*a week after*

Beverly's POV

Once Bill and I were ready we left the house to go to the first day of the carnival. I wore a black long sleeve top with a short beige overall dress. Bill had jeans and one of his classic blue and white 3 quarter sleeve tops. We got on his bike and headed off to the memorial park.

On the way there it occurred to me that this was my first actual date and I didn't know what people even did on dates.

When we arrived there was an entrance with a big arch around it saying Derry Carnival. There was already so many people here and all the rides were up and running. Bill left silver in a bike rack, then we were on our way to the entrance. As we were walking he got closer to me. "A-are you ready?" He asked

"Sure am" I smiled "Are you?"

"Not really" he said nervously. He took my hand and we walked in.

"So what should we do first?" I asked him

"Walk around? C-check everything out" he suggested

"I think that's a good idea" we kept walking, with our hands holding. We passed cotton candy and hot dog machines, games with prizes, rollercoasters and rides. Once we walked around we decided we'd go on a spinning ride first. We sat down in an egg shaped seat and the ride started. First it was just spinning on the outside but then the egg started to spin too. Bill and I were holding onto the bar in-front of us, screaming and laughing at the same time. When the ride ended and we got off and went to a park bench, the dizzy ness had caught up with me.

I put my hand to my fore head attempting to stop my surroundings from spinning. "I am never doing that again" I laughed

"M-me either" Bill said closing his eyes.

When the world around us finally stilled, we got up and walked towards the rollercoaster. This ride had a long line to it but we had all day so we lined up anyway. For an entire 30 minutes we chatted as we moved slowly in the line. We were only half way when we noticed the losers looking at the rollar coster.

"I don't think they've n-noticed us yet" Bill pointed out.

"Let's keep it that way then" I turned my back to them, Bill did the same and we resumed our talk. Unfortunately about 20 minutes after they did notice us. They came over.

"Are you two love birds enjoying your selves?" Richie said in his British accent.

"How long have you been waiting?" Mike asked

"Almost an Hour" I answered "but we're almost there" I looked to the front of the line. There would be one more group then we would have our turn.

"Really? we just got here" stan told us.

"Alright guys, come on let go on one of the rides" Eddie pushed Richie away from us. They left.

The next group went on. We were now front in line.

"We're should we go? Back front or middle" I asked Bill

"F-front" he answered.

The next groups ride seemed much shorter than the rest. I'm no time we were sitting in the very front of the coasters carts and were buckled in. The carts moved forward slowly first, even going up the first hill. Once it got to the edge it dropped and we were going fast, up and down hills at rapid speed. We held our hands in the air, I grabbed Bills hand in the air so that our hands were intertwined as we went around a loop.

The ride was over before we knew it. As we got off my legs were like jelly. Our hands were still connected.

"Where to n-next?"

"Food?"

We each got a hot dog then sat across each other at a small wooden table in an open area where people put picnic blankets down and left their stuff to go on rides. We were lucky to get a table, just as we came someone left and we raced to get to it. Once we finished eating I went over to his side and sat next to him. We looked out to all the rides we could see and tried to decide what to go to next.

"What r-ride do you recon we shu-should go next?" Bill asked me

"Hmmm maybe" I started but before I could finish Richie came and sat next to me and joined our conversation "I think you two should go on the love boat" he said cheekily.

"Were you eavesdropping?" I asked him, with a bit of disgust in my tone. Bill looked over his shoulder, I did the same and what we saw was the rest of the losers sitting together on a bench and on the grass watching us. As soon as they saw us looking they turned away.

"Are you f-following us?" Bill asked

"What! No, we just were in the same area, thought I'd come check up on you" Richie innocently said.

"What?-" Bill started. But before he finished I got up, took his hand and said "yeah, that's great, we're gonna go now" then we walked away, still holding hands.

"Ok now that we're away from them, where to next?" I asked. We stopped in-front of a ride that was just a loop. There was a lighted sign that said super loop. The ride had 6 carts. We watched people go on, they went around in a loop over and over again.

"T-there" Bill said confidently. We got into the line, which wasn't long. When the people before us got off we went on straight away. Bill and I were in the end cart. The ride started. First it just went in a loop slowly then it did fasten, then it got slower again and stopped in the very middle of the top of the loop. We were hanging upside down. Bill and I were laughing. We started to move back down, then the ride was over.

Bill's POV

After we went on the Super Loop we did some games, neither of us won anything. We thought we'd try our luck a bit later. After lunch we didn't see the guys again.

We did plenty more rides and before I knew it, it was getting dark. By sundown there wasn't as many people. So we decided to sit down for a while. We got a bag of cotton candy and sat down with our backs against the stand pipe.

"My feet are killing me" Bev said as she took a piece from the pink fluff of cotton candy.

"M-mine too" I admitted. We watched the sun set and the sky get darker.

"I missed Derry Sunsets" she said. I looked at her "what d-did you m-muh-miss most?"

"You" she answered with out a second thought. We shared smiles.

Soon the night sky was completely showing and the carnival lit up. People started to come again to see the fire works. I saw that Bev was looking to the lively night life. "D-did you want to get a b-buh-better view?" I asked her

"What do you mean?"

I stood up and held out a hand, she took it, got to her feet then followed me. I lead her to the Ferris wheel which was the only thing we hadn't done yet. We both looked directly up to the giant Ferris wheel, it was lit up on every rail.

"Hell yeah" she smiled. The line wasn't to long so we got on almost straight away. We got into one of the carts, it was an open cart so we could see the sky and what was in front of us. we went around to the top and then bottom twice, taking in the view. We sat next to each other looking out at opposite sides. we were going around for the third time when we came to a stop at the very top.

"What's going on?" Bev asked

"I don't k-know" I looked over the side "nobody is g-getting on or off" I told her. She looked up to the night sky. "Wow" She said awe struck. I looked up to see the hundreds of stars shinning down on us. I veered my eyes to Beverly, The look on her face was so pure and beautiful. She noticed me staring, her sky blue eyes looked into mine. I started to leaning in for a kiss, when our lips met she cupped her hands around my face. Her lips on mine were warm and soft. When the cart suddenly moved it broke our kiss and Bev, being startled by the sudden movement grabbed onto my shoulder. She blushed. All of a sudden a red fire work exploded in the air just above us. After that one there were many more, for the entire time we watched them Beverly was resting her head on my shoulder as we went around the Ferris wheel.

When it was time to get off the fireworks were still going. But we decided we should start heading home before it got to late. We walked out the front entrance, collected my bike and started walking. We didn't ride silver, since we just wanted to have a night stroll. There were many people that passed us on their way to the carnival and many people going the same direction as us, walking or biking home.

We reached my house at about 8. We went into the garage to drop my bike off, before we went inside Bev stopped me by taking my hand. She pulled me back to where she was then put her arms around my neck and hugged me. "Thank you" She said over my shoulder. She pulled away from the embrace, gave me a quick kiss on my cheek "for everything"

"T-thanks for w-wanting to go on a date with m-me" I grinned

"Anytime" she returned the grin

We went inside.