Destroy Me Gently:Ex-Enemy Becomes My Lover! Chapter 146: Game Over

**OLIVER WEST**

The door to William’s room slamd shut so hard the picture fras of his favourite animated characters on his wall rattled.

"But I brought my own blanket and everything!" Penny’s muffled voice ca through the door, followed by knocking. "Co on, let in!"

"Absolutely not!" William yelled back, pressing his weight against the door like she might try to break it down. "This is a boys only sleepover!"

"That’s discrimination!"

"It’s called boundaries, learn about them!"

There were more loud knockings, and then the sound of footsteps stomping away down the hall.

William waited a few seconds before cautiously stepping away from the door. "She’s probably going to try to sneak back in later."

I found the realization a little bit surprising myself, all the tis I’d had a sleepover in William’s place, Penny had never been around. The last ti was when we went to Alex’s party, she had slept over at her friend’s place too.

"Does she do this often?" I asked William from where I sat cross-legged on his bed.

"Only when there’s soone in the house she finds interesting." He gave a pointed look. "Which is apparently you now."

I shrugged. "That’s not my fault."

"I know, but you could try being less..." he waved his hand vaguely, "you know, likeable."

"How do I do that?"

"I don’t know, be an to her or sothing."

"I can’t be an to Penny, she’s nice!"

"That’s exactly the problem," William muttered, grabbing two controllers and tossing one to . "Forget about my weird sister, let’s just play."

The ga loaded and we picked our characters for the co-op zombie survival mode. William chose the tank character with the big gun and I ended up with the dic. Again.

"Why do I always get stuck being the healer?" I complained.

"Because I called tank first."

"You always call tank first!"

"Then be faster next ti."

The ga started and imdiately we were surrounded by zombies shambling toward us from all directions.

"Shoot them!" William yelled.

"I’m trying!" My character was firing but missing every shot. "The aim on this gun is terrible!"

"That’s because you’re supposed to heal , not shoot!"

"Then why does my character have a gun?!"

"For decoration!"

A zombie grabbed my character and started biting. I watched as the health bar dropped rapidly.

"William, help !" I yelled.

"I’m busy!" He was surrounded by his own horde of zombies, firing wildly.

"You’re the tank, you’re supposed to protect !"

"You’re the dic, heal yourself!"

"I can’t heal while I’m being eaten!"

My character died first, collapsing in a dramatic pool of blood while zombies continued to feast.

"Great, just great," William said as more zombies sward him without to draw aggro. "Now I’m alone."

"That’s your fault for not saving !"

"My fault? You walked directly into a group of zombies!"

"I was trying to get a health pack!"

"There was a zombie ON the health pack, Oliver!"

His character lasted about ten more seconds before also dying. Ga over screen flashed.

We both sat on his bed in silence, I didn’t even try to hide my satisfaction, how dare he think he could survive without ? Serves him right!

"That was your fault," William glared at .

"How was that my fault?!"

"You died first!"

"That’s because you didn’t protect !"I grabbed a pillow and threw it at his head. He blocked it with his controller and threw it back.

"Let’s go again," he said. "And this ti try not to die in the first thirty seconds."

We started another round. This ti I made it a whole two minutes before a zombie grabbed from behind.

"WILLIAM!"

"I SEE IT, STOP SCREAMING IN MY EAR!"

He shot at the zombie but hit instead. My health dropped even faster.

"You just shot !"

"That was an accident!"

"AN ACCIDENT?!"

My character died again and I turned to scowl at him. "You killed on purpose for revenge, didn’t you?"

"What do you take for? I’m not that petty," He scoffed, but a part of didn’t buy his innocent look.

All thanks to Karma, his character lasted five seconds longer.

"See? This is what you get for killing on purpose." I gloated.

"I SHOT YOU BY ACCIDENT!"

"A good teammate wouldn’t shoot their dic!"

"A good dic wouldn’t stand directly in the line of fire!"

We went three more rounds and died spectacularly each ti. By the end we were both yelling at the screen and each other.

"Why do we even play co-op?" William asked, throwing his controller onto the bed. "You are terrible at this."

"No, you’re terrible at this."

"Says the person who died first every single ti!"

"Because you kept leaving alone with zombies!"

A knock on the door interrupted our argunt.

"Are you two done screaming?" Penny’s voice called. "I can hear you from my room."

"GO AWAY!" we both yelled at the sa ti.

Her laughter faded down the hall.

William looked at and we both started laughing despite ourselves.

"Yeah, I’m so bad at this," I admitted, wiping my eyes.

"The worst partner," William agreed.

My phone buzzed on the bed space next to . I almost ignored it but sothing made pick it up.

It was a credit alert notification.

The amount made blink and read it three tis. I stared at it in shock, until I saw the sender. My heart rate spiked seeing Kieran’s na, why the hell was he sending money?

Was this for fixing the house? I stared at the amount, even if it was for that purpose, this amount was way more than we’d needed. Triple, maybe more.

I waited for another ssage that didn’t co.

It was just the transfer. I didn’t realize how much I was waiting for his text, but now my heart suddenly stirred with anger.

"What’s wrong?" William noticed my mood change imdiately.

"He sent money." My voice ca out flat.

William leaned over to look at my screen and his eyebrows shot up. "That’s a lot of money, is he trying to buy you a new house or sothing? Or maybe he’s compensating for breaking your heart,"

Was William right? Was Kieran trying to apologize by doing this?

Sothing hot and sharp flared in my chest. He didn’t try to call, or even text and now he was doing this?

But underneath my anger was sothing else. Why would he send this now when he didn’t even try to contact for the past week? What did it an?

"I think you should just take the money and spend it, you deserve this much compensation after everything he put you through," William said, yawning, but I was already standing up, holding my phone.

"I have to see him."

I was just going to tell him that I didn’t want his charity, he could take back his stupid money! It’s not like I could just transfer it back to him, yeah, this needed physical confrontation, right?

"Oliver—"

"I know what you’re going to say." but I really need to see him,"

William studied my face for a long mont. Then he grabbed his shirt. "Okay, let’s go together."

My heart softened at his action, he wanted to be there for .

"William, you don’t have to..."

"I won’t sleep well if I don’t experience all the drama first hand," He grabbed his keys while I gawked at him, so this was his reason?

His parents weren’t around, so we didn’t have to sneak out, we simply told Penny we were getting so late night snacks.

She pumped her fist at , mouthing out. "You can do this!"

William stared at her suspiciously, and then at , "What does that even an? Don’t tell that’s what her behaviour has been about... PENNY, YOU’VE LOST IT!" He yelled after her.

"Don’t act too slow, or you will lose him!" She shouted back and I was laughing, wrapping my arm around William’s neck.

"You heard her, treat even more better or you’ll lose ,"