My Virtual Lover

Live 5: Kevin Darius, the Weeb

The young man goes home after a long day of college, combing his straight raven hair with his fingers after riding his Vespa from the outside. He cleans his dirty glasses with his cyan t-shirt with the writing ‘I don’t love anyone, but me’. It was written in white with comic sans as a typeface, he notices the empty house he’s in right now.

There’s no sign of people inhibiting the house, his uncle’s mansion is as big as the rumor says. The young man takes off his sneakers, he just bought some instant noodles for himself. The living room is silent, with no children around the house. He goes up to his bedroom, going up through the circular steel stairs.

He can guess that his aunt and uncle must be enjoying their time going outside, he’s free to do what he wants in that house when they’re out. Excitement engulfs the young man’s heart when he can watch his favorite Virtual Tuber Idol in peace, fanboying her cute reactions when she plays her favorite RPG games.

He walks passes the hallway to reach his bedroom, opening the old wooden door that makes a clanking sound every time he opens the door in a rush. The man doesn’t care for the wooden door, he throws his jacket on the floor then sits on his plastic blue chair. 

Getting rid of his University books with the tag name ‘Kevin Darius’, the glasses man smiles as he opens his old laptop. He receives a notification when he strolls through the neighborhood, he stopped by the sidewalks to buy snacks and his eyes immediately glitter when the name ‘Rhapsody’ appears on her cell phone screen.

She pulls out his earphone from his back jeans pocket, he plugs the earphones into his laptop. The Livestream is already halfway through, he watches his helpless Livestreamer show her skill as a gamer. She cutely tries to show up her skillset as an RPG gamer, she tries so hard to prove herself as a cool person.

However, she always failed her attempt thus making her cuter than cooler. 

“Kevin!” the young man widens his eyes when he hears someone calls out his name. “Kevin Darius! Come out this instant!”.

It’s from the opened window on his left, he taps his forehead realizing that he forgot to lock his window yet again. Kevin peeks his head out from the window, looking down at the source of the voice. It appears to be an auntie, with an upset face on her look as she stares at Kevin with a cat in her hand.

The meat bun-haired woman growls at the man, telling him off that his cat has been acting like a rascal around her house. 

“Kevin Darius! Your cat is stealing our food yet again!” the auntie yells at him. “Come down here!”.

“That’s not even my cat ma’am, he’s just a stray” Kevin mumbles. “I just happened to feed him”.

“You’re this naughty cat caretaker, that’s no excuse!” she growls while swaying the cat by his neck. “Take this cat with you!”.

Wearing an auntie dress, a batik-patterned dress with dirt on the clothes. Perhaps, she went through some difficulties when she tried to capture the naughty cat in her possession. The cat hisses at the long-black haired woman who captured him, his claws are breathing free to scratch her vulnerable face.

Kevin realizing the cat’s intention decides to descend downstairs to secure the cat as soon as possible.

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Kevin fixes his glasses position while wiping the droplets of water from the drizzle outside. He takes the stray cat to his home and was scolded by the next-door neighbor. Auntie Lisa is true as what the rumor said, a beautiful woman yet stern, she’s been living next door before Kevin arrived at the large mansion he currently stays in.

He looks at the cat on the floor of his living room, pleasingly wiping his brown fur on the white tile. 

“No, don’t make the floor wet! My uncle will get mad at me if you do that!” Kevin picks the cat from the floor. “I’m going to wash you clean, you can stay inside the house okay? But I can’t keep you here, my uncle doesn’t like animals that much”.

The cat mewling at Kevin as if understanding his words, he goes to the bathroom downstairs to wash the stray cat. He uses his bath gel since he had no gel for animals, it has to be done, otherwise, the cat will get sick. Kevin washes him off quickly since he wants to watch his favorite Vtuber on screen.

Putting the cat on a baby tub, he washes the dirt away from his chestnut fur. 

“I’ll wash you off real quick Nut!” Kevin washes the feline in a hurry. 

His large hand then envelopes the chestnut cat in a red towel, drying the cat off whilst carrying the cat to his bedroom. Rhapsody is still Livestreaming, showing off her legendary goods in the RPG game she’s currently playing proudly, like a child. Brushing his bed hair with his fingers, he laughs at the 2D avatar on his laptop screen.

He puts Nut on his lap then type on the chats to make fun of him, her cute reaction is brimming like sunlight. The previous events that occurred before no longer clouded his mind, Rhapsody is the girl that can cause him to be this happy.

“I don’t particularly like RPG games, they’re sucks” he types at the chat section to throw her off. 

As soon as she lands her gaze on the chat, he can see her angry look. However, she tries to hold it off with a smile, brushing the comments off with a positive attitude. Kevin likes teasing her, she is the first one to see her debut. Her reactions are always priceless, it’s nice to tease the maid.

What’s funny is that the gamer maid is somehow got lost on her quest, only ending up in a secret boss fight that defeated her instantaneously due to her recklessness. Kevin laughs loudly when he watches the maid breaks her character, cursing cutely at the enemy before her in-game character.

“Look at her struggling, it’s cute to see her struggling like this LMAO” he types in excitement while the cat has been poking his stomach.

Kevin sighs heavily when he lowers his bronze gaze to meet his cat yellow ones. The cat wants a meal, he mewls uncontrollably to the young man.

“Fine then, let me prepare your meal” the young man stands up from his plastic chair. “I’ll get something”.

Not long after that, he hears another complaint coming from his so-friendly neighbor Lisa. She yells yet again from the street.

“Close your window young man! Your laughter is disturbing my WORK! GEEZ! PEOPLE THESE DAYS!” she yells at him then storms away from the same spot where she yelled at him earlier for his cat behavior.

“Oops, I completely forgot about that” Kevin giggles as he peeks his eyes at Lisa who now tied her hair with a deceased anime mother style which is a side plaid, she already stormed off to her miniature house, no longer sighted. “Okay then, I’ll lock the window”.

Kevin closes the window, locking it then goes downstairs to search for some food for his spoiled cat. He opens the fridge, hoping he can find something to cook for himself along with his naughty cat Nut. Kevin scratches his yellow t-shirt, his stomach is somewhat itchy for an unknown reason.

Perhaps, the buzzing sound he heard when he watched Rhapsody’s Livestream came from the mosquitos. Even the fan he uses in his bedroom is useless when the mosquitos squad comes to attack his body, relentlessly attacking his body with its sharp snout to suck on his dirty blood. 

“I wish you can kill mosquitos Nut” Kevin still search for something in his fridge. “Unluckily, you’re not a gecko or a stray lizard”.

The chestnut furry mewls in Kevin’s direction, tilting his innocent head. Kevin finds a frozen nugget in the top fridge, the man pours the cooking oil on an old frying pan in front of him. Heating the cooking oil beforehand, he waits until the oil becomes hot before putting the frozen nugget into the frying pan.

“Wait for it, okay?” he kneels on his knee, patting the cat head gently. “I can cook you some nuggets if you want”.

The cat slightly nods, agreeing with the young man as he waits patiently for his food to come. Kevin lifts his hand on top of the frying pan, checking the cooking oil temperature with his palm. He can sense the cooking oil is getting hotter, he sets the heat right for the nugget. Kevin insert his hand inside the red packaging that is filled with stickie nuggets.

He puts the stickie inside the frying pan, a strange sizzling sound comes out from the frying pan, indicating that the nugget is in the middle of being fried by the yellow liquid.

*oshi= 2D Idol