"Dear diary," Griffin stagg POV

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Third person POV

"HURRY THE FUCK UP BEFORE I LEAVE YOU GRIFFIN!" Vance says impatiently. "YEAH IM COMING!" Griffin yells back while putting on his shoes. Griffin walks outside to see his brother waiting in the front seat of his car. Griffin opens the passenger seat's door and gets in. "Took you long enough" Vance says. Griffin rolls his eyes and reply's back, " But i'm here now aren't I?". Griffin feels a knot in his stomach start to grow. He looks out the window observing all the trees and buildings that pass by him, trying to shake off the nervousness he had. Griffin listened as he heard Vance quietly whistle to a song playing on the radio.

Vance's whistling came to a halt as well as the car. "We're here" He says. Griffin gets up and unbuckles his seatbelt. Vance gets out and opens the car door for Griffin. "Why thank you kind gentleman." Griffin says sarcastically. Vance grumbles something but Griffin doesn't catch what he says. Griffin opens the arcade door and is immediately hit by colorful bright lights surrounding him. Vance goes ahead of Griffin and Griffin follows. They walk past all the arcade games until they see their friend group. "Hey Vance, hey Griffin!" Finney says. "Hi" Griffin replies back. "Yo V!" Robin yells. "What?" Vance replies annoyed. "I bet you couldn't beat me in basketball!" The boy challenges. "Hah! Try me dipshit!" Vance replies before racing Robin to the basketball game. "Hey Finn wanna join them?" Bruce asks. "Sure!" Finney agrees.

Griffin stands awkwardly noticing that it's only him and Billy left. "Guess it's only me and you now huh?" Billy says with a slight smile. "Yup." Griffin replies back quickly. "Well, wanna go to the claw machine with me?" Billy asks hopefully. "Sure!" Griffin says as Billy grabs his wrist and drags him to the claw machines. Griffin loves the claw machines. He doesn't really tell anyone but he's pretty good at it. "OOO LOOK AT THIS ONE!" Billy exclaims. Griffin looks over and sees a claw machine filled with animal plushies. Billy lets go of Griffins wrists to take out a few coins out his pocket and puts them into the machine.

The music starts up while Billy moves the joystick, while every once and a while checks on the side if he's in a good position. Billy pushes the button, aiming for the dog plushie beneath the claw. Griffin notices how focused Billy looked while watching the claw slowly inch closer to the prize. Griffin honestly thought it was funny, seeing how concentrated he was on it. They watch as the claw grabs ahold of the toy, lifting it up, bringing it towards the hole. But before it could reach, the toy slipped out of the claw's hold. Billy's face dropped into disappointment once he saw it didn't make it. "What the hell! It was literally so close!" Billy complained. Griffin laughed as he took some coins out of his pocket, putting them into the machine. "Watch and learn kid" Griffin smirked. The music started up again as Griffin moved the joystick around before pushing the button. Billy watched in amazement as the claw picked up the toy and dropped it  into the hole.

Billy was baffled as he watched the shorter boy get the plush and hold it in front of him. Griffin smirked, "And thats how its done" "How did you do that?? It didn't even shake!" Billy responded. "I'm just simply better than you" Griffin said smugly. Billy rolled his eyes and scoffed "Then I'll show you what I'M good at! C'mon!" Billy says as he grabs Griffins wrists once again. Billy brings him to a shooting game. Billy's really confident in these types of games because he had amazing aim from throwing all of those newspapers.

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The boys are done playing the games and went to the prize counter to cash in their tickets. "134, 135, 136!" Robin says as he holds up his tickets proudly. "Hah suck on it Robin! I've got 250 tickets!" Vance exclaims. "Vete a la meirda!" Robin replies" Everyone except Billy and Griffin has gotten their prizes. "What're you gonna get Griff?" Billy says. Griffin's face heats up from the nickname Billy gave him. "I was gonna get the water guns but I don't have enough" Griffin says. Billy smiles as he gives Griffin his tickets. "Here! You could have mine" Billy says. "Really? But you're not gonna get anything at all!" Griffin says. "I know! I wasn't really interested in getting anything anyways" Billy explains.

"Thanks!" Griffin says. Billy just sends him a smile that makes his stomach fill with butterflies. "Since you gave me your tickets, you could have the plushie" Griffin says. "REALLY??" Billy asks. "Of course! I feel bad for taking all your tickets" Griffin explains. "Thanks Griff!" Billy thanks as he hugs Griffin. Griffin melts into the hug while the others just look at them. "Alright lovebirds enough of that, we have to head home!" Finney says while smirking. Both of the boys had a light shade of pink tinted on their cheeks when they let go of the hug. The group headed outside and starts to depart from each other, saying their goodbyes. "Bye guys! See you at school!" Billy waves.

Griffin and Vance head into Vance's cars and start to head home.

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Hey guys! I hope you guys are enjoying this series. I forgot to add that it will switch to third person to the diary! Also sorry if I didn't use the Spanish phase right, I don't speak it. But please let me know it I say anything wrong so I can correct it!