1. Hit or Miss

Chapter Thirty-Seven

We walked in and it was very interesting. A long hall had plenty of different other halls and doors and people were walking around. Some I never saw before and it was a perfect place for me to just explore once I was comfortable. I followed Barry quietly down a couple more halls and found a flight of stairs.

“Holy shit! This place is huge!” I said musing. Barry chuckled as we ascended to another couple floors.

“Yeah we thought the same thing!” He agreed. I pictured the day they got the place. I imagined Arin and Dan goofing off and getting all excited they came this far. We headed up a couple more steps and I came to a blue door. It had the logo on it that was two G’s in their font. Barry pushed it open to reveal almost an apartment style office. There were the all the familiar things I saw in older videos around the room. I looked over to see the sectional they had, the sound room, the tv that they played on, the other side of the room had multiple desks with everyone’s own personal space. The game wall was even more massive in person! I wandered closer to it to examine what other games I could not make out from just seeing it. Barry sat down I heard, but was letting me venture I guessed. I noticed a game that I was one of my other favorites and grabbed it off the shelf without asking. I made sure to keep note where it was incase Arin had a filing system.

The game was more than likely played before, but I never could consider it a one and done. I wondered if Dan had an idea what we were going to be playing or I was going to choose. I heard the door open behind me while I sort of daydreamed. I heard Kevin walk in before I seen him. He walked up to my right and tapped me.

“Oh hey! Kev!” I smiled. He pointed to the game I was holding and he chuckled, “So you’re a fan huh?” I asked him. He shrugged before he answered me.

“Yeah, but I mean I haven’t played that in years!” Kevin laughed. Barry spun around in his chair. I looked around after putting the game back. He pretended to row himself to us while we laughed at him. Barry stopped when he reached us with a little help from Kevin pulling him the rest of the way. He laughed over the silliness we already were enduring and sadly nothing had gotten done yet.

“Okay so! Now that I have reached land! What are you looking at?!” Barry reached out to take back out the game and smiled, “Wow, yeah, this would I remember cause so many fights over my place!” Barry held the Mario Kart 64 cartridge up as he spoke.

“Have-have they played it?” I asked trying to remember before he answered.

“Never did an episode that I can remember?” Barry shrugged. I quickly took out my phone and held up a finger. I dialed up Arin needing to know.

“What!” Arin yelled startling me. I made a noise as Arin laughed over the phone.

“Really?! I’m calling with an episode idea for date grumps and you’re just gonna give me a heart attack?!” I laughed into the phone. Arin chuckled with me before answering.

“Ya know it’s either you or someone else! So whatcha got for me Little One?” Arin’s new nickname for me was interesting. I knew I was short, but so was Suzy! Oh well I took it as a compliment until otherwise.

“Mario Kart 64 Arin!” I said child-like. I was really hoping he’d say yes. Instead he said he’ll call me back. I hung up and shrugged to Barry and Kevin. The both rolled their eyes playfully. I made a face as they returned to their stations.

“How much you wanna bet he’s calling Dan and Dan’s going to say eh nah, I have something better blah blah” Barry joked. I thought about how close Barry could have been and agreed.

“He’s probably had it planned since I landed. The guy seems to think over a ton of things, but what else is new?” I sighed. Barry smiled at me in a way Suzy did. It was the moment they noticed that Dan and I were thinkers alike. Kevin spun around to Barry and got his attention.