I better win this.
Come on, you stupid thing, go faster so I can win... There it is!
I win! I win I win I win!
"Winner! And what would you like for a prize, little girl?"I hate it when people call me 'little girl', but I don't care, because I still won. And I know exactly what I want. "That!" I reached up as high as I could, and pointed to the tiara that I wanted ( Read more... )
I win! I win I win I win!
"Winner! And what would you like for a prize, little girl?"I hate it when people call me 'little girl', but I don't care, because I still won. And I know exactly what I want. "That!" I reached up as high as I could, and pointed to the tiara that I wanted ( Read more... )
But she's happy. Hyper, because she already got her sugar about fifteen minutes into being here, after flat out demanding it. But still, happy, and a complete brat. I didn't like having to explain to her how she couldn't say anything about being here today, but it was nesscesary.
She thinks Mom's caught on, but I doubt it. How much my Mom notices anything really varies. Half the time, she's walking through a dream, and the other half, she's pretending not to pick up on anything that's going on. So I really doubt either one of them has any idea I've been taking her out.
And I'd like to keep it that way.
"Rollercoaster."
"Oka--" I'm being dragged again.
"Come on, come on!"
"Arianna, slow the hell down, we have the whole day!" I almost tripped on something getting dragged to the line, and then caught my balance again. "Jesus." I muttered, pulling my hand away.
"Well it's a long line."
"Well it's not going to get any shorter." Rollercoaster lines generally are pretty bad.
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My boyfriend has the maturity of a ten year old sometimes. Instead of thinking its a bad thing, I consider it a good one. At least he's not boring, or full of himself, or something unbearable like that. Half of the boys who go to our school are, and out of the other half?
Well, half of that half are like Madsen. The other half of that half, the quarter, are decided among decent guys, gay and therefore off limits ones, and really weird ones.
Looking at it that way, I don't see anything wrong with this.
Besides, I have a boyfriend who takes me to amusement parks. That's pretty cool. And having Arianna with us doesn't take away from it being fun, she's a sweet kid when she's not so hyper.
We've been having a pretty good day so far.
Now we just have to wait it out in the end all be all of rollercoaster lines.
"Like rollercoasters?""They're okay ( ... )
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But she should want to. Rollercoasters are fun. You get to go really fast without even doing anything, and just enjoy the ride. And there's going upside down when you're in the loops and stuff. It's always over too soon, that's the part I don't like about it.
But I still want to go on them. All of them. Twice.
"No, but she wants to."
See? I was right. "See? She wants to." I stuck my tongue out at Sam, and then grinned when he stuck his tongue out back at me.
"I get to pick the next ride."
"Okay, but it can't be anything dumb." Little rides are for babies. I'm big enough to do a lot of other rides instead of those stupid little flower things. "And can I have ice cream later?"
"After lunch, Ari."
"Okay. What're we gonna have for lunch?"
"Why don't we figure it out after we get off the ride?"
"Okay, okay..." I'm bored. I still want to go on, I'm just bored. "This is a long line."
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"Thank you for stating the obvious." She has to pick the one line that's the longest right now. Couldn't she take going on another rollercoaster? There's at least two here, maybe three. She could have gone on those. But, oh no. She had to be on this one.
I can see why she's so into it though. This one is pretty huge, and Arianna loves these things. So we'll wait, because if I pull us out of line now to go do something else, they'll both be annoyed with me. Even though it's boring as hell.
I waited until we got through the line, and somehow, I ended up getting a seat right next to Carly up front, and Arianna was in back of us.
This is definitely going to be an interesting first drop.
I grinned and looked over at Carly, taking her hand once we were strapped in. "Any last words?"
Okay, maybe that may or may not be all that funny to her, but at the very least, it is to me.
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I held Carly's hand calmly as we went up, glanced back to Arianna to see her already grinning like a lunatic. I shook my head, and looked back straight ahead again. Any second now. I love the whole dramatic build before you fall thing. Climbing slowly to get there, and then stopping for a bit, and then down you go.
And we're at the top.
"I love you."
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"What?" I stared at Carly, trying to figure out if I'd heard her right. Did she just say... I think she did. I think that she just told me she loves me. Me. She really just said that to me.
"OH MY GOSH!"And I think Arianna just heard it, too ( ... )
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"Arianna, you picked a good one."
"I know." I looked up at Sam to try to figure out if he was okay yet. He looks okay. I think he's trying to figure stuff out.
"I can't top that, and you said nothing dumb, so how about the log flume?"
"Okay. Then we have to get lunch." Because I'm starting to get hungry, but I'm not there yet. And after lunch, I want ice cream. And then more games, because I want to get more stuff.
And then more rides. We've got a whole day, we have to do lots of stuff, otherwise it's just a waste.
And if Sam loves Carly, he should tell her, and stop looking so surprised and whatever else that look is supposed to mean.
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Well it's great that Carly can be so calm about what she just said. She's acting like she didn't even say it. Does that mean she didn't mean it? I don't even know if I want to know.
I still have to figure out whether or not I want to say it back. Arianna has a point, but I still don't know. It means a lot. Does she know what it means?
Carly would know what it means. And since she'd know it, she'd mean it.
Wouldn't she?
Crap. This just got worse.
"I know."
"I can't top that, and you said nothing dumb, so how about the log flume?"
"Okay. Then we have to get lunch.""Sure." I nodded, and started walking with them for the log flume, and decided to keep my mouth shut. Sure, Carly told me she loves me, but if she's acting like it never happened, maybe I should too. Because it's so freakin' huge, I don't know what to think about it ( ... )
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Good. We're going to go with this like what I said never happened. I can handle that. I like the idea of me saying that and it never being brought up a lot better than I like the idea of Sam getting upset with me over it. I feel better about it now.
I never should have done it in the first place, and doing it like that probably made it a lot worse for Sam. I didn't mean to just blurt it out like that, but I wasn't thinking and the words just came out.
No, that's not true. I was thinking in a different direction than I usually am. He asked me if I had any last words, and my mind went to what I'd most want to tell him if I could never say anything else. And then somehow, the words went from my mind to my mouth, and really screwed me over for a few seconds there.
Thank God for the huge drop. That thing saved me.
I took the map out of my pocket, checked it for the location of the log flume, and started walking with Sam and Arianna in the direction of the ride.
I thought we were doing pretty good until Sam stopped.
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Crap. She shouldn't start it like that. When people start something like this with 'listen', and it's said like that, it doesn't make you think that it's going to go well.
"I don't expect anything from you."
And that definitely doesn't make me feel any better. Should I be offended by that?
"We haven't been dating very long, and I hope that I didn't freak you out too much by saying that the way that I did."
Not... a lot.
"I wasn't trying to get you to say it back or anything like that."
I should be relieved by that. I think I'm kinda annoyed. Sure, I'm a little scared right now, but what kind of guy does she take me for? I mean, I thought how I feel about her was pretty obvious, y'know? Really freakin' obvious.
But, yeah, she also thought that I thought of her like she was my sister until I kissed her. So maybe I'm not as obvious as I think.
"But yeah, I meant it."
She's going to say it again, isn't she.
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I don't think it is. Sam still looks upset. I might not be getting dumped because of this, but I think I scared him a lot. All because I had a moment at the top of a roller coaster. Great.
I'd keep explaining if I knew what else there was to say. I think I covered everything, and its a little bit late to be calling it a joke. Sam wouldn't believe that now that I've said it twice.
I could have gotten out of it the first time, but now? Now I'll have to own up to it. And I'm fairly sure that, with the way I said it this time, I already have.
There's no going back from this one.
"I uh... I..."
Shit. He's going to break up with me after all, isn't he? And in spite of what he said, its still not okay. The look on his face says it all. Whatever Sam is about to tell me, its not something he...
Oh. The look is a little different no. I think I might have been wrong about that last one.
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"Just pick a soda."
... He shouldn't talk to me like that. That's rude. "Shut up."
"You shut up, and get a soda. Come on."
"I'm waiting. Go away and find another one." Dumb boy. Why can't he see I'm busy and leave me alone?
"No. You get a soda, and you go away. What're you, too stupid to know how to use it?"
That's it!
"No." I turned around and folded my arms and glared at him. "You shut up, and you go away, and you find another machine, because I'm not moving, and if you try to make me, then you are going to get beat up."
I think he got that I was serious about it, because he glared at me and then shut up.
"That crown is stupid."
"What?!" I started going after him, but he ran away. "You better run! My tiara is not stupid ( ... )
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Arianna overheard after all. Great. I can't be very surprised about that, considering the way I told him, but still. I wonder if she told him to say it back. A ten year old might not carry much weight in getting Sam to tell me something if he doesn't at least partially mean it, but it sounds like they talked about it when the ride was over. I guess that's what took the so long to catch up to me.
"Did you believe him?"
Don't look at me like that. Its complicated, and you're still very young. You wouldn't understand. You weren't here when he said it. He conveniently opted for a soda five seconds before he questioned me about it.
And if Sam did mean it, then why did he have to ask me if I did first?
"But he meant it! Just because he said it after you did doesn't mean he doesn't. You guys are so dumb over each other."I'm not dumb, I'm logical. If a girl tells her boyfriend she loves him before he's ready, he's either going to break up with her, or say it back anyway, no matter what he means. That's just ( ... )
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And naturally, Arianna has to do her own personal way of trying to help, even if it's blunt and just annoying. I don't need her backing me up on this, if Carly doesn't believe me, then that's sort of it, isn't it?
I know I do. It's scary, but I still know. The only reason why I asked her if she meant it, was because I wanted to be sure. You don't just go and say that, y'know?
Which is why I wouldn't have if I didn't know it was there. There is no way in hell you say it otherwise.
"Come on, I want to go to the log flume."
Brat.
"Alright."I just nodded and sighed, following after them. This definitely has to be a highlight for me. One of those moments you don't forget ( ... )
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