Games
Sarah, Shane, Jareth, and Natalia all walked over to the arcade part of the restaurant. The noisy machines fascinated Jareth. "What are these things, Sarah?"
"They're video games. Here I'll show you one of my favorites." Sarah then looked over at her friends and said, "Hey, guys I'll meet you back at the table in 20 minutes. I'm going to show Jareth DDR."
"Kay!" Natalia said. She knew this meant some alone time with Shane.
"Natalia, may I have the pleasure of kicking your butt in a game of foosball?"
"Sure, but just know I will be doing the butt-kicking."
"Okay, here's how it works. When these arrows hit these arrows, you step in the direction they're pointing."
"I don't understand, will you show me?"
"Yeah, hold on let me get a quarter." Sarah said reaching into her pocket. She then felt the vibration of her cell phone against her hand. "Ugh! Hello?" she said angrily.
"Hi, Sarah?"
"Oh, hi dad."
"Wow, your voice has changed since the last time I called you."
"Yeah, well it has been almost 6 months."
"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry about that. But I'm just really busy over here. They keep us working at all times. Well anyway, I was calling to ask you something."
"And that is…" Sarah's father's lack of calling bugged her, and it bugged her even more when he blamed it on work.
"Well, I was wondering if you had a boyfriend."
"A boyfriend, why would you want to know that?"
"Because I need to know how many tickets to send you to come to visit me in France. I am going to be here for about another year and I wanted to see you."
"Oh, well who all are you planning on me bringing?"
"Oh, you know, the usual people. Natalia, Shane, a boyfriend if you have one."
"Well," Sarah had to think about this. Should she tell her dad that Jareth was her boyfriend so he could go? But what if he left before they went? "Yeah, I do."
"Okay so that means I need to buy 4 tickets and rent two rooms. The flight will be 4 Friday's from now, the week after your prom, and will take off from BWI at 8:30 pm. If anyone has to cancel, just call me and I'll return the ticket."
"Okay. Thank you so much dad. How long are we staying?"
"Oh, just the weekend. The company is paying for the tickets."
"Are Karen and Toby coming?"
"No I heard about Toby's little accident"
"Yeah that's Toby though. Well then, I guess I'll be seeing you in a few Saturday's?"
"Yeah, and Sarah."
"What?"
"We have some stuff to talk about when you get here."
"Okay. See you later dad. Love you."
"Love you, too Sarah. Bye bye now." And with that the phone call was over.
"What was that all bout?" Jareth was curious as to why she was so happy about her father calling. He knew that she usually hated it when he called.
"Nothing I'll tell you at dinner. Now you want me to show you how this thing works?"
"Please."
"Okay." Sarah showed him how it worked and played to Madonna's song "Like a Virgin." She surprisingly got a B. "Not bad for me. You want to try?"
"Sure." He tried it to the same song and got a C.
"Not bad for the first time. Come on its time to go back to the table.
