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Day after day she had sat outside the locker rooms. She was typically found playing with cards, her hair falling into her face. Though she constantly flirted, she didn't really appear to warm up to anyone in particular. Oddly enough, she gambled with them all, but only let them use her money. Typically she would lose about thirty dollars a day, but she didn't seem to care.
He found her playing solitaire, not looking up as he sat down. Continuing with her card game, he draped an arm around her shoulders. She was so used to gesture she didn't move to stop it.
"Want some money?" She questioned, a typical question. She seemed to be big on giving it away. She didn't have anything extremely fancy though, in fact, she typically wore an old worn out cap, making her hair a wall around her face along with flip-flops that appeared to be coming apart.
"Why do you give it all away?" He asked, not that many of the guys minded, it was an easy way to get some extra money to them. She shrugged, still not looking up.
"My parents are rich," she laid down a card, "It's not like they care what I do with it." She flipped over another one, glancing across the rows.
"So, you're a rich girl, but your completely into simple everyday things," he started, "That's not very usual, is it?" She looked up at him; nobody had ever really questioned her. There had been a murmur of questioning when she first started gambling, but seeing there was no catch they'd stopped rather quickly.
"Who says that rich people have to be stuck-up snobs? Besides stereotypical morons, I mean," she looked back to her cards, then back at him, seemingly stumped, "I make a point to be unusual." She then picked up her cards. He raised his hands in defense, despite that one was still around her shoulder.
"You know any card tricks?" He tried to change the subject, seeing that she didn't seem to like the topic very much.
"As a matter of fact, I do," she replied, "besides, I'd be kind of stupid if I didn't know any by now. I've been playing with cards since I was eight." She spread the cards out in her hands, "Pick three." He complied, looking at the three. She laid down thirteen cards and went about placing them down in certain places.
"So," he started, watching, "How exactly does this work?" She smirked.
"Well," she responded, "It's an old trick, but I have an odd variation, it takes a few minutes, though." She was looking at cards and placing them on the bottom of different piles, occasionally holding one for a few moments. She looked picked them all up when she was done, looking at them, "You've got all the tens, except the ten of diamonds." He laid them down; sure enough there were the tens.
"How'd you do that?" She shrugged, dealing the whole deck into two piles. She gave one to him, "It's War." She smirked, laying down her first card, followed quickly by his. Soon, however, he found himself down to one card. She laid down an ace, grinning. It was the second highest card, as for some strange reason she wanted to make the queen the largest, he didn't question, just went with it.
"What card do you have?" She asked, trying to see it before he laid it down.
"You should know," he responded, "You have the rest of the deck." She sighed, lazily re-arranging her cards. She cocked her head slightly as she realized what card it was.
"That's just wrong," she laughed as he set the card down. The Queen of Hearts, of course.
"It suits you," he murmured.
"Flattery hasn't worked before," she replied, shoving the cards into his hand, "You may just get lucky, though." She grinned cheekily at his slight confusion, her hands still lingering over his.
"How lucky do you think I could get?" He questioned, getting her message.
"How lucky do you want to get?" She laughed again, merely taking the cards back and giving him a kiss. He sat there, dazed, "We'll have to finish our game tomorrow, eh?" She giggled at his expression before leaving.
"Who knew that the way to a woman's heart was through a card game?" He recognized Baker's voice; he looked up, finally snapping out of the daze.
"She's an unusual woman," he answered, laughing slightly as he got up to leave.
"Far from usual, I'll agree," Baker replied, following him out.
Here's Rob, for Kliona :3 Keep asking, I'll keep making. Though I went through all kinds of crap to finish this, it was worth it. I like this one. Oh, and at the end with Baker, he was just a random person who happened to be on the cover (because I'm too lazy to look up spellings) Btw, I don't mention names because I don't want to make any up or anything, I like leaving it simple, sorry if it's confusing. It's based around cards simply because I've played cards on every vacation so far this summer. Hope y'all're as pleased with it as I am. (Sorry about the lack of indentions on the last half...as I said, I went through all kinds of crap...)
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-Piper Brandybuck