Fast Eddie's [late afternoon]

[momslilassassin]

Ben stared down at the pair of ugly, ugly, ugly bowling shoes in his hand with a frown. "I don't know why my own shoes aren't good enough," he complained to Tahiri. "They're black! And shiny!"

He frowned a little harder. "And, you know, match each other."

[OOC: For the daaaaaaate and great SP justice.]

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri was holding her bowling shoes -- the left one orange and tan, the right one brown and green -- out almost at arm's length, looking not so much frowny as appalled. "You better appreciate that I'm putting these on for you," she told him. "Is it part of the rules that they have to be this ugly?"

[momslilassassin]

"I'm thinking yes," Ben replied, staring at his blue and green/red and beige combination. "At least they'll clash really badly with the bowling balls?"

[weetuskenraider]

"Well, as a color scheme at least it's consistently awful," Tahiri decided, and dropped into a seat to put the shoes on. Yes, there was grimacing, but there were also signs that said bowling shoes had to be worn at all times on the lanes.

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe it was a sport designed by beings who see in a different spectrum than we do?" Ben suggested, waving a bowling ball over to their lane.

He picked it entirely because it matched his eyes.

[weetuskenraider]

Most people would go over to the rack and pick a ball with the right weight and grip, but nooooo. A purple ball picked completely at random floated over and settled in the ball return much more lightly than it should have, considering it was a 16-pounder. "That makes more sense than it being designed this way on purpose. I don't care if it was; this theory is less scary," Tahiri said as she finished tying those awful neon shoelaces and sat up.

[momslilassassin]

"Glad you like it," Ben said with a grin, turning to the computer screen. "What do you want your name to be?"

[weetuskenraider]

"You have to have bowling callsigns?" Tahiri got up and came over to peer at the screen. "This sport is weird."

[momslilassassin]

"It is," Ben agreed. "I'm not using the silly name from hero class. I've just decided that."

[weetuskenraider]

"Me neither." Tahiri shifted a little to lean against him. "I like my name just fine."

[momslilassassin]

"I like your name too," Ben said, typing it into the system after a little hunting and pecking.

Stupid non-Basic keyboard.

[OOC: omgwtf icon. w.t.f.]

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri grinned and shuffled her feet a little in the weird ugly shoes. "Are you going to come up with a nickname for yourself?"

[momslilassassin]

"Ben's a nickname," he said.

Just, you know, not for him.

[weetuskenraider]

She reached over to poke him in the arm. "I just wanted to see if you would end up having to type something really complicated into that computer."

[momslilassassin]

"Like what?" he asked, reaching over to poke her back.

[weetuskenraider]

She let him poke her, then tried to hook her own finger around his. "Something with lots of dashes. Like I'm-Not-Really-a-Skywalker-I-Just-Play-One-In-Holos."

[momslilassassin]

"And you could be This-Is-Not-The-Tahiri-You're-Looking-For," he replied, giving her finger a little squeeze.

[weetuskenraider]

She laughed -- every now and then it still surprised her how easy that was around Ben -- and eyed the computer screen. "Except I don't think it'll give us that many letters. We might just have to be us."

[momslilassassin]

"Easier to remember," Ben agreed with a smile as he typed in his own name. "You get to go first, though."

[weetuskenraider]

"Who says?" Tahiri demanded, but she managed to pry herself away and stepped up onto the lane. "Whoa. These stupid shoes are slippery!"

[momslilassassin]

"Reverse alphabetical," Ben made up before looking a little worried. "Don't fall over!"

[weetuskenraider]

"I'm not --" wobble -- "going to fall," Tahiri insisted. "And when did you have time to read up on all the game rules?"

[momslilassassin]

"I don't sleep much," Ben said. "If I have to use the Force to stop you from toppling, you know I'm gonna tease you about it forever, right?"

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri got the wobbling under control and narrowed her eyes playfully at him. "Keep hoping, but don't hold your breath. You'd have the right to tease me forever if it happened, but it's not going to."

Now, about that bowling ball. There was a momentary hitch when she went to pick it up, but with a little Force assistance Tahiri was on her way toward the line with the ball and absolutely no technique whatsoever. With a very loud crash the ball hit the lane and rolled very, very slowly toward the pins.

[momslilassassin]

Ben watched the ball roll, eyebrows going up. "I'm going to be eighteen by the time it hits anything," he teased.

[weetuskenraider]

"That'll make me ancient." She stuck her tongue out at him and gave the ball a Force nudge. Hard.