Want to Make a Bet?

^{"I'm the best mind reader in town," he laughed. "I was thinking about going professional with it. Could make my own little side show." He was glad that it seemed to calm her down though. He liked it a lot more when she wasn't fumbling all over her words. "I was planning on going to.." Not the game shop. Something that most girls found to be attractive. Something that wouldn't make her look at him and call him out as a nerd. But he wanted to see the new deck! "I heard that some of the stores were hiring, so I wanted to get a job at a store that would be willing to work around my school schedule. If you don't mind me picking up a few applications while we're out." Not that he really wanted to work at the mall. "I'm totally serious though."}

^{Lewis frowned. He should have just went on with talk of the game store. "Well I was going to stop by there." He told her as a grasp to keep her interested. He really was. "It's pre-release weekend for a game I play." Lewis probably should have just told her that in the first place. "So... if you don't mind stopping in on a bunch of neckbeards and guys that probably have not showered in the past two days. I really want to draft the new set over there." His friends were not the type that most people liked to admit to hanging out with.}

^{"Magicthegathering," he mumbled. It wasn't an obsession he was proud of. But there was just something that came from opening the packs. The rush of finding a Jace or other plainswalker. It was weird to talk about it so openly to a girl. Lewis stood outside the room swaying on his feet while he waited for her to.. probably change and do whatever girls did before they got ready to go out someplace. He looked around the hall for some type of reflective surface but was unable to find one. He just shrugged and ran his fingers through his hair enough so it was shaggy mop he was used to. He also unbuttoned his sports coat.}

^{"I got into it in sixth grade. One of my friends introduced me." Most of his cards were back at home, but that didn't mean there wasn't a small fortune of cards back under his bed at his dorm. Lewis had a lot of cards and a lot of expensive cards. "Do you?" There were not that many girls that played the game. He started walking down the hallway slowly, turning to make sure she was following him. Lewis could drive out to the mall but he did just meet this girl. "We can take the bus if you want. I drive, but my car is a mess." He was sure he could make a bit of room in the midst of all the crap inside of it.}

^{Oh. She drove. Lewis had automatically assumed because she was younger that she wouldn't drive. Everyone at this school probably drives. He just laughed at the assumption he made. "That we could do. I'll split you money for the gas, or we can get something to eat." Lewis would find some way to pay her back. "As long as you promise not to ditch me there. I don't think I can handle the walk home again." Because he once stayed there up until the buses shut down leaving him no way to get back to the dorm. That was a long walk and Lewis barely had the energy to get to class the following day.}

^{Lewis cast a nervous glace towards Winnie. With the friends that he had, there was no telling what he would come across. Him he could control, but his friends were another matter. Also, judging on what he saw from Winona so far it was very easy for her to get embarrassed and blush. He would need to take it easy and refrain even more from being his normal goofy self. Winona would never become friends with the guy that was really Lewis. It didn't matter in the end. He only needed her for that one night. Playfully he lifted his hand and placed the other upon his heart. "Winona, I promise you that I will not do anything that will embarrass you." That included not mentioning anything that could make this remotely date like.}

^{Lewis laughed awkwardly. He had no idea where to even begin when it came to understanding this girl. He just felt stupid. "So what games are you interested in? Platform, Sim, FPS, MMORPG?" He knew a few girls from a game he played online. So it wasn't shocking that there was a girl that was remotely intereated in games.}

<sup>"The Creed games are cool looking. I tried once on the PC but after failing to get a grasp of the controls, I haven't touched it sense." He would love to, but the game didn't interest him as much now as it did back a few years ago, even with the new ones that were coming out.

That car was certainly unexpected. He tried not to look at it too much and make a huge scene over it. Winona's car was much better than the dinky truck that Lewis bought from his neighbor years back. A lot of the students had all these really nice cars. And then there was Lewis' which stood out. He slid into the car carefully and propped his arm up on the armrest. With a nice car like this, she better have been a good driver. Lewis wasn't ready to end his life just yet.</sup>

^{"Oh, of course," he told her, snapping on the seat belt over his chest and sitting back in the seat. He was careful not to mess anything up in the car. Lewis was nervous that he'd go and do something stupid that would end up scratching the interior. He just kept his hands in his lap and looked out the window, for a bit of the car ride. He didn't need to keep people talking in order to be happy. As long as they were happy, he was fine. He hoped that Winona was alright with everything that happened. He sat in his own thoughts. Now he would need to buy something to wear to the dance. He probably shouldn't go with his normal outfit of sport coats and band tees. Even what he had on now wasn't all that nice when he started thinking about it. He knew next to nothing about what was in or not. Of course, Winona never did give him a straight yes either.}