Ari's House

[Crash Bandicoot]

His shout of surprise got muffled by the pillow and all of a sudden he started chuckling. Crash reached up and started tickling Ari's sides.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari squealed, pushing his hands away. "No Crash!" she said, giggling. "St-st-stop it!"

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash smirked and kept tickling her. "Hey, this isn't my fault. You brought this on yourself the minute you sat on me, right? All ya gotta do is say 'uncle'." One of the Saw movies was playing in the background, where this girl was strapped to this table and was about to get sliced open in the middle by a dropping saw thing. He smirked at the screen. "Maybe you'll die by a busted gut from laughter, huh?"

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari sobered up. "That would hurt," she said bluntly, pulling her legs to her chest.

[Crash Bandicoot]

His eye twitched at her sudden change but he laughed anyway. Crash removed her from his stomach and lightly kissed her temple without giving it much thought, then stood up and went to the kitchen for another drink. "It's the most horrible way to die, y'know. Maybe I should experiment on someone..."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari's eyes widened. "I hope you're not thinking of experimenting on me... then we'd have Ari guts all over the room... not nice- and a terrible mess to clean up!" she said, thinking. She stared towards the tv, mesmerized.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash rolled his eyes. "You're the only one here. Who else am I supposed to experiment on?!" This time he just took the root beer bottle and drank from it. "And I'd just have someone else clean up the mess. Neil seems like he'd enjoy that." Taking the remote, Crash turned off the movie with a sigh.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari cocked her head to the side. "Something wrong?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

"...Not really", he mumbled and eyed her for a minute before drinking more root beer. "Just not much in the mood for Saw anymore. Feel like doing anything?"

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari stretched her legs, thinking. "I don't know, but I do feel like getting out of the house. I haven't been outside since..." she bit her lip, "well, it's been a long time," she said after a while, smiling a little.

[Crash Bandicoot]

He smirked and shoved his hands in his pockets, making his way towards the door. "Come on. We could go to the park and I could laugh at you while you try to walk across the monkey bars."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari laughed. "How can I say no to that?" she asked sarcastically, elbowing him in the side when she caught up to him. She turned and locked the front door behind her before skipping after him.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash chuckled and looked up at the sky. "I guess you can't, seeing as you followed me and all." When they got to the park, he walked up to the monkey bars and leaned against them, crossing his arms over his chest. "Go ahead. I dare ya."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari chuckled. "Alright..." she climbed up the ladder, placing her hands on the first bar and standing on her knees. She leaned forward, falling off the rung.

Just to hang there. She swung her legs a little, but nothing happened. She giggled, hanging on the first bar but not going anywhere.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Raising his eyebrows, Crash walked around until he was standing in front of Ari's upside down head. "Y'know, you're failing miserably at this", he told her with a smirk.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari stuck her tongue out at him. "Ya think?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

He lifted his hand and flicked at her tongue with another one of his smirks, happy to be on this side for a change. "Not my fault you have no skill." Just to prove his point, Crash climbed skillfully up the money bars so he was standing on top of them and looked down at Ari. "See? Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiill."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari glared at him, looping her right arm over the bar she was holding so it could support her weight. She took her left arm and started waving it maniacally at Crash's legs, hoping to knock him off balance.

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash boredly stared down at Ari's attempt to get him to fall, nudging her hand with one foot while he balanced on the other, hoping she would be the one to fall. "Hey, what do I win if I make you fall?" he wondered aloud.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari groaned, moving her hand back to grab the bar. "What do you want?" she asked.

[Crash Bandicoot]

"Ferret", he said automatically, leaning down so he was face to face with her. He smirked. "Or maybe you can just be my little servant girl for a day." Crash chuckled at the idea, plans already forming in his head.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari sighed. "Well, since I know that PETA will attack me if I give you of all people a ferret, I think I'm condemned to the latter choice."

[Crash Bandicoot]

Crash pursed his lips. "...I would do nothing more than love that ferret. And if it so happened to one day go missing, that would not be my problem." Then he smiled triumphantly and went back to nudging at her hand with his foot a little harder than before. "What do you want if you for some reason make me fall?"

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari continued to glare at him. "I don't know... I'll tell you when the blood stops rushing to my head. I can't think straight right now." She wrapped her arms tighter around the bars, begging to not fall.

[Crash Bandicoot]

He laughed and bent down so he was kneeling on top of the bars, then reached down so he was tickling Ari's sides. "What kind of maid outfit would you prefer? Something frilly? Or maybe you have a different kind of taste." Crash smirked and shook his head.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari bit her lip, trying not to laugh. She squirmed, pulling away from his touch. "I. Hate. You," she said, glaring. "Do you have an aversion to large bunny suits?"

[Crash Bandicoot]

There's no way in Hell. I ain't dressin like no damn rabbit!, he started to snap but caught himself. It didn't matter, anyway. He wasn't gonna fall. So instead, Crash smirked. "It's not a problem with me, love. Bring it the hell on." Instead of tickling her sides, he went for her underarms.

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari's immediate reaction was to clench her arms together, but by doing so, she lost her grip on the bar and fell flat on her back.

"SHIT!" she cried, wincing. "Ouch..."

[Crash Bandicoot]

A smile immediately curled the corners of Crash's mouth. Maybe he should've been a little more worried about Ari since the monkey bars were kinda high but all he could think about was how much fun he was gonna have. He chuckled darkly, walking over and standing in front of Ari before holding out his hand to her. "And I'd like to be called Master Crash...or Master Bandicoot. Whichever you prefer."

[Arianna Rivers]

Ari glared at him, ignoring his hand to stand up herself. She brushed the woodchips off her back, scowling. "No, whichever YOU prefer," she said through her teeth.