𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓐𝓽𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

Chapter 17

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"You really think I've been strong?"

"I don't think that you are strong. You are a strong woman." He says truthfully.

In that moment, Alondra felt moved by his sincere words. Her heart flutters again and doesn't mind at all that her heart is beating rapidly.

"Hey! Clean your face. It's red." Johnny says.

Alondra then feels her face. It was really warm.

"There's nothing on it! Did he see me blushing?!" She says in her mind.

"By the way, you said you like jogging?" Johnny asks.

"Yeah? So?"

"Let's go out for a walk after the mall."

"Let's go out?!" Alondra says in her mind.

"Snap out of it! Stop filling my head with nonsense."

"Sure." She says.

Johnny and Alondra finish up their lunches and head towards an amusement park. They leave all the shopping bags in the car and they head out.

"Wow. They're holding a carnival in the cold?" Johnny asks.

"Says the guy who has his chest exposed and is distracting girls who are just walking past you." Alondra rolls her eyes at him.

"But I'm not cold." He says.

"What games should we try?" He asks her.

"What about you? What do you want to try out?!"

"Too many options." He says.

"Might I suggest, the claw machine?" She asks.

"Those machines are just a bunch of rip offs." He says.

"I mean you never know." She says.

"Fine. Let's give it a try, but if we lose don't pressure me on giving it another try." He says.

"Deal."

Alondra pulls out a coin and inserts it in the slot.

"I'll give it a try!" Alondra says as she eyes the stuff animals.

"Now if you don't win, don't come crying to me." Johnny says.

"I win!!" Alondra pulls out a stuff cat and shows it to Johnny.

"What?!?! There's no way you did that!" He says.

"It's so cute." She says.

Then Johnny glances at a couple who were also playing with the claw machine and the man won a stuffed toy for his girlfriend.

"Out of my way! Let me give it a try since everyone is winning something!!" He steps up.

"Give me a coin." He says.