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"GUYS, WE NEED ONE MORE PERSON, ITS NO FUN WITHOUT TEAMS!" The brightly coloured lights, and the sounds of pins being knocked down made his yell a bit more than he often did. "ANDY, SHUT UP, I KNOW" Jason yelled back. Chance sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Stupid Ross, of course he had to cancel." Andy sulks.
"Look, I could call home maybe? If you're alright with Liam joining? I don't think he's doing anything today" Jason offers. Hearing Will's name, Chance perked up "Yeah!! I don't mind!!" The others looked at him, Jason raised a brow. "I was asking everyone" he states.
Chance, trying to play it cool, let's out a 'pshh' sound, before saying "Well, yeah I was just.. like.. saying I don't mind him here.. or.. something" he looks around, clearly no one has bought it, "I'm.. going to the bathroom" he says, walking off.
"O-kaayyy" Jason says, to no one in particular. "I'm gonna call him, Is that alright with you guys?" The others nod and Jason walks outside the arcade, to where the phone booth was.
When Jason got back, Chance was already back out of the bathroom. "He's on his way now, we can wait for a bit" Jason announces, nodding his head to some of the machines around them.
"OH COME ON??!!" Gabriel yelled, "Hah, don't be a sore loser" Adam teased. Gabriel left the machine, chasing Adam around the arcade area, trying to tackle him. Before he could notice, he crashed straight into someone.
"SHIT" Gabriel said, with worry in his voice, "I am so so sorry, I wasn't look- oh hey Byers!" He reaches out a hand to help him up, and he can hear Adam and Andy laughing at him, he shoots them a glare before apologizing again.
"I am so sorry, Adam was pissing me off and I uhh- yeah.." Will laughs, "Yeah, I get it I have an older brother and a twin sister, there's been a lot of chasing around the house" he says, trying to make Gabriel feel better. Gabriel smiles and gestures for Will to follow him, to where Chance and Jason were sitting.
"Hey, Liam thanks for coming!" Jason stands, slapping him on the shoulder, as he would anyone else on the team. "Yeah, no problem, I wasn't doing much anyways" he smiles, trying not to come across as awkward. "Hi Will" Chance says, waving at him with the energy of a way too excited kid, before noticing, and slamming his hand down immediately onto the table.
"Hiya, Chance!" Will greets in response, with a more polite, gentle wave. "Okay, stay here, I'll find dumb, dumber and dumbest" Will giggle slightly, and Chance slides off the booth couch and stands next to Will.
"Thanks for joining us! I promise it's gonna be fun!" Will smiles, "Yeah, no problem.. do you want to be on a team?" He offers.
He hoped Will couldn't see it, but Chance's eyes widened, and for a moment, he had the biggest smile, before returning to cool, calm and composed. "Yeah, I'd love to" he says, trying to not seem over excited.
"Cool!" Will says before walking over to Jason and the others. "So, teams, what are we thinking?" Jason asks. "IM ON WILL'S!" Chance yells, a bit too quickly. He realized and lowered his head, Will only seemed to laugh.
"Well I'm not being on a team with a cheater, so I'll join them" Gabriel says, slightly stomping over to the two, evidently still mad as Adam. "Great" Jason sighs, "I'm stuck with dumber and dumbest." Both Adam and Andy turn to him, "HEY??"
Once they got both lanes set up, Jason explained the rules, "Alright, you and your team have to get the highest points combined, then at the end, we see who wins, easy?" The guys nod and begin.
Jason begins for his team, luckily hitting 6 pins down, while Gabriel only gets 4, "Sorry guys, I'm actually kinda bad at bowling" he says apologetically, Both Will and Chance complain.
When it's Wills turn, he does better than Adam, getting 9 pins. He was pretty proud of that. Halfway through the game, the server brought over pizzas for the group, and so in between turns, they ate slices of pizza and drank shitty own brand sodas they got from the counter.
Near the end, the teams were actually quite even in score, Jason's team were ahead by 8 points, which Chance made sure his team knew. Will learned that when Chance wanted, he'd get quite competitive. At one point, he stormed back from the lane and onto the couch stomping and sulking when he threw a gutter ball.
Will laughed, "it's okay, we're not that far behind" he said, and all of a sudden Chance felt a lot better. "Besides, I've thrown many gutters"
On everyone's last turn, Jason got a 6, Gabriel gets a 4, Andy gets a 5, Chance gets a 5, Adam gets an 8 and Will..
He walks up to the lane with the yellow bowling ball in hand, he can hear Chance and Gabriel cheering him on, he doesn't want to lose this for his team, so, he feels slight pressure.
He takes a deep breath, swung his arm, and let go of the ball.
Silence
-STRIKE-
"YEAHHH" Chance and Gabriel cheered, while Will shot his fists up in the air in victory. Will truns to his team, and both of them rush towards him, wrapping their arms around him in a huddle, jumping, as if they won a basketball or football game.
On the lane next to them, Jason was clapping, but Andy and Adam sat there sulking. Chance notices this first, and then Gabriel. "Oh come on, don't be such a sore loser, Adam" Gabriel teases. Now it's him that's being chased around the arcade.
"Well played, Byers, well played" Andy said, in defeat. "Next time, you won't win, though." He followed up with, rather quickly. "Oh come on Andy, it's just a bit of fun" Jason teases. Chance, who still has an arm around Wills shoulder turns to him
"Awesome job" he smiles. Will was thankful the lights were coloured and changing, otherwise Chance and the others would has seen how red his face grew. "Thanks, you weren't too bad yourself" he says, in an attempt to de-fluster himself.
"Well" Jason says, clasping his hands, "I suppose we owe you three milkshakes." Will's mouth opens slightly, "Wait, there were stakes to this??" He asks. "Oh yeah, losing team buys the winners milkshakes"
"You don't.. you don't have to get me anything, really it's okay!!" He says, putting his hands up slightly. "Awh come on Byers, you got the winning points" Andy says, seemingly done sulking.
Gabriel and Adam come back, slightly out of breath.
Gabriel smiles, "So, are we getting milkshakes, or what?"