The Sanchez Chemical Reaction

Chapter 5: Girl Talk At The Arcade

After about 20 minutes we find them upstairs. I guess morty wanted to go look at a comic book store while they waited. Rick clearly looked bored and miserable out of his mind. Not to mention morty obviously felt the same way. He probably was looking through the same comic for a while.

"Jesus Christ finally!" Rick says as he hears summer call out to him from the escalators. Morty runs after rick and yells, "where the hell were you guys?!" They both stop in their tracks once they see us. I blush slightly at how hard rick stares at me.

"You guys had one hell of a time I see." Rick quickly clears his throat and pretends he didn't see anything. "You girls look good. Don't know who you're dressing up for since all the boys are frozen. But-...you look good..."

"Y-y-yeah," morty quickly adds. "You look gorgeous y/n!" Summer clears her throat. Clearly wanting a compliment too. "An-and...yeah you look good too summer..." I guess morty felt weird being nice to his sister. I can see it in their relationship, it's mostly playful bullying.

"Ew morty gross, but also thanks." She swats her hair out of her face.

"Rick can we go to the arcade now?" Morty complains as we make our way outside.

"Yes morty I already told you we were gonna go. You better hope they have food there. I'm fucking hungry." Rick places his hands in his pockets grouchily and starts walking toward the arcade.

Summer has us walk back a bit from the two. "Okay, you look sexy, and grandpa Rick gave you a compliment. Go get a hook on him now. I'll get morty to walk with me in front like last time."

"You and morty walked in front on purpose to get Rick and me to talk?"

"Well yeah, morty and I have a bet going on. Who kisses who first. Between you and me, I think grandpa Rick will kiss you. I mean heck, look at you. Morty thinks you're going to have to kiss Rick or you guys won't kiss at all. He's so pathetic. He knows nothing about love. Or apparently Rick." Summer glances at me and how red my face is turning. She laughs a little, "you have kissed someone before right? You're unusually red. Or do you just reaaalllly like him?"

"W-well to be honest with you," I pause and make sure no one else is listening. "I've never done anything romantic in my life. The thought of being with anyone scares me. Let alone getting kissed by someone I admire! I'd rather you guys don't push it. If something happens, you win. But if not I'm okay with that, because I don't have feelings for him!" I practically whisper yell.

"Not yet," she winks and calls out to morty, quickly running up to him. Stealing him from Rick and walking ahead. Clearly leaving the empty space on the sidewalk to him open.

Nervously, and now feeling pressure, I walk next to Rick again. I don't say anything for awhile, hoping my face is cooling down from how red it was.

"S-so, you and morty have fun?" I try to start conversation.

"Not really, we had fun looking at the fake boobs for the first hour. But after the second hour we ran out of sex stuff to look at. Then morty wanted to go look at some lame comics. We did that for about an hour. And then we kinda just waited for you guys to come back." Rick takes a swig from his flask, as if the memory brought back unpleasant feelings he wanted to suppress.

Feeling slightly guilty for making him wait so long I say, "sorry for making you guys wait so long. I guess we kinda got carried away. Summer really wanted me to look good f-" I quickly clear my throat realizing what I was going to say. "Anyways, at least you boys are going to have fun now."

"Yeah, would be nice if I could eat soon though." He sighs in pain and takes his hands out of his pockets.

I don't say anything since I don't really know how to reply. Playing with my fingers I try to think of something to say. I can see morty and summer glancing back every now and then to see what's going on.