Chapter 11: Date Night part 1

Kara woke up that morning with her eye's burning, a head ache that felt like a hangover, and dried up tears on her face. She had been crying on and off ever sense Friday afternoon, after seeing her crush from the 7th grade hugging another girl quite amorously. Ever sense 7th grade when she first laid eyes on Korra had she dreamed of having those strong arms wrapped around her, and it was all took away from her. She's known Korra for a long time but just hasn't had the courage to talk to her until yesterday. It took three years for Kara to have the bravery to talk to Korra where as it only took Asami 10 seconds.

Kara pulled the covers off of her face and hissed to the brightness of the sun that invaded her room, she then jumped out of her bed and yanked the curtains over the window to make her room dark again, and climbed back into the bed. Kara was about to doze off again when her mom barged into her room demanding for her to get up. "Kara get your ass up, its 12 o'clock! and we all have to go to your baby cousin's birthday party at 4!" Kara's Mother said ripping the covers off of her daughter.

"Ugh why are they having the birthday party at fun'n stuff he's only turning 3 years old. He won't be able to do anything, and I'm too old to be going there." Kara whined as she pulled the covers back over her body.

"Kara I'm not playing with you if I come back up here in five minutes and your ass is still in this bed...your ass is mine!" and with that Kara's mother left her room slamming the door.

Kara groaned has she rose to her feet and walked to her bathroom to take a shower. "I guess I got to get up now I'm not trying to get my ass whooped."

Korra was so excited for this date but yet still very nervous, it was her first date after all. She had it all planned out in her head on how it was all going to go down. 'Ok so I'll pick Asami up from her house like a gentleman, have the time of our lives at Fun 'n Stuff, and then bring her back home.' Korra thought with a smile on her face, but then that smile quickly faded. "oh who am I kidding that's just easier said than done, I just hope tonight goes right." Korra said as she buttoned up the last button of her shirt. She wore a blue and gray plaid flannel that she buttoned all the way up to her neck, with tan joggers that had pockets on the pants legs, and to finish the whole outfit off she wore navy blue converse.

Korra sent Asami a text message,

Korra: Hey Asami I was just checking if you were ready.

Asami: Yeah I'm just hoping out of the shower now I should be ready in 30 min, and what should I wear?

Korra: Just wear something comfortable, you look beautiful in anything that you wear anyways. I'll see you in a bit :).

"This place smells like feet, and arm pit juice." Kara said walking into Fun 'n Stuff with her family.

"I know, but were just here for this birthday party and then we'll leave in about an hour were only here to congratulate your cousin Tye. Ok." Kara's father said pulling her into a side hug.

"Ok, but anything past an hour and I'm gonna bounce."

They found the rest of their family sitting at a table with balloons and presents on it with a birthday cake in the middle. Kara hugged and mingled around with her family until she got sick and tired of doing so, and disappeared into her cell phone scrolling through Instagram. Kara scrolled and scrolled through all of the Instagram photos with a very tedious motion, some of the pictures were interesting some of them were just photos that reminded her how much her life sucked. But one photo seemed to have caught her eye, this photo made her want to scream made her want to hide and made her want to cry.

It was a photo of Korra and Asami taking a picture outside of the Fun 'n Stuff building. The caption saying: "I'm here at the most awesome place in the world, with the most amazing girl in the world." Korra had her arm wrapped around Asami's waist while Asami kissed Korra on the cheek.

Kara looked up from her phone and looked at the front entrance of Fun 'n stuff and sure enough Korra and Asami walked in together right on que.

"This is going to be so much fun, where's the race track I'm ready to leave you in the dust." Asami said punching Korra in the arm playfully.

"Whoa wait a minute hold your horse's haha we have to pay first to get are wrist bands and coins, C'mon." Korra lead them to the front desk and then took out her wallet.

"Wait no what are you doing I can pay for myself-." Asami tried to offer but was cut off by Korra covering her mouth.

"No I'm paying for everything tonight you don't have to spend a single penny, I got this." Korra said taking her hand off of her dates mouth.

"Are you sure cause I have no problem paying?" Asami asked.

Korra nodded "I'm taking care of you tonight." Korra grabbed her hand and squeezed it with reassurance.

Asami squeezed back. "Thank you, that's very nice of you."

Korra rang the bell on the desk and waited for the guy to help them. "Hi welcome to Fun 'n Stuff How may I help you kids tonight?!" The man said very loudly but in a polite manner.

"Umm two wrist bands please, oh and some coins for the arcade." Korra said planting the money onto the counter.

The man smiled greedily at the greens and then yelled at his assistant behind him. "Zhu Li do the thing!"

Korra and Asami gave each other a side glance and then started cracking up.

"What's so funny!" The man yelled. "Nobody laughs at Iknik Blackstone Varrick!" He yelled leaning over the counter to eyeball the hysterical teenagers.

"Gahaha *cough* sorry sir i-it was just what you said that made us laugh!" Korra said trying to hold Asami up with her arm because she was laughing so hard.

Varrick grabbed the wrist bands and the cup full of coins for the arcade from his assistant and handed them to the laughing girls. "Here take your bands and your cup full of rich's and get lost!"

Korra shakily grabbed the wrist bands and the cup still laughing "Thank you sir." And took a very hysterical Asami towards the arcade. "Haha well that was something huh?"

"Ha ya. Zhu Li do the thing! Like w-what haha." Asami said a tear dropping from her eye from her laughing so hard.

"Geez Sami calm down, I'm glad you're having fun but don't die on me from laughing so much that you can't breathe." Korra said sitting her friend down on one of the driving game seats in the arcade.

"haha sorry I guess I kinda just lost control there." Asami said breathing normally again.

Korra bit her lip and shook her head at her friend. "You good now?" Korra said scooting next to her on the game chair. "Can we start really having fun now?" Korra gestured to the racing game that they were currently sitting on.

Asami was confused. "I thought we were going to the race track? This isn't the race track." Asami said pouting in disappointment.

Korra laughed at Asami's pouting 'she's so cute I think I'm gonna die' she thought. "Haha no silly this isn't the race track…but now that I think of it I might need some practice before we do the real deal."

"Korra you do know that go cart racing is nothing compared to a video game right?" Asami said giving Korra a 'really' looking face.

"Ya I know but..." Korra rubbed the back of her neck nervously. "But the game right here has petals like a go cart would a-and a s-steering wheel too a-and I don't know I was just wondering if y-you c-ould-" Korra was cut off by Asami covering her mouth now.

"Korra! S-stop haha, so what your trying to say is that you want me to teach you. Is that it?" Asami said taking her hand off of Korra's mouth to allow her to speak, and Korra just nodded "Why were you so nervous to ask me ha?" Asami asked.

"Because I wanted you to like guide me through it sought of say." Korra said shyly.

Asami finally got to where Korra's head was at, and she started to glow a bright crimson. "Oh well I would love to, here put your feet on the petals." Asami said getting off of the seat so Korra could stretch her legs out.

"Now what?" Korra asked.

"Ha well put the coins in to start the game of course silly."

"Oh duh." Korra slid two coins into the game machine. "Now what?" Korra asked as the racing game came to life.

Asami looked at Korra with a sly grin before casually stepping over Korra's legs and then sitting on her lap. Resting her legs on Korra's and her hands on the steering wheel. Turning toward Korra and giving her a wink "Now, put your hands on my hands so we steer together." Asami said shifting a little on Korra's lap to get situated and turning her attention towards the screen.

Korra wasn't shocked that Asami was sitting on her lap, Asami has done that more times than she can count on her fingers so that's not what shocked Korra. What shocked Korra was that Asami was sitting on her lap IN PUBLIC! But Korra kept her cool and played along with Asami, putting her hands on top of her dates.

Kara watched as her crush and Asami walked into the arcade in a fit of laughs, she sighed and turned back to her phone. 'Only 45 minutes and then I'm out of here, and I can go back home and lock myself in my room.' Kara thought checking the time on her phone.

She was in the middle of a game of angry birds when her mom snatched the phone out of her hands. "Hey mom what are you doing!" Kara protested.

Kara's Mother put the cell phone in her purse and glared down at her daughter. "First of all who are you talking to, because it better not be me!" Kara's mom yelled. Her mom seemed to be always wound up, but when your Kara and you know how to press her buttons she has all the reasons to be mad all the time. "Second you can live without this phone for a while, and third your cousin what's to go and play in the arcade and he can't go by himself so go take him." Kara's mother said pointing towards her nephew.

"ugh why can't aunt Yasmin take him?" Kara whined.

"Because. So you can do something with yourself." Kara's mom said pulling her up out of her seat by her arm.

"oof ok ok I'm going." Kara walked over to her father and whispered in his ear, "so much for staying just for an hour." Then gently grabbed her little cousin by the arm and walked ever so slowly towards the arcade, because she wasn't in a rush to see her crush with someone else besides herself.

Once they stepped into the arcade the first two people that Kara spotted were of course Korra and Asami. "Great" Kara huffed under her breath, as she took notice on how Korra and Asami were situated on the game chair. She wanted nothing to do with it and tried her best to by past them without getting recognized by Korra, but her cousin thought otherwise. "Kara Race, Race!" Tye said pulling on Kara's arm and pointing towards another racing game right next to the two people that she's trying to avoid.

"Uh No no, Tye we can't play that game i-its broken." Kara said trying to pull the toddler forward, but he just wiggled out of her grip like it was nothing and ran towards the empty seated racing game. "Tye No!" Kara yelled running towards her cousin.

For a 3 year old he was pretty smart, and Tye pulled to arcade coins out of his pocket and slid them in the slot to start the game. Kara came up behind him and snatched him out the seat ignoring the familiar faces that was staring at her from the other seat. "What are you doing don't you ever run away from me again you hear me!" Kara said looking straight into her cousin's eyes, that stared back at her with mischief in his eyes with a grin on his face.

"You lied Kara the game does too work look." Tye said pointing to the screen. "But I don't know how to play can you teach me?"

"Looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't know how to drive." Korra said butting into the conversation beside them. "Hey Kara how's it goin?" Korra waved.

Kara froze up to the sound of Korra's voice a refused to take her eyes off of her cousin. "Everything's fine." Kara said harshly.

Asami shifts a little in Korra's lap uncomfortably not sure what is going on, but couldn't help but to introduce herself. "Hi I'm Asami." Asami extends her arm out for Kara to shake her hand.

Kara looked Asami's hand over for a moment before shaking it, forcing a smile to form on her face. "Nice to meet you I'm Kara."

"So how do you guys know each other?" Asami asked curiously.

"From basketball tryouts." Korra said. "We just started talking like…" Korra trailed off pondering for a second, "…yesterday. Oh yeah by the way did you make the team?" Korra asked.

"uhh…no." Kara said looking off to the side. "I knew I wouldn't have made the team anyways. I've never picked up a basketball in all of my 15 years of being on this earth, so I Knew I wasn't going to make the team in the first place."

"Wait if you've never played basketball before then why would you try out?" Korra asked a little confused.

Kara looked back at the pair in the seat, and hesitated to answer. The real reason why Kara tried out was because she wanted to get closer to Korra but she knew she couldn't say that. So she lied, "The reason why I tried out was because my mom made me, she just wanted me to follow in her footsteps and get a scholarship in basketball. Or it could also be to just get me out the house…you see I'm not a really sporty type of gal I'm more into like Photography, writing, drawing you know that kind of stuff, not sports." Kara said hoping her lie wasn't that obvious because some of what she did say was true.

"Well that sucks your mom should understand that you're not her and that you have your own personality, and she should let you make your own decisions." Asami said understandingly.

"Well I still feel bad that you didn't make the team." Korra said apologetically.

"Ahh don't be I'm actually glad that I didn't make the team because now I can save myself the embarrassment haha." Kara said laughing at herself and the pair laughed with her.

Tye had be quiet throughout the whole conversation and he was growing antsy. "Hey Kara are we gonna race or not?" Tye said impatiently.

"haha that was the same question I was going to ask you Korra?!" Asami said nudging Korra in the ribs.

"Ouch! Ok ok let's go sorry I forgot." Korra said lifting Asami off of her lap bridle style, then setting her on the ground. "This way madam." Korra said holding out her arm and Asami gladly took it. "See you around Kara." Korra waved goodbye.

Kara waved back trying to old back a tear and as soon as they turned the corner of the arcade she let it fall.