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[Erin Hackett]

Erin didn’t really think she would lose interest in Quinn; she didn’t really lose interest in people. She lost interest in dealing with people who were just difficult. She wanted to have friends, she wanted to have a girlfriend, but there was only so much effort she was willing and could put forth to try it. She was used to being alone and do to playing online games she still got part of the human interact that she desired, but she did want it face to face. Yet, because she had it another way, she as not willing to try forever to get something that she wanted.

She felt putting forth effort into something was stupid when you could have something easier. So having the life debt there was enough to keep her trying to pay back Quinn and get the boy to like her. There was the case that once it was paid, if he did keep pushing her away then she was going to leave him. She just hoped that by then he warmed up to her and would not push her away. She gave a shrug at his question, not really having an answer for him. She was sure she could make something up or come up with an answer if she thought about it, but she was distracted. That distraction being a cute little ferret by the name of Pips, that Quinn was going to let her hold.

“Oh yeah! I love that game, but it’s been a while since I played it.” Erin said as she thought back on the time she played the game. It was one of the few games that she could recall playing when she was younger because of her dad. He didn’t play games often but if he did there was a lot of fighting, a lot of strategy, or a combination of it all. “I’m game for trying out anything. Just don’t cry if we have to go against one another and I wipe the floor with you.” Erin said as she smirked a little, looking down to hope that Quinn didn’t see it. She was still trying to come out of her shell some more, but she was still worried about it.

“I’ll be fine. I won’t squeeze him too hard and I won’t let him go until you tell me to.” Erin assured him as she made ‘give me’ hands again. She would show that she could hold the small creature properly, and even pet it a little as she could not help but to let out a pleased giggle.

[Quinn Wiley]

Erin was so strange to him. Normally, once he told people to go away, they did. They were annoyed by his attitude, thought he was pathetic sometimes, but generally left as he told them to. Now and then, of course, he was trapped with people. Jack, for example, since they had the bad luck of being roommates. Erin, however, had no reason to put up with him. Oh right, there was this thing about the life debt. He never thought someone would not agree to erase a debt when the other was agreeing to it but she didn’t want that. She even hacked into his computer to make him understand he was stuck with her. Quinn still couldn’t quite deal with that.

He was not surprised to hear it had been a while since she played that game. He didn’t have a lot of the recent games. They were often too expensive for him, or his cousins had it and he would be allowed to get it too once they were done with it and wouldn’t want to play it anymore. He figured he had more chances to find it for cheap and buy it. “I haven’t played much with the girls. You can pick one and argue on which one is the sexiest, although it’s pretty obvious,” he sort of mumbled. Clearly, a part of him still struggled with dealing with her even if another one, bigger, gave in. To him, the sexiest character of Dynasty Warriors was that desert chick. She was super hot. It wasn’t hard though, since other than the girl with the flutes, the other seemed too young, tomboy or poised to really fit the sexy criteria. He arched an eyebrow as she smirked to him, claiming she could kick his butt anytime in a game. “You’re that confident you’re the best?” Oh, that sounded like a challenge.

He shrugged when she repeated once again that she would be fine. He warned her about the bites, he wouldn’t feel bad if that happened. “He loves to curl around necks or in hoods,” he said, in case Pips tried to do that, so she wouldn’t be surprised if he tried. She let her hold his pet at last. It was weird to have a giggling girl in his room. Or anyone for that matter, but a giggling girl seemed even weirder.

[Erin Hackett]

Erin heard Quinn's words loud and clear even if they were mumbled. It involved the words girls and sexy so he had her attention right away. "I actually tend to play male characters because I'm not that huge of a fan playing a character that could possibly turn me own. When gaming I need to focus and be in the zone, but I'm game to try out the girls." Erin pointed out, a hint of a 'in your face, you were not expecting to hear that' was hidden behind her voice but she was not going to dare say the words out loud.

"I'm looking forward to hearing who you think is the sexiest." Erin said, a small smirk spreading across her lips. That would mean she would get to learn about the type of girl he liked. He had brought it up to so he was going to have to tell her who he thought was sexy. There was not going to be any backing out on it, even if it was probably going to take a bit of courage or tricks to push it out of him if he was stubborn.

"I know I am the best. Video games and I are one, I dominate most video games I play." Erin said, sounding confident. When it came to video games she really did have something one could say was a natural talent, depending on the game. It had been a while since she played the game, but she liked to think she could still kick Quinn's butt. Erin was fine with whatever Pips wanted to do, he was just so cute. She already pulled out her phone and started to do a search on amazon for the things she was going to buy just for him.

She still made sure to hold the small creature the right way even with one hand. Trying to contain herself so she did not become a snuggling mess with the small creature, placing an order on Amazon and carefully stroking Pips on his head with her thumb. "I'll hold him while you get the game set up then." Erin said, looking up to Quinn for a moment, unable to hide the grin on her face because of what she ordered for Pips.

[Quinn Wiley]

Quinn was not a team player. He knew it, anyone knowing him knew it, it really wasn’t a mystery. He rarely played with other people except perhaps in some online games and even then he would generally keep on his own with some little help to others on occasion, barely talking to them in the process. He was not there to make friends, especially friends he would never meet and only knew the alias of. That seemed so ridiculous to consider such people friends, when technically you know nothing of them. They could have made up their entire life for you, it was so easy to do so there. Not like he cared much. As said before, he kept to himself most of the time.

He was caught slightly off guard by what she said. Not that he forgot she was into girls but he didn’t think she’d say it like that, especially with the face she gave him while saying so. “It’s not like there are not enough guys,” he said with a shrug, trying to act like he didn’t care. But she had an attitude and didn’t seem to taken aback by his own, this was a change. He startled for good when she said he should say who is the sexiest in that game. “That desert one, of course. She’s badass, she’s super hot, she wears just a bit of fur and they call her something about fire. She doesn’t look very Chinese though.” Why he answered, he couldn’t tell. Maybe to see she couldn’t really make him all that uncomfortable, that it was his job to make people uneasy, not the other way around.

He looked at her as she claimed to be the best at video games. “Then I might use you for the harder levels,” he said after a bit of thinking. He didn't mean to but he didn’t want to sound impressed. That way, he could acknowledge she was good, perhaps better than he was even if he never claimed to be the best, without even sounding too much like he was praising her. If she thought she was so good, she could do the hard stuff. He wouldn’t act all that impressed if she succeeded.

“Now?” he let out. This time, he really was surprised and couldn’t hide it. He never intended to play with her now. But Erin was thinking differently, as always.

[Erin Hackett]

"There are more guys on that game...I'm pretty sure." Erin said; distracted with playing and giving the cute ferret some love and attention. She could not help but to snuggle the small creature and pet it, not even caring if it decided to bite her or what have you. She could take a little bit pf pain and so long as he didn't break her finger or anything, she would not break him. After all, her hands were money makers and she didn't care how cute the ferret was; she would make it pay if it messed with her chances of making money. Pretty much anyone would pay if they messed up her chances of making money would get hurt.

She didn't actually need to make any money since she was a wealthy kid. She had to think for a moment which girl he was talking about before she gave a small nod. The desert one was pretty cute, but she didn't think she was the cutest. Honestly she could not recall who the cutest one was and it probably was the one Quinn was talking about but for the sake of wanting to have a different taste in girls then him; she was going to have to disagree for the moment. "As so you like the foreign kind of girls? The real exotic ones?" Erin asked as she started to smirk at him. He brought up how the girl wore furs and that was supposed to be like an exotic thing so that was what she was piecing together from his own words.

"Fine by me. Just be prepared for your game to have a high score on it and have amazing scores on almost every level that does not have the stupid elephants and tigers on the same level." Erin said, recalling that in a game she played she had to deal with fighting someone ridding an elephant and that someone controlled tiger or at least there had been tigers to fight. First they needed to figure out which game they were talking about because there was more than one dynasty warrior’s game out there and they could have been talking about two different games or a different version of the game itself.

At his question she did glances at the time on her phone before letting out a sigh. Now, would not work out so well, he was right. "I guess another time would be better. We could just play with Pips for a little longer. Pretend that he is out baby and that you’re his father and I'm his mothers and that we are married." Erin said before laughing, unable to take herself seriously as she moved to hand Pips back over to Quinn. "I was kidding just so you know. I like girls. We should be one another wingman one of these days." Erin said, thinking about how awesome it would be. Scoring chicks with another guy and helping each other get laid that night, oh it would be so L33t!

[Quinn Wiley]

Pips seemed pretty happy by Erin’s presence and attention. At least one of them seemed happy, Quinn thought. Okay, she could play video games, apparently, and appeared to be pretty good with computers. So what? She’ll play with him on occasion, once or twice, then she’ll find someone else to annoy. The fact he had a ferret and she found his pet super cool was not a promise she would not leave when given the chance. Sure, Quinn did wish she’d prove him wrong and stick around but he had a hard time trusting anyone about this.

Quinn wouldn’t say he was into exotic girls. Of course, should one come near him with a flirtatious smile on her face, he might not be able to resist. Girls were girls and when they knew they looked good and acted on it they could get just about any guy. Or girl, he realised as he looked at Erin. Could he have been attracted to her had she been into guys? No, he could not believe. Yet he wasn’t sure entirely of the type he was particularly attracted to. “It’s more about the image they show of themselves than the way they look,” he argued although he said it relatively slow, as if he was not sure. “You’re into geeks? Or Asian maybe? They’ll get your tech talk better,” he let out, feeling uncomfortable sharing details on what type of girl could make him do stupid things. He preferred to mock hers, it was a defense mechanism.

“Then you won’t play against that desert chick,” he let out as he was pretty sure the elephants were with them. Then again he couldn’t recall the names of every character and might easily be mixing a few of them. As she talked of her little game with Pips, he stared at her, begging inside of his mind that she was joking. Of course she was, as she started to laugh, probably at his face too. He couldn’t really blame her but she really scared him there. He grabbed one of the little balls he bought for Pips. They were for kitten and had a bell inside. He tossed it on his bed. “You can just play with that, he love these,” he said, preferring not to comment on her joke. It was best not to even remember it. I the thought of being her wingman, he felt as though she was more likely to get someone than he was but he didn’t say anything. He didn’t need to down himself like this. “We’d have to want to attend the same party first.”

[Erin Hackett]

Erin was happy about Pips and being able to hold him. At least now she had even more reason to come back and bother Quinn. She also had that gift for Pips already going through the shipping process so there was no way that Quinn was going to be able to avoid her long. She figured that Quinn would get used to her at one point and that they would be able to be friends. At least, that was what she hoped and secretly wanted. She wanted friends deep down, people she could talk to and hang out with face to face. She was just scared and didn't really know how to well have friends that were not over the internet.

He didn't really yay or nay that he was into exotic girls. Which just fueled Erin's imagination of the kind of girl that could win over Quinn's cold smoky heart. He did end up speaking up that it was less about the looks and how the girl carried herself that appealed to him. Erin could understand that, she liked a girl for how she was in personality was. Looks just helped her like them a bit more. Then again, she pretty much saw every girl who was in the right age group as attractive. Erin was about to say something about his taste but then started to laugh at Quinn's guess into what she was into.

"Are you saying that because I grew up in Japan?" Erin asked, snickering a little still. Did Quinn think she was the type to like little Asian girls or those super geeky types? "I don't think anyone really gets my tec talk, not all the way anyways. I actually like pretty much any kind of girl so long as she is not well me." Erin said, not sure how to explain it. So long as the girl was not her in looks and personality, well then she probably was going to be attracted to them. Being attracted to them didn't really matter, because she didn’t really have the gull to actually do anything about it. She almost had a girlfriend once, but she freaked out when she was pushed against a wall and kissed and things just fell apart from there.

"Cool by me." Erin muttered out, distracted with Pips. It should have been illegal to be this cute. Why didn't see have a cute pet like this? Perhaps she should get one and use it to work on her people skills. Her eyes followed the jingling as if the toy had been meant for her for a moment. She rose from where she was, still holding onto the ferret and moving over to grab the jingle bells to play with Pips with them. She could not help but to giggle at the way the ferret reacted to them, it was just super cute. "We will. You will see. For now you should take Pips for me before I end up staying here for hours." Erin warned, half joking. Only half, of course.

[Quinn Wiley]

“You did? You didn’t tell me that,” he said when she asked if he thought she was into Asian girls because she grew in Japan. If she told him where she grew up, he didn’t remember. Not like he would have made it important to him to remember such a thing anyway. He was about to explain it was because of the cliché of Asian being super good with computers and all but Erin pointed out she didn’t want a girl like she was. “If they’re not a little geeky, how do you expect them to understand you?” Then again, stranger things happened. Quinn was not going to pretend he understood women. He doubted they even understood each other. They probably just liked taking decision based on what would cause the most drama in their life so they could accuse men in the end.

Quinn was certain that once Erin would leave this room, she will start forgetting about this idea of playing video games with him at some point. She seemed more interested in Pips anyway. He was cool with that. Right now, all he wanted was some peace to relax after all the emotions she caused him.

Pips couldn’t resist something making a jingling noise. He just had to get over it and play with the ball to make it jingle some more. Quinn did try some other toys but nothing worked as well as those balls and since they were pretty cheap and easy to find, he didn’t the point in looking for anything else. He was not envious of his ferret, but it was weird to see a girl in his room playing with his pet, no bad metaphor intended here. For a moment, he almost thought they could be friend. Almost. He took Pips when she said he should and looked at her as she, once again, pointed out they would meet again and all. “We’ll see about that. If you don’t forget me first,” he pointed out as he brought Pips back into its cage, leaving a ball with him. He’ll take it back tonight otherwise he wouldn’t be able to sleep but for now, he could still play a little. “Bye then.”

[Erin Hackett]

"I did and you never asked. Don't ask me to speak it. I might have basically grown up there but for the life of me I can't seem to pick up another language in terms of speaking past a few basic words. I can read it and understand what someone is saying to me however, but speaking it is a no go." Erin explained. She wished she could speak it but honestly was pleased that she could read and understand it when it was spoken to her. That was really all she needed for video games, especially those that would never see an English version of for one reason or another. Being able to read and understand the language meant she pretty much could get all the games and now have to worry about waiting until translations were done and what have you.

"I don't know. Not many people understand me anyways so...why does a hot girl have to? Plus she might think it’s hot or cute so there is that." Erin said with a small grin on her face. She didn't want to say that she doubted that any girl would even want to fool around wither. She wanted to fool around with them because she didn't think she would be very good in a relationship. Too much love for video games and all of that. Yet, she as not bold enough to go around flirting and making out with every girl she saw. In her head she might have been a super flirtatious and scored all the ladies, but that was pretty much it.

She was not going to forget about playing video games with him anytime soon, it involved video games. Erin Hackett could not forget things that involved video games of any manner so Quinn was stuck with her even more. Not like she was going anywhere with that life debt and now there was Pips to give her even more reason to bother Quinn more often then she had originally planned to. Pips was just so freaking cute and Erin was sad but also happy that Quinn picked him up. If he didn't she felt like she was never going to be able to leave that cute little creature. She did chuckle a little at Quinn's words about forgetting him. "You are kind of a hard person to forget. Maybe if you were generic I might, but you're not." Erin said as she gathered up her things and started to head out.

"See you...friend." Erin said, muttering out that last bit before making a mad dash out of Quinn's room. She didn't want to hear what he had to say about her calling him a friend if he had heard her. Plus it took a lot to actually say that out loud and it was enough to make her go running off after saying it.