Andrew Laurence is your typical sixteen year old. He attends the local high school, does some chores for his mom when he's done avoiding his duties, tries to steer clear of his seven year old sister as much as possible and hangs out with his friends at the mall. And the two things he liked at the mall more then anything where the arcade and the video game store.
Only now the mall had gotten a second arcade, one that was at least three times bigger and looking around, Andrew could see that they had a bigger selection of games; both new and real old ones dating back to the seventies. From a high tech game that involved flying a jet to the original Dig Dug, Andrew saw it all. "I'm definitely coming back here when I get my allowance," Andrew thought to himself as he looked at the various equipment. Suddenly, something caught his eye.
Sitting back along the wall, nestled in between Street Fighter and Donkey Kong where a bank of turnstile machines; the ones where you put in the quarter, turn the handle and out pops a prize. "Never seen anything like these," Andrew thought as he approached them. "Now anything like this requires you to push a button or two to make a selection."
Curious, Andrew withdrew from his pocket two quarters. Inserting them into the slots, he turned the crank. A solid "Kachunk" noise could be heard as springs went to work and then shortly after there was a click. Lifting up the metal flap, Andrew found himself looking at two, plastic eggs; one pink and the other yellow. "Like what mom uses on Easter," Andrew thought.
Putting the eggs into his pocket, he began to wander again and after a few moments, he cell phone began to vibrate. Flipping it open, he saw that it was Buddy. Immediately a voice asked, "What ya doing?"
Andrew shrugged without thinking about it and replied, "Nothing much. Checking out the new arcade. You?"
"Nothing really. Looking for Dani. You haven't seen him have you?"
"Not since school yesterday. Why?"
"No reason really. Is it alright if I come over later to hang out?"
Another shrug and then, "Sure. I don't see that being a problem. My mom's got to work late and Sahara will be over at one of her friends house."
"Okay. I be over around five. If you see Dani, tell him I'm looking for him. For some reason, he's not answering his phone."
Andrew grinned at this and said that he would and then hung up. "Same old Dani. So intelligent, that some times he cant get his head out of the clouds and pay attention to the every day world." Andrew told himself as slid his phone back into his pocket and left the arcade.
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After the arcade, Andrew wandered around the mall for a bit, noting that it was only one thirty. Bored, he decided to go home to play his video games.
Home was single story ranch style home with a pool in the back that had a fence surrounding it to keep Sahara from falling in and drowning; or at least that had been the story until she's learned how to swim. Now Andrew wasn't really sure why his mom still kept the fence up around the pool. Sahara really had no interest in the pool.
Inside his room, Andrew grumbled about his sister being in his room as he picked up one of her dolls; a fox with a mermaids tail sewn in place where the things legs where suppose to me. Sahara called in her mer-fox. Throwing the toy on his bed, figuring he'd punish her by not giving it back for the moment, Andrew took off his coat and threw it over the back of the chair in front of his desk.
He was just about to select a video game, when he heard a clicking noise. Turning, he saw that the two eggs had fallen out of his coat pocket. Curious, he picked them up and setting the yellow one on his desk, he proceeded to try and open the pink egg.