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“I’m bored.”
No answer.
“I SAID IM…”
“Shut the fuck up or you I’ll make you actually miss being bored” Tezz was sitting in Seth’s desk chair, his eyes fixed on his phone while he played some game, his feet resting on Seths bed, disrespectfully.
Seth had resigned himself to boredom when Memi walked into the room carrying several pillows.
“Memi! Tezz is mistreating me. Me. Who almost died saving him.”
Tezz groaned and pressed the palms of his hands to his eyes and threw his head back, frustrated.
Ignoring him, Memi put the pillows down behind Seth, so he wouldn’t roll back accidentally and put his weight on his wound. He was getting sick of the same two positions he was able to lay in, so this way he could release some burden from his right hip.
“Tezz, play nice.”
“WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANT FROM ME?”
“Do you have games on your phone?”
Tezz looked at him without blinking, the phone that he had just been using to play games, in his lap.
“No.”
“Memiii!”
“You cannot keep calling Memi every time you want something! She’s not your mom!”
“Correct, silly. Tezz is the mom.” Cywer had also joined the party, walking into the room while drinking from a juice box.
“I’m gonna need like fifty percent of the people in this room to go fuck themselves.”
“You aren’t the only one who can be here. I brought Seth a juice. I’m helping.”
Seth looked at Cywer’s hands. The only juice he had was the one he was drinking from. Cy extended his arm and offered it to him.
Seth shook his head.
Memi left the room and came back, immune to the stupidity.
“I forgot this” it was a huge plushie. Some kind of very bird, very round, pink and white. It was soft and fluffy, the stuffing airy, so it felt very snuggly the moment Seth hugged it “There, so you have a friend to protect you from evil Tezz.”
“Seventy five percent.”
“I actually think you should up it to a hundred. I know of some people here who could use the fun.”
“Every night I dream I choke you to death with my own hands and I enjoy it.”
“You’re lying. You don’t sleep.”
“Who said anything about being asleep.”
“I love you guys. I love how we are like a family.”
“CAN YOU SHUT UP FOR LIKE, FIVE SECONDS, SETH??”
“Okay” Memi raised her hands. “That’s it. Everybody out. It’s my turn to watch Seth. Cy, bring an actual UNOPENED juice. And you, Tezz, could indeed use some sleep, the astronauts can see your eye bags from the space station, and they say it’s messing up the pictures.”
Ten minutes later Seth was sipping his juice, supporting himself up on his elbows and kicking his legs back while Memi put him up to date with everything that happened while he was unconscious, which didn’t take long, since as always, not many missions were assigned at them unless they were really close to their headquarters.
To be honest, Seth didn’t understand how they hadn’t starved yet, but he wasn’t going to ask.
Hours later, when Tezz returned, eyes only slightly less tired and hair way messier, he found Seth laying down on Memi’s lap. She had a brush and a spray in her hands and she was softly grooming his hair while humming softly.
“What the fuck is that smell”
“Dry shampoo. Seth still cannot fully wash his hair since he can’t lift his arms that up without pulling on the stitches.” She explained in a low voice. Seth’s eyes were closed, and his breathing was slow and deep. He looked completely peaceful.
“You got him to shut up. Congrats.”
“I’m awake, I can hear you.”
“Thank god, cause my legs are falling asleep” Memi took the chance to carefully lift Seths head from her lap and got up slowly with a grimace, stretching. “I’m gonna go make dinner. Behave, you two.”
Seth sighted, resigned to either be bored or bullied again, and hid his face on the bend of his arms, thinking about taking a small nap before dinner, but he was sick of sleeping, his body and mind aching.
He had barely gotten into a comfortable position when he heard fingers snapping, so he looked up from under his bangs, cautious. Tezz was trying to hand him something.
“What’s that?”
Seth was not very up to date about technology. He had a flip phone, and wasn’t allowed to touch Tezz’s computer.
“A Switch. Forgot I had it, haven’t used it since I was a kid, but it still works.”
Seth took it and looked at it, turning it between his hands.
“Do you-do you know how to use it?” Tezz raised an eyebrow.
“Not really. Never had one.”
Tezz sighted and pinched the bridge of his nose.
“Okay” he whispered to himself, breathed deeply and then sat down next to Seth “Fine, pay attention. So, I only have these 3 games, but they should be enough to keep you entertained until you heal. Which one do you want to play? We have Animal Crossing, Unravel, and Zelda Breath of the Wild”
“Oh, Zelda. I know that one.”
“Okay, so you select with this one…”
More than half an hour later Memi came back with two plates of chickpeas and spinach salad, so Tezz put the console down and went to eat at the desk.
“So why don’t you play these games anymore?” Seth tried to stablish conversation, feeling like the silent chewing was awkward.
“Those were the ones considered kid friendly since I was… God, how old was I? Well, doesn’t matter, the thing is that my parents were the ones who bought them. So when I grew up, I started playing other kinds of games I liked more. Theres not much more to it.”
“Like which ones?”
“Well, I like the competitive online ones mostly. They are always different since there’s other real people behind the screen playing. For example, in Zelda the enemies have attack patterns you can learn easily, and then the novelty wears off.”
“Do you ever think you might like the online games more because you have to play with other people and that’s the only socialization you are able to have? You know, because of your personality and such.”
Tezz looked at him, chewing slowly. After an excruciating silence he swallowed.
“And are you feeling bold now because you think I won’t hit you while you are hurt?”
“Correct. I have to take the chance to get revenge on you whenever I can.”
Tezz got up and Seth cowered, thinking he had miscalculated the risk, but the blond just left the room with his plate.
“Tezz! C’mon, you always bully me! I’m just joking back! Come back, don’t cry.”
Surprisingly, Tezz did come back. Delighted, Seeth beamed and opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, Tezz leaned in and snatched the switch back before leaving again.
“Tezz! C’mon man!”