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Shinya’s first mistake is suggesting that they play Mario Kart.
But, dammit, he was bored. And Mahiru was falling asleep on the couch, holding her phone above her face, and when she dropped it on her face it shocked them all.
And then she was grumpy.
“You should’ve been helping me stay awake,” she complained. “If you would’ve been doing something exciting, I wouldn’t be forming an ugly bruise on my cheek right now!”
“How is that our fault?!” Guren demanded. “You should’ve gotten up and kept yourself from dozing off!”
“There’s nothing to do around here!”
“That’s not true,” Shinya told her, and that’s where it all began, really.
Now, they’ve been playing for two hours straight, and Mahiru is very smug about her current winning streak.
“Fuck you,” Guren grates out. “I would’ve won that one.”
Mahiru sticks her tongue out at him, then turns to Shinya excitedly.
“Rainbow Road!” she cries.
“No,” Shinya groans. “Anywhere but that, please.“
“We’ve avoided it all this time! Come on, Shinya, we have to!”
He cannot deny her when she pouts at him like that.
“I don’t mind,” Guren says casually. “Maybe we can finally dethrone the queen.”
“Excuse me?” Shinya frowns at him. “Luigi is not a queen.”
“That’s right,” Mahiru chimes in. “The only queen here is Peach over here.”
“Princess,” Shinya corrects.
“Whatever,” Guren says, scowling. (Secretly, Shinya thinks he’s just jeaous. He has been playing as Mario the entire time.)
“So, Rainbow Road?”
Shinya sighs. “Fine, fine. If you knock me off the edge, I’m filing for divorce.”
“Good thing we aren’t married yet,” Mahiru says cheekily as Shinya clicks on the map she keeps insisting on.
“If you don’t lose this one, I’m going to assume you’re cheating,” Guren tells her.
“Haha. You’re such a sore loser, Mario.”
“What kind of brother are you?”
“One who's better than you, duh.”
The counter on the television screen counts them down to the beginning of their race, and they all focus completely on the game. Mahiru, in the lead from their starting positions, pulls even further ahead almost instantly.
Shinya and Guren both fall off the edge of the map within seconds.
By the end of the first lap, Mahiru remains in first and Shinya and Guren are in eleventh and twelfth place, respectively.
“I hate this game,” Guren declares as Shinya finishes across the line on the final lap.
Mahiru laughs. “Sore loser!”
“At least I can admit it,” he says, sniffing. “But there’s someone who’s a bit of a sore winner and she’s getting on my nerves.”
Mahiru pouts at him. “That’s not very nice!”
“Kiss me to make up for it?”
She grumbles, but, as Shinya was expecting, adheres. Then she turns to Shinya and asks “You too? A consolation prize, if you will.”
He chuckles. “Of course,” he says, and when they kiss, he can be absolutely certain that they have all recovered from their Mario Kart-related feud.