Chapter 413 - Sarahs birthday (13) (2/2)

Aiden was pleasantly surprised. That is his strongest area, and she knows it. Sarah is very competitive, and he was confident that she will be all in to crush him completely and show off in front of her friends, so he got pumped up and ready to fight back. But when he heard that she picked performance, all his zeal faded away and got replaced with a desire to hold her... and he did. He pulled her in embrace and kissed her like no one is watching. After few seconds, no one was watching. They all had to look away and wait for them to finish. It took a while.

Without letting Sarah go out of his embrace, Aiden glanced at categories and made his pick. ”Security.”

Sarah could not hold back her smile. That was her strongest area.

Aiden nudged her nose with his, and their lips brushed against each other. ”You destroyed my fighting spirit.”

”I'm glad to hear that because I have no interest in fighting against you.” Sarah admitted.

”How are we going to do this?”

”Let's treat it as giving them a lesson.”

Aiden kissed her few times. Sarah took it as an agreement.

They picked seats opposite each other and set up their laptops. Two custom made black laptops, each with a silver symbol on it, one with ”Σ” and other with ”Ω”.

Sarah and Aiden gazed into each other's eyes and didn't pay attention to what the third category is. They didn't care.

Mishi started the countdown, and when the signal for start was announced, no one took it lightly. Sarah and Aiden treated this as an opportunity to impress one another. Others stared at the projection of their screens and could not believe the speed of execution.

”Shit! I can't even follow what is going on!” Emir complained. ”Tereza, we are recording this, right?”

Tereza nodded without removing her eyes from lines of codes which flew in front of them.

”Good!” Emir exclaimed. ”I can watch this in slow motion then.”

First challenge was Aiden's win, by 4 seconds advantage. Second one was Sarah's win by 5 seconds. On the third one they were evenly matched, or so everyone thought. Sarah was almost done when her hand froze over the keyboard and she glanced at Aiden. She loved watching him focused on the task. Sarah found herself enchanted by his presence whenever he was that intense. He lifted his gaze and their eyes met. It took him a second to realize that she is waiting for him. He pursed his lips in frustration. Sarah smiled and gave him a signal to go ahead. He helplessly shook his head and as he pressed final key to execute last command, Sarah was one second behind him. With one second difference in third round, result of the whole match was a tie.

Six people in the room could not believe what they just witnessed. Both Sarah and Aiden displayed such speed, precision, brilliance... and a tie?!! They turned to face their idols, only to see them making out. Again.

”Well... it's not a mystery why they came late...” Marija mumbled.

Aiden and Sarah were happy to explain what and how they did, as well why they decided on such approach. It was a lively discussion.

Aiden won 2-1 in terms of challenges, and when looking at the time it was a tie. But he knows that she let him have that last win. ”You are amazing...” He whispered in her ear.

She smiled and leaned into his embrace. She would let him have all the wins, if that makes him happy. For the first time, she didn't care about winning.

Aiden told himself that he needs to practice. Next time, he will be the one to let her win... but in order to do that, he needs to be better than her.

The group requested another match between Sarah and Aiden, but they rejected it.

”Let's leave it for tomorrow.” Sarah suggested. ”We still have tomorrow. Two of us don't want to take everyone's opportunity to shine. Don't forget that you learn the most through experience.”

Hearing their Boss explain it like this, they had to agree. They picked their opponents and took turns battling while everyone watched and discussed what is happening.

Aiden and Sarah got a text at the same time. That was unusual. It was from Jeff: ”Check your email ASAP*” They compared screen on their phones and saw that they got the same message.