A/N: After a frantic search for a notebook full of "Car Arguments" ideas, you guys get another car argument!
Disclaimer: I am plotting to ambush MOA's house by nightfall. Who wants to join me?
Gwen had managed to smuggle a brand spanking new camera into the car. She wanted a picture of Kevin. Just a normal one. The one in her locket was fine, but she wanted one that she could actually frame and put on her bedside table. Something that she could keep close when she wasn't wearing her locket.
The reason she had to smuggle it in was because she had tried outright to get a picture of Kevin. By telling him first.
Her last camera got smashed to bits and all those bits were now either in the wheels of Kevin's car or littered about the Mr. Smoothy parking lot. And she had hated hearing Ben laugh at her over her smashed camera. And Kevin did feel guilty. Only after it was totally annihilated.
So discretely this time. Without the flash or anything. She just wanted a picture of him. That was all. Something so innocent. Yet, she should've expected it to be worse. Because here's what happened:
Gwen had gotten into his car like any other day. She had just slid in, buckled up, and smiled at him right before he gunned the engine. It was so normal. Except for the camera hidden in an inside pocket of her jacket.
He wouldn't expect a thing, now would he?
The redhead smiled as he gunned the engine like every other day. She sank into the seat as he drove his car through the blacktopped streets of Bellwood, the car practically flying over the streets. Gwen couldn't help but feel confident this would work.
"Hey, Kevin?"
His obsidian gaze flitted to her softly to look at her curious face. He didn't see the lens staring at him from the inside of her jacket. "Yeah?" He pulled the car around another hard turn, taking it towards the planetarium. He knew she loved the planetarium; it wasn't hard to decide that he would take her there for a date.
"Why don't you smile very often?"
A little smirk turned up the corner of his lips and he looked her way as the car screeched to a halt at a red light.
Gwen snapped the camera. It was close enough to a picture. He was smiling. That was all she needed. And he was looking at her with the smile on his face. That was what she wanted.
The only problem was the flash. It went off.
"Was that lightning?" asked Kevin, his gaze immediately flitting to the road and then to the sky. Gwen thought she could see worry flashing across his features. The girl was worried that he would catch on.
"Nope," said Gwen quickly, hoping not to set him off to the fact she had a camera. She didn't want another one destroyed. Her parents would be reluctant to give her money for a third one. "I don't think it was."
"Well then what was it?" he asked, his gaze once more flicking to her. Kevin wasn't stupid. He definitely wasn't oblivious either. He hadn't pieced it together yet, but he knew something was up with Gwen.
Her face was as red as a cardinal. She couldn't help but panic. Gwen quietly tried to discreetly tuck away her camera back into the inside pocket of her jacket. She didn't want Kevin to take it from her. And she didn't want him to smash it either. He had a bad habit of smashing things he didn't like. "I don't know," replied the girl lightly while trying to make it so that he didn't know about her camera.
"It was almost like a camera flash."
Gwen was about to jump out the car door. Too bad the darn thing always automatically locked itself when it was in drive. She plotted for a few seconds, wondering if she could put it into park, jump out, and run for her life.
"Gwen?"
"Yeah?" She knew her face was burning red and she knew he was probably onto him, but that didn't stop her from trying to keep it discreet. The camera was shoved in her pocket and she thought she was in the home stretch. She thought she was free.
A smile still lingered upon his lips. "Hand it over."
With a heavy sigh, Gwen reached for the camera out of her pocket and began to pull it out to place it in Kevin's hand that was waiting to take it from her. His palm was skyward, just waiting for her to fork over the camera he knew she was hiding from him.
Instead, Gwen's hand shot out without the camera and she grabbed the gearshift and pulled it into park, sending the car to a lurching stop in the middle of the road. Her other hand unlocked the car and she was immediately throwing herself out the door and running for her life, camera in hand and laughing maniacally. She had finally won.
Three days after she framed it, she found it smashed and the picture gone. Needless to say, she also found Kevin in the room chewing on paper.
A/N: I know they may be a bit OOC, but I find this hilarious. I see Gwen as determined enough to do some crazy stuff (out of love, might I add) and if Kevin hates pictures enough, he would definitely eat paper (not out of love ^.^). So review!
~Sky
