Family Christmas is always a loud afair, with the various generations and their children clustered about the tree and trampeling both wrapping paper and box alike as we all move about. The recent addition of my Older brother, his wife, and his children only added to the cheery confusion that bustled about the living room of my mother's house. Things were whinding down and I was seated on the floor with my nephews, Caleb and Jackson, trying to figure out how to piece together their new Bayblade sets when Dan ploped down beside me and eyed the small pile of gifts I had recieved that year.
"So, is that a PS3 controler you got there?"
With a final twist and a heart-stoping snap of plastic I put together the last Bayblade and handed it to Jacob who promptly started dueling it out with his brother in one of their plastic areanas.
"Sure is."
"So....what do you play?"
"Oh all kinds of stuff...strategy, RPG, first person shooters..." At the last he perks up a bit and smiles.
"First person shooters huh? Do you play Black OPs?"
"No I don't..I've been meaning to pick it up though." I said then grinned, Dan and I hadn't known each other very long and I think this was one of the first things we've discussed that we had in common. "Why, do you play?"
"Yep!" he said, "A friend of mine left his PS3 behind at the house while he's away on business. You could say it's kind of a comunal machine now."
"Nice! Well, it'll take me a week or two but I think I can manage to get my hands on a copy."
"That'd be cool." He said "Maybe we can play some time?"
"Sure can! KWElite right?" I said then glanced down as Jackson thrust a broken Bayblade into my hands for my mechanical genious to fix.
"Yeah that's right." He said then chuckled as Caleb offered him one of his broken toys as well. "We better fix these before the natives get restless."
I've reached the point and the age when sometimes I have absolutely no clue what my students are writing.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I can picture the scene--you set it nicely--and the dialogue, so far as I understand it, has a realistic air.
Thank you! My brother and I are an odd pair, kind of a long story behind it there. Is there anything I can help clerify though?
DeleteI have no feel for the material--in fact, am proudly ignorant--so it's hard for me to brainstorm ideas to make in more congenial. I have to try to imagine I already know what the terms mean...and then, having made that giant fictitious assumption, as I said before it sounds right.
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