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“What do you think?” Cutter asks me. “Want to learn?”
He slides away from the pinball machine he’s leaning against.
This one is racing themed.
Cutter swipes his card and the machine vrooms.
“Let’s race!” a voice tells me.
“Hear that, Piper?” Cutter asks. “Better get going.”
“Not interested,” I say.
“Oh, come on, Mom,” Saxon says. “It’s really fun. Just listen to what Cutter tells you to do!”
Saxon then smacks the right side of his game and the machine roars with zombies and machine gun sounds.
“Another bonus!” Saxon cries out.
I step up to the racing pinball game.
I don’t remember the last time I did something like this.
“Want to know the secret?” Cutter asks me.
“No,” I say without looking at him.
I pull the lever and start to smack at the sides of the machine.
The pinball bounces all over the game. It dings. It lights up. Cars rev.
Then I lose the ball and it makes a car crash sound.
“I could have saved that,” Cutter says.
I ignore him and pull the lever again. This time with more force.
Now I’m suddenly intensely playing this silly game.
I feel Cutter’s eyes burning at me.
I almost lose the pinball right away but somehow balance it on the right paddle and flick it a little.
The pinball moves toward the left paddle.
“Close it up,” Cutter says.
“Be quiet,” I snap.
Cutter then presses his fingers to my fingers.
The paddle lifts and hugs the pinball.
I suck in a breath and look at my fingers. Cutters fingers are touching mine.
Then I look up at Cutter.
I pull my hand away and the pinball rolls down and the car crash sound echoes again.
