Mission Complete
"Fucking finally!" I huff out, clutching every ounce of my luck while I throw my first up towards the air in my mind as I read those sweet Mission Complete words. "That was challenging." I gave myself an imaginary high five and click the home screen button.
Staring closely at my screen, checking my latest progress in Hitman 3 with a cheeky grin printed on my sleep-deprived face. Oh yeah, I'm not lying, I really have sleep-deprived face, a nice hot shower will fix it, so nothing to worry about. What matters is my fucking progress right now.
Total Completion: 65%
Challenge Completion: 116 / 178
Mission Stories: 6 / 10
Trophies: 20 / 47
That's just so satisfying, literal chills within my bones, just seeing and feeling that I'm close, very close to finishing this amazing game. Those sleepless night and a whole case of Red Bull were just worth it, I don't really care if I pass out because I'm too sleep-deprived. I may slowly be falling into a deadly sanity level, but I don't care. I want to complete this game, I want to earn every achievement-or in this game, they call it trophies-even those secret achievements. What can I say? I'm a pure completionist.
Gaming over health! I don't care if it's unhealthy, it's my own life, I should be the one to decide if it's healthy or not.
Judging by those numbers on the screen, it really makes me want to finish this whole damn amazing game into shreds, but I need to dial it down for a bit because if I finish this right now, I'm going to be bored the next fucking days until I find a new game to finish. Curse my habit of trying to finish a game very early. I could just buy another game on Steam, but the thing is, I'm broke as fuck, not even a single penny is in my wallet. It may sound exaggerated, but seriously, there's no money left. Well, except my funds for college but that's not important.
If I'm being honest right about now, there's actually one game that I want to play, but haven't bought it. And it's that sweet, sweet Red Dead Redemption 2. I have finished Red Dead Redemption 1 and got bored out of my mind, and I try to grind for the hidden achievements in the game. And yet, that Red Dead Redemption 2 is just mocking me with its badass cover picture. I know it's been 3 years since the second game was released, but damn, I really don't have much money to afford it. I could try streaming to earn money, but I also don't have the right equipment for it.
Speaking of equipment, my gaming set isn't an example of the best gaming set. Well, the only gaming platform I have at the moment is a PC and a PS4. My PC is what I'm mostly using, because most of my games came from Steam. If only I have my hands on that sweet RDR 2, I'm gonna play that on my PS4 all day long, no breaks whatsoever. Fuck schoolwork! Fuck assignments! That game is so much more important than anything in the world.
"Oh, someday, I'm going to have you." I rub my hand on my screen which shows the badass cover of RDR 2. "And when I do, I'll use you every single day." I didn't even mean to make it sound dirty. God, what is wrong with me? Must be the sleep deprivation.
As I keep on daydreaming about having that sweet, sweet game. In the corner of the screen, my eye I spot the time in my computer screen.
"Fuck! It's already 5:30 A.M." My eyes popped up, my mouth fall into an O-shape. Why am I in shock to this? I knew what I was going into, and still I'm shocked about it.
Half an hour has passed from playing non-stop, and it just came to my senses. I remember what Nicole said to me yesterday. That I insisted on driving her to school today! And I'm fucking late!
"Fuck!" I mutter under my breath.
But I'm nearly gonna finish this game. C'mon Jacob think. What should you do? Finish the game? Or drive Nicole to school? Or maybe drive Nicole to school then finish the game? No, that's not possible, I'm not gonna have any more time to finish it completely.
It's funny that I'm gonna be late, but I'm more panicking the fact Nicole is waiting for me to pick her up. Note to self: Don't make promises if you can't keep them, and also don't keep on insisting on doing stuff.
Staring blankly at my screen, thinking what the hell I should do. Gaming is always my first priority, not gonna lie. No matter what the situation is, gaming is always the one that helps me find solitude. Even if I had a girlfriend, I always choose gaming over her. Heck, I actually don't think I've ever talked to her since we're dating. But I think Nicole will gonna understand me this time, right? She always understands that my priorities are gaming. What if I just gonna lie to her that my car broke down? Yeah, I'm gonna do that. Fingers cross, I hope it works!
I pull out my phone and dial Nicole's number. Silently praying my stupid plan work and Nicole's doesn't read through my lies. I just really hope my lying skills is great.
Ringing... No answer.
Ringing... Still no answer.
Goddamn, this suspense is killing me, just pick up the goddamn phone, so I can let out this stupid lie that I just made up.
Nicole answers on the third ring. Finally, she picked up.
"Hey, wassup? Where are you?" She sounds like she has a good mood, which is great because she'll be more oblivious when I lie to her.
"Uh, listen. I'm not gonna drive you to college today." I tried my best to sound fairly convincing. If video games taught me anything is that your tone of voice needs to sound convincing if you want your lie to be successful.
"Why? What happened? Are you okay? Are you hurt? Tell me what happened?" Nicole practically screaming with a hint of paranoia in her voice. Her tone makes it as if I just got hit by a massive dump truck. Is that her real intention to me? Because my God, that's too cruel for me to handle. Well, at least she cares about me nonetheless. Now, time for the lie to drop.
"Uh, you see, my car broke down. So yeah, you need to find someone to drive you." I try my hardest to sound frustrated about the fake scenario. This is going smoothly as I thought it will, maybe I'll be able to finish this game after all.
"Oh, yeah sure. I'm just gonna carpool over Samantha's. Thanks for the effort though." Nicole said sounding a bit... Disappointed. But hey, at least she bought the lie I've given to her, so that's that.
"Be careful okay?" Trying to hide the excitement in my voice as I try to sound fairly concerned about her decision. I really can't believe she believed me.
Nicole hangs up the call first, which is fairly rude on my behalf, but who cares, I'm gonna have more time to finish this game. I relaxed back to my comfortable deep blue gaming chair. Staring back at my curved screen monitor, which still has Hitman 3 tab. The glowing RGB keyboard mocks me to play one more mission of Hitman 3. Should I though? Perhaps I'm just gonna play another game, maybe Call of Duty Warfare? I really want to finish Hitman 3 but if I finished it now, there won't be any unfinished games left for me to play. Or should I follow Nicole to college?
Resting my head on mu chair, deep in thought about this dilemma of mine. I'm gonna be late regardless. So why not just play one round of Call of Duty Warfare? Just one round and I'm off.
"I'm just gonna play one round, then I'm gonna run off to school." I reminded myself, staring at my sleep-deprived reflection from the screen while waiting the game to boot up. "It won't hurt to play one round, right?" I make my whole comfortable as I play one single round.
One round later, "Wow, that was a fast round. Maybe one more and I'm off, I promise." I glance at my watch to see what time it is. "It's 5:55, okay, one last round, and I'm off."
Another round later, "FUCK! I lost, it's already 6:10, I can't afford to lose my winning streak. Just one more game, I just need to win one round and that's it," my frustration is getting a hold of me at this point, but that winning streak is far more important than anything else. Just one more round.
Priorities first Jacob.
About an hour later of trying to fix my winning streak and also a couple of more cases of Red Bull later.
"YES!! My streak is back, my fucking God!" I huff and puff out all my frustration. "It only took me what? An hour." I smile not even processing what I just said. "Wait, an hour?" I take a quick glance at the time. "OH SHIT!"
It's already 7:25. I totally missed out my first day. That's just amazingly bad. Well, at least I got my win-streak back, right? For now, I need to quit, I gotta go to school and flex up my current streak to my buddies. But first, I need to wash up all these Red Bull out of my system. I don't wanna enter class when Red Bull is the only thing that is flowing around my body. I may be impulsive but I still have standards. Now, time to wash up.
I grab my towel and head over to the bathroom. God, I gotta get rid of this sleep-deprived face, or I'll look like a zombie in school. I don't want to embarrass myself. Switching the water heater into the warm temperature, turning the shower head on. Man, can't wait to see their faces when I flex my new streak. They'll gonna be like "No shit, dude! Pro gamer here!" I chuckle at the thought not until...
Nicole...
Oh shit, Nicole! She's probably waiting for me at school. Fuck! I wash up my body as fast as possible, ignoring the fact that I scrub very roughly. Vigorous scrubbing later, my skin practically turning red, but I have no time to dwell on that, I need clothes!
I grab a clean white underwear. Yes, even though I'm impulsive, I still wear underwear, those people who don't wear underwear is just disgusting creatures. I follow it up with a faded slim straight jeans, buckling it up the buttons. Followed by a plain black t-shirt, that doesn't even matter anyway since I'm just gonna put on a dirty blue hoodie hiding away the t-shirt. Now for my footwear, I grab a pair of white socks because who doesn't wear socks when they're gonna wear shoes? Snatching up the pair of black rubber shoes and practically shoving my foot into them.
Nicole is fucking waiting for me! I just really hope she won't dump me.
Actually, that would be awesome. There won't be any more distraction when I'm playing. I could play whenever I want without getting to pause whenever she's calling. This might be the best day of my life, first getting a new winning streak, then being dumped by your girlfriend. That's what I call an awesome day.
But I still need to hurry though, class will start soon, and I don't wanna get into trouble in the first day, that's not awesome at all.
Before heading out, I grab up my keys and make sure I lock the front door. The consequences of me not locking the front door is traumatizing. Even though I can stay as long as I want to a boarding house with my buddies, I still need to lock up the front door of my original house.
I let out a sigh, preparing myself for what's coming as I drove to my first day of college.