Twisted Destiny Chapter 135: High-Score

Ti flies when you have fun with your friends. We had tried shooter gas, pinball machines, car driving gas, more fighter gas, Air hockey, rythm gas and even this one kind of dancing ga where you needed to place your feet on different areas on the mat to complete the dance steps. I was surprisingly good at that.

“Damn you and your darn cat balance, Ami. That song was just impossible.” Hailey’s laying on the floor, completely and utterly defeated by my amazing dance moves.

“This ga is so fun!” I jump a couple of happy jumps.

“Can’t deny that.” Hailey smiles up to .

“Hey, Ami, you can even fill in your na on the high score list!”

Hailey gets up from the floor and looks at the screen as well. “What? You got first place?”

“Really?” I look at the scoreboard as well. And indeed, when I look at the board, my score is blinking at the top with three empty horizontal white bars next to it.

“And luckily your na is short enough as well.” Carol smiles as she starts typing in ‘AMI’.

“Did soone get a top score?” The man who runs the store cos walking up to us. He’s walking around with a dust cloth, occasionally wiping one of the machine’s panels.

“Yes, this girl here did.” Carol smiles and pats on the back.

“Congratulations, that’s quite the feat on a machine this old.”

“I managed to do this because it’s only been up for a short ti, right?” I ask the manager.

“No, when we let the machines get restored we tried to maintain the old scoreboards as a mory to the people who’d used them before. That didn’t work out for all of the machines but it did for most of them.” He points at the dancing arcade machine. “But this one is definitely a machine where the mory was kept.”

“Wow.” Carol looks at the scores. “So this ‘JOE’ person is soone from 60 years ago?”

“That could definitely be the case.” The man nods.

“Wow.” Carol repeats herself.

“Have you girls had fun?” The man continues.

“Definitely!” I reply. “It’s so fun to play all these old gas.”

“We’ve had plenty of laughs too.” Hailey nods.

“I’m glad to hear that.” The man smiles. “He then picks sothing out of the wallet he has hanging from his belt. “Here’s six coupons to get yourself sothing from the drinks and als vending machines.”

“What do we need to pay for them?” Carol asks.

“Nothing, it’s on the house. See it as a reward for breaking a 60-year old record.”

“Thank you!” Carol gladly accepts the coupons. “But let’s go and play so more gas first.”

“That’ll be a bit hard without any more ti.” The store manager laughs. “Looks like you’ve had so much fun that you forgot to keep track of ti.”

“Wait, those three hours are already over?” I look at the bracelet. It says 0:00. “Wow, we must’ve started this ga at the last second.” I check my phone to be sure, but indeed, we have already spent three hours inside of the arcade.

“You can always get a refill.” The store manager replies and waits for our answer.

“Uh, I don’t think we will at the mont, but we will definitely co back next ti and maybe bring so more friends.” Carol replies.

“That’d be very much appreciated.” The store manager smiles once again. “If you need , I’ll be back at the counter. Don’t forget to wash your hands after you’ve had your food.”

“We will!” I reply as the manager heads back to the front of the arcade.

“Let’s put these coupons to so good use.” Carol smiles and hands two coupons to both Hailey and I. “The vending machines were over there, right?” She points to the right.

“I thought so, yes.” Hailey nods and starts moving.

I follow my friends along as I send a ssage to Sam. “How are things going there, Sam?”

“eting’s almost done