Acid

Chapter Four: Into The Past

"You're so going down, Alaska!" He said.

"No. You're so going down" I said making a goofy face.

He snickered as were turned our attention back to the small Tv, that was sitting above the red brick fireplace. Soon the screen on the Tv went black, until it lit back up again, slowly counting us down. I had my Wii remote at the ready, pressing the two-key hard as my little Mario cart vehicle roared to life.

Suddenly a high buzzed sound started counting us down.

"3"

"2"

"1"

"Begin!"

My Character had collected so much speed from beforehand, and soon I was speeding ahead. I had slowly gone from eleventh place to second place, right behind Bowzer who seems to have the fasts car. Unless you're playing as him, then he's super slow.

"Damn it!"Tatum shouted.

"Look who's kicking your ass!" I yelled, moving my remote like I was driving a real car.

"That's no fair! My car got stuck at the beginning!" He grumbled.

"That's because you can't hold the two button, you have to keep pressing it on and off or else you get stuck"

"Can were start?"

''Nope!"

In frustration here turned his attention back to the TV as he tried so desperately to get his character to catch up with the rest of us. I think he was going for the win. The game had been going on for at least 5 minutes now, and everyone was on the third lap of the mall courses. I was just around the corner of the finish line when all the sudden, out of nowhere Luigi bumps me with his car and my character goes flying into one of those fake cars, that try to knock you over. As my character flipped over I could hear the laughter of Tatum.

"Hey! we agreed to not play dirty, Tatters!"

"Yeah but nobody actually plays by the rules Flaska!" He laughed evilly.

Once my character recovered and bounced back over to the right side, I smacked the two-button driving as fast as I could, to at least make second place,and rest assure I made it! Too bad, I could have been first, if Tatum kept his promise and didn't play dirty! We previously had decided to not bump or push each other's characters over. He such a cheater!

"Luigi wins!"Tatum shouted, throwing his controller on the couch and jumping to his feet.

"Mario should have won! But you cheated!" I said punching his side with what little force I had.

"Okay, I know the deal was that loser would pay for diner, but because I 'cheated'I'll pay"

"Thank you"

He smiled and took out his phone.

"All cheese?"He asked, more of a statement then a question.

"You know me so well" I joked.

He soon dialed the number and left for the kitchen, to order the pizza. My belly grumbled as I sat back looking at the clock, aw man it's nearly 9. I realized that Rae would be home in roughly an hour. She always gets off work around 10 pm. So I got up and walked over to the Wii, taking the disk out as I started to put it in its case. Leaning over I turned the Wii off unplugging it and putting it back in the box that Tatum had brought it over with. As I slowly packed everything up Tatum walked back in. Once he noticed me he ran over, stopping me from what I was doing as he took all the cords out of my hands.

"I'll do it,don't worry about it" He said smiling

"Thanks, I'm going to go check on Poppy"

"Oh, that reminds me!"

Throwing the wires for the Wii back into the box he trots out of the room grabbing my hand and pulling me along with him until he reaches the front door. I wonder what he's up to? As he lets go of my hand he bends over taking his coat off the ground revealing a relatively small pink wrapped box. He gently put the box in my hand, and my was it heavy!

"Wow, what is this Tatum?"

"It's for buggy" He smiled "Open it"

"Shouldn't Buggy open it?" I teased.

"Well I don't think babies can open boxes" He said, actually thinking about it.

"I'm joking"

"Oh" he pauses, "Just open already. The suspense is killing me"

This really sucks the wrapping looks so pretty and now I have to ruin it! Why is life so cruel? I bring the box up to my ear and shake it as I hear a big thud. This present is almost the size of the box, and I'm talking like a box big enough for a toaster! As I rip off the wrapping it reveals one of those glow in the dark baby lamps that have the light at the top which changes colors. I couldn't believe my eyes! I wanted to get this so bad. When we had gone shopping a week ago we ran across it in the baby store, I had pointed out that it would've looked beautiful in Poppy's bedroom but the price was to much over my budget. Heck over both of our budgets!

"You look shocked"

"How? How did you get this, it was like 300 bucks?"

"I took a lot of birthday money out of the bank, I thought it would be useful for Buggy" He pauses "You still like it though, right?"

"I love it!" I say, putting it gently on the ground as I throw my arms around him pulling him into a tight embrace.

His arms wrapped around my waist as we stood their peacefully, and that's when I knew I would always be safe in his arms.