With right push, Gunn can do almost half of his coders work by himself. That was the case for his new game in development, he had his hands all over it. Like a hurdle he worked around it all night spurning his sleep.
Jen knocked on his door before coming in, she hardly waits for him to respond. At times her knock is hardly heard, she hated doing it. Gunn kinda knows that already but likes seeing her uncomfortable.
At least from today she will phone him from the wired telephones installed yesterday. She wanted to surprise him but not that early. She has routine check each morning to make sure that he was alright although he hardly neglects himself.
She walked in, he had his face on the desk- which was not a good sign. She had seen that before, the development of their best game to hit the market.
There was another explanation, that of his chaotic relationship. He just ended things with his latest girlfriend and still on his sorry phase.
From what Jen had gathered - as it is her responsibility to know about his life- he was caught cheating with some girl. That was after his proposal for open relationship failed. The girl was jealous, she wanted him all for herself, she had it coming.
Nobody wants to share Gunn. When a girl gets her nails on him, she makes it her responsibility to please him and be his only. Jen witnessed all that firsthand, she had seen his team of girls year by year. Since he turned sixteen.
From what she had gathered, most of his girlfriends want it to work but he is determined to sabotage it. He wasn't made for responsive relationships, maybe that's why he is so good as bachelor-ing and letting them down slowly.
If he was heartbroken- which he hardly gets- only time was remedy or maybe something new to focus on. It's hardly work but if it is he doing extraordinary. She had to find out.
Either way she had to make sure he was doing fine. When he is that vulnerable he hardly flirts and when he does it almost feels serious. He is just too complex for her. But she remains loyal, the kind of friends you will never find out there.
Jen brought with her good news but was distracted by the scene. She is concerned about him at times, he just tries so much. He hardly shoes concern or heartbreaks, he remains unchanged. Like a rock. Although she never buys that.
She had to disrupt his sleep, there wasn't anything ethical in sleeping at office, they banned it the first couple of days upon start of the company.
"Morning", Jen greeted. He didn't hear that , he must be in deep.
"Hey! Morning!", she raised her voice. That was enough to wake him up from whatever dream he was having.
He heard that. Gunn tried to play it off but she had seen just enough, he needed to get some quality sleep. He had his clothes from previous day, must have spent the night in there. Few steps away from his bed.
"Sorry for that, what can I do for you today? I can do anything to you too, pick one", he said faking a smile.
No matter the occasion his bright smile when joking never fails to brighten his face. He looks so adorable when confused, but still nasty. That never fades when around her.
"Get some sleep, always helps ", adviced Jen. She knows him to be more stubborn than a mule. It was expected of him to decline the offer.
" I don't think I need that, some hot breakfast would help", he said rubbing his eyes. He then points at her lips perversely- which was expected of him
He is hard-headed, if she had to succeed maybe by force. She pressed button by the wall revealing a medium sized bedroom. In there was almost everything he could ever need. A bed, couch and some sheets folded professionally-Jen's work.
"Did you spend the night here? What's wrong?", she asked. He smiled closing his laptop.
"Of course, maybe you can join me in there- more the merrier.(she was shocked, he knows how to do some digits on her . She feels like his own toy at times. Likes it)
Don't give me that look, you made the bed and now it's time to lie on it(literally)
I didn't invent it.
Shall we dear ? I'm too tired to be crafty"he joked (maybe serious) progressing to the open room- unnoticeable from the office.
He's crazy. He left it open thinking that she would come in, she pressed the button closing it up. He jumped on the bed then gestured for her to come before the door closed. It looks exactly like that of an elevator and works the same.
They inserted that room there, when he was starting up- Gunn's idea.
Partly because of the money problem and again as he was doing a lot by himself. He spent days and nights there,. She would always visit after school and make sure his sheets were changed and washed. She picked them up from drycleaners- still does.
Whoever came to see him for about three hours was diverted for another appointment. Kat was one of them.
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She had heard him ask her to join him before. Not only when she came to visit him when in school and stayed with him up to ten in the night. She was just a fifteen year old kid trying to keep her innocence while with a more progressive teenager. Of it ever happened it would have been no crime - they only fifteen.
It had happened many times after that. When she was all grown up and we'll aware of what it meant, and all it entails. In his bed, in the shower, while dancing and out partying. She does go out with him but mainly to formal dining and entertainment, nothing extreme.
He does keep his end of the deal as his friend, keeping her out of the toxic part of his life. Not like he takes anything illegal as wine is enough to get him speaking in tongues.He is just too lively for her.
He teases her like his toy. If he means it or just messing around no one knows, definitely not Jen. It wouldn't be wrong to say that she thought of accepting it- while fifteen years old and now at twenty one . The thought crossed her mind once - as she assumed he was joking most of the times- , she didn't say it, afraid of what could happen.
Just like waves, Gunn's mates comes and goes unpredictably. Many were times she thought that the new one was the last, that maybe he was done toying with girls – I mean, how much practice is enough?
They come and go. She isn't ever caught off guard when he introduces next fling- as he always does,. They all pass by her for approval maybe. Whenever he picks a girl up- although mostly he will take her for the test-drive that same night – he will swing by her place to show off.
Later, he has to ask her opinion on the new girl, which she gladly gives. She hardly says the negative even when it's right in front of their eyes. Some have their true colors on display by asking for expensive gifts and unnecessary attention. But, they all see Jen as a threat , which he hardly notices.
One even stole Jen's jewelry, not like she bothered.
A week or so he will be alone then show up with his next. Where he collets them is a mystery. Younger, older, taller, shorter, curvier, skinny, brunette, colored hair and every kind of features you can get out there.
They are not all that different as hot must be the case. He hardly notices if the face is biological or medically made, let alone other features. That part of his is not her favorite but has to cope, guess you can't have it all, right?
She recalls some significant encounters, where she thought that maybe he had made the right choice. Although singular value, some had beauty, morals, status, vulnerability and genuine concern for him. Those ones can last a month if not two making his longest relationships.
Time to heal is longer though, he can wait for almost a year without dating again. He takes the heartbreaks seriously, as if it's all that he was looking for. He and Jen are of the same kind - although they never notices.
They does have their moments, those ones does matter to her as much as it does to him. Like a while back, when he was so heartbroken that he drunk himself to death. Rung her at midnight from some party to be picked up.
Although unwilling, she went to get him and took him back to his house. She made him warn milk to sober up and some crazy sh!t she found online. She would have left but he held her hand saying , " don't leave me"
She woke up next to him next morning- the only time it did happen. After taking care of him the whole night - it was the highest thrill of her life. Now that she remembers it her heart warms up . She liked it. Now, she only hopes to never find herself in that state ever again. It gave her false feeling, a feeling that was never there to start with.
She had to take care of him until morning and listen to him rap about how he was done with girls. By the time he was up though she had ordered him some breakfast and disappeared - which was about eleven in the morning.
He didn't stop there. He went out more and more picking up his strange 'friends'. Not like she believed him when he said he was done, he had said it before.