Chapter 3

Elena biked her way to Adventureland. She didn't have a car so she just rode her bike. The big flashy words read out "Adventureland". It looked filled up. She knew that little kids always came here, but to her, it wasn't that fun."Right here M'am, Right here M'am." said some guy that was directing her to the parking area. "Have a funtastic time!" he exclaimed. "So this is Adventureland." she said as she saw employees wearing blue shirts that read "Games". She parked her bike and walked through the entrance to find the booth where the managers were at.

"Uh, I don't have that much work experience, per say but I..." she was cut off by the lady's walkie talkie beeping. "Oh, I'm sorry." the lady said. Her name tag said Jenna. Jenna tried to stop the walkie talkie, but her clumsy hands couldn't do it. "Ric! I need help over here." A tall man with dirty blond hair walked over to help Jenna. His name tag said Alaric, but that seemed like a mouthful to Elena. He quickly turned the walkie talkie off and got it out of her reach.

"This is Elena and she's applying out for a games job here" Jenna said. Ric examined Elena up and down. "Games! that's wonderful!" he sat at his desk, filling out some papers. "Um, actually, Ric, I would prefer to work at the rides station if it's still open." Elena tried to say. "No, you look more like a games girl, plus I already got out the games application so uh.'' "Oh" Elena said feeling somewhat disappointed. Games wasn't all that for her. When she was younger, she had always loved roller coaster, even if she did almost get a concussion while riding a roller coaster at Adventureland.

Ric finished writing out the applications and turned to face Elena again."

"Ok, rules. No freebies, no free food, no free turns for your friends, no free upgrades.'

"So, nothing's free here." Elena asked.

"Everybody has to pay for everything. And more importantly, since you're working in games, no one ever wins the giant ass panda."

Jenna looked up from her files and quietly said, "Yeah we don't have that many left." This place had come off as cheap to Elena. It was kind of like seeing the side that you were never meant to see. Ric handed Elena one of the blue shirts that said "Games" on them.

"Elena, by accepting this T-shirt you are-"

"Hired!" Jenna said, cutting Ric off.

"I usually say that part" Ric bickered with Jenna.

Elena put on the shirt and went to her game booth. Along the way, she met some girl named Rebekkah.

"Ok new girl, let's get this over with." she said. Her voice sounded kind of bored, as if she's done this way too many times. She gave her a tour of the amusement park. "Here we are at the first of many shitty games." Elena kind of liked her. Sure she was not the happiest person, but they shared mutual feelings about the park. Elena looked at the booth that had a banner saying "The Flighing Dutchman", of course, they had spelled the word "Flying" wrong.

Rebekkah proceeded on to showing Elena the milk toss game. She showed her how no one could actually toss the ring into the red capped bottles, so no one actually one a giant ass panda. "That is a giant ass panda." Elena said to herself as she looked at the stuffed animal. "If someone wins a giant ass panda on your watch, you should just go home 'cause your fired." Rebekkah said as she walked to the next game.

Almost all of the games were rigged so that nobody would ever win the grand prize. Once again, Elena thought about how cheap this park was. "Elena! They got you working on games? What a pussy!" Caroline shouted to her, laughing hysterically as she rode a kids ride with a little girl in the seat next to her. "You know that demented person?" Rebekkah asked her nonchalantly. "Yeah she used to be my best friend. Then I turned four." Elena said, remembering past memories of her friendship with Caroline.

"Let's get you a booth now." Rebekkah said as she finished up her tour of all the games. "So what shit did you get into that made you work here?"

"I was supposed to go to Europe, but my family's been having money problems."

Elena got put to be the "announcer" for the Derby Race game. She was pretty bad at and she knew it. She looked around to see a little kid picking his nose and she grimaced at the appearance. "Ok, we have a winner. The purple horse is first, greens in second, yellows in third." she said, not enthusiastically whatsoever.

She handed the little girl a plush toy as the players began to leave. She groaned inwardly as she say Alaric and Jenna coming her way. "Hey Elena." "Uh, yeah?"

"Could you maybe kick it up a notch?" Ric asked her

"Yeah, I know. Um, maybe I'm not the right girl to run this game," she replied, "I really think I should probably be on the rides."

"No, no." Ric quickly shut her down. "You're more of a games girl."

"Yeah, you're very game-y" Jenna backed up Ric.

"Make it a show, or a performance, ok Elena?" Ric said as he left the station with Jenna.

"Ok." she breathed out as new players came to sit down. She tried her best to seem cheery and give a performance, and it worked on some degree. She screamed the winners of the race into the microphone and gave the winner his toy. She sat down and sighed into her microphone, just looking around the park.

That's when she saw him.

Damon POV*

It was obvious that the girl manning the Derby Race was new. She was kind of cute. Her long brown hair travelled down to her chest. My face broke out into a smile when she got really into the game. She was basically screaming out the winners at the end. Of course, Jenna and Ric were talking to her before, so maybe that's what made her do all that stuff. She sighed into the microphone and laid her head on top of her hands. Our gazes met each other in that moment. She had adorable chocolate brown doe eyes. In that moment, she fell off her chair. It was a weird move, but I wondered if she was alright.

Elena POV

He had icy blue eyes and raven black hair. He sat atop of the games booth he was stationed and was smirking at me.

Oh God, he was smirking at me for the performance I just did. As if things couldn't get any worse, I studied his eyes and I got so mesmerized in them that I fell of my stool!

So, that moment lasted a few seconds, but at least now I know that that guy with the eyes is working right next to me for the rest of the summer...

Done with Chapter 3! Now that Damon's in the picture I'm so happy. Next chapter you'll see them talking together, not just staring at each other.

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