Date: Bumper Cars
Every year a travelling carnival set up just outside of town. Oliver went as a child, at least until it became "lame" in his group of friends. Secretly though he had missed it.
"You've never been to the carnival?" His eyes widened just the tiniest amount. Felicity was thrown; was this what Oliver looked like surprised? It wasn't quite what she expected.
"Oliver. Of course I haven't. When I moved here I jumped into work, and next thing I knew I was spending all of my time here." She gestured widely at the Lair surrounding them. Oliver couldn't argue that.
"Well we are definitely going this year. It was always fun." Felicity could see in his eyes that he was falling into a memory, but for once his eyes didn't look sad. "Tommy and I would go almost every day it was in town. It wasn't a big thing; just your general games, food, and rides. Of course we spent the most time on the roller coasters and the bumper cars." He jolted back to focus. "You have been on carnival rides right?"
"Uhhh…" Felicity glanced down.
"Seriously?" Oliver threw his hands up. "What did you even do as a kid?" Felicity gave him a look; one extremely similar to the look she'd given him after that bull shit lie about the laptop. "Oh now we are really going. I mean really? All you did as a child was computer stuff?"
"Sure." She agreed, hoping to hide the lie in her tone. "When are we going?"
It wasn't until the next weekend that they finally got time to go. Felicity could see the light in Oliver's eyes, and she knew she'd enjoy this no matter what; it was such a rare occasion to see him this happy.
"Rides?" Oliver's smile went all crooked and gorgeous.
"Yeah." Oliver grabbed her hand and started dragging her down the dirt paths towards… something. She just let him go because he knew what he wanted to do here.
When he stopped Felicity ran right into the back of him. There was a mass of lights in front of him, with a sign; Bumper Cars. It didn't take them long to actually get on the ride and it was then that they separated; one to one car, the other to another. It took Felicity a little to get the hang of it; of course she would have gotten it together earlier is a certain person had stopped constantly running into her, at least for the moment. She managed to get it though, and even managed a couple of hard run-ins with Oliver and several other people.
He continued to pull her around to different rides and she found both her and Oliver smiling by the time they finished off with the Ferris wheel. The ride was the quietest thing they'd done that day, and Felicity enjoyed leaning against Oliver's shoulder, and watching him play with her fingers. The carnival was going to have to be a yearly thing.