I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
When I walked in with Chris, I saw Alex stand up the moment he saw us and he was sitting at a table with James, Robert and another girl.
"Why is he sitting with them?" Chris asked as Alex moved a chair away from the table to make a space for Chris so he could roll in under the table.
"I don't know Chris, maybe it was assigned that way." I said not understanding what his problem was.
"Hey bud." Alex said as he stepped aside to let me roll Chris into the spot he just cleared.
"Hey Alex…James, Robbie, Jane." Chris said nodding to those that were sitting around the table.
"Hi Jane, I'm Tara." I said leaning over the table as I was locking the wheelchair to shake her hand.
"Nice to meet you." She said smiling as she shook my hand.
"I got you something." Alex said excitedly as he pulled the hand that he has been hiding behind his back the whole time I have gotten here seeing a different plush dinosaur in his hand and I saw that dinosaur earlier in the gift store. "See it's a dinosaur, rawr!" Alex said as he moved the dinosaurs foot to go with the rawr before handing it to me, I couldn't help but to smile even though the dinosaur was for my son but it was cute and Alex liked it.
"You like dinosaurs?" Chris asked looking up at me with a questionable look.
"In plush form, yes." I said as I held it between my two hands as Alex smiled widely in excitement that I liked it, "Thank you Alex, it is very cute and sweet." I said smiling as I played with the dinosaurs fake horn, Alex smiled and seemed very proud of himself. Alex pulled out a chair for me to sit and I slowly slid in it and he pushed it in as I sat, I put my purse between my feet as Alex sat down beside me.
"Well dinosaurs in their natural state can be kind of scary." James said sipping the beer he had.
"Especially if it's right in front of you and could be brought onto a cruise ship." I added.
"I think a dinosaur would make this cruise ship sink." Robert added.
"Like we won't notice such dinosaur wandering around the ship." Jane said.
"Not to change the subject, but how does this game night go?" I asked looking at the number six in the middle of the table.
"There are going to be numerous games we are competing against the other tables for points." Robert explained.
"What games are we going to play or do we not know? I'll hope beer drinking since we have the best two at this table." I said getting James and Robert to smile and chuckle.
"What am I good at?" Alex asked.
"Annoyance." Chris answered.
"Coming from the cripple." Alex stated.
"Guys, take this out in the games." James said.
"I'm curious what games we are about to play in." I said.
"They are about to announce them." James said pointing up to the stage seeing the blonde man from earlier that I believe was named Jeff and a girl that I have yet seen.
"I hope it isn't trivia." I said.
"Why?" Alex asked.
"I suck at trivia." I stated.
"I'm sure your good at some things in trivia like music or something." James said.
"I guess…" I said shrugging.
"May I get everyone's attention." Jeff said over the sound system getting our whole table to look at him.
"That's your boss right?" I asked leaning forward to ask Alex.
"Yep…" Alex whispered back.
"Okay." I said sitting back up straight.
"Okay, it's going to be simple. You all are now separated into groups by table numbers so always remember that and myself along with Dixie here will keep tally of points that are given to each group on this board. The prize is half of the entry money."
"We're going to win this!" Chris said as he sat forward smacking the table.
"We will, calm down." I said turning from looking at Chris to Alex, "Entry money?" I asked confused.
"Don't worry about it, I got you covered." Alex said smirking, I gave him a dirty look, and said "You should thank me not giving me that evil eye of yours."
"Thanks Alex." I said smiling.
"There will be six games since there are six tables, each person must compete as best as they could and I know we have a few men injured so just do as best as you can. As for scoring, the table that wins gets 5 points and the last place gets 0. Now for the games, we will be playing limbo, musical spoons, passing of the fruit, have you ever, Simon says and twister."
"How do you play some of those games?" I asked not hearing of a couple of them.
"We will instruct you on how to play the game before the game starts." Jeff said.
"This is going to be fun." Alex said excitingly.
"First up, limbo. We will all line you up by table number, and one by one go through until there is two left from each table then we will go by twos, you must completely go under the pole without touching it nor the ground. Let's do this." Jeff said as everyone stood up at their tables, Alex and I slid out of the way and pushed our chairs in to allow Chris to roll between the two tables. Since we were table 6, we were the last table to go under the pole. We put Chris first, then it went Alex, myself, James, Jane then Robert.
"This is going to be easy." Chris said as he rolled himself under the pole being no where close to where it was positioned, we all went through and no one was knocked out that round. It wasn't until the pole was lowered two more times, but it wasn't all one table that was getting knocked out but at least people were getting eliminated from the game. "Dude, help." Chris said as he faced the pole that was leveled with his eyes.
"How?" Alex asked.
"Never mind, next time." Chris said as he rolled himself forward and ducked down under the pole not to get eliminated. Alex, I, James and Jane proceeded through under the pole only for Robert to get knocked out unfortunately where as rest of the tables had one or two fewer people at their tables. The pole was lowered again, more people were knocked out getting two at every table now except ours. Chris stared at the pole that was lower than prior, "Alex, lean me back so I could get through this." Chris said.
"Bud, I don't think you can get through leant back or not." Alex said as Chris growled from frustration.
"Dang you chair." Chris said as he turned and rolled himself back to the table allowing Alex and I go through without a problem but James and Jane couldn't make it through.
"Now that we are down to 2 people per table, if you have 3 pick the best 2 in your group to go under and now the 2 of you MUST go under together." Jeff said as I looked to Alex more nervous having to go under with him afraid that I will mess it up. We watched as the tables in front of us go under the pole, only 2 tables got eliminated unfortunately, then it got to our turn.
"Let's do this high school style." He said smirking sticking his hand out, I grabbed it smiling as we stepped closer to the pole.
"Don't fuck this up." I joked as we both did our thing with our hands attached, we cleared the pole and stood back up on the other side looking back at the pole we had just cleared, Alex rested his hands on my waist as we watched the pole lowered again, "I don't think I can do that." I said seeing exactly how low it is now.
"You can, come on." Alex said pulling me around the pole to watch the other tables trying to go under the pole, all but one other table got eliminated leaving it to us to either make it and go another round or get eliminated and become second place. I was suddenly more nervous knowing it is up to Alex and I to do this, I looked to Alex about to say 'I can't do this' but he put his finger to my lips. "Whatever happens, we will be second automatically." Alex said giving me a confident smile and grabbed my hand as we stepped up to the pole slowly trying to maneuver our bodies under it, Alex then lost his balance and fell all the way back to where he was laying on his back but his legs were propped up bent at the knee.
"Damn, flexible much?" I asked looking down at him from the other side still holding onto his hand.
"Well, you know." He said shrugging as I helped him up to his feet as Dixie wrote 4 points under our table number, "I love how you were afraid you were going to mess up and I did." Alex said as he wrapped his arm around me as we were walking back to our table.
"It is quite comical." I said smirking.
"Table one is officially our enemy." Alex said as he pulled my seat out as I sat down and he sat beside me.
"But it was a close game you guys." James said as he reached across the table giving us fist bumps.