"Alrighty." Remi remained quietly on the couch for a fair bit of time, but eventually turned on the console and started searching for games that she recognized. She eventually found a newer version of Mariokart, which she used to play with her brother on occasion, and opened up the game to start playing by herself.
The villain, once alone, was reading through his last few chapters he needed for the upcoming test of his. It was hard trying to cram so much knowledge together in one week and so with all the nocturnal ‘work’ he’d been doing as well, it was a bit hard to manage and give time to reading these things. He had his headphones on, playing some sort of calm music as he read through. Eventually though, he fell asleep at his desk, using his arms as pillows.
Remi played the game by herself for a few hours, but eventually, she headed to her own room to go to bed. It definitely occurred to her that she could just walk into Anthony's room and kill him while he slept, but that wouldn't be any fun. She shook off the thought and changed into comfortable pajamas before huddling up in bed to sleep.
The villain would soon wake up thanks to the call someone made. He looked at his phone, not at all surprised that it was Dr. Gentleman himself. He sighed before answering the call.
“What?”
”Are you coming out tonight?”
“Too lazy… no thanks.”
”I heard you got yourself a room?”
“Uh… yeah about that…”
”What?”
“You know Hielo, right? The girl we met last night?”
“Yeah, what about her?”
“Well… I kinda… I kinda got her as my roommate…?”
”……”
“Cassi?”
”Are you serious?”
“I am.”
”Okay, I’m a tad bit jealous now—“
“Why would you—?!”
The call ended abruptly on Cassius’ end which left Anthony in quite a state of shock. He sighed before leaving his room to get something to drink.
Remi stirred a bit when she heard Anthony talking on the phone and sat up, rubbing at her eyes a bit. "Will got stop your yammering?! I don't get enough sleep as it is!" She yelled, clearly annoyed. She huffed a bit and curled up tighter on her bed to try and go back to sleep.
Anthony, a bit startled by the yell, nodded silently to himself. He realized too late that she wouldn’t see his nod either way so why did he even? After drinking, he went back into the living to play something, turning the volume down so that she wouldn’t hear him when he played. He decided on the very game that is Super Smash [COPYRIGHT] and started cursing silently at the online players who were giving him a hard time. He wasn’t sure how long he was going to play for…
Remi slept for another hour or two before she wandered out of her room with a yawn, wearing nothing but her underwear and a very oversized sweatshirt. She wandered into the kitchen to make herself some coffee so that she could feel a little less dead inside and a little more present. Being awoken earlier than she'd planned made her feel groggier.
Anthony was still on his game, taking the entire couch as he was laying down. He sighed softly under his breath when Remi came out, looking back at her for a quick moment before looking back at the television. He noticed how little she was wearing but didn’t mind. It wasn’t like his baggy hoodie and soccer shorts were any different. “Where do you wanna go have dinner?” He asked while still playing.
"Bit early to be thinking about dinner, isn't it?" She poured some coffee into a mug and meandered over to the couch to sit beside Anthony. "I usually just take meals as they come, you know? Go with the flow. I'm out and about a lot, so it usually just ends up being what's the cheapest thing in that particular area."
“Right…” He answered plainly, moving slightly closer to her when she sat down. When he finished the match he was on earlier, he handed her the other controller.
“Wanna play?”
"Yeah, sure." Remi accepted the controller from Anthony and put herself on random considering she'd never played the game before. "Alright, so how do we do this one?" She asked. "My brother never had it when we were growing up."
“Left joystick is movement, X and Y are jump, A is normal attack, B is special attack, L and R are grap, and ZL and ZR are shield, did you get all that?” He asked as if he thought it was an easy concept for someone who’s never played to understand such a complex set of buttons. He glanced over, thinking that she might have some problems if he was to start immediately. He scooted over closer to her and put his hands over hers, moving her fingers to each of the buttons as he repeated the same set of controls.
“You think you got that now?” He didn’t quite let go of her hands yet though…
Remi examined the buttons with a confused expression. "Which ones are ZL and ZR though? They aren't on the front like the other ones… and what's the point of this other joystick on the right?" She asked. She noticed that Anthony was lingering on her hands and smirked a bit, but said nothing.
“L, R, ZL, and ZR are the ones your index fingers would be on when you hold it. See, look,” he angled her hands up a bit so that she could see the buttons. “And the right joystick… just think of it as a hard hitting attack. I don’t recommend using it unless you’re sure you’re gonna hit me,” he spoke, not even realizing that his hands were practically holding hers tightly at that moment.
"Alright, alright… who is this I'm playing, by the way? I put myself on random." Remi looked up at the screen at her character, frozen on the screen from being paused. "Is there a specific combination of all these strange buttons that I'm supposed to use with this one in particular?"
“Uhm…” He looked at the screen for a moment to see which character she was playing, realizing that it was one of his least favorite characters to play against because of his counter abilities with his ridiculously fast upwards attack. He sighed and started explaining to Remi about how the combinations of the buttons worked…
Five minutes of explanation later…
“You think you’re good?” He asked again, making sure she understood.
"Yeah, probably. You can stop holding my hand now if you'd like. Both figuratively and literally." Remi snickered a bit as she looked down at her hands on the controller with Anthony's hands still wrapped around hers. "Although I guess it would be easier to beat you if you're both controlling my character and not playing your own."
When she mentioned about his hands, his eyes widened before pulling back immediately and started the game. He let himself go with the flow too much…
“You’re going down…” he whispered under his breath as he started to beat her in the character in the game as if it was a punching bag. God, why did he have to be used to teaching people how to play the game…
Remi hummed softly to herself as she played, not seeming to care much that she was losing horribly. She was mostly just tapping the 'A' button whenever Anthony's character neared hers, which wasn't really an incredibly difficult strategy to deal with, but it was still irritating.
Anthony was sighing all throughout the fight, mostly because he was mad at himself for letting himself get carried away so easily. He messed up real bad and it was going to haunt him for a long time he felt. In the end, he won the game but he felt like he lost the fight.
He leaned against the sofa before turning to her.
“Stop acting, like, so bubbly. It was by mistake and meant absolutely nothing,” and that was a lie.
"Oh, come now. I'm always bubbly, and it's not like I can blame you. I do have very nice hands." Remi held her hands up a bit and snickered again. "Although it does surprise me a bit that you supposedly didn't notice considering that my hands are freezing cold all the time."
Shit. Was the only thing on his mind.
“S-Shut up… I just didn’t feel the cold…” that was, quite clearly, an excuse. He wasn’t going to let her play her little game. No way. He had more pride than to give it to someone like this heroine who just happens to be his roommate…
“Okay maybe I felt it a bit—“
Remi snickered a bit to held. "Oh, don't worry. I've met way weirder people than you, man. I won't hold it against you if you've got a bit of a hand kink." She flipped upside down, turning her eyes back to the screen. "I've dated people who are into the strangest shit, but hey. I'll try anything once." She shrugged a bit. "Well… most things. I do have limits."
“It’s not a kink…” Anthony was trying his best not to blush and flush. Oh boy… that was hard to do when she spoke it like that. “I just— I don’t even take people’s hands most of the time,” he claimed as he started the new round of the game.
“You wanna play some Mario Kart after this?” He asked, leaning against the couch as he played.
"Yeah, sure. I'm a lot better at Mario Kart than I am at this one." Remi yawned a bit and kept playing, remaining upside down for now. "Just saying, I wouldn't hold it against you if you had any kinks. Everyone has got something weird they like, you know."
“Do murders count?” He asked calmly, finishing the game and quickly changing it to the more calm game. He was a bit nervous about that one though. He wasn’t the best at racing games and so he didn’t want to lose horribly.
“Go easy on me, aight?”
"You're into killing people?" Remi asked curiously as she started playing the game. "Like, killing people gets you horny? Or you just enjoy it as like, a hobby?" She flipped right side up so she could play the game better.
“Ehhh… more of the latter but I wouldn’t exactly disagree with the former either,” he answered. It was true. Well, somewhat. Killing people gave him some sort of excitement nothing else did. At least, nothing he knew of.
“Well, what are you into? If I could ask,”
"Mm… I'm not into anything too crazy." Remi shrugged a bit. "I just like normal stuff that's technically kinky, but still pretty vanilla. Bondage and stuff like that. But like I said, I've dated some weirdos and been asked to do some pretty weird shit."
“Righttttttt…” He replied, choosing his favorite character being the Shy Guy and picking his usual bike for the game. He crossed his legs, interested on how this will go down.
“You choose the track, I’m not sure which one I wanna play so… go ahead,” he nodded and turned to her before turning back to the screen with a small smile. Why was he even smiling…