My Old Pickup Truck

Cigarettes (part 2)

9:10am Friday

I was holding the cigarette by the window of my truck while driving. "Where are we going again?" I ask her.

"Hmm. At an arcade, is that okay?" I see her looking at me from my side.

"Yea! Why not? There's an arcade at the amusement park near the beach, wanna go there?" I put the cigarette back to my lips and let out a smoke. She suddenly takes it from my lips and put it in hers. "Hey! What are yo-- are you even allowed to smoke?!" I glance at her and she's smoking like she's been smoking for years.

"Yes, I have been smoking for two years now. It's not like I can't adapt it from the person who smokes almost every hour." she looks at me with a fake smirk.

So, it has been burned by cigarettes before.

That's... honestly sad.

A few minutes later, I saw how she flicked the cigarette outside the window. I smack her shoulders lightly. "Why'd you do that?" I ask her. We laugh like weirdos.

10:00am Friday

We arrive at the amusement park and there were a lot of people. I park the truck at the lot and we got down.

We walk straight and inside the arcade and bought tokens. After the lady hands me the tokens, I suddenly got pulled through the hoard of people to the game Tetris.

"If you beat my high score, I treat you anything. If you don't, you treat me anything." She says grinning like a child about to get their toy.

Oh, she doesn't know what's gonna come down to her until she loses. I am the greatest with this game.

"Okay! Let's do this!" I scream. She places herself in front of the game and plays it well.

She's not so bad.

A few minutes passed then she loses on a score of 9190. "FUCK!" She steps aside and says, "Beat that! Haha!"

I stand in front of the game and played it with all my strength and will. A few minutes later, when I was about to beat her score, I hear her whisper, "why hasn't she lost yet?" Then I lost with a score of 10189. I look at her with a smug face.

"How about that?" I ask her. "I think I'll have----" she cut me off.

"That was just practice! I was just trying to go easy on you!" She laughs nervously. "Let's try for real this time!"

She played and stayed focused on the game. I observe her face. She is very pretty, the way her face lights up when something good happens, is just.. so pleasing to see. I stare at her lips. The way she bites it looks so cute.

I wonder what it feels like to kiss it.

WHAT AM I THINKING!?

I didn't notice how long I was staring when she suddenly shouted. "FUCK!" She looks at me, breathing heavily. "NOW! Beat THAT!!" She lost. I look at her score and she got over to 11461.

I stretch my arms and crack my knuckles. "I'm surprised as to how you got over an easy score." I laugh. She makes a shocked face and she smacks my shoulders.

"Beat it, then." she says and laughs.

I play the game again, a few moments passes and I start to hear her foot thumping on the ground loud and fast. I smirk at her uneasiness.

So she's nervous.

I see her from my peripheral, chewing onto her nails and focused on the screen, looking concerned.