Chapter 7: Childhood Rival
As he stepped outside of his small dorm room and turned the key to lock it, he came face to face with David. David was his dorm neighbor and a person he had known since they were in kindergarten, which meant that there were roughly 19 years of shared history between the two.
One might expect them to be good friends or at least supportive acquaintances.
That was far from the truth.
In kindergarten, David brought in his favorite toy to play with after lunch when they would have free activities and started boasting about how cool it was. Kaiden got jealous and decided to break it because he didn't have such a badass toy robot.
Naturally, David got mad and (after a lot of crying) snitched on him to their teacher, resulting in Kaiden having to apologize, his parents buying David a replica of the toy, and he also got a lot of flack for it at home from his father.
The young Kaiden knew that he was in the wrong but didn't care much, so despite his (forced) apology, their relationship never got any better. In elementary school, they were rivals on getting the best grades, in middle school, they competed to be better than the other at basketball, and in high school, they were crushing on the same girl (both got rejected).
Now that they were in college, all their rivalries reached new heights when Kaiden beat David's highest rank in a competitive game when he reached Gold 3.
Yes, they both were very average gamers.
David was also the guy who shouted at him to shut up while banging his walls when he was getting his penis torn to shreds and restructured by the system.
Kaiden raised an eyebrow when he examined David, who was smugly smirking at him. It wasn't hard to decipher why he was in such a jolly mood; a girl was endearingly latched onto his arm.
"Kaiden, my good friend. How have you been?" David inquired haughtily in a posh tone as if they were wealthy business partners seeing each other after returning from a holiday trip to Hawaii.
The pornstar wannabe, instead of entertaining him with an answer, decided to check the girl out.