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It was now officially a few weeks into the killing game and Damon was still rooming with Kai, however, it didn’t bother either of them as much as it used to. They’ve now both mostly adjusted to each other’s lifestyle (though they would still bicker a lot from time-to-time.) Tonight so far seemed to be the same as most other nights Damon has spent in the academy. Except for one thing. Once Damon arrived inside of Kai’s room after the nighttime announcement he immediately noticed that the pink haired influencer was missing.
Damon decided to just shrug it off, it didn’t seem like a big deal to him, it’s not like it’s a shocking thing to happen really. Sure, Kai was always there before Damon but that didn’t actually mean anything. Kai might just be busy. Whilst Damon was waiting for Kai to arrive he decided to busy himself by getting ready for the night. After a good amount of time had passed Damon started to get slightly more suspicious. Where was Kai? He should be back by now, it’s not like Kai to wander about by himself and especially not at night. Kai was way too paranoid all the time to do something like that.
After a few more minutes passed with still no sign of Kai, Damon couldn’t help but start to think of a worst case scenario. I mean, they were still in a killing game after all, there was still a chance that Kai could be dead. Damon started to feel slight panic rise within him and was debating whether he should go out and look for Kai just to make sure he wasn’t actually dead.
But as soon as Damon’s worry started to increase rapidly the door burst open and in came a bumbling Kai. Damon quietly let out a small sigh of relief to himself as he sees his roommate still alive and healthy. He then immediately regains composure and shoots Kai an annoyed glare. “Where were you? It’s not like you to arrive to bed late.” Damon scolds and Kai just snickers slightly before answering. “Aw, worried about me?” Kai teases him. “No, I’m just curious since you’re normally here before me.” Damon responds whilst frowning, acting as if he wasn’t just panicking mere seconds ago.
“Well, if you must know… I was at the gachapon!” Kai responds, seemingly proud of himself with an excited grin on his face. Sighing, Damon speaks up again. “Is that seriously it?” Damon asks, clearly unimpressed by Kai’s whereabouts. “Uh-huh! And I’m glad I decided to go there because guess what I won!” Kai exclaims excitedly, making his way over to the bed. “I don’t know. Some useless piece of crap I suppose.” Damon begrudgingly responds as he decides to get into bed himself too.
“Ah-ha! That’s where you’re wrong!” Kai beams as he sits down cross-legged on the bed facing Damon. Kai then proceeds to reveal a DVD he was hiding behind his back. Damon sits up on the bed and raises an eyebrow at the object. “You won some shitty DVD?” Damon scowls as he looks down at the DVD, examining the cover before adding on a sarcastic comment. “Wow. What an achievement.” Kai pouts exaggeratedly at Damon’s response. “Ok, yeah, maybe it doesn’t look that great of a movie but it’s still better than nothing y’know!”
“Not really. It’s just more useless junk to add to your room. There’s nowhere to even watch that movie.” Damon states whilst sighing, pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance. Kai just simply responds by pointing at an old laptop sitting on his desk inside of the room, smiling as if he just proved a point. Damon furrows his eyebrows before speaking up. “You can’t even do anything on that, all it does is turn o-“ Before Damon could even finish his argument Kai silences Damon by pressing a finger to his lips. Damon gets thrown off by this and he opens his mouth, ready to scold Kai but the pink-haired influencer speaks up before Damon has the chance to.
“Nuh-uh! The laptop actually has a DVD drive! Look!” Kai then bounces up from the bed with far too much energy, considering it was nighttime, as he fetches the laptop before resuming his previous position on the bed. Kai then proceeds to turn on the laptop and presses into the side of the laptop’s keyboard, pressing a thing that looked like a long button next to one of the USB ports. Slowly, a DVD drive starts to appear in place of the button and Kai retreats his finger. “Ta-da!” Kai announces proudly as he then reveals the DVD drive to Damon.
Damon narrows his eyes, seemingly unimpressed by the display. “Now what?” Damon asks, glaring up at Kai from across the bed. Kai frowns whilst replying. “Well now we watch the movie obviously!” Damon’s eyes narrow, a scowl forming on his face, immediately objecting to the idea. “Excuse me? We? I’m not watching this piece of crap.” Damon retorts whilst pointing at the DVD. “What!? I’m not watching it by myself! Dude! It’s a horror movie!” Kai whines exaggeratedly. Damon just looks at Kai in disbelief after the revelation. “Why on earth would you want to watch a horror movie in the middle of a killing game!?”
Tears start to well up in Kai’s eyes as he responds. “Well, yeah, ok maybe it’s a stupid idea but I’m so bored in here! This is like the only decent sort of entertainment, even if it is a shitty horror movie!” Damon rolls his eyes before arguing back once again. “Whatever, watch it if you really want to but find someone else to watch it with you because I am most definitely not.” Kai starts pouting dramatically again, the waterworks starting up again as more tears start to well up in his eyes.
“But who else am I meant to watch it with!? Nobody else will want to watch a horror movie with me!” Kai continues whining and Damon groans before replying. “And what makes you think I will?” Kai’s face saddened even more at this before he fights back. “If you don’t watch it with me I’m kicking you off the bed!” “You can’t just do that!” “Well, I just did so deal with it!”
Damon sighs heavily before looking back at Kai, realising he really does have no choice. “Fine!” Damon says, groaning in defeat. At this response from Damon, Kai immediately switches up and goes back to smiling brightly again. Despite Damon’s anger still present he couldn’t help but also feel slightly flustered from the sight of Kai’s smile. He actually had a nice smile and he looked kind of...
Damon immediately brushes his thoughts away as he then sits up, leaning his back against the headboard of the bed as he decides to just wait patiently for Kai to set up the movie.
Kai fiddles around with the laptop for a bit before he finally manages to get the movie up and running. He smiles proudly to himself as he places the laptop at the end of the bed before sitting down next to Damon, reflecting Damon’s position. With a reasonable amount of space between them, obviously.
Damon silently questions the laptop’s position to himself, wondering why it was all the way at the end of the bed, before glancing over to Kai with a quizzical look plastered on his face. “Why have you put the laptop all the way over there? Now it’s just harder to see. That’s stupid.” Kai awkwardly laughs in response before giving an actual answer. “Well… Y’know… It’s a horror movie so like if there’s a jump-scare I don’t wanna end up throwing the laptop across the room or something…! So it needs to be far away.” Damon glares at Kai with a judging look on his face as he listens to Kai’s reasoning. “Are you serious? Would you actually end up doing that?” Damon asks whilst sighing, suspecting it’s just Kai overreacting again as per usual.
“Yeah! I get scared easily dude, ok!?” Damon couldn’t help but scoff at this, not really meaning any malice behind it, before he started interrogating Kai again. “So why the hell are we watching a horror movie if you get scared easily!?” “I won it from the gachapon it’s not like I could choose the movie, let alone the genre!”
Damon’s eyebrows furrow slightly, clearly pondering on what to say next before hitting Kai with another demeaning question. “Either way, like I said earlier, why do you insist on watching a horror movie whilst we’re in a literal killing game!? That’s just going to make you even more scared.” Well, it was also going to make Damon more scared too but there’s no way he would willingly admit that aloud. “Because I’m bored and I want to! Is that so wrong!?” Kai retorts back, huffing slightly at the same time. As soon as Damon opens his mouth to argue back Kai simply places his hand over Damon’s mouth. “Shut up already man! The movie’s already started!”
Damon frowns as he swats Kai’s hand away from his mouth before getting comfortable, begrudgingly accepting the defeat as he decides to actually focus on the movie. Kai smirks to himself as he quickly acknowledges his victory before swiftly switching his attention back to the movie playing on the laptop.
It’s about an hour into the movie and Damon already feels like he’s about to fall asleep at any given moment. He assumed Tozu would put in some terrifying horror movie into the gachapon just to put people on edge if they watched it, but this was the shittiest horror movie known to man (in Damon’s wholehearted opinion). All the jump-scares were so unbelievably predictable they shouldn’t even be considered as jump-scares. Not just that but the budget on the movie was clearly shockingly low.
Damon sighed to himself quietly before glancing over at Kai, curious to see his reaction. To Damon’s surprise Kai actually looked completely entranced. How could he possibly find any entertainment in this crappy movie? Damon had no idea how but it was honestly admirable in a weird way.
Approximately half an hour later the movie started to finally pick up the pace, Damon had to admit that despite the fact the movie was still terrible it was now somewhat scary he supposed. Kai very clearly thought so too judging by the way he was nervously biting his bottom lip and clearly more on-edge than he was beforehand. Damon also couldn’t help but pick up on the fact that Kai was inching closer to him. Intentionally or not, Damon didn’t know. However, Damon couldn’t find it in himself to say anything about it aloud. Oh well, it wasn’t *that* big of a deal.
Suddenly, an actual decent jump-scare surprisingly came up in the movie. Damon tried to hide it, but, he actually physically jumped at it. However, Kai had an even bigger reaction to the scare. Kai audibly squealed as he suddenly reached out and clung onto Damon’s side. The sudden contact honestly scared the shit out of Damon since he momentarily forgot Kai was with him and he’d just been startled by the jump-scare already too. But as soon as Damon processed what was actually happening, he could feel the blood rush to his face as he felt his cheeks grow warmer. He gulped as he just silently waited for Kai to let go. But, he never did.
Damon then noticed his own breath getting slightly heavier as he tried to shift his focus back to the movie, but he couldn’t. All he could focus on was the fact that Kai was still clinging onto him and he could feel Kai’s short breaths on the side of his neck. Damon didn’t want to interrupt the movie by speaking up or shoving Kai away so he just silently put up with it. Eventually, Kai decided to let go and resume his previous position on the bed and Damon instinctively let out a quiet sigh of relief as he tried to calm his heart-rate.
To Damon’s satisfaction, the movie looked as if it was finally nearing the end. But to both of their dismay the ending just so happened to result in a rather grotesque murder scene. Damon felt his stomach turn and he decided to just not look at the screen whilst the scene was still playing. Kai seemed to have thought the same, except Kai decided to look away by clinging onto Damon once again and burying his face into Damon’s arm.
Damon automatically tenses up at the contact once again, his breath hitching. He cursed himself in his head as he could feel his face heating up again, blush creeping up his neck. He glances over at the influencer and he feels his heart race increasing, drumming against his chest, he hated this. Deducing that it was now probably ok for him to talk since the movie was pretty much over, Damon spoke up. “You can just close your eyes, you know?” Damon mumbles, his eyes trailing off to a random spot in the room, away from the view of the pink-haired influencer who was practically using him as a pillow.
Kai just groans in response, mumbling a bunch of incomprehensible words before speaking an actual coherent sentence. “Yeah but knowing you’re here is more comforting… And so is holding onto something...” Kai mumbles, his face still buried in Damon’s arm. Damon couldn’t find it in himself to argue back, he told himself it was because he was too tired to. So, he just let Kai carry on clinging onto him like a sloth.
Once the film finally officially finished, Kai was still hanging onto Damon. But, he had raised his head away from Damon’s arm by now. Damon gently shook Kai off of him as he got up to turn off the laptop and put it away. Kai allows this but as soon as Damon returned to the bed he immediately wrapped his arms around Damon’s side. The debater just sighs as he realizes he can’t escape Kai’s embrace, so he silently just learns to accept it rather easily.
However, Damon couldn’t help but still be a bit of an asshole and snicker as he teases Kai a bit, harmlessly poking fun at him. “That movie wasn’t even that scary.” Kai glares up angrily at Damon as he teases him. “I saw you get scared at some points too! Plus that last scene was super disturbing…” Kai whines whilst frowning, narrowing his eyes accusingly at his roommate. Damon couldn’t deny any of his points so he just groaned dismissively as a response.
Kai then suddenly pulls away from the embrace and Damon can’t help but feel himself secretly missing the warmth from Kai’s body. Once again, Damon brushes the thought away quickly and he decides to just lie down and actually go to sleep now. Kai seemingly does the same as he decides to lay down too. But as soon as Damon shuts his eyes to get some rest, Kai strikes yet again.
To Damon’s shock, Kai decides to hesitantly lean in and plant a quick, gentle kiss on Damon’s cheek before giggling quietly to himself and whispering. “Thanks for watching the movie with me. Even though I kinda forced you to.”
Damon’s eyes shot open at the feeling of Kai’s soft lips brushing his cheek and he feels his whole body heat up as a response to the contact. His eyes dart over to Kai as he slowly lifts a hand up to the spot he had just kissed. Kai just smiles mischievously as he turns around, his back now facing Damon, leaving Damon alone with his thoughts. Damon lies there in shock, hand still on his cheek and his mouth slightly agape, his whole body feeling as if it were on fire. He felt pathetic just lying there with no response, but his whole body had gone weak, his heart was practically jumping out of his chest and he felt his stomach constantly flip.
And just as Damon thought Kai’s strange antics were over, before he could even properly process his thoughts, Kai once again turns over to face Damon. “I can’t sleep...” He mumbles, Damon couldn’t even point out the fact it had only been like a minute since the influencer had actually tried to fall asleep before Kai wraps his arms around Damon’s side for the third time. And before Damon could even say a word Kai had managed to immediately fall asleep, pretty much using Damon as a human body pillow.
And though Damon normally would have a lot of initial complaints about the position they were in, he couldn’t help but secretly enjoy the comfort he found in it. Maybe this wasn’t so bad after all...