"Well you see, I came here originally because I heard that the hands here were really tasty, I guess I just didn't realize that you had to eat your own hand."
Nori tilted her head and quirked a brow, not quite grasping fully what he was talking about at first.
’He wants to…eat hands? Like, he’s a cannibal? Jesus Christ, is he EATING people!?’ The blonde swallowed thickly, almost choking on her nachos, and tried to nonchalantly take a sip of her water.
’Be cool Nori, you’re gonna be alright. You’re in a public, well-lit place; surely he isn’t planning on murdering you here. Maybe it’s an American thing? Or it got lost in translation? Or maybe HE-REALLY-EATS-HANDS-OH-SWEET-LUCIFER-I’M-TOO-YOUNG-TO-DIE-WHY-DIDN’T-I-LISTEN-TO-MY-MOTHER-SHE-TOLD-ME-NOT-TO-TALK-TO-STRANGERS-AND-NOW-HES-GOING-TO-EAT-MY-FLESH-STRANGER-DANGER-IS-REAL-PEOPLE—‘"Is the nacho cheese optional or..?" Kyle cut her slightly psychotic mental rant short, laughing with a big, goofy grin plastered all over his face. Nori chewed at her bottom lip for a moment before she finally understood that he was teasing her and then she laughed too, partly because it was actually quite funny, but also because she was genuinely relieved he wasn’t going to pan-fry her hands in a cream sauce and have them with a nice glass of wine.
Kyle then told her about how he traveled abroad for higher education, but apparently he hadn’t felt like he was cut out for university. The blue eyed boy stopped to scratch his arm here, a nervous trait they both shared it seemed, and Nori hooked one of her feet together with his in a show of support. He continued on about his job at the glasses shop in town, and Nori was paying attention, honest, but she felt her gaze being pulled to the House of the Dead because she
needed to play it…
"You want to go kill some zombies...don't you?" Kyle asked suddenly and Nori flushed, knowing that she had been caught. He didn’t seem mad though, so the DJ nodded and flashed him a sheepish smile. “Alright then,” he said, pushing back from the table and for one disheartening moment Nori thought he was going to walk out on her, but then he tossed their trash, came back, and took her hand in his. "Come on!" he exclaimed, pulling her over to the machine and then leaving her there for a moment so he could go get tokens.
As Nori waited for him to return, she noticed a pretty girl with black hair cut into a feathered style sitting at one of the slot machines. Nori leaned over and told her excitedly, “We’re about to murder all these zombies.” When Kyle came back the golden eyed girl accepted her tokens and slid a few in the slot, before straightening back up. "Ready when you are,” the other youth declared, to which Nori replied by firing at the screen, effectively starting the game.
They proceeded through the first level with minimal life loss, because they were badass like that, but by the time they had started the second level Nori felt like they needed to up the stakes a little. “Wanna make a bet?” she asked while firing the gun off screen to reload the cartridge, murmuring a quick, “Thanks” as Kyle took out an undead who tried to rip her face off while she was distracted. “Whoever makes it to the end with the least amount of civilian casualties and the most amount of points and tokens wins,” she explained, gut shooting a spider zombie that had flung itself down from the roof by Kyle’s character’s head. “If I win, you have to come see me during one of my sets at Club LUSH. And if you win…” she trailed off, screwing up her nose while she tried to concentrate on two things at once. “…I’ll give you something sweet,” she added ambiguously, waggling her eyebrows provocatively, even though she was pretty sure he was too busy to see it.
“Do we have a bet, cowboy?”
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