Day 52: In Which The Future Is In Her Hands

How things had gotten to that point, Elsa did not know. One moment, they were joking about the incredible surprises of middle-of-the-road bathroom stalls, the next, he had a map pinned to a corkboard, and a Nerf gun was thrown into her arms.

And of course, his plans would not be complete without her being deprived of vision. He demanded that she covered her eyes, and the sleep mask on her face only increased the apprehension she felt rising up her throat.

"Are you sure about this?" she asked, facing the general side of her neighbor's balcony. "There probably are better ways we could be deciding it..."

She heard Jack laughing. "What are you talking about? This is perfect. Do it!"

Elsa pressed her lips together, and her fingers tightened around the handle. Her heartbeat increased as her remaining senses tried to make up for her lack of sight. Without giving herself time to overthink the entire ordeal, she lifted the gun and fired.

She heard the dart hitting something, which she took as a good sign.

"A little bit to your right. And maybe a little higher," he instructed.

Exhaling heavily, she adjusted her aim for another shot and pulled the trigger.

"Ow!"

"Oh, God—" Elsa quickly dropped the weapon, fingers struggling to get rid of the blindfold.

She found him swishing his right hand around with a scowl on his face.

"I knew this was a bad idea!" she shouted, pointing accusingly at him.

"Put your mask back on, lady!"

"Are you kidding me? I'm not doing that again!"

He put the board back in place and glared at her. "Yeah, you are."

She shook her head and mumbled, "Why can't we just pick one location from a hat or something?"

"It's a toy gun, Elsa. I'm fine!"

Elsa huffed, then she picked the toy up and finally managed to hit the target. "There. Happy?"

He rolled his eyes as he turned to inspect the map. "I kinda dislike you right now."

Elsa shrugged. "I can live with that."

"Wow. You really are out to hurt me tonight, aren't you?"

"Well?" she asked, crossing her arms. "What were the results?"

"Pack your bags, Elsa. We're road-tripping to Turtle Beach."


Prompt by vnfirwg: nerf gun / trip planning

And did you know that Chris Pine was in a pandemic movie? It's called Carriers. Pretty weird watching it now. I could only think about how they wore masks wrong… which was so not the point of the movie.