I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Carol's Point of View-
I sat down on the couch, Lucas jumped up and climbed onto my lap. I sat there petting Lucas, he was enjoying the attention I was giving him.
"You're a good boy, yes you are, you're a lot more calmer than my dog Buster." I said and he listened intently until the sound of Matt running down the stairs caught his attention. "Who's that? Go get him." I said, Lucas jumped off my lap and ran to Matt sniffing him.
"Where'd Jeff and Beth run off too?" Matt asked walking around and sitting on the opposing couch.
"They went home, they said they'll see us at the show." I said.
"Oh okay, what is on your agenda today?" Matt asked tying his shoe.
"Relaxing."
"Sounds good, may I relax with you?"
"It's your house, you can do whatever your little heart desires."
"My little heart desires to run around naked, but I have a woman here." Matt said looking at me.
"I won't stop you."
"You sick bastard."
"What? I'm just saying if you decide to run naked, don't expect me to stop you and be expecting me to take pictures to show Jeff and Beth what you did." I said.
"It won't like frighten you or anything?"
"It'll be awkward at first, but we're both adults." I said as he stood up pulling his shirt off, I was fine until he started undoing his pants. "You serious?" I asked.
"No, I was just seeing how far I could go until you would start freaking out." Matt said, I grabbed a pillow and threw it at him hitting him in the head. "That's it!" He said standing up grabbing the pillow I just threw and he straddled me onto the couch and was hitting me with the pillow.
"This is unfair!" I said throwing my hands up protecting my face from the hits of the pillow.
"It's fair to me." Matt said smiling, I reached my hands over grabbing another pillow and swung it up hitting him in the head, he climbed off me and I stood up running, he chased me around the house and we were randomly hitting each other, we were having fun until we heard the door bell rang.
"Who could that be?" I asked out of breath, I ran a hand through my now messy hair walking to the door with Matt not the far behind me, I opened the door and John was standing there.
"Sorry, did I interrupt something?" John asked looking at Matt and I who are both out of breath and hair messed up, he probably thinks we were having sex or something.
"No, what do you need?" I asked.
"I was seeing if you want to go do lunch and hang a little before the show tonight?" John asked.
"Sure I don't have any plans, you don't mind?" I asked looking at Matt.
"Not a problem, John why don't you come in while she gets ready." Matt said, John stepped in and he stayed in the doorway area talking with Matt as I went to my room. I texted Jeff and Beth saying that I was going to the arena with John so they don't worry about me, even though I'm sure Matt would tell them. I took a quick shower washing off the sweat and got into an outfit that was cute, then I grabbed my bag for the show tonight. I walked out to the men still talking in the doorway.
"Sorry it took me so long." I said interrupting their conversation.
"No it's fine." John said.
"I'll see you at the show, and drive safely, I know how you like to speed and your brother doesn't pay attention to stop signs." I said hugging Matt lightly.
"You two be safe as well, tonight's a big night." Matt said as John opened the door, we walked out, Matt waved a little wave as we walked down the walkway to the driveway. John and I climbed into his rental and drove off.
"Where we going?" I asked.
"I was thinking maybe some miniature golf and batting cages." John said.
"Okay, I might need help with the miniature golf, I have only played it like once before when I was like ten." I said.
"No problem." John said smiling.
"Do you know how to get to this miniature golf place?" I asked.
"Yeah, I called them earlier and asked for directions."
"You asked for directions?"
"Shocked?" John asked glancing over at me for a few seconds.
"Yes, men rarely ever ask for directions." I said
"This is a rare occasion, remember it forever." John said chuckling, we got to the miniature golf place and it wasn't as crowded considering it was a school day for the kids. "You know how to do the batting cages right?" John asked.
"Yeah, I used to help my sister with her batting, she was going to be a pro softball player, we would come out here and do the cages together." I said as he wrapped his arm around me rubbing my upper arm.
"You weren't interested in pursuing the softball thing?"
"Don't get me wrong, if I got offers I might of done it, but it wasn't something that kept me going." I said.
"Are you going to be okay doing the batting cages since, I'm assuming here, you haven't done it since your sister's passing." John asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, if anything it'll make her closer to me in a spiritual way." I said, we walked into the arcade, walking through the games that weren't being played up to the counter that we had to pay for the miniature golf and get the stuff for the game. We grabbed the clubs and the two balls the employee gave us. "What color ball do you want, orange or blue?"
"Blue, I know orange is your favorite color." John said.
"That it is." I said smiling, we went to the course designated as number one.
"Why don't you go first?" John asked, I squatted down putting my ball down on the designated spot for the ball. I stood up putting my club behind the ball, John stood behind me wrapping his arms around me putting his hands on my hands. "You want to slowly hit it, you want to hit it hard enough to go down there but light enough where it won't go flying off the course." John whispered, I nodded, he helped me hit the first ball, it wasn't a hole in one, but it was darn close. "It's that simple." John said.
"We're not keeping count right?" I asked.
"I'm not counting, because I know I'll win."
"I doubt it, I think even though I'm getting used to it, I'm still going to win." I said.
"Do you want to count then?"
"No." I said as I watched him take his turn, we went through the nine holes. "Where is this tenth one, aren't there ten?" I asked as John and I were hanging onto hands swinging them.
"Yep, it's that one, the volcano, if you get a hole in one on this one, you get a free game." John said as we walked up to it looking at it.
"You go first then master miniature golfer." I joked, he went and it got SO close but it didn't go in.
"Your turn." John said, I set my ball down and swung my club back hitting my ball when it swung back, and I got it in.
"I WON!" I said jumping up and down.
"How does that happen?" John asked confused.
"I got skills." I said.
"That you do, come on, let's go get your free game card and tokens for the batting cages." John said as he grabbed my hand, we walked back into the arcade. "We need tokens for the batting cages and she got a hole in one on the tenth hole." John said as he handed her the money for the tokens and she gave him the tokens and the free game card.
"Thanks." I said.
"No problem sweetie." John said, we went out to the batting cages and we tried on the different sized hats, I found the one that we carved my sister's initials in since that was the one she ALWAYS wore while we were at the batting cages.
"I can't believe they still have this one." I said running my hand over the carved initials.
"What?" John asked sliding his helmet on.
"My sister carved her initials into this helmet so every time we came to the batting cages she knew which one to grab so she could get into the cages sooner." I said, John looked at it.
"That's cool." John said, I slid it on and it fit, I picked up a bat, John handed me the right amount of tokens. "Good luck and don't get hit."
"I won't get hit, you don't get hit." I said as I went into my own cage inserting the tokens and pushing the start button, I stepped aside to let the first ball go so I know where the balls were landing and how far and high the machine was throwing them. The trees started to lightly blow with slight wind, I just smiled as I stepped into the batters box for the next ball. I went that whole round and John finished before me, he was watching me outside the cage.
"Nice job, it just got windy all of a sudden."
"Welcome to North Carolina." I said jokingly, I took off my helmet setting it back on the shelf towards the back and my bat back onto the shelf.
"You want to play some arcade games?" John asked.
"Sure, I'll pay." I said, we walked into the arcade and we got some tokens for the arcade games, we played a few games wasting all the tokens we had.
"You want some lunch?" John asked.
"What do you have in mind?" I asked climbing off the motorcycle game.
"Um, I was looking at ice cream."
"For lunch?"
"Why not?" John asked, I rolled my eyes, we went and ordered a sundae for us to split, we sat at the table sharing the sundae. I looked at the clock hanging on the wall, and it was already 4 PM.
"We got to hurry up, we are going to be late to the show." I said.
"What time is it?" He asked turning around, "We're already late, you done?"
"Yeah, let's just go." I said, we were supposedly supposed to be there at 2:30, I don't know why. We threw rest of our sundae away and went out to the rental car. "Will Vince be mad we are late?"
"At you more than me probably considering you are up first." John said.
"What? We are usually in the middle."
"Not tonight since it's the last night of the contest."
"Thanks for telling me that now."
"I thought you knew."
"It's cool, I'll be fine." I said, John sped us over to the arena and we jogged into the arena, when we got in we automatically saw Jeff and Beth. "Don't tackle me this time." I said pointing at him.
"I won't, just go get dressed, we are up first." Jeff said, Beth grabbed onto me and we went to our own locker room getting changed, I told Beth ALL about our date and what we did.