Rewritten

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

        Two days after sitting in the cold, AJ's cough had gone away and she had her voice back completely. John said she wasn't better yet, because of her stuffy nose that was normally red along with her cheeks, but AJ insisted she was fine and it was just the weather.

        "Let's play a game." AJ said, after John, Yoko, and her finished dinner.

        "I was going to go out and take pictures," Yoko started to say.

        "Good it's a two player game anyway." AJ cut her off rudely. Yoko stood up, displeased, and walked out of the room.

        "You don't have to be mean, you know." John informed her.

        "Mmm yeah I do." She decided.

        "No you don't, hasn't anyone ever told you that saying things like that is rude? You're an adult you know."

        "Who are you and what did you do with the fun John?" AJ asked. "Yeah, I've been told before, John. I also know my own age, thank you. I have two things to say to that. You don't have to tell me how to act, and adults are boring."

        "Okay so what's your game?" He asked, changing the topic.

        "Hold on." AJ said, hearing Yoko come down the stairs. She sipped her water through her straw and waited for Yoko to leave the house. Of course, she had to take the time to say goodbye to John and tell him where she would be and when she'd be back.

        AJ didn't pay any attention until she heard the door close, signalling Yoko had left.

        "Okay! I'll be right back." AJ announced, jumping off the bar stool and running to the guest room. When she came back, she had a purple bandana in her hand. She quickly pulled herself back up onto the tall barstools.

        "AJ, what are we doing?" John asked, looking at the bandana in her hand.

        "Someone puts the blindfold on and has to listen to the other person. It's sort of like Marco Polo, you know where the person who is it says Marco and the other person says Polo? Only, we'll use our names, so if you call my name, I'll call yours. You have to catch the other person."

        "I think I get it." John said, nodding.

        "Good. I'll be it first, I suppose." AJ pulled the blindfold over her eyes so she couldn't see, then tied it in the back of her head, under her hair that was pulled up.

        "Can you see anything?" John asked.

        "No. I also don't know if I can get off this stool without falling." AJ laughed, grabbing the counter and then carefully trying to figure out a way down. The stools stood tall at almost four feet up, and AJ was only 5'5.

        Suddenly, she was lifted up and her feet hit the ground in an instant.

        "Thanks." She said to John, who had picked her up and set her on the ground. "Where do you want to play?"

        "How about the sitting room across from your room?" John suggested. AJ knew that room, as she walked past it everyday.

        "Alright, take me there. I can't see." She told him.

        John chuckled before taking her hand and leading AJ to the sitting room.

        "We're here." He informed her.

        "Good, now move around and I'll spin." AJ waited until John dropped her hand and she spun in a circle a few times once she was knew John was on the other side of the room.