so good at videogames, Penny?"

"I was a very nerdy youth." She sat back down on the couch.

I wrapped my arm around her 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," I said.

"Oh. Was that inappropriate too? I thought that was just a nice compliment. I guess I don't know where the line is."

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