"Their company can't be compared to yours. The gap is too apart no matter how fun being with them is," She said honestly.
The happy Amos tried not to make his excitement obvious. He forced himself not to smile even though he so much wanted to do this.
"I like your reply but here is a question for you," He said and paused midway through his sentence.
"Are you saying this out of loyalty or love?" He asked seriously.
"Make things clear so that your actions and words won't confuse me," He added.
Witnessing how the thrilled Amos was trying hard not to smile made Raymond clench his fist.
If looks could kill Amos would have dropped dead at that instant.
"Hearing your question I can see that you have returned to the guy I know," She said and attempted to leave but he grabbed her hand.
"You haven't answered…,"
"You are smart aren't you?" asked Joanna. "So why don't you make a guess?" She wriggled her hand from his hold and walked away.
Amos chased after her. As they walked passed, they didn't see the two guys watching them.
Arriving at the arcade Joanna met Anthony where she left him earlier. She looked around in search of Derrick and Raymond when she didn't see them with Anthony.
"Where are they?" She interrogated. She kept looking around hoping to see them playing but they were nowhere to be found.
"They followed you some minutes after you left," He replied. "Didn't you and Brother Amos see them?".
He looked at where Joanna and Amos came from hoping to see them but he didn't see any of the guys.
"We didn't see them," Amos answered.
"That is weird because Brother Raymond followed Big Sis not up to a minute after she left," He mumbled.
His words made Joanna and Amos' exchange puzzled glances.
Back where Derrick and Raymond hid, they came out after standing there for two minutes.
"It's of no use brooding over what she said," Derrick said.
He didn't look affected by what happened earlier but that was not the case with Raymond.
"Human mind is the most fickle thing in the world. One day she might be head over heels for him but another time it will be your turn so there is no need to act as if someone died," Derrick said, not happy seeing his best friend this way.
"Also, don't get carried away by all these things and forget why we are even here now. This is no time to be brooding over insignificant things like emotions…,"
"Stop lecturing me, Rick," He said and stomped away.
"This is the problem with nice guys. They easily get hurt. Thank goodness I am far from being nice," He shrugged his shoulders and hurried to catch up to Raymond.
At the arcade, the first game Anthony chose was a racing game.
"Let's play that," He announced excitedly.
"Are you sure you wanna challenge awesome drivers like us in the racing game?" Derrick asked playfully.
"Hmm…," He shook his head affirmatively.
"Ok, but you are not allowed to shed a tear if we win ok?" Raymond joked.
Soon the three of them took their positions in front of the game. While they played Joanna and Amos watched them from behind.
"Ok, here we go," Derrick announced just when the game was about to start.
With the racing game in motion, the thrills dared not make the players look away from the huge screen.
"Whoa… I didn't know that my little rice ball knows how to play this," Joanna complimented midway through the game.
Her compliments got Anthony smiling from ear to ear.
"Yeah, he is good I must say," Amos added. He attempted to ruffle Anthony's hair but the boy shook his head.
"Brother Amos, don't do that or you are gonna make me lose," Anthony shouted unhappily after losing focus.
"Of course, you were meant to lose in this battle or did you think you would win against pros like us?" Derrick said with pride.
"I can see you both are good at this but you are not allowed to bully my baby ok?" Joanna jokingly warned them.
Raymond and Derrick chuckled at her jokes.
"You can't call this bullying. The real bullying starts when we play combat games," Derrick said amid his laughter. With his attention divided, he fell behind in the game.
"You will understand what I mean when we get there so don't worry," He added. He concentrated his full attention on the game and within five minutes he had overtaken Anthony.
Not long Anthony lost control and bumped into an obstacle some distance away from the finishing line.
"You were just this close. Too bad you had to lose because of that darn obstacle," Joanna said to make Anthony feel better.
Anthony stood up from his seat and walked to meet Joanna.
"It's ok Big Sis. I would have lost even though I didn't bump into the obstacle," He said carefreely.
Joanna had thought he would feel terrible that he lost. She was astounded to see him act so cool about the whole thing.
[Whoa… I can see my baby has finally grown up?]
She pats his hair as she stares at Raymond who was jubilating over his victory.
"Brother Amos, how about you join them and play?" Anthony suggested innocently. "I am sure you would win if you played too?".
"Thank you for having confidence in me but I am sorry to disturb you, I don't know how to play any game here?" Amos relayed to the shock of Derrick and Raymond.
"You don't know how to play a single game here?" Derrick asked with his hands spread. "You must be kidding right?".
He was expecting to see Amos smile and said he was kidding but Amos' serious expression made him realize that he was not joking.
"If you haven't been to an arcade before then how have you lived your life?" He questioned.
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