Fast Eddie's, Wednesday evening

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After some handwavey planning, John and Aeryn head into the bowling alley for the meetup with Rory and Anakin. It is certainly not a double date, even if it might look that way. It is simply a friends outing. Which is probably a good thing, since Aeryn figures she'll spend half the time talking with Anakin about how everyone here is weird and this makes no sense anyway.

See, totally a friends outing.


[For John, Rory and Anakin, but Fast Eddie's is open for all your bowl-o-ramatic needs.]

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Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Two tries, Aeryn." John grabs his ball and sends it flying down the lane. He hits one. "Eh, the pin moved. Good start. No someone can go next."

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I'll go," Anakin said, standing up.

He hefted his ball not dirty and stared at the pins for a long moment.

"Bada bing," he said. John had, after all, so it must have been part of the tradition--and then let the ball go.

All ten pins fell down.

Anakin smirked proudly.

That the ball got there five seconds after the pins fell over Anakin thought was merely a formality.

Re: Bowling!

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Anakin, no cheating," Rory sighed, looking stern. "Especially no blatant cheating? That was kind of sad."

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin pouted. "I rolled the ball and all the pins fell down. Wasn't that the point?"

Re: Bowling!

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"If you cheat, I get China," says Aeryn.

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"You can't have China," Anakin said firmly. "Who's next?"

Re: Bowling!

[can_be_more]

"No cheating or China's mine," she says pointedly. "I'll go."

She frowns when she realizes this means she has to put the shoes on and use the ball. "Fine, I'll get it over with," she mutters, and sticks her feet in the shoes and goes to get the vomit ball, tossing it easily down the lane.

No, really, she tosses it a little, and it bounces before rolling slowly to hitting five of the pins.

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Good first try, honey," John says, clapping a little. "Now, just try to knock over the rest. And roll it. Nice and easy. Smooth. Just like your skin."

Okay, he might be living dangerously.

Re: Bowling!

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She sighs at him.

When the ball takes too long to come back, Aeryn decides she doesn't care and uses Anakin's. Because she's still bitter about China, if you couldn't tell. Of course, it doesn't really fit, but she still manages to roll the ball to hit another three pins. "Ha," she says to no one in particular.

Re: Bowling!

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Yay Aeryn!" said Rory, happily picking up her pink ball. She skipped up, eyed the pins carefully, then bent her knees and rolled the ball down the lane easily.

All ten pins fell down.

Rory smiled shyly. "Yay."

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, nice shot," John says and gets up for his turn. He picks up his ball and stares at the pins. The pins stare back.

"You all fall down now!" And he heaves the ball down the lane. And he gets a split.

WTF.

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I'd offer to help, but I'm keeping China," Anakin commented.

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I got a plan."

And he does. He picks up his ball and throws it towards one of the pins. He throws it very very slowly. Before that ball can reach the first pin, John picks up Aeryn's vomit ball and throws it at the second pin.

And they both strike and he's got a spare.

"You might have China," John says as he struts by Anakin, "but that's at least good enough for Luxembourg."

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin was gaping at John. "You can have two balls?"

A few seconds from now it might dawn on Anakin that could've been phrased better.

Re: Bowling!

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Aeryn opens her mouth to say something, then closes it and does not snicker at all. Except where she totally does.

She's obviously in a weird mood today.

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Two balls is usually the norm," John says quietly to Anakin. "Unless...you have more?"

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I was only using the one," Anakin said.

Yeah, that really didn't make it better.

Re: Bowling!

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Aeryn has to stop biting her lip to say, "I'm going to get some water." And then takes off to do that before it gets worse. Not that she minds, she just doesn't want to have to facepalm at anyone.

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"You can do that?" John boggles. "That's some control, dude."

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I'm very good with controlling balls," Anakin said, nodding. "Even if Rory told me to stop."

Oh, Anakin.

Stop talking.

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Aeryn's never told me to stop controlling my balls," John says and scratches his head. "Does that mean she's dissatisfied? I'm not good with control."

Re: Bowling!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin shrugged. "I'm probably not the person to ask about it. I'm really new to the whole idea."

Re: Bowling!

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Oh my God, I hate everything," mumbled Rory, who was covering her face. She took this moment to slide down and hide behind one of those oh-so-comfy chairs until Aeryn came back.

Re: Bowling!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Really?" John boggles again. "Maybe mine aren't big enough..."

Re: Bowling!

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That's when Aeryn returns with a bottle of water. "What aren't big enough?" she asks, taking her seat and getting rid of the shoes again as soon as she sits down.