Hey guys! This story is mainly conceived by the merging of my favorite things--rollercoasters and the Cullens! Enjoy!
BPOV
Ahh, a tranquil Saturday morning. One of two days I had a week to sleep in, though I had just stirred myself awake from a particularly calming dream. I had been so busy with work, I couldn't even remember the last time I had slept in. I kept my eyes closed and relished in the wonderous feel of sleeping in, a day off, and the start to a peaceful weekend. My arms were laying lifelessly at my sides with my legs slightly scrunched upward comfortably. Comfortably, at least, until I felt a seatbelt dig into my butt. Without my mind thinking straight, I kept my eyes closed and rested my head on my...window? Realization occured.
Window?
Where am I? Certainly not my bedroom.
I opened my eyes face to face with a car window and pitch black skies, hinting that it was quite early in the morning, or even late at night. What the hell? The car rumbled beneath me, going over a speed bump. We were in Emmett's Jeep, the boyfriend of one of my best friends, Rosalie. I looked up to the very front to see him driving with Rosalie in the seat beside him, the two holding hands and talking quietly. In the two seats in front of me were Edward, my loving boyfriend, and Alice, my other best friend, playing what looked like an intense round of Uno. I was spread with a thin blanket across the backseat with Jasper a few seats away from me listening to his iPod. I appeared to be the only one unaware of the little car trip and the only one who had just woken up.
"Look, she's awake," I heard a voice, maybe Jasper, whisper in my direction. I looked over at him, the light of his iPod flickered on his face.
"Yes I am, now where the hell are you all taking me?!" I asked to the entire car while I sat up. It was typical of my five best friends to keep me out of the loop of something like whatever this was.
"Morning Bella!" Emmett yelled cheerily. He waved from the front seat happily while turning down the music. I glared at him through the rearview mirror.
Alice looked my way. "Rise and shine, Bells!" She yelled happily. God knows how she manages to be so lively at six in the morning.
"Morning, Love," Edward grinned at me. I smiled back.
"Good morning, Edward." I said sweetly. "Alice, where are we going?" I asked with a hint of edge to my voice. I wasn't in the mood to be out of the know, though I had a feeling I wouldn't be told anyhow.
"It's a surprise! Wait and see in...three and a half hours!" Alice said while looking at her watch and making a point that she was not going to budge.
"Aw, come on! Rosalie, will you tell me where we're going?" I said with my most innocent voice. Edward laughed.
"Not a snowball's chance in hell." she grinned back. So beautiful yet so evil.
"Why is it always me that's unnotified? Sometimes I think you guys just like to torture me!" I threw my fuzzy snowman blanket over my head.
"It's for your own good." Edward said sternly.
"Oh, god, what are you, taking me to military school?" I glared at Edward sarcastically, particularly testy this morning.
"SIR YES SIR!" Emmett boomed from the front seat. I laughed. I couldn't stay mad at this group for very long, that's for sure.
I tried some reasoning to get them to spill the details.
"Well, can you at least tell me how long we've been on the road?" I tried. I crossed my fingers hopefully from under my blanket.
Edward snapped his head back. "Just over two hours." Alice looked at him like he had admitted to a murder.
"Edward?! Shush! She could easily guess where we're going if you don't shut that big mouth of yours!" She put her finger over her lips in a "shh" motion.
"People these days..." she mumbled.
Edward sarcastically held up his hands like a criminal being caught by the police.
Alice and Rosalie had been my first roommates in college and were, indefinitely, my last. We all had a blast and bought an apartment together once college ended. Emmett was Rosalie's boyfriend, Jasper was Alice's, and Edward was mine. Together, the six of us were inseparable and all had a blast whenever we were together.
Alice was always up to some evil plot and always went through with it, so I was pretty much used to waking up in different locations for various random reasons. She never took mercy when I begged and pleaded, she just always made me wait and see.
"I guess that means you're not going to tell me..." I started off and grabbed Edward's hand, distracting him from Uno with Alice.
"But maybe you will..." I said as I leaned in forward and kissed him softly, hoping that my simple gesture was more important than whatever was going on that I wasn't told about. I then pulled away and looked directly into his piercing green eyes.
Alice rolled her eyes. "Cut the PDA. You'd have a hell of a time getting it out of him, Bella, but an A for effort!" She crushed my hopes. "Oh, and Edward, you have to draw four cards, and you can only put down your blue cards now." Edward rolled his eyes, drew four cards, and looked back at me.
Edward was more sympathetic. "Sorry, love, it's true. I'm sworn to secrecy, but don't worry. I think you'll like it."
He laid down a yellow card, changing the suit of the game. Alice cursed under her breath and drew a few cards.
I groaned and rolled my eyes. "What is it with you people?! Am I the only one left out of the loop?!" I asked rhetorically.
Emmett's booming laughter caught my attention. "Yeah, as always." He laughed.
"Thanks, Em, you're a doll." I huffed and laid back down in my seat.
Though everyone of my friends knew I hated surprises, it never stopped any of them from planning some sort of trip without telling me, or throwing out my old clothes and replacing them with new ones, or anything else they think of. I sometimes wonder why, exactly, I'm friends with them. But, in the end, as much as I hate to admit it, I always have a blast with them. I guess it's their way of making me a bit more outgoing and being open to more options. And they pretty much know that I would never do any of the things I've done before without their forcing, and would regret it if I didn't. One of them being skydiving; we all went our senior year of college, and, by their forcing, I did it and had the time of my life.
The next three and a half hours of the trip was spent playing the alphabet game, blaring the radio at full volume, and playing Apples to Apples in the backseat.
"Alright, the category is gorgeous." Jasper said intently and turned the other way so he couldn't tell who put which cards down. Everyone chuckled while putting in their cards, making it evident that whatever card they put down surely wouldn't be gorgeous.
Jasper pulled all of the cards in.
"Okay, so we have gorgeous...Hitler, Pigeons, and Princess Diana." We all burst out laughing.
Emmett was the first to stop laughing. "Dang, Jasper, you gotta pick Princess Di, man, she was damn sexy!" He shouted from the front seat. Rosalie slapped his muscular arm.
"Not compared to you, Rose, and you're actually alive, but I'm just respectin' the dead." He said with a slight Southern accent. Rosalie rolled her eyes.
"'Respectin' the dead?'" She imitated. "Who are you, Larry the Cableguy?" Emmett smiled, sure to say something completely over the line.
"You bet I am, 'cause I sure can get her done." He whispered loudly enough for all of us to hear. Rosalie blushed on response. We all cheered him on.
"Emmett! That's so gross!" She snapped.
"Rosie, baby, you know I love you." He shot her a look and she melted. Problem solved.
"Let's keep this PG, please." Jasper raised his hand. "Now, back to Princess Di--"
"Jasper, you can't discriminate and choose Princess Di just because she's a girl!" Alice pointed out, suddenly becoming slightly feminist. She was pointing her finger accusingly and trembling slightly. I bit my lip to keep from laughing.
"What? You want me to choose Hitler then?" He questioned. Alice raised her eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Absolutely. Who's to say I don't want to get on that sexy mustache?" She said with a straight face. Edward and I burst out laughing.
"Well, Alice, I'm not gay. It's only fair that I choose her." Watching the two of them argue was hilarious. They could say the funniest things without cracking so much as a smile.
"As if I didn't know that already. But honestly, be a man and choose the right one!" Alice yelped with widened eyes.
Alice always took games seriously. Every time we had a game night of any sort, Alice chose the game and paid attention to every sly move and overthought every detail, being the winner of almost every game. In Apples to Apples, she was always, of course, defending her card and was usually victorious, but Jasper looked like he wasn't going to budge.
"Alice, honey, it's not that big of a deal, it's only a game." He put his hand on her shoulder reassuringly. She looked his straight in the eye.
"Maybe to you, but I never lose! " She shouted, pounding her fist in the air. Jasper smiled.
"I still think Princess Diana should be the winner of this one..." He mumbled whilst looking down. Alice looked livid.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! HITLER DESERVES TO WIN THIS ROUND!" She yelled, not using her "inside voice".
"What about the pigeons?!" I asked, interrupting their squabble and defending my card.
"Well, let's test this," Jasper started. "which one would you rather bang up-Princess Diana, Hitler, or a Pigeon?"
"Jasper, just choose one already, I can't stand this fighting for one more minute." Rosalie demanded.
I threw my cards down. "Oh, I give up! I'd bang a fucking pigeon if I had to if you would just tell me where we're going! Will we be there soon, anyway?" I said while closing my eyes and leaning up against the window.
"Soon, my love." Edward caressed my cheek.
For about a half hour, I fell asleep, which passed the time so to speak. When I woke up, the boys were having some sort of competition. It was pretty typical for them to be having bets about the most random topics.
"Are you a parking ticket? 'Cause you got fine written all over you!" Emmett laughed from the front. Rosalie smacked his arm.
"Nah, I can step that up." Jasper boasted. "Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?"
"LAME-O!" Alice shouted back at him. I glared at Edward, hoping that he didn't know any pick up lines.
"I, uh, don't know any of those, sorry, boys..." Edward looked away from my prying eyes, gaining a 'good-job' pat on the shoulder from me.
"How do you guys know these things anyway?!" Alice groaned. "Can't you be more like Edward?" She said teasingly, hoping for some good attention from Jasper.
"Exactly!" Rosalie clapped loudly to get everyone's attention.
I grinned smugly. "What can I say? I know how to pick 'em..."
Rosalie stuck out her tongue and looked back at Emmett. "I hope you know how horribly stupid those are and that they never work, so if I ever have any reason to dump your ass, Emmett, I'll let you know that pick up lines are to me what bad taste in clothes is to Alice!" She told him off. He looked taken aback, obviously acting. Rosalie then kissed him to show she was only joking.
"Are we almost there? I'm five minutes away from pissing my pants..." Jasper said graphically while loosening his belt.
Alice smiled grimly. "It's funny that you ask..." and looked towards her window. I couldn't understand what she was doing.
"Bella, look outside." Alice muttered. Oh lord, do I even want to look?
I dared to open my eyes and almost dropped my jaw. Dozens of rollercoasters of various colors and some that dropped straight down were in a close radius of me. A dark blue one that dropped nearly straight down with more than a ninety degree angle invert at the bottom looked horrifying. A green one with more twists and turns than a roadmap looked deadly. A red, hilly coaster with tunnels looked menacing. A yellow coaster with a hill straight up and straight down looked like it would be the death of me. My heart fell to my feet.
"Alice! You know I'm scared to death of rollercoasters, correct?" I said, unable to take my eyes away from the sight before me.
"Oh Bella, we'll get you to like them, trust me." She said with a scary smile on her face.
"I can't! I can't!" I yelled and closed my eyes, visions of upside down coasters dancing in my head.
Everyone else seemed excited, though.
"Bring it on, bitch!" Rosalie yelled, accompanied by Alice shouting in the background.
"Bella, honey, are you okay?" Edward asked and touched my face softly.
"I've never been on any rollercoasters and don't you go thinking that I'm about to hop on the biggest one and give myself a heart attack!" I said defensively.
"It's alright, Bella, you'll be fine, trust me." He said and turned around in his seat.
"Fine?! What?! Who are you, Leona Lewis, huh? It'll all get better in time, eh?!" I said stand-offishly while crossing my arms over my chest.
Edward looked me straight in the eyes. "You don't have to do anything you don't want to, Bella, don't be afraid. You have me." I couldn't help but lay one on him.
I rolled my eyes and gave in. "Alright, but I'm not promising to go on any of the big, scary ones..."
"Trust me, Bella, you don't have to do anything you don't want to..." He said reassuringly.
Alice whipped her head back. "I wouldn't say that, Edward...whaddaya say we propose a bet, eh?" She said with pure evil dripping from each word that left her mouth.
Emmett howled, accompanied by Jasper.
"Everyone stick $100 bucks in the pot, and whoever goes on the biggest rollercoaster,--front row--, and does something completely crazy, gets eternal bragging rights and gets all the money in the pot." Alice said evilly.
She had surely thought this one over before she made arrangements to come here. It was typical of the Cullens (Alice and Edward) to make a competition or bet about anything, even the weather. Of course, it did make everyone a bit more determined to win, everyone except me, that is. I have enough money to get me by, but I'm not giving up a hundred bucks to go somewhere I don't even want to be!
Just look on the bright side, Bella. I thought to myself. Maybe you'll have fun. You really don't know if you like rollercoasters or not, you've never even been on one! Breathe, breathe.
Jasper raised his hand. "Question? What if two people do that but together?"
Alice smiled at her boyfriend. "Then they both win it together, Jazz."
Emmett's question was next. "How can we prove that we rode the coaster front row?" Rosalie looked at him like he was the dumbest person on the planet.
"You buy the picture or video of yourself on the ride, idiot." She sighed. Emmett laughed.
"Dang, someone's PMSing..." He accused loudly. Rosalie blushed.
Soon, Emmett pulled into a parking spot and we all walked into the entrance. The park would be opening in less than five minutes, and we all followed a big mob of people waiting anxiously to run inside. Edward pulled me aside.
"Alright, I know this competition is going to be couple against couple, so when they open those gates in a little under two minutes, we'll make a run for the Iron Dragon." He whispered into my ear.
I was horrified. "Iron Dragon?! Oh my god, that sounds horrible!"
"Bella, it's the smallest coaster in the place." He said truthfully. I squinted and searched his eyes for a sign of untruthfulness. He looked back blankly.
I was relieved. "Oh, okay. Thanks."
We pushed our way towards the front, and, when the gates opened, we sprinted towards the Iron Dragon and were the first in line. We were getting buckled in and checked for the ride before we knew it. Though I was incredibly nervous, I couldn't help but feel more secure with the tight, secure seatbelt and over-head attachments, not to mention Edward.
"Edward...I'm scared..." I held his hand.
"You'll be fine, Bella, really." He said reassuringly.
"ENJOY YOUR RIDE!" Shouted the overenthusiastic blond haired worker as he fiddled with some controls.
The coaster shook a bit, and we were off.
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