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Tonight, though, with newfound confidence, she'd had enough.\n\n\"One on one me, Victor,\" she said. \"Stop being a pussy!\"\n\n\"Oh really? You want to go head to head? Fine then, let's do it.\"\n\nThat wasn't what she meant, but she was in front of too many people to turn back now. Soon, the whole LAN party was watching and waiting as Jody spawned CT and Victor spawned T in a 1v1 deathmatch.\n\n\"What're the stakes?\" Jody asked.\n\n\"Let's make it win-win for ya, Jodes. If you win, I'll get you a brand-new gaming mouse - wired, custom spec, top of the line... I'll even pay for shipping, straight from the manufacturer,\" he started, which was fair. Her mouse was always a little twitchy at the worst moments. 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I don't want your apology.\"\n\n\"C'mon, you owe me that much,\" he insisted, stepping forward.\n\nJody didn't think he was going to take a hint. He was in the girls' bathroom for Chrissake. She threw up her hands and sighed, \"Fine, go ahead.\"\n\n\"I know I give you a lot of shit, Jody, but I don't really mean it. I mean... I kinda like you,\" he explained, as if making a great personal sacrifice.\n\n\"Oh, really.\" she said, crossing her arms beneath her breasts. She didn't like how he penetrated her last refuge from this crap.\n\n\"You're the second best, for real. What do you say I get you that mouse anyway? You might even beat me with it.\"\n\n\"I don't want your money, Victor.\"\n\n\"It's a gift, please, I insist.\"\n\nJody sighed. If it would get him off her back, maybe it was worth it just to accept. 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She realized a moment before he confirmed it with a darkness in his voice she'd never heard before: \"Good, because [i]I'm not joking.[/i]\"\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Jody Yi tucked her long, black bangs behind her ears, looking herself over in the mirror. Not enough cleavage, she decided. She perked up her large bosom to accentuate it, sliding on her long, mesh stockings. A little Goth, a little steampunk, anything so that the first thing people noticed about her wasn't that she was a fat Asian chick.

It never worked.

"I didn't know Asians could even be overweight!" was a common statement.

"Want some pork buns?"

"I guess it's true what they say, you can eat a ton of Chinese food and still feel hungry."

Never mind that she was South Korean.

She would never be accepted for who she was, not by the Californians she went to college with, and not by the Korean American community she tried to fit in with  -  she couldn't speak Korean, she wasn't interested in that stuff, and yes, she was obese. So she hung out with another clique of outcasts: gamers.

Jody was the epitome of the cool girl, drinking beers and no-scoping headshots, making raucous, sexist jokes and obliterating fools with her resting, Asian bitch face. She pretended her weight didn't bother her, pretended she didn't wear make-up (just a little to accentuate her eyelashes), and when asked, explained that she was naturally smooth skinned, hiding the fact that she shaved her legs every day.

Today was another LAN party at Occidental College in L.A. and this time, she was hoping one of the guys would lower their standards enough to ask her out. They all said she was awesome to hang out with, and really fun, but even the fat, neck-bearded anti-socialites didn't want her in that way. Perhaps the slutty outfit would help.

When she got there, twenty minutes early, seven guys had already set up their rigs. She carried her gaming laptop over to the middle table to stand out more in the crowd, and started chatting up some of the regulars. She knew them pretty well, though a few new faces showed up every week. She always feigned interest in their hardware (computer and otherwise), flirted, and acted like a dumb broad  -  anything to remind them that she did, in fact, have a vagina.

She had a few of the more awkward guys actually talking to her, now, and not stuttering. She wanted to ask one guy out, in particular, a stocky brogrammer who had a polite smile and a Mountain Dew Baja Blast at all times. But if Andy said, "No," that might spoil her to the entire group of guys. He was one of the lynchpin friends that everyone liked. If things got awkward with Andy, she might not ever be welcome here again. Then she might have to become a Pegasister!

"Been brushing up on your CS:GO?" Jody asked him.

Andy just shrugged. "Not really. Too busy watching Starcraft tournaments. Man, I wish I could play SC2, but it's just too much for me. They're doing like 500 actions per second!"

"You're never going to beat me if you don't try," she said, suggestively.

"FPS just isn't my genre," he said, smiling. "You should try a MOBA, sometime."

"I could never get into DOTA," she sighed. She could get into them, maybe, but she was terrible. She couldn't reinforce the annoying stereotype that girls were terrible at video games, so she stuck to what she was good at.

Not that she was the best FPSer out there. That honor belonged to Victor Cartwright, a curly-haired white dude with the biggest mouth. He was the de facto voice of the LAN club, if only because he was the loudest and most talkative. He liked to brag  -  a lot. About his overclocked computer, about his stellar K/D ratio, about his mad skillz, about his myriad of (made up, as far she could tell) girlfriends. During a match, he was a motor-mouth of immature ``sick burns'' and racist slurs, and Jody had talked to more than one nerd privately who agreed that he was a total douchebag.

But how do you get rid of a guy like that? No one else had the strength of personality to confront the asshole. Most of the guys were phobic to confrontation. And besides, the whole point of the gamer group was to be accepting to everyone. They couldn't very well turn Victor away. Any time she took a jab at Victor he just laughed it off like it was just playful smack talk.

Victor, predictably, showed up beside her, sneering at her humble PC build. "When are you gonna get a real computer, Jodes?"

"I already beat you on this thing. Didn't know you were a glutton for punishment."

"Eh, at least I'm not a glutton for food. You better bring your A-game today."

Jody put her hands on her hips, emphasizing her expansive bosom. "Just more cushion for the pushin', Victor." She saw that his eyes darted to her cleavage, as usual. Well, at least the bra was doing the trick, even if it was for this asshole.

Jody didn't actually beat Victor. Not typically, and not that day. She was reliably on the opposite team from him, thanks to the matchmaker, but she was, as usual, the second best. Victor was just a little bit faster, and he always put her on tilt with his taunts and jabs. She had to wonder if it really was his water-cooled monstrosity that was giving him the edge. The rest of her team kept making stupid mistakes, and there was no way one person could carry the whole team.

But she did score one impressive headshot. She managed to quickscope Victor after baiting him to chase her around a corner. "Got your head, Victor," she had taunted gleefully, defusing the bomb and saving the round.

"Girls are supposed to give head, not shoot them," he fired back.

"You wish!" she'd laughed back, though she was internally gritting her teeth.

Sadly, that was an outlier as throughout that game, again and again and again, Victor and his team had systematically crushed their opposition. One of his favorite tactics was sacrificing his teammates for a revenge kill. He'd let them go around first, get slaughtered by Jody, and then he'd rush and shoot her while she was reloading. And history seemed to be repeating itself, as tonight saw Jody and Victor on opposing teams once more, with the boorish self-proclaimed Alpha employing the same strategy of `three scapegoats, one grudge match'. Tonight, though, with newfound confidence, she'd had enough.

"One on one me, Victor," she said. "Stop being a pussy!"

"Oh really? You want to go head to head? Fine then, let's do it."

That wasn't what she meant, but she was in front of too many people to turn back now. Soon, the whole LAN party was watching and waiting as Jody spawned CT and Victor spawned T in a 1v1 deathmatch.

"What're the stakes?" Jody asked.

"Let's make it win-win for ya, Jodes. If you win, I'll get you a brand-new gaming mouse  -  wired, custom spec, top of the line... I'll even pay for shipping, straight from the manufacturer," he started, which was fair. Her mouse was always a little twitchy at the worst moments. He leered over at her to add, "And if I win, I'll give you what you really want."

"Fat chance," Jody said, and everyone groaned at her self-degrading joke. "You're on!"

Jody wished she could say she held her own, but in a one-on-one setting, Victor edged her out easily. Again and again he'd get the drop on her, either by camping, or Ghandi hopping so quickly that she couldn't line up  her headshots, or by simply unloading into her body center mass, to break her focus. At the end of series, she'd only won twice of fifteen.

That seemed to mark the end of the LAN party. It was already 1 A.M. and there was school the next day. She bristled even though many of her friends tried their best to console her. She just stewed, not bothering to pack up, waiting for the gloating goon to wander over.

And of course he did. "Hey, we can't win them all. Sometimes we can barely win any of them."

"Shut up, Victor."

"Honestly, you did better than I expected!" he said in a way that wasn't honest whatsoever.

She stood up, bristling. "Thanks," she said, her voice dripping.

"Look, I mean it," Victor said, following her as she walked away from him, tired of listening to his bullshit.

"Sure you do. I went 2 and 13," she said, heading for the only place she knew she could get away from him  -  the women's restroom.

"God, can't you take a compliment?

"No, Victor," she said, stopping at the door to the restroom. "I can't. I guess I'm just a bitch on her period." She closed the door on him, walking over to the sinks. She balled her fists on the counter, growling out a sigh.

The door swung open and Victor walked in.

"Victor!" she yelped, exasperated.

The door swung closed behind him. "Come on, Jodes, let me apologize."

"Get out of here! I don't want your apology."

"C'mon, you owe me that much," he insisted, stepping forward.

Jody didn't think he was going to take a hint. He was in the girls' bathroom for Chrissake. She threw up her hands and sighed, "Fine, go ahead."

"I know I give you a lot of shit, Jody, but I don't really mean it. I mean... I kinda like you," he explained, as if making a great personal sacrifice.

"Oh, really." she said, crossing her arms beneath her breasts. She didn't like how he penetrated her last refuge from this crap.

"You're the second best, for real. What do you say I get you that mouse anyway? You might even beat me with it."

"I don't want your money, Victor."

"It's a gift, please, I insist."

Jody sighed. If it would get him off her back, maybe it was worth it just to accept. She did need a new mouse, and money was a bit tight. "Fine, sure, whatever..."

"I could show you a few pointers, too, if you want to up your game."

"I'm a little too busy with school to be focusing on this, okay?" she said tiredly.

"Wow, you are on your period, aren't you?" he joked, stepping forward again. She stepped backward. He said, "Remember the bet? How about I give you what you really need..."

"No."

"Oh, come on. You should be flattered. You aren't really my `type'," he said stepping forward again.

Jody took another step back, running into the sinks. "This isn't funny," she gasped, suddenly nervous.

But Victor grabbed her wrist and her waist, pulling himself up against her. Jody dropped her jaw, feeling his erection pressing up against her stomach. She realized a moment before he confirmed it with a darkness in his voice she'd never heard before: "Good, because I'm not joking."

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