You are a strange beast!
dark heroWhen the next day arrived Nezu was already eagerly waiting for Segu. What he liked most besides heroes was testing his limits, but he didn’t have resources for that, so Segu’s idea was like a gift falling from the sky to Nezu.
Segu arrived together with Stee carrying two big bags of boxes.
“Hey Nezu, said Segu while getting near and kissing him on the cheek.
“Hey Segu.
“So what are we going to play first Segu?”
“I decided to go from easier to hardest, so the first game we will play will be checkers ”
“hm.. ok, explain the rules”
Segu picked up the checkers board and explained the rules to Nezu in detail.
“Isn’t this too easy Segu? You can only do 2 moves in the whole game, and most of the time you can only do 1 move unless you have Kings.”
“Haha… are you sure it’s so easy? Then let’s play,” said Segu with a confident smile.
The first game had a duration of 5 minutes and Nezu was destroyed by Segu.
“Didn’t you say it was easy, Nezu ?”
“It’s just the first game let’s keep playing”
The second game had a duration of 10 minutes Nezu still lost but was much better than the first time.
“You are still too far away from reaching my level, but nice try” sticking out her Tongue teasing Nezu.
“Oh, are you sure? Again then!”
The third game lasted 20 minutes, and Nezu suffered a narrow loss.
‘How does his brain work? , It’s only the third game and I’m already struggling against him’
“Again!” firmly said Nezu.
The fourth game still took 20 minutes but this time the outcome was strange, a draw.
‘Damn! Does this mean he will win by the fifth game?’
“Again” repeated Nezu.
The fifth took the same time and like Segu predicted it ended with a narrow win for Segu.
They kept playing, and Nezu kept improving until the games lasted only five minutes and this time, the one getting destroyed was always Segu.
“How did you do this, how can you be so fast mastering a game?”
“This isn’t a game for me. Like I told you, most of the time there’s only one move, so it’s just math. The biggest variables that decide the game aren’t the moves themselves, but the players. In fact, if both players were at the same level, the outcome would always be the same: a draw.”
“Unbelievable, calling checkers a math problem… Only you could do that. Gotta go for today, cya,” said Segu, pouting.
“Hey, where is my goodbye kiss?”
“Today you don’t deserve it for being so mean to me, you could just have won you didn’t have to ‘destroy’ me”
“But you did the same to me in the beginning!”
“Haha, true but it’s not my fault you were so bad at the start, and is also one of the perks of being a girl, that’s a lesson for you to learn today, don’t make a fool of a girl in the future or she will get mad, cya Nezu”.
‘Damn a girl’s mind is too confusing to me, when I win I will just do it narrowly so she won’t get mad.’
“Kid you got owned today, cya until tomorrow”.
The next day she brought a harder game: chess, like the previous day she explained the rules and they started playing after, by the fifth game she could no longer win against him, but every game she lost was by a narrow limit, she understood this was because of the lesson he gave him the previous day.
“Hey, can I get a goodbye kiss today?”
“No, you don’t let me win!” Segu decided to keep tormenting Nezu this way.
“Ok, cya Segu,” said Nezu resigning to his fate and trying to understand this girl’s mind.
The following she chose was an even harder one: Go, after explaining the rules and playing, this time you could see a surprised look on Segu because like she was expecting by the fifth game she could no longer win but the strange part was that she didn’t lose, all games were draws. She clearly understood it was Nezu’s decision to draw every game, and that’s what left her surprised because even harder than winning in a row, it’s drawing on purpose in a row, for that you need to be an absolute master of the game and predict all the moves of your opponent.
“Segu can I get a goodbye kiss today?” asked Nezu in a hopeful way.
“Yes, you totally defeated me today, come here”, Segu advanced toward giving him two kisses on each cheek.
“Hey Segu, why do you care so much about my goodbye kisses?” asked Segu with curiosity.
“Hm, I don’t really know, i just feel some kind of connection with you when we do it, so I like to do it ”.
“Hey kid, what the hell are you talking about with your age?”
“Uncle don’t get me wrong, although I have no idea what love means I’m pretty sure it’s not that, I think it’s related to the reason why both of us are so smart, it’s like a hidden secret”
“Hm, I haven’t known you for much time but I’m pretty sure you are talking the true kid. I have a request for you, can you give me some of your hair? I want to find if there is really some kind of connection between two like lost family or something like that.”
Nezu was also very interested in knowing that so he pulled some of his hair putting it in a small plastic bag that Steve had in his pocket.
“Segu time to go, let’s call it a day, you already gave your goodbye to Nezu so nothing more to do. Cya kid”
Segu had a different idea for the next day, she chose every single game that didn’t depend on math. She wanted to test her theory that Nezu is useless against anything that required any type of creativity, she got her suspicion when playing heroes and it was almost always her that got the solution to the problem they found.
They started playing a game that required drawing, and then they played games that required them to create stories from random objects, they even played some dice games, but except for some dice games that involved pure luck, he lost every single game always.
“So, you’re a genius at math, but calling you as dumb as a door would be an insult to the doors,” she said assertively.
“Not my fault, I was born this way I’m half genius, half dumb, I just have to do the best I can,” said Nezu looking to the ground enquiring why he had to be born this way.
“Haha yes, you are dumb and smart at the same time, you are just a strange beast.”
“Segu it’s time”
“Ok, let me just bid farewell and say something to Nezu’s first.”
“I don’t know if I can come tomorrow or the day after. My father and mother are arriving tonight from their business trip.”
“What?!?, Will you come back? I will wait for you every day, meanwhile I will help the orphanage staff this time I spent so much time with you that they should be missing me and my help”.
Nezu walked to Segu and for the first time, he kissed her on the cheeks hoping this was not a final farewell.
Segu started crying hoping like Nezu that this was not a final farewell, Segu hugged him for a whole minute before giving the really final goodbye with tears still flowing from her eyes, not knowing if she would be back to her world of loneliness.
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