As they were pulling into Biloxi, Tim was feeling much better and was feeling pretty hungry. Considering he had lost his breakfast earlier.

"Dang, there's a lot of restaurants." Tim says as he looks from one side of the road to the other.

"So, where do you want to eat?" Avi asks as he tries to keep his attention on the traffic.

"Well, I think seafood is the best at the Gulf so maybe a seafood place?" Tim answers, more or less in a question. He knows how Avi is about his bbq.

"That's fine. Just point the way." Avi smiles.

"There's one with an All-You-Can-Eat Seafood Buffet. That sounds good." Tim points at a restaurant on the beach.

Avi turns into the parking lot and finds a parking place.

"Are you sure you feel alright?" Avi asks as they meet at the back of the car, taking each other's hand.

"Yeah, I feel fine." Tim smiles as they walk toward the restaurant. "I guess that ferry was a little too much."

"So what's the plan after we eat?" Avi asks as they climb the stairs leading to the restaurant that was built high on large stilts.

"You still wanting to go to a casino?" Tim asks, huffing as the reach the top, trying to catch his breath.

"Can we? I've never been to one. Maybe we'll get lucky." Avi smiles as the waitress leads them out to a table on the deck, overlooking the ocean.

"We'll find one after we leave here." Tim says, then turns his attention to the waitress. "We'll take the buffet and I'll have sweet tea to drink."

"Same." Avi says, smiling at the waitress.

They each make three trips to the buffet, eating until they couldn't hold anymore.

"That was awesome." Tim says as he wipes his mouth.

"Yes, it was. I could eat my weight in shrimp." Avi chuckles.

"I think you did." Tim laughs, reaching over and taking Avi by the hand.

Avi smiles as he looks down at their hands. He glances up at Tim, who was looking out at the ocean. His mind seemed to be a million miles away.

"Penny for your thoughts." Avi says, gently squeezing his lover's hand.

"I was just thinking how great it would be just to do this all the time." Tim smiles. "Just travel and see the country."

"It would be awesome. Why don't we?" Avi asks.

"Honey, it takes money to travel. The car doesn't run on air and we would have to eat. And hotels? We couldn't stay every night in the car." Tim answers.

"Our singing could help." Avi says.

"Yeah, but we might have just been lucky." Tim shrugs.

"Well, let's not give completely up on the idea. Okay?" Avi asks with pleading eyes.

"Okay." Tim says with a smile as he looks into the green eyes that he would love to see the rest of the country with. "You ready?"

"Miss? Could you tell me where the nearest casino might be?" Tim asks as he was paying the cashier for their meal.

"Sure, The Hard Rock Casino is only about two blocks from here. You can't miss it." The cashier smiles.

They get into the car and as Tim is fixing to pull out of the parking lot, Avi points up the street.

"There it is. I see it from here. That big guitar. How cool is that." Avi says with a huge smile. "Have you ever been to a casino?"

"Yeah, Austin and I have been a couple of times." Tim answers as he pulls into the parking garage.

"It's loud." Avi giggles with excitement as they walk in. 

The sounds of slot machines were deafening. People yelling at the card tables. Sexy dressed waitresses walk through the crowd offering drinks.

"I wanna play Blackjack." Tim says as he scans the card tables trying to find the right one.

"I'm going to play the slot machines." Avi smiles.

"You have money?" Tim asks.

"Yeah, do you?" Avi asks and Tim nods.

"Good luck." Tim smiles as he kisses Avi.

"You too." Avi grins.

They temporarily go their separate ways.

Some time later, Tim leaves the Blackjack table. He smiles as he slips the wad of cash he had won into his pocket. He walks through the slot machines searching for Avi.

He finally spots him at a dollar slot machine. Tim walks up behind him, leaning over and kissing him on the cheek. Avi quickly glances around and then smiles when he sees Tim.

"Winning anything?" Tim asks as he sits down at the machine next to him.

"Yeah but then I lost it again." Avi chuckles.

"That's why they call them, one-arm bandits." Tim chuckles as he puts a twenty dollar bill into the game he was sitting at and begins to play.

"Did you have any luck?" Avi asks.

But before Tim could answer, bells started ringing and lights started to flash on the game that Avi was playing.

"HOLY MOLY! What happened!" He says loudly almost jumping up from his chair.

"You must have won something." Tim says, leaning over to look at Avi's machine.

"Seriously?" Avi asks.

"Well, looks like we have a winner here." A man in a Hard Rock Casino uniform says as he walks up to where they were.

"Seriously?" Avi asks again. "How much?"

"Jackpot on this machine is two-thousand dollars." The man smiles as he resets the machine.

"T .. T..T" Avi stutters.

"Two-thousand bucks?" Tim smiles.

"Yep." The man says as he hands Avi a ticket. "Stop by the office before you leave."

"Wow." Avi grins looking at the ticket. He suddenly grabs Tim around the neck. "You were my good luck charm."

"This was just our lucky day." Tim smiles as he ends his game when he reaches a hundred dollars.

"Did you win anything?" Avi asks.

"A hundred bucks." Tim says holding up the ticket from his machine.

Avi suddenly felt sad that Tim didn't win big.

"I feel bad now." He says with a frown.

"Don't be." Tim says as he pulls Avi into a hug. "That's not counting the twenty-one hundred I have in my pocket."

"WHAT!?" Avi laughs as he pulls out of the hug.

"Like I said, this was our lucky day." Tim grins.

"We have forty-two hundred dollars." Avi whispers with a smile.

"But we need to get the hell out of here before temptation gets the best of us." Tim says.

As they walk out to the car, Tim's phone sounds a text message.

"It's from Austin." Tim smiles as he opens the text. "HOLY SH*T!"

"What?" Avi asks after seeing the shocked look on his lover's face.

Tim slowly turns his phone so Avi could read the text.

Freckles:  WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!!!!!

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