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“Bored”

Nick tried in vain to think of something to think about…nothing he hadn’t already used up came to mind. Airport terminals had that effect on him, especially when he had to wait the as par usual hour or more.

“Might as well put my shoes back on, that’ll use up…5 seconds” he signed, as he slipped them back on, not even bothering to untie and tie his laces. He spent then ext ten or so minutes slouching ever further down, his eye lids growing heavier as the moments dragged on.

“Fine, last resort” he pulled out his DS, he’d been saving it’s battery life for the flight, but right now he was struggling to stay convince and he could afford to miss his flight. At least he had some ridiculously long and tedious bonus tasks to complete in Castlevania, that’d keep him going for now.

The DS gave out a loud unpleasant screeching sound as the game over screen made its unwelcome appearance and at one of the worse moments possible too.

“Oh…err, N-no it’s n-not” He jumped in place for a second, partly because of the sudden monster than attacked him in he game, and partly because the person who’d just taken him by surprise. He wasn’t expecting anyone to be polite enough to ask first. He shifted a little uncomfortably in his seat before the stranger took his.

”Urghh” Nick was far too tired a irritable right now for random idle chit chat with strangers. But he supposed he might was well talk, he had the time to kill.

“England” he replied rather dryly. “I’ve already looked over the shops two times over” He glanced back at the DS, tapped the screen a few times to get through the menus and started the game again.

“Nicholas” he was quite uncomfortable with having to answer that, but, he had to try and be nice. “I don’t think so, I think I’d remember someone with an eye patch on”

As Michel when on about fake eyes Nicholas stared at the screen as much as possible, not at him, he knew he’d give him a strange look of he did. Instead of mentally worrying about making a bad impression, he was now worried about just how normal Michel may or may not be.

“Hmph, just because your bad at a game doesn’t mean it’s bad” A slightly annoyed tone in his voice.

He felt stupid. But then again who wouldn’t after that speech?

“Okay, okay…geez, enough with the semantics” He made a mental note to keep playing the game, maybe if he did he’d leave him alone. Though that plan was soon cut sort.

“What level?” He though for a moment, Castlevania didn’t really have levels, just sections of the castle. Beside he’d finished it a while ago, right now he was just doing videogames trademark “Next to possible” Bonus tasks.

“Nest of Evil, it’s a secret one”

Xbox?

Why was it any conversation about an Xbox always involved Halo? there where other games for that thing. Ah well

”No, never played it, FPS’s should always be on PC, with the exception of Goldeneye and Timesplitters” He was sounding like a real dork now “Besides, games don’t need to look good to be enjoyable, see?” He gestured towards the DS, an odd triumphant “Oh look how smart I am” sort of smirk on his face.

This was turning out better than he’d anticipated. He supposed if people had one common ground to talk about they’d get along, for at least a while. “Yeah”

The DS light turned red. “Damn” He’d forgotten to fully charge it.

“Gotta save this for later” He sighed and slouched in his seat.

“Thirteen hours!? Waa, no way, it was 8 hours getting over here!” There was no way that could be right, geez, it was a good thing he was so tired, he’d just sleep.

“It doesn’t matter, I’m really sleepy right now anyway, I’ll just nap the whole flight”