My favorite part about living in jersey, is that it's a twenty minute drive to the boardwalk. If I'm being honest, the boardwalk relieves all of my stress, aside from dance, it's my happy place.
"Okay, what should we do first?" I ask Luke and Abby.
"Let's go play in the arcade." Luke squeals.
"Are you sure you're eighteen?" Abby laughs.
"Physically yes, mentally, I'm a five year old." He says walking towards the arcade.
We walk into the arcade, it's very crowded. There are kids running everywhere, adults sitting on the slot machines. I look at one specific game. It's a wizard of oz one, you have to shoot quarters to try and knock cards off the ledge, collect all the cards and you get 50,000 tickets. My mom would spend hours playing this game. When I was little id ride he rides and she'd play this game.
I look carefully in the game and notice a dog card
Toto. The rarest card in the deck.
"You guys go have fun." I tell Abby and luke. "I'm gonna play this." I say.
The nod and walk away talking.
I take a deep breathe and slowly sit on the chair. I insert five dollars, giving me five hundred coins to shoot. I'm getting this toto.
Half and hour or so I'm out of tokens. I check in my purse to see how much money I still have.
"Shit." I curse, realizing I only have a twenty. I'll go ask a employee to break it into two tens. I put my sunglasses on my chair so no one sits there, I get up and start looking for the employee.
"Look who we have here."
I turn around, and once again I roll my eyes.
"Harry, are you sure your aren't following me?"
"Brooke, are you sure you aren't following me?" He taunts.
"This is Brooke?" A guy asks harry, pointing at me.
I know the guy anywhere. That's Niall, Niall Horan, the same thing as harry. I have Abby and Luke, Harry has niall.
"Yeah. That's my bitch." Harry smirks.
"I'm not your bitch." I scoff.
"Hard to get." Harry laughs to Niall.
"If you would excuse me, I need someone to break a twenty." I say walking away.
Harry grabs my wrist. "I can break it for you."
"It's fine." I try to walk away again but he doesn't let me.
"Brooke. Here." He says. He reaches into his back pocket, from there he pulls out his wallet and hands me two tens. I put on a sympathetic smile and hand him the twenty.
"Thank you." I say, meaning it.
"What are you doing here anyway?" Niall asks.
I raise my eyebrow. "I'm always here, it's one of my favorite pass times." I say crossing my arms.
"I am too." He says "I don't recognize you."
"Brooke!" Abby says walking up to me. "Luke won a big jackpot while playing Deal or No Deal, we need help collecting the tickets."
"Hello there." Niall smirks.
"You are..?" Abby gives niall a dirty look.
"Niall Horan, but you can call me your new love."
"As if. I didn't even know you existed until now." She scoffs.
"I gotta go I have a toto to win." I say, turning on my heal and walking away. I walk over to my seat when someone screams my name. I look over to see look holding all his tickets.
"Help." He whimpers.
I guess toto can wait. I go over and take half of the earnings and we both walk it over to the cashier.
"One hundred thousand." The girl says after weighing them.
"God damn." I say. "What the hell are you going to waste it on?"
"No idea." He chuckles looking at the options. "I could get a suitcase, a tootsie roll pillow, or both, a bike.." He trails off. I look over and see Abby still talking to niall.
Harry walks up to me and hands me my sunglasses. "I was afraid you would forget these." He smiles.
"See you can be kind at times." I tease him, flicking his nose.
"I'm a very nice person."
"A little too nice. Did you know Alexandra has a boyfriend?"
"Fuck, really?" He sighs. "She was hot too."
"Why don't you go for personality? A girl could be really pretty, but a bitch on the inside. Like a female version of you."
"Did you just call me attractive?" He smirks.
"I also called you a bitch."
"But you called me hot."
"You are, everyone knows that."
His smirk grows wider. "Especially you."
"I said you're attractive, didn't say I was attracted to you."
"You know you are." He says moving closer.
Suddenly I got really uncomfortable. We haven't talked about how I felt towards him in a while. I can't have him flirt like this, not to me at least.
"I have to go... Thanks for the glasses." I say speed walking over to Abby.
"Ab, let's go." I say.
Nialls face saddens. "Why so soon?"
Ab waves him off and looks at me. "B, you're paler than an albino person, what happened?"
"I'll tell you in the car." I say dragging her over to Luke.
"Or a sign, or a doll house for my sister, or may-"
Abby slaps Luke. "We're leaving, let's go." She says dragging him.
Once in the car, I rub my face and take deep breaths.
"B..?" Ab asks.
"If only... If only he understood."
