A Grave...ly Important Assignment (905 views)

”I’m in the inner circle now?! AWESOME!” Amy cheered, liking Todd’s new choice in friends already. They seemed like people Amy would fit right in with, if she was being honest! Amy hummed as she walked along with the group, Todd by her side, as they listened to Gracie and Mal talk about superheroes. Amy liked how Gracie’s mind worked—it was kind of random and he wasn’t shy at all! Good! Amy loved a good shy person, but sometimes it was hard to connect! She was already connecting with Gracie pretty well!

”Thanks, dude! I love my hair even though it’s a total pain in the butt to comb or straighten!” Amy said, ”And if I had a superpower, well, I want to be able to fly! Like, it’d be so fun to just zoom around all day, you know!”

Todd smiled but didn’t weigh into the conversation, instead looking at the door to the apartment complex as they entered, waiting for Mal and Gracie to lead the way to their apartment.

Amy grinned when she was offered a key, having to admit even she in her overfriendliness would never offer someone she just met a key to her house! Sure, she’d tell them to come over any time, but she would need a little bit of privacy and security. Still, she admired that about Gracie! He was so friendly, so welcoming! She caught Mal’s headshake and smiled at the girl, as though communicating she understood her surprise at the offer and didn’t expect to get a key from them.

”I am totally down for game night! Ooh! I wanna meet your brother! Maybe he’s cute!” Amy joked, and Todd stared over at Amy.

”Amy! You have a boyfriend…” Todd said.

”Yeah, well, that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate a nice view. I wouldn’t like, hit on him or anything!” Amy said, waving her hand dismissively. Todd was beginning to see why none of Amy’s relationships worked out—she was much too wild and borderline unfaithful for most people to want to stick around, especially if they were insecure.

”Oh, I don’t mind if he comes on strong. I fact I like it! OOOH! I mean, I won’t say no to wine, but a juice box does sound nice!” Amy said. Todd cleared his throat and looked at Mal.

”We’re… we’re underage, if that makes a different.” he pointed out, and Amy pouted at Todd. She wanted wine! Todd smiled.

”I—I can take a juice box, please. If that’s fine.” He asked.

As Gracie described his brother Amy grinned, having to agree that he sounded pretty cool! And attractive. Oh, she would definitely not mind meeting him. Though when he mentioned that Mallory had dated the guy Amy remembered a brief conversation about there being a hot ex in Mallory’s life… oh, she decided not to dwell on it and tease Mal about it, because Gracie was doing plenty of teasing himself!

”Well damn! I think I’ll have to consider it!” Amy joked, to which Todd gave her a more paniced look.

”AMY!”

”Oh, I kid, I kid. I’m not gonna dump Mason just because this guy’s hot!” She pat Todd on the shoulder affectionately as they entered the apartment. Todd and Amy tooks eats in the living room area, as Mal headed to the kitchen.

”White for me!” Amy said. Todd didn’t want to drink—he’d never drank before and didn’t want to get stupid drunk, as Mal had said—so he smiled in the direction of the kitchen.

”No, thanks, I’ll take a juice box.” Todd said.

”Thanks!” Amy said happily, taking a sip of her wine, sparing a laugh at Gracie’s expense as Todd also thanked Mallory and accepted his juice. He took a few sips, enjoying the fruity flavor. Meanwhile not too far away from him, Amy took a generous sip of her wine, waiting for Mal to come back with her and Gracie’s drinks.

Mal and Gracie were pretty cute! Amy wasn’t sure what they were—she’d just been introduced to them, after all. Since they lived together and looked nothing a like the first thought was that perhaps they were dating, but through watching their interactions they seemed more friendly than romantic. Hmm… A mystery, which would no doubt be solved if Amy would just ask! Despite that Amy wanted to try to guess. Hooking people up and determining the relationship status of others was her greatest joy in life (much to the fury of literally anyone she set her sights on).

”Video games?! Whatcha got?!” Amy asked, as Todd shrugged indicating he was fine with either. He really felt bad, not having any input, but he really would be fine with whatever the rest of them wanted to do. Amy grinned, then continued. ”If you’ve got any racing games, I’ll kick your ass!”

”You’re gonna be Peach?! I call Daisy! She better be there!” Amy said, grabbing the remote offered to her. She put on a fierce smile as she held the controller in her hands. When gaming with friends (the only real gaming she did—Amy wasn’t really a fierce competitor on her own) she loved to try to kick everyone’s ass! Though sometimes she lost, she still liked to put on a show with her reactions to the gameplay. Whether she won or lost, it was always entertaining for the people she was playing with.

Todd, meanwhile, smiled along to everyone’s commentary, prepared to not play the game if there weren’t enough players or something—though he knew it was probably a four person game, seeing as Amy had played this with him in the game center numerous times. When Gracie turned towards him and asked if he wanted to play, Todd blinked.

”U—Uhm, sure…”

”Awww! You guys are cute! If Marshy’s going to be your Mario, I call Todd being my Luigi! Todd, pick Luigi!” Amy said, turning towards Todd. Todd blinked, before he slowly nodded. It didn’t really matter to him who he played… he smiled at Amy’s enthusiastic ”YEAH!” when Todd agreed to be Luigi as she waited for Mallory to boot up the game. Todd turned back towards Gracie, expecting to be given a remote sooner or later.

”Yeah, Daisy’s pretty great! I like her sounds but when I play with my dad, he gets really mad! And I’m like, dude, they’re just sounds! So like all the time I’ll imitate her voice and he gets, like, super pissed at me! But whatever! It’s funny!” Amy said, reliving a particularly happy memory she had of beating her dad at a game of Super Smash Bros. back home and her father’s annoyance as she constantly imitated Daisy’s winning pose and noises. Her dad complained, but she knew he was like her—a good sport who just liked to put on a show!

While the game loaded up, Todd got the remote from Gracie. He smiled at him in thanks, though Todd noticed Gracie seemed oddly shy when handing it to him. He could feel their fingers brush and blinked, before he stared at the TV. He had to be careful… he was pretty sure Gracie liked boys, and he wasn’t sure if he liked that or not. Not that there was anything wrong with Gracie—it just scared Todd so much to think that with one slip up, Gracie might like him, and Todd didn’t know what he’d do if that happened.

He took the remove and watched as Amy selected Daisy and Gracie selected Peach. He had to laugh at the enthusiasm the two had as he turned to Mal.

”Brothers? Yeah… we’re also plumbers. Right?” He said with a laugh, bringing his cursor over to Luigi. He made his selection.

”You want me to?! Then of course I will!” Amy said, snickering when Gracie implied that he’d start imitating Peach’s moans. The subsequent conversation between Gracie and Mal about moaning and sex made Amy howl with laughter but Todd flush with shyness at the topic on hand, especially not around Mal and Gracie! If Gracie started to make moaning sounds, Todd was certain he’d be incredibly uncomfortable. The guy was nice and very attractive but that was exactly why Todd didn’t want him to start imitating Peach’s moans! How awkward would it be for him to hear an attractive guy moaning all night…

Todd didn’t say anything, just selected Luigi and waited for everyone else, taking a sip of his juice box as he did so. Amy took another sip of her wine, humming contently at the flavor. She offered Todd a sip of hers but he refused, not wanting to drink. Amy shrugged it off and took another sip as she looked back at Gracie and Mal.

”DO IT!! Oh, man, maybe my Daisy noises and your Peach noises can make the neighbors EXTRA suspecting!” Amy howled and Todd cursed his outgoing friend for being so willing to reenact a sex scene with this stranger she’d just met. He turned to Mal with a small smile. At her remark about being the plumbers minus the cracks, Todd snorted, blocking his face with his hand.

”Oh, Uh—I, I think everyone h—has a butt crack, t—though.” He pointed out. On instinct, Todd reached behind him and adjusted his pants (suddenly self-conscious of the fact his butt may be showing). Once he was certain it wasn’t, he turned back to the game. Amy offered Gracie a high five when he selected rainbow road, and Todd sighed. ”Aw… I… I don’t really like rainbow road either Mal… we’ll uh, we’ll get through it though!”

”Maybe they’ll wanna join in!” Amy said with a grin, imagining some horny neighbors coming over with boners ready to go asking if they could party with them only to find that the group inside the room was playing a game. Sure, it would absolutely never happen but that didn’t mean that she couldn’t imagine the scenario in her head! She howled with laughter as the game began to start, leaning over to get into her ‘gaming position’ that honestly made her look a little less like a gamer and a little more like she was constipated and sitting over a toilet. But either way, she was so ready to go.

Todd smiled at the stereotype that Mal explained, and that was true. I remembered when he was a child, and they had a plumber come over to fix the pipes… all Todd saw when he went into the kitchen to get a drink of water was an ass crack. He wondered if that was in the plumber handbook, to show your ass, if it happened so often.

”Oh no that’s fine, I’m around swearing a lot.” Todd said. One of his suitemates in particular (Arthur—the rest of them didn’t cuss, Chad only did so on occasion and not usually when Todd was around) was a notorious potty mouth. Whether he liked it or not, Todd heard the f-bomb and shit and ass and basically any other swear on a daily basis. ”I’m sure I’ll be fine with you swearing—oh, is the game starting?”

As a countdown appeared on the screen, Todd blinked, getting into position.

”I’m about to dump all of you super hard! Prepare your anuses to get fucked!” Amy cheered, grinning at Mallory’s comment about them being two peas in a pod just as the game started up and Gracie took off after nudging Mallory in the shoulder. Amy seized this chance to pass Mallory when she returned the bump to Gracie, Daisy slamming right into a random item box. As the item box spun around it gave her a mushroom for speed, and she saved it for when she trailed behind Gracie on the dawn of the second lap, slamming her finger down on the trigger and zooming with a speed boost fast enough to surpass Gracie. She let out a loud ”YEAH!”, still neck and neck with him, slamming into another item box and waiting with anticipation for another useful item—perhaps three red shells.

Todd, meanwhile, trailed a little behind at the beginning of the race so there were a few computers between himself and the leaderboard. Todd was trying, though! He’d sped past the computer in 6th place, landing him in fifth. He got luck halfway through lap one and had gotten three red shells. He used them to his advantage to take out 4th place, and soon he actually got on the leaderboard with one shell circulating around him. He had a bit of a problem here though—first through third were far ahead of him.

Todd bit down on his lower lip as he tried to move faster and get close enough range to see third and hit them with his shell.