In Her Court by Tamsen Parker

Author:Tamsen Parker [Parker, Tamsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

11

“I’m sorry, Van. I love your idea, but laser tag equipment is expensive, too much to spend for one night. How about we put it on the list next year? Then we’d be able to plan more events around it to justify the cost.”

Van almost felt bad for Heather, who looked as though she wanted to offer Van a lollipop and a BB-8 Band-Aid. Which Van would totally accept, although she’d prefer a cookie and dammit, most of all, to be able to execute her brilliant idea.

The thing was, though, Van wasn’t one to give up easily. If at all. If she thought about it hard enough, she could make this happen and it would be epic. Camp legend. Also, chasing Willa through the woods had a certain appeal. Not that she’d be able to keep up with her, but maybe Willa would take it easy on her?

The corner of Van’s mouth curled up. Not a chance. That’s when the lightbulb went off.

“So, okay. I get that you can’t outfit the entire camp in brand-new laser tag gear—especially since you’d probably use it a few times a season at most and the rest of the time it would sit in a shed getting spider-infested. But what if I provided you with the equipment?”

Heather looked skeptical, and frankly Van couldn’t blame her. She wasn’t entirely confident she could pull this off either, especially given they only had two weeks before the Aquitaine session started, but dammit, it was worth a shot.

“How exactly would you do that?”

Oh, how she wished there hadn’t been a pause there. She could still pull this out of the fire, though. The answer was—as it so often was—she was going to have to engineer the shit out of this. Game on. “If I can find enough spare parts from old video game systems and the swap table at the dump, I bet I could cobble together some pretty sick proton packs.”

Heather’s eyebrows crunched together in confusion. Right, she was talking to a non-geek. Better rephrase. “I think I can find enough spare parts on e-Bay and stuff to put together the guns and the receivers. We could have two teams: ghosts and Ghostbusters. Maybe the ghosts wouldn’t have guns, because I don’t know if I could rig up that many in such a short time, but they could have slime balls and if one of the ‘busters got hit, they’d be out. Please, Heather? At least let me try. If I can’t pull it off—” please let me be able to pull it off “—I’ll run a different evening activity, like making Stay Puft Marshmallow Man S’mores or something.”

She could tell Heather was on the fence by the way she chewed her lip and crossed her arms, but she could also tell Heather wanted to say yes. Because of course she did. Who in their right mind wouldn’t want to play Ghostbusters laser tag? And Heather loved themes. Fucking loved them.

Van made her best puppy-dog eyes in hopes that would push Heather over the edge.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.