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Fast Eddies - Friday Evening

After a ~~handwavy~~ pizza dinner, Chris and Savannah headed over to Fast Eddie's.

"Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to teach you this and you're going to end up kicking my ass?" Chris asked, holding the door for her.

[ooc: Chris is here with Savannah but the post is open!]

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Savannah laughed. "I think you give yourself far too little credit, Chris."

"I guess we'll find out," Chris replied. "Just promise you'll still respect me tomorrow if you do kick my ass?"

"As long as you don't get upset with me about it, I will still respect you in the morning."

"Deal," Chris grinned.

"Okay... the first and quite possibly most painful part of bowling is the shoes," he explained, heading to the shoe rental counter. He gave the attendant money for two rentals and, after he & Savannah gave their shoe sizes, handed her the pair she was supposed to wear.

She looked from him to the shoes and then back again.

"You're kidding me. Chris... these are... why can't I wear my own shoes?"

"It's one of the rules," Chris said. "And be careful. The shoes are slippery."

"The rules are stupid," she said, shaking her head. She grinned. "You know, a quick spell..."

"Savannah," Chris said. "Just wear the shoes. Trust me. It's going to be fun."

Savannah laughed. "Alright." She quickly changed into the shoes. "Now what?"

"Now we pick our balls," Chris said, completely unaware of any potential dirty interpretation of his words.

He led her over to a rack of brightly colored bowling balls. "The little number on the front near the finger holes tells you how much the ball weighs," he explained. "I'm going to use a twelve pound ball." He picked up a bright green ball. "You probably want to grab an eight pound one."

Savannah grabbed a purple eight pound ball and decided that it felt pretty good. "Yeah, this seems right."

"Great," Chris said.

They got to their lane and he entered their names in the computer.

"Okay, I'll go first. I think you probably know that the object of the game is to knock down all the pins."

He demonstrated a proper bowling stance. "You stand like this, swing your arm back and then release the ball."

The ball traveled down the alley and knocked over six of the pins. "Like that," he said, waiting for his ball to return so he could take his second try.

Savannah watched what he was doing... okay, she was probably smiling more at him than the bowling part, but this was fun.

"What happens if you don't knock them all down?"

"You get two tries each frame and there are ten frames in a game," Chris said, before launching into an explanation of how bowling scores were kept ~~which I totally know from high school gym class and am far too tired to type out at midnight omg~~.

By the time he was done (okay, well before he was done), his ball was returned, so he went to take his second try, managing to knock down two more pins.

"Ready to give it a shot?" he asked as the pins were reset.

"Sure," Savannah said, coming to retrieve her purple ball. She tried to do exactly what Chris had done...

...asnd her ball ended up in the gutter.

"I'm pretty sure that's a bad."

"Well the point is to knock pins down," Chris reminded her lightly. "But it's okay, gutter balls happen a lot to people who aren't professionals. You probably turned your wrist the wrong way when you let the ball go. Want me to help you with your second try?"

Savannah nodded. "Yes, please." She retrieved her ball and then looked at Chris. "I don't remember moving my wrist differently..."

"It's one of those things you don't really notice," Chris explained. He stepped behind her. "Okay, hold the ball like you're getting ready to let it go."

Savannah nodded and held the ball. She looked at him. "Okay."

Chris stepped behind her and held his hand over hers, making sure her wrist was in the correct position.

"Go ahead and release the ball," he instructed, intending to hold her wrist in the correct position as she did so.

Savannah nodded and released the ball, watching it going down the lane.

"Did you feel the difference?" Chris asked, smiling as the ball knocked down half of the pins.

Savannah grinned excitedly and nodded. "Yeah, I did feel that. It didn't pull."

Chris grinned back and let go of her wrist. "Good job. Next time, see if you can do that on your own."

Savannah nodded and bounced to her seat so she could watch and see how Chris did.

A little while later, they had finished their game. Chris had won, but not by much. "You picked that up really quickly," he complimented Savannah.

"I have a pretty awesome teacher."

Chris felt his cheeks get a little warm at her words. "So you had fun?"

She nodded. "I had a blast, Chris. We have to do this again."

"I think that can be arranged," he said. "Ready to get your own shoes back?"

"Damn skippy!"

Chris laughed and bent his head to kiss her quickly. "All right, let's go," he said, offering his hand.

Savannah was happy to kiss him back and then she took his hand. "Ready when you are."

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