After School

[Crash Bandicoot]

He sighed heavily, like he'd explained this a thousand times before. "Look. If people are too dumb to realize that I DID take something and are too lazy to install an actual security system, it's not my problem. I see no problem taking advantage of the stupid." Crash jerked his head so his bangs were in his eyes.

[Arianna Rivers]

"But did you really have to manipulate me?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Did you really have to tell me I was losing my touch?" he asked back.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari blushed. "I was teasing. I never doubted for a second that you were losing your touch."

[Crash Bandicoot]

He smirked and shrugged. "Well then I guess getting revenge on you by trying to set you up with a guy who has probably never had a date in his life was the wrong way to go, huh?"

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari laughed. "Ya think?" she chuckled.

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Meh." He stuck his tongue out at her and something suddenly landed on his nose. Looking up, he noticed snow falling from the sky. Crash raised his eyebrows and he couldn't help but grin. "Wow. I didn't think it was cold enough to snow."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari's eyes lit up as she faced her head toward to sky. She stuck out her tongue like a little girl and ran around crazily, trying to catch the snowflakes and laughing.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash stared at her like she was being a weirdo, which she was, and smirked. "You're such a dork. You act like you've never seen snow before. It's not even coming down that hard yet."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari stuck her tongue out at him and giggled. "What? Snow's awesome. Don't yell me you wouldn't be doing the same thing."

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Of course I'd do the same thing...well not to the extent of you", he countered before sticking his tongue out at her too and laying down on the sidewalk, just looking at the sky and letting the snow cover him. He put his arms behind his head. "This is enough for me. That way I avoid looking like a spazzy girl version of Neil."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari narrowed her eyes. "I take offense to that." She looked around the street and saw that no cars were coming, so she jogged into the middle of the road and laid down, tongue out to the sky.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash looked over at where Ari was and smirked, shaking his head. "You're gonna get hit. Don't get hit, Ari. I don't need Ace screaming in my face...or Crysta. Even though I know I could take them both on."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari rolled her eyes. "I'm not going to get hit. You have more to worry about... what if a rogue bicyclist runs you over, hmm?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Better than gettin' hit with the insides of a slaughterhouse. Now you're dead and you're covered with dead animals." He rolled his eyes too and threw in a quiet 'duh'.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari raised an eyebrow. "Although, I would be dead on impact. You wouldn't. I'd go straight to heaven, while you'd suffer. So in actuality, I'd be more worried about you."

[Crash Bandicoot]

"What makes you think I'd suffer from getting hit by a bicyclist? Like I'd let something so retarded hurt me. Yeah right..." Crash gathered some snow in his hands and was able to pack it into a ball before throwing it at Ari.

[Arianna Rivers]

The snowball hit Ari square in the face. She spat out the snow and started chuckling, trying to gather some snow around her to chuck at him. She rolled some into a ball and hurled it towards him, giggling.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash had turned around once he threw the snowball at Ari, not really expecting her to throw one back so it surprised the heck out of him when he felt snow ram into the back of his neck. He made this weird strangled sound and grit his teeth. "You're so dead, kid."

Turning back around, he gathered some more snowballs and started running in the street, throwing one at Ari's stomach.

[Arianna Rivers]

The snowball hit Ari right in her tummy. She groaned and clutched her stomach, pretending to die. "Oh no! I've been hit! Whatever shall I do?" She held her hand over her forehead and slumped to the ground, motionless.

[Crash Bandicoot]

His jaw dropped just a little at how dumb she was being but he couldn't fight the laugh that ended up coming out anyway. It was just classic Ari. Crash walked over to her and knelt down so that he was balancing on his toes, leaning over her. "You shall die, that's what you shall." He began dropping piles of snow onto Ari's body like it was sand.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari's bottom lip jutted out as she lay there on the ground. "Why Crash, why? Why did you kill me?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

He smirked a little bit and kept on putting snow all over Ari. "Why do ya think? It's way too easy. Out of all of us, you are definitely the easiest to kill. You're the one in the shower in all the dumb horror movies."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari shot up, covering her mouth with her hand. "I beg your pardon! I would be the smart one who would have seen the signs in the first few minutes and would have left you dweebs in the dust!"

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Hah! Yeah right. I think you're confusing yourself with me." He frowned a little at her, realizing that she totally messed up his 'Let's pile snow on Ari until she realizes she can catch hypothermia this way' thing he was going for. "And why'd ya move?" he whined lightly, pouting.

[Arianna Rivers]

"You insulted me," Ari said simply, shrugging. "I had to do something. What were you trying to do, bury me to death?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Duh", he mumbled, standing straight again and sighing, his breath coming out in puffs. "Why don't we go home so you can make this stupid pie? Pie tastes better with stolen ingredients, y'know."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari's eyes widened. "I completely forgot! Yeah, let's go home." She walked back over to the car and started it, waiting for the engine to warm up a little.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash followed her to the car, making to open the door but he stopped himself when he heard a whine coming from the street. Turning around, he noticed a little black puppy staring at them with this stupid, goofy look on its' face, a car def speeding right for it. "God-shi-DAMMIT!" he managed to snap out, running into the street and doing a whole tuck-n-roll thing but the car still kinda hit him in the side. There was a CRACK.

He cried out and grit his teeth in an attempt to downplay it. The puppy barked and settled on his chest, looking happily at Ari while Crash glared at it.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari sprinted out of her truck and over to Crash. She held the puppy in one hand and ran and hand gently over Crash's side, feeling a broken rib or two.

"Oh, crap, Crash. Why'd you do that?" she said, trying to maneuver herself to help him up.