I smiled deeply and that made him even stare more at me. I won the game, I won him
He was still staring in shock, he definitely didn't expect me to be that good
I felt like I had won a gold medal, the feeling was just so good, I had lots of butterflies in my belly but Andrea wasn't having it, he wasn't going to accept defeat he said he got distracted by the phone call he received while we were playing.
I smiled cause I knew he just used that as an excuse to escape defeat and as expected he wanted a rematch and this time he put a prize on it.
Whoever wins this round gets a 100 dollar he said and brought out a 100 dollar note from his wallet.
If you win you take the money, if I win I keep my money so you see it's a fair share on your side, you really don't have so much to loose.
I didn't rub much of my victory in the game on his face like I did to Kenny whenever I won her. I'll always ask who's the boss again? And she'll reply Laura with a slightly moody face.
Whenever I emerged victorious in chess game I would always rub it on the face of my opponent but I couldn't do that with Andrea he was my client regardless and I didn't wanna be carried away mixing pleasure with business and then get things messed up, I was still very conscious although he was homely and made me adjust a bit.
He was so interested in beating me and I saw so much zeal, it's a game tho I told him how dad got it for us while we were little and insisted we learnt until we became so good.
Back then at home I was more like the sensei, whenever someone comes to the house and wants to play you'll have to beat Kenisha first to get to me.
Kenny plays chess very too one time she represented her school in an inter state indoor game competition and came 2nd position.
Yeah someone else beat her and came first she felt bad cause she thought she was the best, no one could stand her at her school but someone took her crown outside.
I encourage her and told her she did excellently well but there'll always be people who do it better until you become the best so there's always room for improvement, i advised.
Growing up whenever other children go to play in the park or in the neighborhood, dad would set the board and tell us first to take the queen down gets whatever she wants. That made us put more effort and as an intelligent game it is, it helped sharpen our reasoning and also made us smart.
So I still had confidence that I was gonna beat Andrea to it even a hundred times over, things were getting really interesting, I was beginning to feel comfortable around him and I was really digging it.
We set the board for another round of the game and Andrea placed the money at the middle of the table.
The chef brought us a glass of wine , she was about to cock it when Andrea said she should leave he'll handle it.
Okayyyyyy that's a whole different energy I see here, I said.
I'm super charged for this you have no idea, he said while trying to open the wine.
I just held my glass and watch him concentrate on the wine he was trying to open.
He drank some first before pouring some into my glass. He started the game and I calmly moved my players as I desired, Andrea would spend so much time staring at the game and thinking of what to do next, at the end of more than half an hour I won again.
I smiled and picked up the money without hesitating, he gazed at me in awe.
Girl your good, nice game was all he said.
I enjoyed every moment of the game, although I knew from the first round that I was better at the game but watching him think deeply and then roll his hands like he was playing and imaginary piano was beautiful, he was zealous too and not one to accept a defeat.