Feeling tired
“Watch this.” Sonata took a step up to the button.
“Super-lucky-button-hit-attack!” She cheered and hit the button. Maybe she had been watching to many animes lately but the main characters always had attack names that seemed to boost their luck or attack power.
She turned back to the crowd and grinned, sure she was going to get a high score.
23 tickets! The machine called.
“Hahah- what!?” Sonata turned to the machine. The score was flashing 23. The crowd was murmuring around her.
“Is is a tough game to win.”
“The randomness of it is tricky for anyone.”
“She did beat Jurina though.”
Sonata laughed and pulled her tickets from the machine. “Sonata wasn’t lucky this time. Which is your favourite game? We can play that one next.”
Jurina giggled as Sonata shouted a ridiculous phrase while hitting the button, but it was typical of the younger girl from what she had observed, and was one of her cute points. She was a little surprised when Sonata only got 23 though - she was sure that she would get more than that. But that was coming from someone who somehow managed to always defy the odds and get under 5 every time.
She pointed back at the DDR machine, and laughed. "That was my favourite, by a long shot. It’s how I learnt to dance, pretty much.” She glanced around the arcade, the crowd’s eyes following where she went…The regulars were already heading towards a certain machine, knowing what her second most frequently played one was. She spotted it, and grinned.
“There!” She grabbed Sonata hand and waded through the crowd, stopping in front of a machine seen in almost every arcade - a simple game where you threw up basketballs at a hoop, and every one counted as 2 points (or 3, in the last 10 seconds). The time limit was 60 seconds.
“Hey, didn’t Jurina set the high score for this?”
“Idiot, all the top 10 scores are her’s. Noone’s even gotten close.”
“She’s was in her high school’s top basketball team, wasn’t she?”
“That doesn’t matter, her way of playing this is completely different from how she’d shoot a basketball.”
The high score read 253, a ridiculous number for a 60 second game. Jurina flexed her arms, and inserted a coin.
“Watch this,” she said, grinning cheekily.
At an almost unbelievable speed, she grabbed one ball with her left hand and threw it up towards the rim, while grabbing another with her right and doing the same. It definitely wasn’t the conventional method of actually aiming - she was literally scooping them up, two balls at a time, and tossing them up.
And none of them missed.
The timer hit 60 seconds, and Jurina looked up at the scoreboard, panting a little.
197.
“197?! So she threw almost 100 balls in 60 seconds?”
“Ha, and this was an off day!”
Jurina grumbled a little to herself, a tad disappointed, and stepped aside for Sonata to have a go. “Your turn!”
(Source: jurinathesecond)
