Confessions of a Cat-holic (121)

I really loved the company of Rex, and I had a feeling that we had since become the best partners in crime. He could be my long lost evil twin, now that I left my alma mater and became away from my cohort of close friends. Karen Lee used to be that evil twin of mine who could spend hours on the phone with me coming up with new and ancient torture methods and international murder cases. Not just Karen Lee, many of my other friends in my alma mater were just as evil, if not more violent while some even had a concentration in criminology. I said I was too small to wrestle in the environment where I was brought up. But that didn't mean I was not intelligent enough to make my enemies dead. I just had grown to be more creative than most, that's all. Sometimes, other than violent physical forces, a bit of brain cells could lead you very far in killing your rivals. Once I left my cohort, I felt so empty not being able to rehearse human experiments in my heads anymore, and maybe in reality too. And Rex somehow seemed qualified to fill that vacancy, because we were just as bad.

If SPCC life was like an extension of the dystopian movie Hunger Games, then SFCC would be a Gladiator or Sparta 300. I missed the time when we watched ball games and MMA fights like the ones in ancient Roman Colosseum. And to be honest, everyone I met after I left my alma mater was just so naive and friendly, so predictable and innocent, like a plain vanilla little angel brainwashed enough to just think about love. I was glad to have finally met my soulmate Rex. We shared a lot of things in common, such as our disguise, our tendency and liking to put on a show, our hatred towards certain groups of people in school.

Things were going well between Rex and me after our "first night". After my birthday in September, I would no longer be underage for entry to the arcades. So we liked to celebrate our coming of age in places with age restrictions in Causeway Bay, most notably the arcades in Windsor House and Causeway Bay Plaza. Those were our favorite hangout spots. Causeway Bay was our base.

I liked watching him play games but I was not good enough to join so I would just stand behind and watch him like a fan. Back then, esports was not as big so I really was just doing what a girlfriend was supposed to do. The only games I could play well were the Mario Bros and occasionally the drum hitting ones. I was tone deaf with bad body coordination so I would never attempt the DDR or the ones where you had to hit the notes to make up a song. And I knew I used to be good at Street Fighters games but I figured I was just a beginner after playing against Rex for a few times. I didn't want to ruin his mood with my elementary skills so I stopped attempting joint player games after a while. His favorite ones were the gun shooting and car racing games. In particular, he liked shooting zombies. He really hated the zombies very much, I could tell, that he hit them hard and right on in their heads with so much ease and aloofness. I thought that the graphics were too real and the pace of the game too fast to be his gaming partner so I usually just watched him play from behind. After he won a game, he would kiss me on the forehead and pat me on the shoulder and I would just continue on standing next to him. I was not too busy with school work anyways and to be honest, watching him play video games was way more enjoyable than cracking calculus equations at home.

I liked to dress up for Rex. When I said dressing up, I didn't mean wearing glamorous outfits or having a lot of brands on myself. I spent a long time picking out what I would wear before I came out to meet him every time. Apart from the burgundy bowling bag from Fion at Sogo, I would usually match it with a pair of flare jeans from FOCUS, a local boutique that was very similar to MAPLE or the likes. I would usually wear tops of different color schemes to bring out different moods and messages. Since I liked to wear red and orange and yellow when I was not wearing blue, I bought a pair of sneakers from Converse All Stars to match.

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