Chapter Four: Stress Spinners
Okay, so I decided to let the dog live.
But that does NOT mean I'm going soft! I'm still a bitch that could effing take you OUT.
Just wanted to clarify that before I move on to what Walt I and were doing.
"I'm a butterfly!" screeched Walt, twirling around the sand.
Still grumbling, I followed suit. "I'm a butterfly. Whoop-de-frickin-do."
Walt stopped his spinning long enough to glare at me. "You're not doing it right, Shan! You have to actually believe that you're a butterfly for it to work! Trust me, this game really does relieve stress."
"It just seems to be adding more stress to my life." I shot back. Walt chose to ignore me.
"Okay, next shape! I am a… koala!" Walt cried, whirling more violently across the sand.
"I'm pretty sure koalas don't spin!" I yelled to the kid, who was a good twenty feet in front of me.
"Doesn't matter!" he sang back. "Now you pick a shape!"
"Um…I'm a…GOAT!" I hollered, continuing to make an idiot out of myself by twirling.
"Yay goats!" Sometimes, I seriously think Walt gets high by smoking coconuts or something.
"Annnd…CRASH!"
I copied Walt and flung myself to the ground, facing the sky, arms spread out.
After a few minutes, Walt spoke.
"Still mad?"
"Still homicidal."
"CRAP! It didn't work! Next time we should do more shapes."
"Yeah. I would do it now except for the fact that, ya know, if I move I think I'll barf."
"Spinning for long periods of time will do that."
"Yup."
"Yup."
We stayed like that, just watching the sky, until we fell into a game of Cloud Finders Extreme without meaning to.
Sometimes friends do stuff like that.
And Walt and I were defiantly friends.