The Fair

"Okay, so we are defiantly way off schedule!!" Heather Peterson said. Her and her four friends were driving to the state fair. Heather was a control freak, and she didn't like to be off "schedule" as she put it or be told what to do.

"Heather chill girl!" Kyle Warren said from the front seat, "We'll have plenty of time to ride everything!" Kyle was the one who didn't have a care in the world and thought nothing bad could happen to him.

"Yeah, Kyle's right, we'll have plenty of time and I'm sure we'll get there before the fireworks display happens!" Alicia Cox said to Heather from the passenger seat. Alicia was the nervous girl who always thought something bad was about to happen.

"For all we know the fair could be packed already and we can't get in." Simon Griffon said sullenly. He was the downer who brought out the worst in everyone he met.

"It better not be! We drove six hours to get here and I'm not going back home!" Heather said.

"Guys, quit worrying, what could go wrong?" Kyle said happily.

"Aye Marty! When ya gonna be done with the Ferris wheel?" called out Louis Beaver, a construction worker.

"Man those corporate people want me to fix all these dang screws! They must got something in their brains if they want me to do all that!" Marty Jackson said laughingly. The man had just finished screwing in the last screw on the third support beam.

"We'll it aint gonna hurt nobody if we don't fix all of 'em! This thing gonna fall down someday anyway! But we aint gonna be here!" Louis yelled as the park opened.

"You right! To bad we gotta work the dang thing!" Marty called.

Then all of a sudden a wave of people came wanting to get on the ride. Marty and Louis looked at each other.

"Man, this is gonna kill me." Louis said.

"OH MY GOD!!! WE'RE HERE!!! YAY!" The girls screamed. The car pulled into the parking lot and as soon as it stopped everyone ran out of the car.

"That'll be 54 dollars sir." the ticket counter said to Kyle. He gave him the money and they got their tickets. A picture of the Ferris wheel was printed on it with a holographic image of fireworks.

"Isn't that neat?" Heather said to Alicia pointing to her ticket. Alicia looked at it and the pictures merged for an instant, looking as if the Ferris wheel was on fire. Alicia shuddered.

"Okay! Let's go!" Simon said. They all followed him.

They walked around the fair for hours. When they got to the fun house, the mirror at the entrance made it seem as though the drop tower was falling. She turned, and saw that it was fine and people were having a fun time on it. When they went in, a girl bumped into Kyle.

"Oh sorry!" she said. Kyle recognized the girl as Allison Sprouse. Her mother had died in a plane crash in 2000 and she was supposed to have been on it. She was weird ever since. And she always looked around like someone was following her.

"Oh it's okay!" Kyle said. But then Simon came out and saw her. He had no care or respect for the lonely girl and was the main bully to her.

"Look freak girl, just go on and cut yourself okay? We don't need any of your voodoo bs so go on!!" Simon yelled at her.

"You know what? Why don't you just go die okay?" she said back and walked away.

"Sheesh what a freak." Heather said.

The group walked towards the Ferris wheel as it was about to be the fireworks display.

"Haha! Suckers we got the seats!" Simon shouted at Alicia and Kyle.

He and Heather were already hooked up when Alicia and Kyle got there. Louis Beaver pushed the go button. The ride jerked up and began to go up and down. Alicia stood and watched the wheel. As she watched her phone began to ring.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Hey girl!", it was her friend Jennifer.

"Hey! Where are you guys at?" Alicia asked.

"We're at the State Fair!" she said excitingly.

"Oh my gosh we're there too!!!" Alicia said!

"We'll we-," but Alicia couldn't here what Jennifer was saying due to a loud groaning sound. Everyone in line and on the ride were looking for what the noise was. Then when the supports began shooting out screws everyone ran!

"Kyle come on!!!" Alicia shouted over the screams of people. The first and second support failed, causing the Ferris wheel to drop, crushing people at the bottom and causing people to fall off.

Allison walked out of the bathroom to see Simon hanging on for dear life on the Ferris wheel. She was horrified.

"Hang on Kyle!!!" Heather screamed.

"I can't!" he said. Then the third support failed causing it to fall sideways. Simon fell and so did Heather.

Heather fell and landed on a flag pole, ripping her spinal cord in half. Simon fell and landed on the cement, splattering everywhere and on everyone.

"Run man!" Louis shouted to Marty. They ran and just as the Ferris wheel landed on the fireworks Marty was crushed by it.

"MAR-," but Louis never finished his sentence. The fireworks exploded, consuming him. His skin ripped from his body, his hair burnt off, and the heat blew every organ in his body to mush. He was sent flying into the bathroom wall, splattering on impact.

"Jennifer!!" Katriona screamed pointing to the Ferris wheel. The ride was no longer standing up, but was now sitting on the ground burning.

"Oh my God!!" they both screamed.

The two girls were on the drop tower.

"Okay, ladies and gentlemen we're going to let you get off and go to the emergency exits." the operator said.

The ride lowered and the riders got off. Kationa and Jennifer were the only two who didn't run for the hills.

"I'm going to call Alicia and see if she's okay!" Jennifer shouted over the people.

The operator was shoved and his elbow hit the GO button. The seats went up.

"Did she answer?!?!?!?" Katriona screamed.

"No!" Jennifer shouted back. There was a loud explosion as the fireworks on the other side of the Ferris wheel exploded. A piece of shrapnel flew and hit the Drop tower seats. The shrapnel busted the hydraulics causing the seats to fly down fast!

Katriona looked at Jennifer and Jennifer was crushed by the seats. Katriona was spattered with blood. She ran away crying. The fairgrounds were ablaze. Katriona heard a terrible sound of screams and metallic groaning. She turned around to see a roller coaster careening right off the edge she was at. It flew into her, ripping her torso in half.

"ALICIA!!! THIS WAY!" Kyle screamed over the roar of the fire. The fairgrounds were still filled with people even though it was burning. They ran towards the deserted back entrance. The til-a-whirl, which was near them, was still spinning even though it was on fire. People were still in their seats, burning. Allison shouted to them, "HELP ME!!".

They ran over to her. She was bleeding out of her back. She had been hit by flying glass.

"Come on." Kyle said, putting her on her back. But just before the moved, the tilt-a-whirl exploded, obliterating Kyle and Allison, and sending Alicia soaring through the air. As she looked at the chain link fence that she was flying towards she screamed. And as her back hit it, she was back in the line of the Ferris wheel.