Duncan Cyrus, age 25, Dream Part 2
I was born around the time game systems became the new sensation. Beginning of the downfall for children social activities. Anyway, I was invited over one night from a few old high school classmates for a party. They said there would be games, food, and music. Just a chilling time for old mates. Considering how I didn't really hangout with anyone until my first dorm mate in college, I was skeptical of going, but I was ahead on my research paper for class so I decided to take the night off.
I arrived pretty much close to the beginning so I was able to see a lot of familiar faces as they came in. Total of about thirty people showed up. Some with food, some with refreshments, others games. The gist of the theme was team play. The hosts, a married couple, had a seventy inch plus TV mounted to the wall and a Wii. Mario Party and other games like it with the appropriate hardware was neatly organized in the huge living area. All eating was to be done in the kitchen.
I'm not a fan of Wii, I like the controller only play, but I still played. You could tell who the experts were and who the rookies were. On my team I was one of two males and the rest were females. We were definitely a team because we set up our rotation due to experience, hand eye coordination, and reaction time. I was in the middle of our rotation. I was told I would help with either keeping a lead or getting us back up in ranking if we were lagging behind.
We weren't the most competitive group, but we took it seriously about winning. Most fun I had in a while around a group of people. Our leader was a brown, short haired bbw. If I remember correctly her name was Patty. Though she took the lead role she was also nice. She knew how to motivate without being unbearable. It didn't matter to me, I'm a game head so I wanted to do my best.