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"I can tell by your sarcastic undertones, rude comments and sheer lack of common decency that you and I will be the best of friends."


The three friends stood there silently looking at the huge thing.

It was a monstrous piece, curling, twisting into unimaginable heights and distances.

The curly-haired, mocha-skinned girl spoke first. "I am not going on that thing."

"Oh, come on Jada. Its the whole reason we came here." The pixie-haired blonde pouted, crossing her arms as if that would get her way.

"Um, maybe Jada is right, Ray." The timid response was from the petite long haired asian looking girl to the right.

"But, Kasumi its the whole reason I dragged us here."

"Hmph, go on it yourself." Jada replied.

The pretty dark-skinned girl eyed the metal deathtrap her friend wanted to ride on.

"I'd actually like to have a face in my yearbook spot this year."

Ray threw up her hands in frustration. "Oh, don't be ridiculous! It won't kill us."

"I'm not sure if you remember but if you recall earlier this year a woman died falling from a roller coaster just like this one." Jada retorted.

"But that wasn't in this amusement park! It was in a totally different one and it was because the woman didn't put her seat-belt on correctly."

"Um, Jada." The two arguing girls turned to look at their quiet friend.

"We did promise that we would go on this ride with her. Maybe we should compromise and find-"

"Yes! See! Kasumi agrees with me. Lets go!" Before either Jada or Kasumi could do anything Ray grabbed their arms and pulled them into the decidedly short line.

Jada pulled her arm free. "Are you crazy! I'm not going on this thing!"

"Its perfectly safe to ride." Ray discretely maneuvered her two friends to the front of the lines and near the rides.

"Perfectly safe, my ass. There is a reason this line isn't full with people like the lines to other rides are."

"Ray, I -I meant we should make a compromise and find a different ride we all agree on." Kasumi was pale as she eyed the roller coaster.

"Agreed. Majority rules. Let's go." Jada turned towards the exit only to find the gate that separated the line from the ride was closed.

She turned back slowly.

Ray gave her a part guilty, part smug smile. "Sorry Jada."

Jada gaped. "You moved us here on purpose!" She turned towards the gate, trying to catch the attention of the person running the ride.

The speakers began to vibrate. "Please sit down in your seats and buckle your belt."

One of the workers began to herd the people into their seats. He quickly pushed them toward an empty row ignoring Jada's protests.

"I'm sorry miss but you can't go back once you've stepped onto the platform and the gates have closed."

The three girls sat themselves in a single row as the attendant checked their seat belts.

Ray glanced guiltily at her two friends. Kasumi looked slightly ill and Jada looked as pale as her mocha-colored skin allowed her to be.

"Hey it isn't that bad. It'll all be over in few seconds."

If anything Kasumi looked ready to hurl and Jada was giving her a glare from the corner of her eyes, too scared to look anywhere but forward.

"OK. Your ride will begin soon. Keep your hands and legs in at all times, please."

The coaster began to move.

Ray gave her friends a reassuring look. "See. It isn't that bad."

Jada gave her an incredulous glance. "Who are you trying to fool? We all saw people screaming for their lives on this thing."

"Yeah, bu-"

"You guys we're going up." Kasumi's faint voice reached the two friends. Jada now realizing exactly how high up they were, decided to close her eyes.

This was huge mistake she realized a second later, it was scarier when you weren't sure what was coming.

The dark-haired girl eyed her blonde friend who was clearly excited.

Her stomach lurched violently as the ride reached the top.

Looking at Kasumi out of the corner of her eye (she was too afraid to move) she noticed her other friend looked ready to faint.

Then the ride stopped at the very top, seemingly balanced precariously, before plunging down.

The screams coming form the ride were all screams of terror except for one.

As Kasumi and Jada were screaming in terror, Ray was waving her hands in front of her like a madwoman, whooping in excitement.

Jada would have paused in her screaming to wonder exactly how she'd befriended such an insane person if she wasn't absolutely terrified as the ride twisted, turned, climbed and fell.

Suddenly Kasumi's terrified scream had changed from a normal person on a scary ride to one who was very, very scared and terrified.

Ray and Jada turned quickly just in time to see the girl slipping out of her seat, the metal constraint holding her had loosened.

Forgetting her own fear at the moment, Jada reached out and grabbed the girl's shirt.

Unfortunately, the ride was going to fast and Jada was terrified she was going to lose her friend. She just couldn't hold on.

Then another pair of hands joined her on holding Kasumi's shirt. Ray had undone her seat-belt (What was wrong with the belts? Why were coming off so easily?) and had merely locked her legs around the metal bar, reaching out to help.

Jada was slightly relieved, if a bit worried for the blonde, but it was not enough. The ride was going too fast to pull Kasumi in and the long-haired girl was at risk of having Ray and Jada losing their grip.

Why wasn't anyone noticing?! Surely they'd have seen this on the recording cameras watching the rides.

It was only then that she noticed the dense, roiling, gray fog surrounding them. Only them. The fog had blocked out the rest of the passengers from view.

Before Jada could think of the oddness of fog on a bright, clear summer day, Ray lost her grip.

The blonde girl was barely holding on to her own seat with her legs and Jada was left holding on to Kasumi who was slowly slipping through her fingers.

Making a quick decision, the curly-haired girl managed to loosen her clearly malfunctioning belt and get firmer grip on Kasumi.

Slowly pulling the other girl in, she failed to notice Ray losing her grip on her seat until the blonde's scream rang out. Jada turned and with astonishingly quick reflexes (for her at least. She was by no means an athletic person) managed to grab the back of Ray's shirt.

This would have been just fine and dandy if she had not been supporting the weight of two girls roughly the same size as her and had nothing keeping her tied to the roller coaster except for her legs, which she had managed to wrap around the metal seat constraint.

With a sharp twist of the coaster the three friends were sent tumbling downward into what looked like an empty pool of nothingness.


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