"Wanna play again? No stakes this time, just for fun," I asked, my tone neutral.
"Sure," Alex replied with a confident smirk.
It was completely misplaced though, because I won all four of the games we played thereafter. I realized that this probably caused some suspicions, but I didn't really care. I wasn't about to let him think he was better than me for even a second. Unless he earned it... Or it had some kind of benefit for me.
"So what are we going to do today?" I asked as I moved my bishop to take his knight.
He winced. "Well, what do you want to do?" he replied, making a terrible move that opened his queen.
I moved my knight, threatening his queen. He had no choice but to retreat. "Well, we can't exactly go anywhere," I went on with a sigh. "If someone saw us, we'd both be in a
