The Photo Booth

Chapter one

It all happened so fast...

There stood a red Photobooth in the middle of the fair. I had come here with my friends to hang out. The state fair only comes once a year so when it does, its either go before it leaves or wait a whole nother year for it to return.

All three of my friends wanted to ride the Cyclops but I couldn't since I had flip-flops on and the ride only allowed closed toe shoes, for safety reasons of course. So i just told them to go ahead and ride it and i would just wait for them.

And then there was the photobooth. I know, i know. Why wouldnt i wait for my friends to take a group picture? but standing in the middle of a fair alone at night puts unpleasurable scenarios in a persons head. So i decided to go ahead and hide in there just until my friends were done, but just as i slid into the booth, another person decided to slide in too.

We butted heads right as we both entered. "Oh im so sorry-," the stranger began until his eyes met mine. His eyes were a gorgeous mixture of light blue and green that went great with his blonde hair and quiff. "O-oh no, its my fault" i stuttered "i should've checked to see if someone was in here. I'll leave you to take your pictures." As i began to scoot out he caught my wrist, "if you want, you can take pictures with me," he said."Yeah ok, sure," i responded while mentally slapping myself for repeating my answer three times just in different forms.

He put his hand in his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, so i scooted back into the booth. "I can pay half," i said. I didnt want to be a jerk and make him pay the whole thing. Fairs aren't cheap, its almost $10 for a strip of pictures.

"Oh no, its fine, ill pay the whole thing," he said before inserting a $10 dollar bill. "So what theme should we pick? seasonal, party-time, the fair, romance, or glow in the dark ?" He read the choices. "Um...how about the fair?" I suggested. Once he clicked on the fair box, it brought up 3 different decorations of the strip. One was the logo of the fair, another was black with fireworks and a ferris wheel in the bottom corner, and the last choice was just a plain old ferris wheel with white everywhere else. "your turn, which one do you want to do?" I ask. He points to fireworks one and i agree with a head nod.

After everything's set up, the screen starts a count down. "10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-"
On 2, both the stranger and i get into our positions.

For the first one, i go with duck lips and a sideways peace sign and he goes with a miley cyrus tongue (which he pulled off, may i add). After a light flickers, we shift into our next position. For this one, the stranger puts two fingers behind my head and i do a cute silly face to match the look.

The third pic comes quick so we both end up smiling normal. I gesture to him to do a back to back hand gun for the fourth one. After the pic, we break out laughing from the seriousness in our faces from the fourth one, leaving us with a laughing pic. For the last one, we had no time to prepare and before i knew it, our lips were brushed together and the screen flashed.

The booth went dark but out lips still connected. I slowly began to pull away and exited my side of the booth. Once he appeared from around the booth for the photos i picked up the 2 strips. "Thanks for the pictures," i said as i handed him one of the strips. "Well thanks for being in them," he responded. Then there was an awkward silence. "Well, i better catch up to my friends, they're probably waiting for me" i said. "Yeah, mine too. Maybe I'll see you around," he said before slowly backing away, so i waved and walked away.

As i walked towards the cyclops, i looked at the photo strip. All of the pictures turned out pretty nice, including the last one when we kissed. Dang it! I shouldve gotten his name!

"Parker! Over here!" I heard a familiar voice call out. I looked up to see it was Bethany, one of the three friends, calling out to me.

"Oh hey, you guys finished already?" I asked once i was in talking proximity with the three. "Yeah, the line wasnt really long," Skylar, the second of the three, said.

"Where did you go? Werent you supposed to be waiting for us?" Lexie, the last of the three, asked.

I laughed and said, "Boy do i have a story for you guys."