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arcade

timothée's pov

"And why can't I go with you again?" I asked, crossing my arms.

"Because," Pauline scoffed "it's a date. You don't bring your siblings on your own date."

"You're going to an arcade," I say "just give me a ride, I'll avoid you two at all costs."

She finished applying her lipstick and turned around to look at me for a second. "Fine." she sighed and rolled her eyes.

I smiled, "Thanks." I walked over and grabbed her car keys from the dish on her dresser.

"Nope." she said, coming over and taking them right out of my hand.

"Come on, let me drive."

"If I'm giving you a ride in my car, to the same place where my date is at, I'm driving." she said as I glared at her. "Let's go."

We went outside and got into her car, making our way to the arcade. After parking, we walked to the decent looking arcade.

Before I could open the door, Pauline stopped me from doing so. "I swear to God if you screw this date up for me, I'll kill you."

I put my hand on my chest. "Ouch."

"Timothée, I'm serious."

"I was being serious too," I said "I'll play some my skee-ball and you won't even remember that you even brought me with you. Alright?"

"Alright." she said lowly and finally let me open the door for her. We walked in, Pauline scanning the arcade for her date immediately.

When she smiled and gave a wave, I knew she had found them. "Go get 'em." I smiled and gave her a push, only to get a glare in return.

I ventured off to my skee-ball like I said after buying tokens. This place is like the rest of the arcades that I have been to before, see-ball stuffed in a little corner that's quite dark.

Noises of kids screaming, parents yelling, and cheers being expressed were drowned right out by my ears. I just wanted to concentrate and keep to myself like I had promised.

I threw the first ball down the ramp, scoring 30 points. As the second ball landed in the 30 hole once again, a person appeared next to me.

"You need to throw it a little harder."

"I'm sorry?" I asked, turning to my right.

"You need to throw the ball a little harder," she said "that's why you're not going past thirty."

"Oh," I said "yeah. I know, I just haven't played in a while."

"So you're rusty?"

I nodded.

"Not me though." she taunted and took a ball, tossing it down the ramp without a care.

The whole machine lit up. 100 points!

"What are you? A professional skee-baller?"

"No," she shook her head "just a girl who spends way too much of her time in here."

I chuckled. "What's your name?"

"Y/n." she smiled.

"Timothée." I smiled back.

"Mind if we take turns playing? I've got my own money for tokens and this is the only machine."

"Sure." I nodded and gave her the ball that I was already holding, she scores fifty points this time.

I'll let her run through the rest of the remaining balls in the slot. "I've never seen you here before." she says getting ready to throw again.

"It's my first time here." I say slowly as she effortlessly scores another hundred points.

"Are you here by yourself?" she asks.

I shake my head. "No, I'm just here with my older sister and her- her date."

"Her date?" she asks "Your sister is here on a date and you came with her?"

"What else am I supposed to do on a Friday night?" I ask defensively.

"Stay home and watch a movie, hang out with your friends or something?" she laughs.

"Maybe," I shrug "and you could be doing the same thing too. But you're taking turns playing skee-ball with a stranger."

"I live like two blocks away from here," she rebutted "this is always my Friday night out."

I looked around the arcade, not finding anyone else close looking relatively close to our age besides my sister and her date obviously.

"You're here by yourself?"

"Yup." she nods and throws the last ball, scoring her final set of one hundred points.

"And you'd rather not be hanging out with your friends right now?"

"Nope." she shakes her head. "Don't have any."

"Well then, consider me your first."

She laughs and puts her tokens into the machine, the six balls coming down. She takes one and hands it to me, "You're my competition first."

A/N: idk what this is lmfaooajsjdkdla 😍