“HAHA! Look at that! STRIKE! Who’s the master now Nicky?” Anastasia danced around their lane.
“Yeah, yeah keep talkn’ you just watch.” He scooped up a ball and sent it down the lane.
“Oh ho ho! 8 pins! Good but not good enough!” Anastasia laughed
“Shut up!” he smirked, “I could still get a spare!” He winded up
*Cough* *Cough* he turned around and glared at Anastasia who smiled innocently
“Could the peanut gallery keep it down?”
“Who me?” She pointed and smiled sweetly
“Uhh!” He turned around and let go of the ball *COUGH! * He jumped, “PIGGY!”
“What?”
He rolled his eyes and watched the ball make its way towards the pins, “Oh Oh move a little to the left!”
“No!” Anastasia jumped to her feet and the smiled and sat down with satisfactory as the ball hit all but one pin.
Nick collapsed to the ground, “NO!”
“Haha!”
He got up, “I’m not behind by much…Mandy what’s the score?”
“Huh?” Mandy looked up from her Glam magazine, “Oh umm I don’t know.”
“What?!” Nick and Anastasia said in unison Nick grabbed the score sheet from his girlfriend it was filled in half way
“Ok, Ok this is fixable what did you get for the last three turns.”
Anastasia walked over and filled in her scores
“I don’t see what the big deal is…it’s just a game.” Mandy tapping her nails on the table restlessly, “It’s soo stupid.”
“Mandy you just wouldn’t get it.” Nick told her doing the math out
“I guess I wouldn’t, it must be a guy thing.” She raised her eyebrow and glared at Anastasia who opened her mouth to say something but then was interrupted by Nick
“We’re tied.”
“NO WAY!”
He handed her then sheet, “That’s impossible I’m kicking your sorry butt.” She said redoing the math, “aha! You forgot to carry the two!”
“Huh?”
“I’m winning by 3 points.” She showed him
“Oh.” He said sheepishly, “Well…uhh..math was never my thing.”
She smiled “Let’s go. One more round loser buys ice cream.”
“Ice cream?” he smiled and raised and eyebrow
“Yes, I’m hungry and how can I turn down a free ice cream?”
“Ha! We’ll see about that! Your turn Miss Piggy.”
She picked up the ball, “Watch a pro.”
Nick laughed and watched in silence as the ball rolled down knocking down them all.
“HAHA! LOOK AT THAT! Ok, I want hot fudge and…”
Nick frowned, “Ok, ok just take your next turn.”
Just as the ball left her fingers Nick let out a giant *ONIK! * And the ball bounced into the gutter.
“UHH!! I hate you!!” she ran over and hit him playfully on the back, “Ok Nicky, according to my math you need 2 strikes to beat me.”
“No problem.”
Anastasia held her breath as Nick’s ball rolled perfectly down the center of the lane and caused all the pins to fall.
He gave her a look and then spoke, “Piece of cake.”
She stuck out her tongue and watched as his ball knocked down 3 pins.
She stood up and let out a scream, “YES! Yes! Who’s the queen? Anastasia’s the Queen! Who’s the loser? NICK!!”
Nick looked at the lane in disbelief, “Ok, you won.”
“Oh say it again, Mr. Former Master of bowling.”
He turned around smiling, “You won.”
“Now let’s get some ice cream…you’re paying.”
Mandy got up now aware of all the commotion, “Ewww….ice cream. Nick, we can’t eat that, think of all the fat.”
Nick sighed, “You can get low fat.”
“And don’t take too long, I want to get to the jewelry store.”
Anastasia rolled her eyes as Mandy explained, “My Nicky is going to buy me earrings.”
She noticed Nick sigh as Mandy wrapped her arm around his own and felt a pang of jealously creep up on her which she squashed reminding herself of Adam.