I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
After walking with him to the trash throwing away our trash, we walked into the loud arcade to play some games.
"What do you want to play?" Alex asked loudly as we went over getting change for the bills he had.
"I don't know…" I said shrugging.
"Come on, let's get our pictures done first then we will decide on what game…"
"Pictures?" I asked confused as he dragged me to a photo booth depositing money into the system, he sat down on the only chair, I slid between him and the side of the booth to stand next to him.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked.
"Standing next to you."
"You can sit on my lap."
"No, I'm fine…" I said.
"If you do that, our pictures will look awkward."
"More awkward than me sitting on your lap?"
"Yes…"
"I don't want to hurt you…" I said.
"What are you trying to say?"
"I'm fat and you may have sensitive legs."
"You are NOT fat and you won't hurt me…" Alex said as I sat on his lap uncomfortably trying to distribute my weight else where so I won't put too much weight on him, "Just sit on my leg fully, don't try to make yourself lighter on my lap…" Alex said wrapping his arms around me pulling me down onto his leg fully catching me off guard when a flash went off capturing that moment.
"Well, that shall be the most unflattering picture ever…" I said as I went to fix my hair when it went off again, I gave the camera a dirty look when Alex was just laughing getting the camera to go off again to capture Alex mid-laugh and me having a pissed off look on my face and the last one was actually normal. We put our faces cheek to cheek and smiled for the last photo, I stood up pulling the curtain open walking out before him as we awaited these pictures. I looked around the arcade trying to find the perfect game seeing the motorcycle racing game Maryse and I would always race each other on, I liked the motorcycle game more than I did the actual car ones.
"I'll race you on that one." I said pointing to the motorcycles.
"You're on!" Alex said as the pictures dropped into the plastic drop box, Alex pulled them out looking over the 4 photos we had took and ripped the two strips in half handing me one to keep.
"These are horrible….I'm so sorry…" I said trying not to laugh at how ridiculous these photos had turned out.
"It's fine, I'm laughing….this whole night has been horribly fun…." Alex said smiling.
"It has…but I won't change it though…." I said smiling as well looking up at him before we went to the change machine getting more change for the games before we went to the two motorcycles climbing onto them depositing the 50 cents each to start the race. Maryse and I were always competent with each other at arcade games, it was very rare that either one of us didn't come in first or second on this game. I played the game like I would if he was Maryse coming into first winning another round looking over that he came into fifth.
"Sorry." I said smirking happily that I was able to beat him.
"Your good…you played this often?"
"Yep, Maryse and I always raced each other on this game, it was always close too…it was always one after the other, if I was 1st, she was 2nd. If she was 3rd, I was 4th, no one ever comes between us…"
"Damn…" Alex said climbing off the bike standing beside me watching me play my free round seeing that I came in 2nd this time. "You played that game way too much."
"Like you don't play too much video games on your free time." I said climbing off the fake motorcycle.
"Oh, I do play a lot of video games on my days off…."
"What games do you play?"
"Not the ones Mike plays for sure…I have a Super Nintendo that barely works, Play-Station 2, a X-Box and a Wii…I like the gun ones and I'm a nerd because I like Mario Brothers and the dancing ones on Wii."
"The Wii?"
"You never played the Wii?"
"No…"
"We got to fix that…" Alex said grabbing my arm pulling me towards the exit.
"Where are we going? I thought we were going to play more games." I said confused.
"We are going to Best Buy."
"Why?" I asked even more confused.
"They always have the game consoles up and have games we could play…" Alex said.
"Okay…" I said thinking it was weird, but whatever, I like spontaneous and random acts of fun. "Do you know where the nearest Best Buy is?" I asked looking over to him as we climbed into his car.
"I have a GPS on my phone." He said smirking as he pulled out his phone searching through his GPS, I pulled out my own seeing texts from Maryse and Mike, mainly Maryse. 'When you coming home? How is Alex? Have you two kissed?' I rolled my eyes as I locked my phone putting it back in my purse not wanting to get back to her right now. "Did you find one?" I asked.
"Yep, there is one less than a mile away." Alex said handing me his phone to give him directions.
"What is the big deal about Wii?" I asked.
"Wii along with X-Box Kinect is where you are the controller." Alex explained.
"That seems cool…"
"Its very cool…what system do you have in France?" Alex asked.
"My Super Nintendo still works, I have a Nintendo 64 and Nintendo Cube, then I had a PlayStation but I sold it for a plane ticket…" I said.
"To where?" Alex asked as I pointed him to go to the right.
"To LA to see my sister, I got angry with my parents and flew to LA to see Maryse." I said honestly.
"You are very spontaneous getting up and flying to random places like that…"
"It wasn't very spontaneous; it was a spur the moment act…things that aren't planned always seem to be more fun, at least that is how it seems." I said.
"Why do you think that is?"
"Because it's not planned, you won't have any expectations and that way if something doesn't go as planned, no one will get upset or mad about it because the whole act was unexpected…" I said.
"Sounds like good enough reason…"
"I'm not saying planned things aren't fun, I mean they can be but I like just randomly doing things without being planned because it makes life so random and spontaneous. Life is too short to sit around planning every single detail." I said pointing for him to take a left into the plaza seeing the Best Buy yellow tag.
"I like that about you…your not afraid of doing anything at anytime, your down for anything…"
"Not anything…" I said instantly thinking dirty things.
"You know what I mean…I like being spontaneous, doing spur the moment trips and sometimes on this road it feels like I am strapped in, but maybe you can change that."
"Not that much…" I said smiling as he parked and we both climbed out rushing to go into the store due to the sun going down and it getting colder.
"Phew, I love Best Buy." Alex said as we walked to our right onto the tiled pathway walking around looking at the laptops, cameras, phones and computer games until we got to the back side of the store where they had three of the newest gaming systems set up. "Here is a Wii, it's the Carnival Games one." Alex said kind of excited about it, "I'll show you how to play the darts first, you have to try to pop a balloon…" Alex said as I watched him do a round first before he handed it to me not knowing how to do it. "Okay, your turn…here is the controller." He said handing me the white stick controller not knowing how to control it.
"How do you work this thing?" I asked not used to using that type of controller.
"Point it on the television, see that hand?" Alex asked as I moved the controller seeing the small hand on screen.
"Yeah…"
"That's you, now choose darts…" He said as I moved it over to the darts and pushed A to select it.
"How do you?" I asked turning to look at Alex, he stepped closer feeling his body pressed against my back, his one hand wrapping around my waist holding me there and the other resting on top of mine that was on the controller.
"It'll get easier." Alex said as he helped move the controller demonstrating how to do it and when to push the buttons. He helped me throw the three darts I had popping only one balloon. "Got it now?" Alex asked.
"I think….what other games do they have?" I asked as it went back to the main menu, Alex and I went through each little game they had, he helped me play each game until I got used to the way it was controlled, but it was nice being held in Alex's embrace and it was fun playing those games.
"How do you like the Wii?" Alex asked as I set the controller into the empty slot on the side of the system display it had.
"I enjoyed it but I got to get used to it, slowly but surely I will." I said smiling as we walked to the next game system.
"This is X-Box Kinect, you might enjoy this one better than that, I believe it doesn't have a controller…it goes by your body." Alex said as he stepped back to where his outline was displayed on the screen and it popped up the main menu showing a list of songs, "This must be a dancing one…" Alex said.
"Show me how you dance." I said giggling wanting to see Alex dance hoping he is better than Mike's dance moves.
"I will…" Alex said smiling as he went through the list picking out a song I wouldn't think he would choose, he chose 'Tik Tok' by Ke$ha and I just chuckled watching him mocking the dance moves of that on the screen. It was impressive, he passed the level with a B grade and he walked off the screen. "Your turn, dazzle me." Alex said smirking as I walked to where he was standing letting it re-adjust to my body shape before I went through selecting a song, but I didn't know what song to choose though. I ended up choosing 'Just Dance' by Lady Gaga thinking that one must be one of the easy ones but I think Alex's dance was a lot easier than this, but I wasn't doing his dance so I wouldn't know. "Go Addie, go Addie, go Addie!" Alex said trying to encourage me, but it just distracted me enough to give him a dirty look as I continued dancing, I got a D on the round but I didn't care.
"Phew…" I said wiping the sweat on my forehead trying to do that, "I haven't tried to dance that hard in a while." I said smiling.
"Its definitely exercise…"
"No wonder why people like that type of gaming system so they can work out at home without wasting money on gym membership."
"Yeah, it'll work…" Alex said as we looked through the games they were selling before we went through the movies and CDs until an employee had to kick us out of the store due to them closing for the night.
"What to do now?" I asked.
"Well, it's 10 PM, you still up to doing something?" Alex asked.
"I'm up for anything, what time is your flight tomorrow?" I asked wrapping my arms around myself trying to warm up.
"Oh, where are my manners…." Alex said taking his jean jacket off putting it over me.
"Thanks…" I said smirking as we slowly walked down the parking lane towards the solo car in the lot.
"My flight is at noon, so I have to get up about 9ish to get to the airport by 10."
"Are you sure you up to something, that is kind of early?"
"Early to who?"
"Me….I'm not used to this whole travelling early morning little sleep thing…."
"Right…your still getting over jet lag too…" Alex said as we got to his car, I leant against the hood of his car and he stepped in front of me, and a foot was on either side of mine.
"So, what do you want to do Alex?" I asked.
"Well, we can go see a movie, they have a bowling alley that is open until midnight…you can come back to my room and we can watch a movie there….we can go get dessert….or we can call it a night…." Alex said.
"You want to call it a night so you can get some sleep, I know you are more tired than I am…"
"A little but I have ran on less sleep…"
"I don't want Mike realizing that nor do I want him asking questions…"
"Like he will care…"
"He may…" I said smirking.
"Okay, let me get you home…" Alex said as he walked me around to my side opening the door for me and shutting it after me. I felt bad for cutting the date short but I wanted him to be fully rested and tomorrow will be a long day for him. When he climbed in and buckled himself up before he started the car.
"I'm sorry for cutting the date short." I said.
"Your not cutting it short….it has been four hours, that is the longest short date I've ever been on…"
"I would say so…."
"Hopefully four hours wasn't too long…" Alex said as I looked over to him smirking.
"No, it didn't seem like four hours, it seemed shorter than that…"
"I thought you were going to say it seemed much longer than that."
"I wouldn't say that…it was very fulfilled." I said.
"Well, isn't that what we were supposed to do? Do a lot of things to have fun?"
"Yes…" I said as he turned up the radio a tad and I could hear him mumbling along to the music, I chuckled by how cute it was.
"Are you laughing at my singing voice?" Alex asked.
"No, it's just cute…."
"Why, thank you…" Alex said as I could see a smirk creep onto his face when I noticed he turned down the residential street.
"You drive fast…" I said.
"It's LA, who doesn't speed here?"
"Very true….have you ever gotten pulled over?" I asked.
"A couple of times…I got out of 4 of the tickets."
"How many tickets have you had to pay?"
"2."
"You've gotten pulled over 6 times?"
"Well, I was a rebel kid…" Alex said smirking as I chuckled looking out my window as we passed the house seeing the lights off on the bottom floor hoping that meant they were asleep. "You still want me to pull around the corner?"
"Yes please." I said as I pulled out my phone texting Maryse, 'Are you awake?' I held my phone in my hand awaiting a response as Alex parallel parked the car. He turned it off unbuckling his seat belt when the screen lit up shining Maryse's name with the envelope saying she texted back.
"They are still up huh?" Alex asked shifting to face me.
"I don't know…" I said opening the text message reading the response, 'Mike's in the shower, he's probably heading to bed afterwards. I'm upstairs reading my book in our bed…I'll keep him up here.' Maryse said. "Apparently, Mike's showering and she is going to keep him upstairs…" I said exiting out of the text message before I pushed the red button to get the seat belt to unlatch.
"Then, I'll walk you to your door." Alex said smiling as he opened his door and I climbed out of my door as well pulling the jacket he rested over me tightly around me as he locked the car through his keychain before he met me on the sidewalk wrapping his arm around me walking the distance to the house. We walked up the path where we were standing on the doorstep, we turned to face each other just awkwardly standing there.
"Thanks for loaning me your jacket." I said smiling as I pulled his jacket off handing it back to me.
"No problem…I hope you had fun tonight, I know I did…you have your filmstrip?"
"Yep, in my purse…I had a lot of fun tonight….text me tomorrow when you get to Florida." I said.
"I will…thanks for coming out with me…."
"Well, I had too….we have to do this again…"
"I hope so and I'm glad you would like too….your beautiful…" Alex said as he reached over pushing a strand of my hair behind my ear.
"Thanks…" I said blushing and smiling when Alex started rubbing his thumb against my cheek as he was cupping my face.
"You have soft hair…"
"Thanks…that sounds so weird to hear…" I said as we both chuckled awkwardly when Alex started leaning forward holding my face where it was with his soft gentle hand, I closed my eyes preparing for the kiss when the door was flung open, we both jumped back from each other trying to act like we weren't doing anything.
"Good evening Maryse…" Alex said as he begun to scratch at the side of his head trying to play cool.
"Good evening Alex, Addie you need to get in here before Mike decides to come downstairs…." Maryse said as I looked to her as she said it then turned back to Alex.
"Right…good-night Alex…text me." I said smirking as I went to walk into the house, he grabbed my hand turning me to face him.
"Good-night Addie." He said as he went to give me a kiss but when we got mere inches apart he smirked and remembered that Maryse was right there, he wrapped his arms around me for a hug and gave my cheek a peck before he nodded towards Maryse before he headed down the sidewalk pulling his jacket on as he walked back to his car.
"Maryse! What was that about?" I asked mad about her interrupting my time with Alex.
"I didn't want Mike coming down here and seeing Alex standing on his doorstep….he may come down here at any moment…" Maryse whispered.
"Why's that?"
"He wants a cup of water, I offered to get it for him and I've been down here already 10 minutes watching you and Alex."
"You were spying on me?" I asked shocked and more pissed that she was spying on me.
"I weren't put it like that…"
"What would you call it?"
"Casually looking through the peep hole."
"Also known as spying…I hate you Maryse!" I said as I stormed to my room slamming my door shut behind me, I was angry that she was spying on me and Alex, it was an invasion of my privacy. I tossed my purse onto my bed before I plopped down on my stomach groaning before I got up changing into my pajamas coming back out pulling out the filmstrip of photos cracking up laughing at all the photos that were on the filmstrip laying it on my nightstand for me to put up the next day. I put my phone on it's charger texting Alex that I was going to bed and thanked him yet again for the night.