The Silent Confession

A Day With Jason (The Arcade)

When I walked away from that building, I went to the park and sat down in the grass against a tree. I sighed and tried to make sense of the two visions/flashbacks I got. What did my Dad mean when he said that I was dying and what did my Mom mean when she said that my Dad would be taking a life of a variant of me? I shook my head trying not to think about it.

Ironically when I started to think about the vision/flashback about Jason and what his meant, I heard his voice beside me, "Nico, you okay?" I turned in his direction and looked confused, "What do you mean by that?" Jason sat next to me and replied with, "This morning at school... it looked like you were having a panic attack or a seizure. Maybe both." I sighed, "I'm fine." I told him and Jason didn't look convinced, and to be honest I didn't feel convinced either.

"Well..." Jason started and looked around, "Will isn't here, is he?" I shook my head and Jason continued, "Do you want to hang out with me? I don't know, maybe we could become friends and I can show Will it wasn't me that hurt you." I nodded, "That would be nice." Jason got up and I also got up and just started following him around town. "Where do you want to go?" He asked me and I saw an arcade, "There." I pointed and we walked into the arcade.

We got a game card for the games and we started playing flappy bird, in which I won. Every time which made Jason mad, it was hilarious. "How!? Like how!?" Jason questioned and I bursted out laughing, "I call for a final round! I need to beat you!" I swiped the card in the slot for me and Jason and we started playing again.

I won... again. It made Jason mad, again but he started laughing. "You play games a lot? Don't you?" He asked when we were going to a different game and I nodded, "A lot back when I was in New Hampshire, but I still play now and then." Jason shoved me playfully, "Gamer boy." I tried shoving him back, he didn't move an inch, "Nerd." I told him and we went to do the other games and went we saw a big claw machine, Jason walked over to it. He looked at all the stuffed animals that were inside and he used the card and the machine started up.

I watched as he tried to get the alligator stuffed animal and surprisingly he got it. He grabbed it and handed it to me, "For you." He told me and I smiled. "Really? Thanks!" Jason smiled and ruffled up my hair and I swatted his hands away, "Don't touch my hair." I told him and he replied with, "Sorry. What other games should we go for? Or do you think we have enough tickets." I looked at the amount of tickets we got, I couldn't say how much we actually have. "I think we have enough." I told him, "Well, enough for whatever this can get us."

Surprisingly that was a lot of things.

"So what do you want to get?" Jason asked me, as if it was my job to decide. "Why do I have to be the first person to pick something? Why can't you be first?" I asked him and Jason just looked at me, "You where the one that go the most tickets." "I don't think that matters, you should pick something first!" I decided to use my puppy dog eyes. It looked as if Jason was about to argue then decided not to and sighed, "If you really want me to pick something first, I guess I will since... those eyes I can't say no too." I smirked, "That's the perks of having cute adorable can't say no to eyes." I had told Jason.

Jason looked around before picking some tic tacs and a small stuffed panda. "You can choose something now, Nico." I looked around the place and saw they had Hogwarts Funko Pops, so I grabbed the Professor Snape one and I grabbed a few Smarties. Well, you know, to make me smart.

When we used the tickets for the stuff we got, they put the rest of the tickets on the card and gave the card to Jason, "You can used those tickets anytime, they don't expire." The person at the desk said to us, "Thank you." Jason had replied to them and we walked out of the arcade. "Did you have fun?" Jason asked me when we got out of the arcade. I nodded and leaned against him as we walked. "You should be a part of our friend group." I told Jason as I unwrapped one of the smarties. "What about Will? Or the girl... Hazel I think her name was."

"Well... I can show Will that you're really nice and what about Hazel?" Jason paused, "She asked a few questions I didn't want to answer... about my other school." I thought for an answer, "Well tell her that you don't want to answer those questions, I'm sure she'll understand. See you around, yeah?" I stopped leaning against Jason and started walking away from him, "Yeah, see you tomorrow!" He said before he also walked off.