[ WP ] Some people say they cheated death . I beat death fair and square .

Some people say they cheated death. I say, I beat death fair and square. In a world where everything was miserable and cold, where Life was a demon who consistently fed off of the suffering of the reincarnated, and where I was able to escape life and move forward, I can safely say I beat Death. She, she was cold at first, but she warned up to me. I warmed up to her. 
 
 I fell in love with Death herself. 
 
 And now, I can safely say I beat death in skee-ball. 
 
 Yeah, you heard me. Skee-ball. That one game we all played in arcades? Yeah. That's in the afterlife. I was the first to make it here, and soon after, many people began to appear in the afterlife. Almost 3000 really. That was enough to make an entire populated town! And that's exactly what happened. House after house, building after building, people thought of their paradises only to find their paradise was in their own homes, surrounded with friends and family and neighbors and animals. 
 
 It was surreal. Some people were somewhat angered with their so called paradise, but it did in fact reform itself into what they believed to be paradise. And slowly ever slowly, did shops begin to form. You did n't have to pay for anything, nor did anybody have to make anything, but it only felt natural to go to a shop and pay for goods. So a small mayorship was formed. Money was useless. Arbitrary. And yet, we still used it. Old habits die hard I suppose. 
 
 Anyway, I had finally mustered up the courage to ask Death on a date. Though, it should be worth noting that death is named Aris. Anyway, I asked Aris out on a date, and she openly expressed that she did n't know anything about human dates. So, like the typical 80's kid I was, I thought it would be fun to go to an arcade. And it was. 
 
 I have no regrets. 
 
 Aris was clueless when it came to human games, so I taught her the basics of most games. The claw game was usually rigged, the arcade games really only used button mashing, and the only ones that even took the slightest amounts of skill were the hoop games and air hockey. 
 
 God I love air hockey. Anyway... 
 
 Aris wanted to try skee ball. Little did she know, I was a master at skee ball! It was, pretty much the only sport I was ever good at. If it counts as a sport. It should. Three gold medals. But that's besides the point. Aris loved it. She pretty much beat me in most other things, air hockey especially ( but that game's usually always pretty tight anyway ) and I'm sorta just average at video games. But skee ball? I could beat her no sweat. 
 
 And so it began. 
 
 100. 200. 300. 400. 500. 600. 700. 800. 850. 
 
 I beat Aris by 350 points. 
 
 She was pouty, I was smiling and I gave her the biggest hug and we shared our first kiss. She laughed, I laughed, and the world moved on.
