Chapter 7

We just crossed the border from Texas in to New Mexico, Elizabeth seemed to know where we were going and me, Hector and Violet kept playing musical chairs as Hector and Violet couldn't stay too close to each other for too long. They are both such time wasters.

I spent most of my time admiring Elizabeth and her beauty from a distance, after she told me about her phobia it's been kind of awkward for us both to talk. I feel kind of bad for her, such a lovely young woman is afraid to live her life properly because of a stupid phobia that probably started off because of her crazy-ass dad.

Hector asked that before we go to the safe house that we go to Cliff's Amusement Park while we were in New Mexico and we all thought why not; the safe house hopefully won't be going anywhere.

We arrived at Cliff's early a few days later and it was fun. By then Hector and Violet were sort of together again, not much of a surprise really but me and Elizabeth were happy to see them both happy again. The couple ran off together God knows where in the park leaving me and Elizabeth alone, I knew, again, that if I had any better chance with her then now is the time.

"What would you like to ride first?" I asked her.

"Anything, you choose!"

"Okay, umm, how about the Cliff Hanger over there?"

"Sure".

We walked slowly together, it was a cold morning and Elizabeth was shivering slightly. I didn't know what to do, I didn't want her to be cold and I could give her my coat but then I would be cold, urgh.

I slid my coat off and handed it to her. "It's okay, you don't have to Myles", "No really, it's fine, I am a little hot anyway". No I wasn't, I was freaking freezing. I wanted to snatch my coat off from her but she wouldn't like me a lot after that so I just endured it.

She sat down in the ride seat and I helped her put the bar over her head and clip it in to place. I then did the same for myself in the seat next to her. I threw a stone at the button and I missed, and I threw about eight more before I actually hit the button and we started to move upwards slowly.

When we reached the stop I used every ounce of what I had to not scream, but when the ride rocketed down I couldn't help myself and screamed like a baby, I even grabbed Elizabeth's hand and scrunched my eyes tight shut. I felt so embarrassed when we reached the bottom and we moved up slowly again. "Sorry" I said pulling my hand out of hers.

She smiled with a little giggle, "its okay, I was a little scared too". I smiled too as the redness drained away from my cheeks. Elizabeth held her hand out again and I placed my hand in hers, just as we plummeted down again.

We then rode that ride twice, and then moved on to a ride called Falling Star, then one called Super Fire Ball and The New Mexico Rattler. They were all very scary rides and after a few go's Elizabeth started to scream as well, maybe she faked it or she was a bit scared too. On each ride we held hands.

After I realised that I was holding hands with her even though she had that weird phobia, I then asked her after we got off the Side Winder.

"Elizabeth, how come you were holding my hand, what about that phobia?"

"I don't know, usually when a man touches me I panic and run away, but when you touched my hand, I didn't, I did not feel like running away or screaming... something about you Myles seems to not scare me like the other men did?"

As thrilled as I was with what she said, I was also really happy that she referred to me as a man, which is the first time somebody has ever called me that.

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