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It's finally Saturday and I went to go hang out with Annie and Katelyn. We end up going to a dimly lit arcade and Annie started getting really invested in her game of Galaga™. "Come on Annie I'm bored of watching you!" Katelyn whines.

"Yeah, cool.." The girl continues shooting the 8-bit aliens.

Katelyn sighs, "Can I at least get some quarters to play other games." The blonde nods and uses her elbow to push her wallet towards us. I grab it and me and Katelyn begin looking around for a interesting game.

"She must really like Galaga™. "

"She just likes all retro games." Katelyn replies, I nod and we continue walking until we come across a dance dance revolution machine. "This is my shit bro!" Katelyn yells and puts some quarters into the machine. I get on the second platform as Katelyn inserts the last quarter.

The machine starts and Katelyn picks Katy Perry, Roar. "Why'd you pick this song?"

"It's a good song! People are gonna walk by and be like 'wow these people have confidence!'"

"But like, why?"

"Listen man, it's a good song when you're in a good mood and a bad song when you're in a bad mood!" I don't push further and jump on the different arrows.

Halfway through the song I hear a familiar voice and I turn to look, pausing the game. "What the fuck man!" Katelyn yells.

"Shhh, do you see that." I say, I can see Lucas and a little girl, He has kids! The girl has long curly brown hair and bright green eyes. She looks like she's about five or six.

"Man, I don't care you messed up my groove!" Katelyn said unpausing the game.  I step off the platform and hide behind a machine.

"Uncle Lucas!" The little girl exclaims.

"Yes Juniper?"

"I want to play this one!" She points to a pacman machine and Lucas nods. He pulls out a couple of quarters and hands them to her. "Thank you!" She puts the quarters in one at a time and as I watch I see Lucas turn his head and he smiled.

I freaked out and quickly stood up from where I was and put a quarter in the machine and began playing. "Were you stalking me and my niece?" Shit.

"W-What, no of course n-n-not."

"mhm." He hums with a smile.

"Waaahhh, I died!" Juniper cried, running over towards lucas.

"Aw, that's okay darling," He comforts, "I want you to meet someone, this is Eric."

"Hi Eric, I'm Juniper." She introduced, "Uncle Lucas talks about you all the time."

"Sh!" Lucas hushed, I looked on in confusion. "She meant," Lucas continues,"that I've been thinking about hiring you as an assistant!"

"That would be awesome!" I exclaim.

"Shut da fuck uuuppp!" Annie screams, I look over and she's still playing Galaga™ but just slightly less focused.

"Is she your friend?" Lucas asked.

"Um, maybe." I get slightly embarrassed and look away.

Just before Lucas can say anything else Juniper pulls on his arm, "I wanna play that one!" She pulls on his sleeve and points to a claw machine filled with teddy bears.

"Okay, Eric, I'll see you Monday afternoon." With that he turned and followed Juniper to the claw game. I sigh heavily and go back to Katelyn who is waiting for Annie to hurry and set a name for the high score thing.

"Come on Annie just put your name and let's go."

"Nah, lemme think." She retorts before entering the name 'Ann'. "Alright let's go." With that we left the arcade and Got into Katelyn's car.

"I saw you and Lucas talking," Katelyn says. "Wanna share?"

"He offered me an after school job."

"You took it, right?" Annie asked in an almost threatening tone.

"Of course!"

"Good." She said slightly less threatening but the tension was still there. I sigh and flop back into the passenger seat.

"Hey Annie." I say.

"Yeah?"

"Why are you sitting in the middle?"

"I always get the middle." She states seriously.

"But nobody else is sitting in the back so why are you in the middle."

"I.always.get.the.middle!" She hisses. I flinch out of fear and we then arrive at my house. "Okay have a nice afternoon Eric." Annie says more calmly and happily.

I become severely confused, "Uh yeah, you too." With that said, I left the car.