"Students!" Hackett yelled as the whole class were chatting and talking while walking into the amusement park "Meet back here at this point at 6pm sharp. If anybody is late, then there will be consequences..."
Everyone had already run off. Andrew and Spencer were holding hands and heading towards the cotton candy stall. Aria and Noel were running over to the biggest scariest roller coaster on the site. Hanna and Sean were walking straight to the Tunnel of love and that left Emily standing alone with Alison.
"So" Alison giggled "Where do you wanna go first?"
"G-ghost train" Emily replied.
"Okay"
Alison pulled Emily over to the long dark high building with ghosts hanging from the walls and skulls nailed to the door. It looked creepy-like people had died there.
"Okay there is haunted and then there is haunted" Emily laughed, seeing the skulls nailed to the door.
"Oh don't be such a baby" Alison whined "It's not real. None of it is real. It's just there to scare you-to make you feel on edge"
"Why would you want to do that?"
"Because then you forget everything"
"Everything?"
"Well not everything. Just every problem in your life. Every expectancy. Everything people say and think about you. Everything confusing. Everything sad. In a ghost train, all you are thinking about are the ghosts and goules and your watching out for the next scary thing. You don't have time to worry about anything else"
"Where on earth do you come up with these things?"
"I don't come up with them. They're always there-you just have to be open minded enough to see them"
"There you go again"
"Shut up Em"
"You read a lot of books don't you Ali?"
Alison smiled and covered Emily's mouth with her index finger.
"Shh" she whispered to her "It's a secret"
Alison grabbed Emily's hand and ran inside the building. The inside was dark, but there was one lighted pathway leading to a big open room. Inside were a few teenagers, parents with their kids and one spotty teen, supposedly staff.
"Take your seat" croaked the spotty teen. Emily slipped into the seat right at the back and Alison sat on the one next to her.
"Scared?" she asked her. Emily shook her head. Alison smiled as if she knew Emily was lying.
"Well if you do get scared, then you can always hold onto me"
The ride started. The lights completely turned black and there were a few screams from the children sitting in front of Emily and Alison. The air got cold, as if somebody had lifted the roof off of the building Alison could feel Emily shivering. She wrapped her arm around her and she instantly stopped shivering. A skeleton suddenly popped out the side of the building. Emily jumped slightly and her initial reaction was to grab hold of Alison's hand. Alison didn't waste time-she tangled her fingers into Emily's and the two made eye contact for a brief moment (even though they couldn't really see each others eyes). A huge spider fell from the ceiling and landed a centimeter away from Emily's head. Emily let out a shy scream and Alison instantly started laughing.
"For such a tough jock like you, your a bit of a wimp" she told her. Emily would have gotten mad if anybody else had said that but with Alison, she couldn't get mad at her.
It was halfway through the ride now. The two girls had been holding hands for the entire ghost train journey. Emily would jump every once in a while and her hand would wrap tighter around Alison's. Just when things were getting a little boring, Emily heard Alison whisper something in her ear.
"You know the fun thing about the dark?" she said "Nobody can see what your doing"
Alison leaned forward and bit Emily's ear. It wasn't too hard, but it just came as a shock for Emily.
"Ali...what are you doing"
Alison laughed and kissed Emily on the cheek. Emily felt herself burning up and going bright red.
"Your such a prude" Alison giggled "You need to overcome that"
"Oh yeah Ali?" Emily was getting slightly annoyed and she raised her voice a little "If I was such a prude, then would I do this?"
Emily quickly leaned forward and kissed Alison passionately. She didn't jump at any of the jump scares because she was completely focused on Ali. Once the ride ended, Alison pulled away from Emily.
"That's more like it" she laughed.
The girls walked out of the ghost train not speaking the entire journey. Once they were fully back to daylight, Alison could see Emily was blushing.
"I-I'm not sure why I did that" Emily nervously stuttered.
"It's okay. What happens on the ghost train stays on the ghost train...if you want it to"
"I-I don't know"
"Well that's okay. Hey, what do you wanna go on next?"
From across the other side of the park, the girls could just about make out Hanna and Sean buying donuts, Spencer and Andrew were arguing with some poor staff girl about social rights and Aria and Noel were sharing a box of fries.
Emily glanced over to the triple loop roller coaster.
"How about that?" she said excitedly, pointing at the roller coaster. Alison nodded her head and the girls ran towards the queue.
"I hate queues" Alison moaned after three minutes of standing in line.
"It's only for a little while longer Ali. Stop moaning"
"But it frustrates me. I don't want to wait my turn-I just want to go"
"Well queuing gives you time to watch other people ride and the tension builds builds up"
"Guessing you watch a lot of movies"
"Guilty"
The girls laughed. Within a few moments, they were seated in the seat of the roller coaster.
"Scared?" Alison asked her for the second time today.
"Not at all"
Ali grabbed onto Emily's hand and rubbed it softly.
"Dammit Emily, don't blush. Don't you dare blush" Emily thought to herself. But she blushed...as always.
The ride started. People on the ride were screaming and cheering and raising their hands. Emily didn't have time to be scared. She was too focused on Alison.
"Woooo" Ali cheered, waving her arms in the air. "Isn't this fun Em?"
"Yeah!" Emily shouted at the top of her voice.
Alison's hair fluttered around with the wind of the roller coaster. Emily couldn't take her eyes off of her.
"You look beautiful" she mouthed under her breathe. If only she had the courage to say it out loud.
