Ace hopped into the car and sat alongside a man who looked like he was about the same age with his sister, Amy was on the driver's sit while Araceli was in the passenger sit, he could sense something was wrong, first this wasn't Araceli's car, secondly she had that smile she had on her face when she just came back from the hospital, it didn't reach her eyes but she tried her best to still keep smiling.
"Hey Ace, are you ready to have fun?," Amy asked trying to break the awkward stares Ace was giving Araceli who was just staring everywhere but at Ace, the kid may have been young but he was smart and he could sense the tension in the car even though he just arrived.
Ricky taking the hint Amy dropped about trying to break the awkward air around them, he decided to introduce himself since he hasn't met Ace yet. "Hey Ace, I'm Ricky but you can call me Rick, or my friends call me Gay Rick," Ricky said winking at him, he knew a talk about his sexuality would be enough to take his attention from Araceli.
"Nobody calls you 'gay Rick' Ricky," Amy said, starting up the car. What Ricky said managed to bring a smile to Araceli's face as she turned back to see a confused look on Ace's face, knowing how curious of a kid he was, Ricky was in for a long talk.
"So you have like a….boyfriend right?," Ace asked, gently carefully thinking of his words. "Yes hon, I have a boyfriend," Rick said, smiling at him.
"What's his name?," Ace asked, looking at Ricky inquisitively again as if expecting to see something pop off his head.
"His name?," Ricky repeated, quite surprised that he would want to know his boyfriend's name.
"Well his name is Alan," Ricky said, smiling a little just by saying his name.
"You really like him don't you," Ace said, smiling at him.
"Oh, and what gave that away?," Ricky asked, almost rhetorically even though he knew Ace wouldn't get it, but his reply shocked him.
"Well I read somewhere that when you say the name of someone you like, a little smile tugs at your lips, but Araceli doesn't smile like that when it's about Xander," Ace said, simply.
The whole car went quiet for what seemed like hours even though it wasn't up to a minute, what Ace said seemed to take everyone by surprise as Ricky looked at Amy driving through the front mirror and Amy shared looks with Araceli who's eyes were just widened. The ice was finally cracked by Amy.
"Five minutes to Trench Arcade, who's ready to have loads of fun?!!," Amy exclaimed, with a nervous laugh, desperate to break the Ice.
"Yaaaaaayyyy," Ace squealed, pumping his hands through the air completely oblivious to the awkward environment he had created.
They reached the Arcade which seemed to take forever even though it was just a Five minutes journey from the time Amy announced it, the place was definitely eye catchy and was very busy with a lot of cars in the parking lot since it was a friday, it was filled with alot of highschool student looking for some fun after five days of school workload. The inside was a strict blue neon light and different other neon lights for every other game gave out, the most catchy game that stood out was the glow hockey board that stood right in the middle of the right side of the room filled of games, the left had an eatery section, the tables were pentagonal in shapes with chairs at every end of the chair.
They got a bunch of coins for Ace to go play a spider man themed car race. Amy, Araceli and Ricky headed towards the eatery section not because of the food but it was the only part that wasn't crowded by adrenaline filled teenagers looking to have some fun, they sat on the chair at the side and othered some salted fries in a big sieve and some coke.
"Are we going to talk about the fact that your brother is way too smart for his age?," Ricky said, with an over dramatic expression.
"He is quite observant I must say," Rachel said looking at Ricky overreacting again.
"We should talk about you Araceli," Amy said, staring at her as if she had just lost her husband in the army battle.
"Amy can stop looking at me like that, I didn't loose my fiancé in a fucking titanic," Rachel said, looking away from her as she still had the look of pity in her eyes, the look she was avoiding.
"I'm fine, I will be fine, all I need to do is get laid," Rachel added, trying to bring some life to the conversation.
"Is that really the best Idea?," Ricky asked, as he reached for another batch of fries.
"I mean…" Ricky started, chewing down the fries and washing it down with coke, "When I was feeling sad about my GPA dropping, my boyfriend tried to make me feel better with sex, but I ended up crying half way through the penetration," Ricky said.
"Too much info Ricky," Amy said, slapping his arms for what seemed like the one billionth time today.
"Besides y'all probably didn't use enough lobe," Rachel added, causing both of them to stare at her in surprise.
"Whattt, I have seen gay porn before," Rachel said, launching fries at both of them.
"Well spoilers, gay sex is completely different from what you see in porn," Ricky said, shaking his head in disapproval.
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