Whoomp there it is

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When Jake came to pick me up, I had my hair curled and a daisy flower crown.  I guess I was gonna be a Tumblr girl today.  He was also in a relaxed outfit consisting of a Captain America shield shirt, and another pair of khaki shorts.  He looked at my shoes and shook his head, I had on my three-inch wedges.  "No open-toed shoes."

"Uh, okay."  I went to my bedroom and changed into my black vans.  I turned around and Jake was leaning against my bedroom door.  "Nice room."

"Oh, yeah, I've been working on it for awhile."  Alex came up from behind, "I've been in here a lot, and you're seeing it for the first time?  Pity."

I glared at my ex and grabbed my purse, "You don't need that."

I put it back and exited my room, angling to avoid touching Alexander.  I brushed his chest, and Jake was waiting with the front door open.  "What time will she be home?"

"Uh, I don't know.  Why does it matter?"

"Because her parents are gone and I'm responsible for her."

"I think she can take care of herself."  Jake opened my car door as I slid into his leather seats for the second time today.  Once he got in the driver side, he pulled out a sleep mask and handed it to me, this is very secret and you can't see where we're going.  Uh, what?  He wanted to blindfold me?  Should I do it?  Why not?  Could he be taking me to a place and kill me?

I decided to go with the flow and put the plain sleep mask over my eyes.  It did a really good job of blocking out my periphery.  I couldn't even look down my nose.

I felt the car start and pull out of my driveway, but that was it.  I didn't feel him turn or stop.  It took about thirty minutes before he stopped the car (I heard the gear shift).  He pulled off the blindfold and I saw the gates of Elitche's looming over our head.  I didn't think it opened until next week.  "Isn't it still closed?"

"Kinda, my family has some weird deal with the company that a week before it opens to the public, they get to go in for free and do everything with no cost."  That, was badass.  I felt a grin creep on my face and Jake looked happy too.  

"I've never taken anyone here before."  Duuuuuuude, I was the first person to go here with him, on a date, for free, and almost no one else here to bother us.  Awesome.  I got out of the car and we met at the front of it.  He grabbed my hand, and it felt like it fit perfectly in mine.  We strolled towards the gate in silence, but we didn't need conversation.  I had never walked through the ticket stalls without a line until this day, and it was practically magical.  

Jake asked me what I wanted to do first, and there was one thing that I was really interested in seeing.  I wanted to see Jake hit the hammer.  We went over to it, the guy handed us the hammer, and Jake hit it.  It only took seconds for the ball to ring the bell, for that, Jake got a giant purple gorilla.  He handed it to me and then headed over to the squirt guns. "I'll make you a deal, whoever wins first, gets to get all the prizes from the game booths.  Deal?"

"Deal."  I sat down on the stool next to his and aimed.  The buzzer sounded and I shot the stream of water into the target, Jake was doing pretty well too, but I was a second ahead of him.  At the last second, my hand twitched and drove the water off the target, Jake won.  I laughed as they handed him a bright pink dolphin.  We walked to the next game, my arch nemesis.  Knocking down the damn cans with rubber balls.  I threw the first one as hard as I could, miss.  Jake took the second one, he hit all of them down, he got another stuffed animal, this time, a blue cat.

We kept playing the games,and of course Jake was winning, they had to give us a bag for his stuff.  Then, we got to my favorite, the balloon game.  You had to throw darts at balloons and try to pop them, which I had a real knack for.  We each got twenty darts, and went crazy, mine were blue, his were red.  In total, we hit 25.  I hit all of mine, and he only got five.  But, because we each hit at least three, we got to pick a prize.  I chose a metal sign that had a black background and a white outline of a motorcycle, and Jake got a red heart with "You." written in it.  

I had no idea what he was going to do with it, he was getting all of these stuffed animals, but that was his problem.  After we finished all of the carnival style games, we had thirteen stuffed animals in total, somehow, we even won at the milk bottle ring toss.  It was three hours, and we went towards the Ferris wheel after getting a large slushie to share.  Jake carried his stuff, even the giant gorilla, despite my numerous offers to help.  

As we were getting on the ride, he stopped the operator and whispered something to him.  I sat in a carriage meant for four, with our stuffed animals on the side that wouldn't get the best view when you got to the top.  After hushed whispers with the teenager that worked the ride, Jake sat next to me with his arm around me, very similar to last night on the couch.

The ride slowly went up, and the view grew even more breathtaking as we continued.  Once we got to the peak, the ride stopped.  I smirked, how had I not realized that Jake asked them to stop the ride when we got here, I had to admit, it was romantic...

I looked at Jake, he really was hot, smoking hot.  In an instant, his lips were barely touching mine, but the slight kiss made my head grow light, and slightly dizzy.  At this moment, it was him, and me, no contest between him and Alex, no Ferris wheel at Elitche's, just us, and our lips touching.  Then, he gently put his hand on my face and deepened the kiss.  SWEET BABY JESUS, HE WAS AN AMAZING KISSER.

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