Good Luck With That
Chapter 1 - Fed Up
"Angela! Hey, Angela!"
Turning at the sound of her name, Angela saw Luke waving frantically at her from the edge of the Praline Woods. She smiled, and, waving back, approached the hyperactive carpenter.
"Morning, Luke!" she greeted. "What's up?"
"I wanted to show you something I came up with!" he replied, grinning as he swung his axe over his shoulder. "Check it out!" He raised his axe over his head and charged at the nearest tree.
Angela rolled her eyes. Great, he was showing off one of his stupid axe tricks again. It seemed that Luke came up with some new trick everyday to do the same thing. And he always wanted to show her the "cool" way he can cut down a tree, wasting a good half hour of her time. She started massaging her temples, not even bothering to look up at him as he reduced the tree to splinters. When she first met Luke, she thought that his little tricks were cute. But day after day he was doing the same thing, and it started to drive her nuts. Not to mention that he seemed totally ignorant of how this was affecting her sanity.
"Pretty awesome, huh?" Luke asked her, grinning ear to ear. He swung his axe affectionately in the air. "I call this trick -"
"NO!"
Luke stared at her, startled. Angela never shouted at him before…
"No more axe tricks!" she snapped. "I am so tired of watching you do the same thing everyday!"
Luke frowned. "Hey, now, just because you're jealous-"
"What?"
He puffed out his chest indignantly. "You're just jealous that you can't do what I can do!"
She glared. "Anyone can chop wood!"
He laughed as if to brush her comment aside. "Yeah, but who else can chop it as well as I do?"
For a brief moment, Angela considered hitting him with her hammer. Instead, she inhaled deeply, regaining control. "You know," she said in a quiet voice, "if you were so cool, why don't you have a girlfriend, huh?"
Luke stopped mid-laugh to look at her. "A…girlfriend?" he repeated, as if it was a foreign word.
She smirked. "I bet you've never even had the guts to ask out a girl."
Luke said nothing for a while as he digested her words. Then, in an unusually quiet voice, he asked her, "Are you challenging me?"
Angela blinked. "So…you've never even gone on a date…?" What a surprise.
His eye twitched slightly at her tone. "N-never had to," he said, looking away for a moment. "But I'll show you!"
"Good luck with that!" she scoffed, turning to leave. "There's no way anyone would actually go out with an insane guy like you!"
"Oh yeah?!" Luke grabbed her arm. "And what if someone does go on a date with me?"
They frowned at each other for a moment. Then a smile slowly spread on Angela's face.
"Okay, Luke," she said coolly, "I'll play this game with you. If you find a girl crazy enough to go on a date with you today, then I'll do what you want for a week!"
He laughed. "Too easy!"
"But if you lose," she continued, smirking, "you have to do what I say for a week!" He stopped and stared at her. "You still up to it?" she asked, holding out her hand.
"Hmph!" Luke grabbed a hold of her hand and shook it firmly. "You bet! But no talking your way out of it once I win!"
'Ha!' she thought. 'There's no way I could lose! There's no one crazy enough to go out with you!'
A/N: I wanted to try writing something fun for a change. I hope people like this.