Beheading Friends (Ulrich.)

[Jalen August]

Jalen sighed, "Yeah, makes sense, I was only joking around, what with you being stuck here and what not." She said, frowning a little. Something was getting lost in the translation. "Maybe I should stop talking," she offered with a bit of a chuckled, playing with the knuckles on her hands as she wondered what else to say. "You likes guns and such, figures you'd like other things related to guns..." She tried, before mentally kicking herself. She was truly only making things worse.

She was thankful he kept talking about hunting though, talking about death during Christmas made her sad. "Oh yeah? That does sound like fun," she said with a smile. "You should take me some time, after I practice my shot a bit more of course," she said with light laughter. Jalen was actually serious about trying hunting though, she wasn't a big animal person. How could anyone be who ate them?

"Maybe you could ask him about it if you're interested in serving, just throwing it out there," she said. Jalen was just trying to be helpful. She liked giving people good ideas and helping them explore their strengths. If his uncle had been there once before, perhaps he could help him get there in the present.

Jalen glanced at Ulrich with a knowing smirk. "I don't want to know what you were thinking about," she said in surrender. The blonde was not interested in what teen boys did behind closed doors. She would rather think highly of someone that see them in a different kind of... light? Situation? She shuddered, trying to shake the thoughts away. "It's good coffee though, promise," she said, using her foot to shut the laptop, sipping at the luxurious drink.

Finishing off the drink, she placed both mugs in the sink, and laughed at the boy's excitement. "Hey, wait up!" She said, closing and locking the door behind her. Jalen made herself comfy on the floor in front of the TV, a controller in her hand already. It had been right next to her, she might as well get her game face on. "I must warn you though, I didn't follow you to lose," she said, a smirk on her face. Ulrich was in for quite the surprise.

The game was set up in an instant and she looked up at him from her spot. "What're we betting?" She asked as he picked his guy. Jalen looked back and selected a dude with a shot gun and hit 'A'. "Game on," she said, giving the game her full attention. Once the characters were deployed, she was off on the hunt for him. Shot guns were useless long range, but if she could sneak up on him, he would die from the impact.

[Ulrich Schneider]

"No, no! Don't stop talking, I get what you're saying!" Ulrich said as an attempt to ease whatever negative emotion Jalen was feeling at the time. He honestly couldn't tell what exactly she was feeling, but he knew it probably wasn't good. "You're right." The best thing he could think to do was agree with her.

The boy was done with small talk. Now it was time to start the gaming. After Jalen picked her character, Ulrich let the game choose the map for them just to be fair. The setting was a large area covered in snow with buildings and broken down vehicles scattered about. It included a large tower in the North part of the map along with a fairly large circular building smack dab in the middle. Ulrich knew this map like it was the back of his hand, and he knew his hands well.

"A shotgun Jalen, really? You wont touch me."

When the match finally started, Ulrich spent the first minute or two walking around. He began methodically taking out other players who joined the match one by one. Even at a close range, he used his sniper rifle well, taking out people with submachine guns and pistols with ease. Jalen was nowhere to be found, but he knew that the higher his killstreak built up, the more likely he was to find her. He had to be careful though because one blasts from a shotgun could be deadly if fired off at the right range. The boy knew that if Jalen was a good as she claims to be, he had to start fighting at greater distances if he was to stand a chance.

His character began stealthily running, stopping for cover from building to building, in order to get to the large towers at the top of the map. From there, he would be at a perfect vantage point to take out anyone who was not inside a building. Along the way, Ulrich kept an eye out for Jalen and her powerful boomstick. Judging by how she acted when she found him around the corner earlier, he knew she was try to be sneaky and surprise him.

[Jalen August]

Jalen smiled kindly and took Ulrich’s politeness as a sign of good character. It was obvious to her that her blabbing wasn’t making any sense to him, but at least he was being nice about it. It wasn’t like she needed to talk any more anyways, they were busy trying to one up each other.

Once the map loaded, Jalen hid behind other characters before taking them out, not even screen peeking to cheat and see where Rick was. “We’ll see,” she said simply, doing the same as her fellow blonde, and knocking out those around her. She could just imagine how pissed off everyone was getting at them, seeing as those who were being loaded into the game only now, were just as quickly looking at the start menu. Jalen grinned, maybe next time they should be on the same team and see how long it took for people to actually hit them at least once.

A few more minutes in and still no sign of Ulrich. “Come out come out wherever you are...” She repeated the same phrase from when they were outside, more to herself than anything. Often the girl forgot she was in the presence of others because yes, she spoke to the screen while playing, regardless of who was around. Jalen’s character was prancing about between the buildings, and since Ulrich had admitted to being a sniper, she did her best to stay hidden. Of course she was trying to sneak up on him, that was her style.

Someone else tried to do the same to her, and she had to go into the middle of the street to fight them off. “Damn it! Son of a...” But it was probably too late. If Ulrich was as good as he said he was, he would’ve spotted her already. How come luck was never on her side?

[Ulrich Schneider]

By the time his character reached the highest part of the tower at the top of the map, Ulrich's map on the corner of his screen began lighting up with red dots, a clear indication of gunfire. He quickly turned his character around to face direction of the action. Upon looking through the scope of his sniper rifle, he saw two soldiers duking it out in the middle of an open street. "Easy pickings."

Two loud booms could be hear a second apart from each other throughout the map. Not even a full second later, the two soldiers in the street fell to the ground, dead. Large text filled Ulrich's screen as his points built up from the two kills. Jalen's screen on the other hand, went red and then into spectator view. Ulrich killed her. "Boom, headshot!"

The match suddenly ended and both their screens returned to the match joining and intermission area. "Oh, the match is over already? I must have been playing with a bunch of n00bs!" Ulrich placed down his controller and grinned at Jalen. Out of all the people in the match, he was ranked number one. "I thought you owned at video games," he said, rubbing in his victory and milking it for what it was worth. "You care for a rematch or do you wanna lose at something else?"

[Jalen August]

Jalen grumbled as she brought her controller to her forehead and stared at the screen in defeat. “Aw come on!” She said as she watched the game from Ulrich’s point of view. “I hate it when flukes like that happen,” she said, teasing the boy as she bumped his knee, and then he started to act like a complete douche. “Aw! I was in second,” she said with a small pout, before leaving the controller on the floor. She was a sore loser and everyone knew it. “I think losing once is enough,” she said, taking up the controller again, “this time you’re gonna die.”

The blonde stood by her guns and selected the same character upon entering round two. This time she was going out with a vengeance, and keeping her eyes out for her opponents. Soldiers went down around her like wilting flowers, and she scouted out the grounds for any sign of movement. She took some cover and hid behind a car which was flipped over on the top of a building. By luck, Ulrich’s guy happened to be sniping out the area below, where she wasn’t. She smirked, because her character was above him, but not for long as he jumped down, shotgun aimed at the back of Ulrich’s guy point blank.

“Gotcha,” she said with a smirk. Boom.

[Ulrich Schneider]

Seeing as Jalen was a little upset by her defeat, Ulrich decided her would go really easy on her next round. In fact, he decided that he would let her win. It may not seem like much, but that's one of the nicest things he could think to do to. Besides, after all his years of dominating entire worlds found in video games, one loss couldn't tarnish his record too bad.

Before the match began, Ulrich chose the same sniper rifle wielding character. This time around, he decided he would simply camp at an obvious spot where snipers are always hiding out. When the match began, he ran to that spot, killing everyone in his way. He claimed his spot and the sniping spree began. His killstreak was building up rapidly, but Jalen was not on his list of kills. He knew she was sneaking around, and before he could finish firing off the last round in his chamber, BOOM! Jalen blew his character to bits.

"Wow, it looks like you have won, you were not obviously sneaking up on me at all!" he said sarcastically with a devilish smirk.

[Jalen August]

Jalen smiled a little to herself and put the controller down on the floor again, smiling. “Alright hot shot, let’s call it a quits before I start to not like you,” she said with a grin. She had won, and she was feeling pretty proud of herself. “Besides, you get all the points, we’re on your[i/] account,” she said, his gamertag forever engrained in her memory. She would probably look him up later and really kick his ass, where she couldn’t see his smug face and have the desire to punch it in. He was being far too obvious about letting her win.

She rose then, deciding she had had enough of her new friend for the day. “It was nice meeting you Ulrich, I’m gonna go read a book or something,” she said with a small smile. It was true, she was tired of fighting, in real life and online. She gave a small wave before leaving his dorm room, shaking her head. There was only so much she could take, maybe video gaming hadn’t been the best idea. Ulrich was someone she would only be able to be around in small amounts, unless he wanted her to completely spaz out on him, due to her short temper and his being a smart ass.

[Ulrich Schneider]

"Bye Jalen," Ulrich said as he inspected her while she walked out. He got as much as his eyes could handle of her beautiful body as she left. There was no telling when they will see each other again. Ulrich knew that after most people spend time with him, they usually don't want to do it again, but he had his hopes up. He really liked Jalen. She was the only girl he knew that would play a video game with him. It doesn't get any better than that! In his eyes, she was perfect. No matter what the case may be, he didn't want to lose her. He would make sure that no one would hurt her and that she could be with him forever... by any means necessary.

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