Pavane.
"AH!HAHAAHA!"
The roller coaster gave him a near concussion. The creaking wood bent according to the centrifugal force, miraculously sparing Alec a jarring encounter with the concrete fifty feet below him. His hands were flying, his smile leaking happiness in a way I am still jealous of. Now playful, reckless and satisfied, he gleefully succumbed to physics and closed his eyes the rest of the ride.
"What if we did that ride backwards?" He asked Mona, his best friend who was swooning from nausea. Alec grabbed his girlfriend's hand and stared at the row of passengers entering the coaster.
"Maybe with some Dramamine."
"It would be the closest we could ever get to going backwards in time, this perfectly controlled environment where the causal connections would be..."
"Time only moves in one direction, Alec." His girlfriend interrupted. "Even if you went through it backwards, you'd still experience things in... a normal way." She tried to smile.
"Time is relative," He offered.
"No it's not, it keeps ticking away, you can't go back and trick your body to re-experience things..."
"But time is relative."
"Relative to what?"
"Us." He squeezed her hand. He knew it was corny, but if the corny stuff doesn't work, what did?
"The clock keeps ticking, Alec, on you, me, that's why I want to die young so I never have to see it."
"Just forget it's even happening, hon..."
"We need to get out of here though, bro, the park is closing," Mona interjected.
"Yea and I need to pack for the big trip tomorrow, you need to sleep cause you have work and you have to get me to the airport at five tommorrow morning," His girlfriend scolded him.
He threw his arms to the air. He was going to be a puppet anyways.
The roller coaster gave him a near concussion. The creaking wood bent according to the centrifugal force, miraculously sparing Alec a jarring encounter with the concrete fifty feet below him. His hands were flying, his smile leaking happiness in a way I am still jealous of. Now playful, reckless and satisfied, he gleefully succumbed to physics and closed his eyes the rest of the ride.
"What if we did that ride backwards?" He asked Mona, his best friend who was swooning from nausea. Alec grabbed his girlfriend's hand and stared at the row of passengers entering the coaster.
"Maybe with some Dramamine."
"It would be the closest we could ever get to going backwards in time, this perfectly controlled environment where the causal connections would be..."
"Time only moves in one direction, Alec." His girlfriend interrupted. "Even if you went through it backwards, you'd still experience things in... a normal way." She tried to smile.
"Time is relative," He offered.
"No it's not, it keeps ticking away, you can't go back and trick your body to re-experience things..."
"But time is relative."
"Relative to what?"
"Us." He squeezed her hand. He knew it was corny, but if the corny stuff doesn't work, what did?
"The clock keeps ticking, Alec, on you, me, that's why I want to die young so I never have to see it."
"Just forget it's even happening, hon..."
"We need to get out of here though, bro, the park is closing," Mona interjected.
"Yea and I need to pack for the big trip tomorrow, you need to sleep cause you have work and you have to get me to the airport at five tommorrow morning," His girlfriend scolded him.
He threw his arms to the air. He was going to be a puppet anyways.