Me and Mikey decided to walk to "downtown" Belleview.

"Well, there's not really much to see. Hey, wanna go to the arcade?"

"Yay! I love arcades!" Mikey yelled.

"Cool. Let's go!"

So me and Mikey ran to the arcade.

"What do you wanna play?" I asked Mikey.

"I dunno. We probably should get tokens first," Mikey said.

So I walked over to the token machine and put in 20 dollars.

"Here, we each get 20 tokens. Now I'm gonna go play House of the Dead. See ya later." I turned and started walking to the game machine.

"Wait!" Mikey yelled.

I turned around and Mikey ran into me, almost knocking me down.

"Sorry. I wanna play with you!" Mikey practically yelled.

"Shhh! Keep it down, kid!" The guy over at the prize booth was practically giving us the death stare.

"Alright, alright, calm down! Now let's go kick some zombie ass!" Mikey said.

We skipped over (that's right, skipped) to the House of the Dead game. We each put in two tokens, and started shooting anything that moved. Well, except the survivors. But only 'cause you got a life for saving them.

After we beat the game (me and Mikey kicked zombie ass), we went over to the basketball game and started playing that. We each got a whole bunch of tickets.

We finally used all of our tokens.

"Well, now what?" Mikey asked.

"We go over to that prize booth thingy and get prizes."

"How many tickets do we have?"

I took him over to the ticket counter. "You feed your tickets in there and it counts how many you have. It's a hell of a lot easier than counting them by hand."

It turned out that Mikey had over a thousand tickets.

I put mine in and I had over a thousand as well.

"Do you wanna combine tickets and get something cool?" Mikey asked me.

"Yeah, why not?" I shrugged.

So we went over to the prize booth and got an iHome.

"So how are we gonna share it?" Mikey asked.

"We'll swap each week," I told him.

"Ok. Now what do you wanna do?"

"I'm hungry. Let's go get something to eat."

We went to Burger King and got salads. Mikey insisted on paying because I had gotten the tokens at the arcade. Personally, I didn't mind.

"So Mikey, why did you guys move to Belleview?" I asked.

Mikey stared off into space for a second. He looked sad. He took a breath and composed himself.

"Me and my brother were picked on a lot back where we used to live. It got to the point where I didn't wanna live anymore," he said dully, and shoved up his glasses.

I walked over and gave him a hug. "Mikey, you're my friend now. If banyone/b tries to pick on you, I will personally shove my foot up their ass." I was pissed at those kids who had picked on Mikey. He was so shy and sweet. And cute.

"Thanks, Zoë." Mikey smiled.

We walked back to his house and found Frank and Gerard waiting outside for us.

"Finally! Where the hell have you guys been?" Frank yelled.

"The arcade and Burger King," I said.

"Well next time take us!" Frank said.

"You guys didn't wanna go!"

"Well if I had known you were going to the arcade, I would have gone!"

"Just shut the fuck up Frank!"

"No!" Frank yelled and stuck out his tounge.

"Aren't we mature," I snickered.

"Frank! You need to come home now! And Zoë, your mom wants you home too!" Mrs. Iero yelled to us.

"Alright, guys, see you in school tomorrow?" I asked.

"Yup."

"Mikey, what grade are you in?"

"11th."

"Ok. Gerard are you in school?"

"I'm a senior."

"Alright, bye guys!"

A chorus of "Bye, Zoë!" followed me off of Mikey's front lawn.

School was gonna get a lot more interesting...