You fix your hair and makeup for the fourth time before finally leaving your apartment. You take the subway across Gotham to meet your date at a carnival set up in one of the city parks. When you get there you wait nervously by the entrance standing on your tip toes and squinting over the crowd to try and find the woman you’re supposed to be meeting there. You’re starting to get nervous she’s not coming when the roar of a motorcycle cuts through the chatter of the crowd. There are several screams as people jump out of the way, you nervously step to the side as it pulls up next to you. Harley Quinn, the most beautiful girl you’ve ever met steps off the motorcycle and promptly yells at the crowd, “Anyone touches my bike while I’m gone, you’re friggin’ dead”, what an angel. “Sorry I’m late.”, she apologized to you with a crooked grin. “Only a couple minutes, but that doesn’t matter we have all day!”, you say enthusiastically. “Let’s go get our wristbands and go inside!” The lines are pretty long, but you don’t really end up waiting in them, it seems that most of the carnival goers would rather let Harley by then have her wait in the line with them. You two start playing some of the games around the entrance first before looking at any of the rides. You play ring toss, balloon pop, and even some of the guessing games without any luck only managing to lose money playing them. “These are rigged, I totally should have won that ring toss, the pegs must’ve been greased…”, Harley gripes. “It’s okay, I’m still having fun.”, you assure her. “Maybe we can go on some rides?” “One sec, there’s a game I know I can’t lose!”, she tells you catching sight of the strength tester. “C’mon!”, she grabs your hand and pulls you toward it. You stand beside the man who runs the game as Harley picks up the comically sized mallet and raised it over head. She slams it down and there’s a forceful clang and splintering noise simultaneously as the weight hits and dents the bell and the mallet head snaps off the handle. “Holy shit, you broke my game!”, the man says clearly unnerved and not happy. “For my prize I want the, uhhhh, that big teddy bear!”, Harley points to the prizes hanging up. “Just one second lady, you broke the damn game I need to get my boss down here, you might need to pay for this.”, the man harps at her. “Look, bub, I’m trying to have a nice day out here, I paid for a turn and I can’t help if your shitty hammer broke. Now give me that damn bear because you and your boss can’t handle all the problem I can be.”, Harley wastes no time getting right in his face as you stand there awkwardly wanting to say something, but not wanting to make it worse. The man curses under his breath but hands over the bear. “Thanks!”, Harley chirps her sunny disposition back. “Hey let’s go get some sundaes, Y/N, my treat! “That was really amazing.”, you tell her as you sit across from the table sharing a giant everything on it sundae. You can’t help the slight blush creeping into your cheeks. “It was a little lighter than my hammer at home, but pretty much the same.”, she laughs taking a giant spoonful of pure whipped cream. “It was really nice if you to invite me out by the way it’s been so long since I did anything just me and a friend.” Suddenly the warm fuzzy feeling in your chest turns into a cold rock in your stomach at the word ‘friend’. “Y-yeah, it’s been awhile for me too.”, you stammer flashing a weak smile trying not to let her see the change in your demeanor. “Are you still feeling alright?”, she asks after you’re silent for a few minutes. She was telling a story about her pet hyenas and your mind had started drifting off into how you could’ve made it clearer this was a date when you’d asked and avoided all this awkwardness you were feeling. “Yeah, I was just thinking about what ride I wanna go on first!”, you lie cheerfully. “BUMPER CARS!”, Harley gasps. “Um, that’s the one I wanna do, but we can do whatever first”, she coughs a little embarrassed at her own outburst. “Bumper cars sounds fun!”, you grin back. It is fun, watching Harley shriek with laughter while violently running down everyone else in the bumper cars. You do the zero gravity spinner next and Harley both frightens and amazes you by standing up horizontally while the ride is going. It’s pretty impressive until the ride stops and she falls on her face. You help her up concerned and she’s just giggling uncontrollably. After a few more rides the sun going down and you guys decide to go on the ferris wheel since it’s a pretty basic last stop for carnival goers. You sit crammed close together because your giant teddy bear needs a place to sit next to you after all. It was pretty easy to forget about your hurt feelings earlier but now with you two arm to arm and knee to knee in the little basket seat seeing the couples in other baskets kissing it hit you again. “Hey Harley, there’s… there’s something I have to tell you.”, you bite your lip feeling like you have to confess before the truth rips out of you. “What is it?”, she smiles at you her face lit up by the twinkling lights of the ride, her big blue eyes oblivious to anything wrong. “It’s just that…I, um…When I invited you here I-I meant as a date. I guess I was just kind of unclear and was afraid to tell you…”, You finally get it out the rest of the words slipping out like a sigh of relief after the confession. “Oh…OOOOOOOH”, she gasps. “THAT WAS TOTALLY MY FAULT! I’m so sorry, Y/N, I’m such a ditz!”, she apologizes face palming for a moment. “I totally would’ve said yes to a date date too! I mean I guess this can still really be a date date…” “Wait really, you would’ve said yes?”, you ask blankly not expecting that, being appalled that a girl like her can like you for the second time now. “Of course! You’re so sweet and down to earth and…”, she grabs you and pulls you into a deep kiss that makes you forget your name. “Sorry, sometimes I’m better with actions than words.”, she apologizes grinning wildly after she lets you go from the kiss. “Th-That’s completely fine…I, um, I actually liked that a lot.”, you say stupidly head still reeling. “Oh, if you liked that you should come back to my place tonight….I’ve got whipped cream and cherries and you can top me up with ‘em that that sundae we got earlier.”, she murmurs slyly into your ear. “FUCK YES.”, you breath back not fully in control of what you say at this point. She starts laughing at your reaction and doesn’t catch her breath until your off the ride. She excitedly pulls you out of the carnival and back to her bike helping you on behind her. You wrap your arms around her waist and smirk to yourself heart pounding in anticipation of the night ahead.
