The Change

Chapter Twenty-Two

It was time to take a second shot at the carnival. Hopefully this time, there weren't going to be any drunks who thought Harmony and I were pretty. Our night of "trouble" was coming to an end. We went around, going on all the rides. Even some rides I was scared of at first. Corey and I went on the Twister, which I thought was amazing! After we did all the rides, we wandered around, the two Coreys trying to win some stuffed animals for us, but mostly failing.
"Aww, that giant unicorn is so cute!" I gushed seeing the pastel pink unicorn with a purple saddle and white mane.
"You want it, babe?" Corey side smiled.
I did. I really did! But I was acting like a child, and I didn't really need it.... "No, it's okay, babe. You've already spent too much." Somehow, Feldman had managed to win Harmony a giant stuffed dragon at the ring toss booth, so Corey was trying to win at the ring toss booth, too. Everyone knows ring toss is rigged, so how Feldman won must've been pure luck.
"Nah, I really don't mind. Here." He gave the man running the booth a dollar.
The man came close to him, but he was loud enough for me to just barely make out his words. "Tryin' to impress your lady there, Champ?"
Corey looked over to me, then back to the man, nodded, then said something. The man looked at me, smirked, then said something which Corey agreed to. Finally, the man gave Corey three balls and said, "Okay. You get three shots to break three bottles. Break one bottle, you get a small animal. Break two, a medium. Three... and you get to choose one of the big ones up there." He pointed to where the giant unicorn swung. "Got it, Champ?"
"Yes sir!" Corey aimed for the bottles. He hit one... two.... "Aww, come on!" He knocked the third one down, but it didn't break, it just fell.
"Congrats, Champ! You get to pick one of the big ones!" The man said.
"Wait, what?"
"See?" The man held up a bottle. "It broke. You get to choose a big one! What'll it be, Champ?"
Corey looked back and smiled at me. "That pink unicorn please. Haha!"
"You got it!" The man grabbed a hook and lowered the unicorn down. He gave it to Corey and winked. Corey walked up to me, "A lovely unicorn for a lovely lady."
"Why thank you, kind sir. But what was going on there between you two?"
"What? With who? I swear, that clown did it first!"
"What? What clown?"
"Uh, nothing! Ha ha!"
Okay, that was weird. "I meant between you and the carny guy. He winked at you."
"Oh, umm.... He might've known I was trying to impress me and helped me out."
"Aww, you were trying to impress me?" I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, still holding the unicorn.
"Uh... yeah!" He kissed me.
I backed away. "Wait.... What were you guys talking about when you both look over at me?"
He scratched the back of his head. "We were talking about you."
"What did you guys say?"
"Well, he realized that I was trying to impress you, so he looked over at you and said, 'Man, she's a looker, ain't she?' Then I looked over at you and said, 'Yeah, yeah, real hot. Smart and nice, too.' Then he said, 'I see why you wanna impress her so munch, then. Girls like her are hard to come by, boy. Don't you let her go.' And then i said, 'Oh trust me, man. I know, I know.'"
I quickly glanced at the man in the booth. He was looking at us, probably trying to see if his advice was working. I wrapped my arms around Corey again and kissed him. He immediately stopped talking and kissed me back.