Slime Doesn't Pay! by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine [Stine, R. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

She raised her eyes to us. “Is it okay if he plays it for a while?”

“Please,” I said. “If it isn’t too much trouble.”

She walked over to the monitor and picked up a controller from the counter beside it. She pressed several buttons, and the game rebooted on the screen.

Arnie walked over, and she handed him the game controller. He squinted at the screen. “I don’t want to play level one,” he told her. “I’m on level six.”

“Arnie, be polite,” I said.

“I am being polite,” he answered. “Why do I have to play level one?”

The store clerk’s name tag read franny. Franny pushed more buttons on the controller. Then she handed it back to him. “There you go. Level six.”

Arnie didn’t say thank you or anything. He turned to the screen and began to destroy alien warriors.

After a few minutes and several noisy, screaming attacks, he paused the game. “You two can leave,” he said to Lissa and me. “I’ll be playing for a while.”

“I don’t think so,” I said. “Lissa and I are going to keep an eye on you.”

He grinned. “You don’t trust me?”

“Of course not,” Lissa answered.

He went back to the game and began blasting away.

Franny turned to me. “He looks like trouble,” she said.

“He is trouble,” I replied.

She held up a box. “The new Sonic the Hedgehog just came in. He might like to try it.”

“I don’t think so,” I said. “He only likes games where he can destroy things.”

She nodded and returned to the other store clerk. He was struggling to hang a World of Pain poster on the wall.

Lissa and I wandered around the store for a while. We’re not into video games, so the place wasn’t very interesting to us.

While Arnie crushed aliens, we stopped near the door and talked about the banana bread recipe. “I have three very ripe bananas,” I said. “I think that should be enough.”

“If we make two breads, we can keep one for us,” Lissa said.

“I don’t think my parents have two loaf pans,” I said. “I could only find one, and—”

I stopped when Arnie let out a cry. “I’m up to level eight,” he said. “This game is so awesome!”

“Glad you’re enjoying it,” I said. “Wrap it up. We have to go soon.”

“Hey—buy this game for me,” he shouted across the store.

Lissa and I moved closer. “Buy it?” I said. “No way.”

“Buy it for me! You have Mom’s card.”

I frowned at him. “You know we didn’t come here to buy anything, Arnie. We came here so you could play for a while. Anyway, be patient. Your birthday is in a couple of weeks.”

His eyes lit up. “You’ll buy it for my birthday?”

“Maybe,” I said. “We’ll see.”

Lissa glanced at her phone. “We should get going.”

“No way!” Arnie cried. “One more level. One more.” He grabbed the controller and turned back to battle more space warriors.

Lissa and I moved behind him and watched. When he finished the level with a loud burst of his laser blaster, I grabbed him by the shoulders.

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