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Chapter 2: Rides and Shows and Games, Oh My!
“So which ride do you wanna go on first?” Xander asked glancing at his girlfriend…fiancé, he corrected himself. I still can’t believe it. Little ol’ me getting all married.
“All of them.” Anya replied.
“Yeah, but you have to pick one first. You can’t just go on all of them at once.” Xander reminded her.
Anya thought for a moment, “I want to go on something fast.”
“Okay,” Xander nodded, “a nice big roller coaster comes to mind.” He clapped his hands together and looked around to find a sign that would lead them to a coaster.
“Oh, there!” Anya said, tugging at his shirt and pointed. Xander looked to where she was pointing.
“Uh, Anya, that’s the kids’ bumper car ride.” Xander said flatly.
“I don’t care, I want to go on them.” Anya stood her ground as Xander tried to reason with her.
“But Ahn, you have to be – ”
Anya stared at him coldly and Xander just shook his head and shrugged. “Fine,” he said, giving up. It was no use, once Anya decided what she wanted to do, there was no changing her mind. They strode up to the line, but the guy running the ride stopped them. “Uh, excuse me miss, you can’t ride this ride, I’m sorry.”
“Well why not?”
“Ma’am, this is a kid ride, you have to be under 4 feet to ride it,” the man, Gus as it read on his nametag, replied.
Anya’s forehead creased momentarily. She then acted as if she was turning away, but instead squatted down until her head was level with Xander waist and placed her hands on the floor to balance herself and tried to go past him again.
Gus stopped her, blocking her path. “Uh, ma’am, you can’t go on this ride.”
“But you said I had to be under 4 feet.” She said stubbornly, looking up to him from where she squatted.
The man looked to Xander and Xander just rolled his eyes and shook his head and tried unsuccessfully to pull Anya to her feet.
“Ahn come on, we’ll find another ride,” he tried to reason with her.
She yanked her arm away and glowered at him. “Xander I am going on this ride and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.” She turned and looked at Gus and gave him the same cold stare she had given Xander.
“Miss, if you don’t leave I’m afraid I’ll have to call security,” Gus tried to reason with her.
“But you said I had to be under 4 feet. I am under 4 feet!” she complained, not understanding. “I don’t understand, you said to go on the ride, I’d have to be 4 feet.”
“Excuse me, Gus is it? Um, is there any possible way she could go on this ride? Please?” Xander asked Gus, giving him a pleading look.
Gus shook his head, no.
“Ahn, could you go sit over by the bench for a sec while I ask the nice man a quick question?” Anya sighed and, still squatting, hobbled over to a bench, out of earshot.
“Now, Gus is it?” Gus nodded. “Look, that crazy chick over there is my, uh…sister, yeah, my sister, and as you can probably see, she’s kinda nuts. She has a…disability that doesn’t allow her to see reason. Now is there any…any, possible way you would just let her on the ride? It would make her really happy and today’s her…birthday. Please?” Xander asked the man. Gus’s gaze faltered.
He sighed. Finally Gus leaned forward after thinking for a minute. “So it’s really her birthday?” Xander nodded. “Well, okay, but only this once.”
“Thanks man, I owe ya one.” Xander beamed as he turned to Anya, “Ahn, come on, lets go.” She hurried over, still crouched over and hobbled through the turnstile. Xander once again turned to the man, “thanks again.” Gus smiled and nodded his head.
“Oh and happy birthday,” he called out to Anya.
Anya turned, “What? Today’s n –”
Xander’s hand quickly came up to her mouth, cutting her off. “Yes it is,” he murmured quietly through the corner of his mouth. Anya shook her head in understanding.
“Thank you!” she said enthusiastically to Gus. Xander nudged her and pulled on her arm, “You can stand up now hun, you can go on the ride.” Anya beamed and stood up, walking out into the enclosed space.
She chose a tiny red car to sit in. It was so big for her that he knees poked out of the side. Xander chuckled lightly as he watched her fumble with the seatbelt and she somehow managed to get it all twisted and tangled into her arms. Gus had to come out to the floor to actually help her get into it correctly. Approximately 3 minutes and 42 seconds later the ride started and Xander watched as Anya zoomed around in the too-small car she had claimed. He watched as she smashed into kids, left and right, shouting out in glee every time she knocked a kid out of the way. As the ride came to and end and the cars slowed down she looked around, puzzled. She called to Xander, “Xander!” she wined, “why did all the annoyingly-small cars stop?”
“That means the rides over Ahn.” Xander said patiently.
“Oh.” Anya said as she somehow managed to squeeze herself out of the car and trotted over to where Xander was waiting for her. “Right that was fun,” she said grinning, “What’s next?”
Xander took a deep breath. Oh boy.
*****
“So which one’s first?”
Buffy and Dawn were walking around the huge area searching for their first game.
“Hmm, how ‘bout that one.” Buffy said pointing to a square filled area full of large, empty wine bottles. There were huge stuffed dogs and large pink flamingos as big as Dawn above it, which were obviously the prizes. “I want one of the flamingos!” she said grinning.
“I don’t know do you know how hard that is to get? The rings are all bounce-offy and stuff.”
“Well, ya never know until you try.” Buffy replied as she strode over to the game area.
A gangly teen a few years older than Dawn stepped up to them. “What’ll it be? One bucket or two?”
“Um, two please.” Buffy answered perkily, handing the girl her money. She had been saving a while for this, and had loads of cash to spend, and she counted on using ever last penny. The girl collected the rings in the buckets and set them on the small counter surrounding all the bottles.
Buffy concentrated while Dawn just went right into tossing hers in. She threw 10 of the 50 in her bucket and each one bounced off. Dawn frowned and Buffy chuckled lightly to herself. Dawn concentrated harder and kept tossing her rings until she was all out. Buffy continued giggling.
“Well you try it then.” Dawn challenged to Buffy. “It’s not as easy as it looks!” Buffy stepped up to her bucket confidently. “Fine then, I will!” she replied easily and confidently.
Buffy took her first ring and lined it up with a bottle, threw it, and it bounced off carelessly. She hadn’t even come close. Looking down at her bucket she frowned and picked up 3 rings and tossed them all. Nothing happened. She tried again and again and each time she missed.
49 tosses and several frowns later, Buffy took her last ring out of her bucket and turned to her sister. “This is it Dawn, here’s a winner right here.” Dawn nodded skeptically and raised her eyebrows high onto her forehead.
Buffy took her aim and threw it, putting a little more strength than she had anticipated and it flied through the air. As if in slow motion they watched as the ring sailed passed all the bottles and smashed into the back of a 30-some year old man’s head who just happened to be a park security guard. Buffy and Dawn’s eyes widened as the man whipped around to see where the person who was responsible for the crime was. Buffy and Dawn quickly looked away and backed up slowly before turning around and high tailing it away from the booth. They weren’t sure if the guard followed them, or even saw them, but they weren’t about to slow down and find out.
Once they thought they were out of harms way they stopped and looked around to see if he was following them then looked at each other for a moment before burst out laughing. Dawn doubled over and clutched her stomach and as soon as she could properly speak again she turned to her sister, “Did you see the look on his face?!” she asked still giggling. Buffy just shook her head and brushed herself off.
“So, now what should we do?”
“Well how about…that one,” Dawn said, scanning their surrounding and pointing to a game booth nearby where 3 bottles were stacked together and a bunch of fluffy caterpillars were hanging.
Buffy grinned. This is gonna be easy. They walked over to the booth and the employee gave Buffy a ball after taking her money.
“So what are the rules?” she asked the guy.
“You have one change to knock all the bottles off the table, and if you win, you get a large. If you get 3 larges you get a Choice.” He answered her, his tone slightly bored.
On the walls above the bottles, there were red and orange caterpillars and green and blue caterpillars, which were the large. Above them, even higher were more caterpillars exactly like the others, except these were huge. They must have been at least 7 feet tall and as soon as the Slayer saw them, she knew she must have one.
“Oh this is gonna be a synch.” She took her aim and threw the ball, hard. It flew into the bottles, scattering them. Buffy jumped up and down, gleefully. “Yes!” The teen handed her a red and orange caterpillar. She repeated this process 2 more times, successfully knocking all the bottles down each time. As she handed her 3 large caterpillars in, she pointed to a Choice orange/red caterpillar. She wrapped it around her neck twice to get it to not touch the floor. She beamed at Dawn.
“I wanna try.” Dawn said sticking her hand out for some money. Buffy rolled her eyes and handed dawn a 10. “Here” she said, shoving the money into the guys hands. After collecting her change, she took her aim and let the ball fly. To Buffy’s surprise it knocked down all the pins. Dawn turned to look at her sister’s shocked face and she stuck her tongue out. “Ha!”
She tried again, but this time missed. Dawn simply wouldn’t give up. The next 2 times she tried she knocked all the pins down, repeating her sister’s performance. She however, unlike her sister chose the blue/ green one instead of the orange/red one so they could distinguish which one was whose.
Buffy grinned at her little sister, who returned the smile as they stalked off to play more games.
***
Willow and Tara strode hand in hand and they walked around the park, looking for a few shows to go to. They stopped by a sign that read:
Reptile Show
Times:
10:00
11:30
2:30
“Do you want to go to that one sweetie?” Tara asked Willow as she checked her watch. “It’s about 9:30 now, so it’s in about 30 minutes.”
Willow shook her head. “Naw, it’s snakes and stuff,” she shuddered. “If there’s one thing I do not like it’s snakes.” She though for a moment, “Well, that and frogs, I hate frogs, with their green, slippery bodies. And horses…you can’t forget the horses. Those creatures are evil, evil I tell you! Those huge head and their teeth, I do not like them. Nope. Nuh-uh. Not liking them at all” She finished her babble as Tara stared at her.
Tara smirked, “Done yet?” Willow blushed and nodded. “So that’s a ‘no’ for the reptile show then, right?” Her red-haired beauty nodded once more.
They continued walking around until they saw another show notice. It read:
“Pirates”
Show Times:
9:45
12:00
3:30
“Hey, Tar lets go see this!” Willow said excitedly. “Buffy saw it once and she said it was really good!” Tara grinned at Willow’s perkiness.
“Okay.” She agreed.
They walked into the theater and each took a pair of glasses from the bin. The show was in 3-D so they had to wear special glasses to see it properly. Willow giggled as she saw Tara put hers on. “What?” Tara asked.
Willow shook her head. “Nothing it’s just…you look like a big bug.” She giggled again. Tara tried to put on her pouting face but failed miserably as she started laughing too. The lovers walked into the theatre where there was a huge screen, bigger than most movie theaters. There were only about 7 people in there and all of them were sitting in the 3rd row. Willow grabbed Tara’s hand and dragged her to the middle rows and they plopped down into the center section. “These are perfect seats! We’re lucky it’s not all crowded today.”
Tara nodded and then shivered lightly. Willow frowned, “You cold baby?”
“Just a little.” Tara told her. Willow snuggled up to Tara and put her arm around her girlfriend’s shoulders rubbing her arm. “This better?” the redhead whispered, very, very close to Tara’s ear. Too close, some may say, mind you Tara wasn’t one of those people.
“Much,” Tara agreed, nodding slightly.
“How much longer till it starts?” Willow asked.
Tara glanced down at her watch, “Um, about 3 minutes.”
“Well I know what we could do to take up some time,” Willow whispered teasingly into Tara’s ear, biting it gently and then soothing it with a quick lick. Tara shivered, but it wasn’t because of the cold.
“Willow! There are people around.” Tara whispered hastily to her lover.
Willow grinned mischievously. “So lets give ‘em something to watch.” Tara’s jaw dropped and just as Willow was about to take her lovers mouth into possession the theater went dark and the movie started. “Damn,” Willow cursed under her breath.
Tara’s smirk was hidden by the darkness as she leaned over to Willow. “If your good…maybe tonight…I’ll give you a little show of your own.” She could almost see Willow’s jaw drop, just as hers had been moments ago. With another little grin of satisfaction, Tara sat back and enjoyed the show while Willow just stared, gaping at her, before finally joining Tara and watching the provided entertainment. She suddenly couldn’t wait to go home.
TBC…
So, whatya think?
Those games are harder than they look 
I loved it though. And I agree with everyone else. I hope we will get to see Tara's show for Willow, later. 
I don't win often anyway cuz I stink and when I do win it's like a weirdly shaped stuffed animal that looks like something I could've made in home ec class....