All things considered, Jack's mostly just proud of herself for coming up with an idea for a date that isn't just taking Courtney to a strip club, or taking her somewhere that could easily turn into sex. Sex is nice and all, but like. She doesn't want Courtney to think that's all she cares about or anything.
The one big thing she's noticed that Courtney really enjoys is ... games. Like, video games and stuff. Even though it's not one of Jack's interests — beyond occasionally playing some mobile ones on her phone when she gets bored somewhere she has nothing else to do — she's definitely noticed it's something her girlfriend likes.
Maybe this is kind of a cheesy date idea. There's a part of Jack that wonders whether Courtney would feel more comfortable playing video games together at her place or something. Jack is TRYING to make this something a little more special than that, though, so ... she set aside a budget for this and everything. It's early enough that the arcade is almost empty, ( it won't be swarmed with kids after school for another few hours ), but late enough that they can easily have lunch afterwards and it won't feel like weird timing.
Of course, she didn't tell Courtney that this was the plan. She wanted it to be a surprise ; she literally just gave her girlfriend the address to this place, gave her a half-stern look, and said only partly teasingly, " I'll be super disappointed if you look it up and ruin the surprise. Trust me, okay ? " So when Courtney rocks up about ten minutes after Jack asked her to be here, which isn't a big deal — she'd have told Courtney if anything was time-sensitive, after all, and this isn't, and she didn't want there to be any pressure on that front — Jack's definitely enjoying the look on her face as she realizes this is an arcade.
" Damn, you coulda warned me you were gonna show up looking all gorgeous and shit, " she teases, leaning in to greet Courtney with a kiss on the cheek. And, no shocker, an arm slipping around her waist. " You ready to have the time of your life ? Looks like we're gonna have the place mostly to ourselves. " So you can act however fucking excited and adorable you want, is what she doesn't actually say. The implication is very much there, though.
She’d thought about looking up the address a time or two. Courtney normally hates surprises but Jack had seemed so excited to share this with her, whatever it is, so as much as she hated not looking this place up? She didn’t. For Jack.
She got distracted, lost track of time, which is not unusual for Courtney. With her untreated ADHD, she tends to have time blindness. The only reason it had only been ten minutes late and not longer is because of the alarms she set on her phone.
Now that she’s here, she’s stunned into silence. Courtney’s not sure what she’d been expecting but it wasn’t this. Her eyes widen in her surprise but there’s something else in her brown eyes, too. Excitement. The kind of excitement that Courtney doesn’t usually let herself feel.
This is everything kid Courtney would have ever dreamed of and Jack is just offering this to her. A smile plays upon her lips as Jack presses a kiss to her cheek, and she leans into her girlfriend’s embrace, eyes flickering from machine to machine to see which one she wants to play first. There’s so many of them that she doesn’t even know where to begin.
“I’m always gorgeous.” Courtney says teasingly, untangling herself from Jack’s embrace only to grab her hand and thread her fingers together to practically drag her further into the arcade in her excitement. “Will you play them with me?”
