Austin gripped my hand tightly and closed his eyes as the ride started. I looked over to Austin and suppressed a giggle. Sadly, he was too focused in his world of fear to notice… The slow pace was really making me more excited and scared at the same time, causing more stomach cramps to form. As the car ascended the track, the steel grip on my hand tightened and I yelped out in pain.

"Ow, Austin! You're hurting me! I thought you loved roller coasters!"

I waited for a few seconds but got no reply. It was as if an alien had kidnapped the "real" Austin and left me with a cardboard Austin. The only movement I got from him was his continuous shaking and trembling. Then, we finally got to the top and stopped for a few moments. I could just barely make out the desperate praying coming from beside me.

"Please… God… Amen… Help… Me… I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die… "

Then, without warning, the car went down on full speed, twisting and turning on the tracks. The people in front of me and behind me all screamed out at the same time. Some shouted, "Whoo!", while Shariat's screams stood out. He was shouting something like…

"Oh my god, this is so awesome! I can see the ice cream stand from here!"

"We're in a dark place, there's no ice cream stand in here!" Webber yelped.

"Isn't that a ice cream stand?" Shariat pointed at nowhere.

"Where? I don't see anything!"

"There!"

"There's nothing around here!" I squinted my eyes.

"You see those lights over there? It reminds me of the ice cream stand."

As we were shooting through the tracks, our surrounding got darker, and darker. I realized that we were going through a cave.

I face palmed, "You idiot, there's no ice cream stand in a cave! Those are just lights pretending to be the minerals under the Earth's crust!"

"And there she goes again. Rambling on and on and on about some science facts that does not help you with your job in the future." Evelyn complained.

"I'll just pretend that I heard nothing," I huffed out.

I turned to Austin, trying to see his reaction. He was shutting his eyes tightly, his face all scrunched up.

"Hey Austin?" I waited for his reply.

"Yeah?" Austin said with his eyes shut tight.

"Are you alright? You look at bit tense. No. Scratch that. You look like you just seen a ghost!"

"Nothing, just bad memories. Very bad memories. Awfully bad memories." Austin slightly parted his closed eyes.

"Wanna talk about it?" I suggested.

"It's just that I came here when I was a kid, and I nearly fell off the car because my brother pushed me."

"Oh," I whispered, " That's awful. But hey! Right now, you're with us, and not with your brother!"

"Yeah, thanks."

"You know, the ride is going to end, might as well just relax and enjoy the ride."Yea

"Sure." Austin smiled weakly.

Around one minute later, the ride came to a stop. We all poured out of the cart with a weak looking Austin trailing behind us.

"Hey! Remember the ice cream cart that I saw earlier when we were almost going into the cave?" Shariat suddenly piped up.

"Shariat! I told you that it wasn't an ice cream-" I started, but was rudely interrupted by someone called Shariat.

"Yeah, yeah. I get it. It's the minerals blah blah blah. The point it, we were never able to finish our sundaes, sooooooo, I want to buy some new ones, " Shariat exclaimed while placing his hand over his heart, " I live to eat ice creams! It's my life!"

I rolled my eyes at his antics

"Fine," Webber sighed, " What did I do in my past life to deserve a twin like you…?"

"Guys…?" Austin called out.

"Yeah?" Dior and Evelyn replied simultaneously.

"Can we go to the haunted mansion after we get the ice cream?" Austin question.

"Haunted mansion? You mean the one near the Peter Pan ride?" Webber asked, " Yeah sure, why not. Gives me a chance to find damsels in distress so that I could be their knight in shining armour."

"Let's go then! To the haunted mansion!" Shariat exclaimed and dragged a protesting Austin and exasperated Evelyn with him. I smiled at the sight of my friends having fun, but then, I noticed something. While we were following the trail of dust left behind by Shariat, Dior and Webber have started walking side by side.

"You know," Dior sighed, "You shouldn't be so confident in yourself. Unless you're going to be a pedophile."

"Hey! I'm NOT a pedophile." Webber complained.

"I never said you were!" Dior sang, " I only said ' Unless you're GOING to be a pedophile."

Webber gave her the evil eye, "Doesn't matter. I am not, and will never be a pedophile."

Dior just raised her eyebrows and smiled, " You do know that you are 1 year older than us right?

"So?" Webber raised his eyebrows.

"When you're 18, we're 17. So technically, you're going to be a pedophile."

"Who said that I'm going to like you?" Webber raised his eyebrows in success.

"I did not say that you are going to like me. It could be anyone, but I meant someone - not naming any names, cough - Evelyn - cough."

"EVELYN! I do not like her!" Webber's face reddened.

"Tsk tsk. You're just in denial," Dior winked at him, " You'll confess to her one day. Wanna bet?"

"NO! I won't confess to her. Not today. Not tomorrow, definitely not in the near or far future. "

"Sure," Dior raised her fingers and started listing her counter arguments, " So if you don't like her, then why do you get red easily? Why do you always avoid eye contact? Why do you always stutter whenever you're alone with her?"

Webber's eyes widened, "What do you mean alone? We're never alone!"

"Uh huh. How about the starbucks incident?"

"What do you mean?" Webber stuttered out, " We're never alone. Anyways, why did you said that I'm 1 year older than you? We're in the same grade?"

"Didn't you know?"

"Know what?"

"That we skipped a grade."

"You did what?"

"Not me, we. As in Cindi, Evelyn and myself."

"What?! How did you guys get to skip grades?"

"Because we're smart, and we're not you."

Webber rolled his eyes but remained quite.

Suddenly, Shariat coughed out loud, " You do know that we're still here right?"

"Yeah we do, wait WHAT!?" Webber's eyes popped out, " How much did you hear?"

"I dunno. Somewhere before the starbucks came up in your conversation." Shariat shrugged.

"Oh thanks for reminding me, what's with the Starbucks thing?" Webber's furrowed his brows.

"Oh, the time when you kissed Evelyn on the cheek." I piped in.

"Wait- WHAT!? You saw it?"

"More like saw and taped it. Don't worry, I won't post it. I guess. But it works for blackmail. Ohhhhhh. Just think of the fun I would have if I was able to ruin your reputation as the person who never dates." I squealed out loud.

"Oh no you don't!" Webber pointed his finger at me, " You will not have that video with you when I'm done with you."

"Don't worry. I made copies of it. Like 10 or 20 copies. It's in my computer, my phone, my backup phone, my USB and all those other stuff." I smiled sweetly at him.

"OH! And don't forget the copy that you sent to everyone in this group!" Austin winked at me.

"Wait! You- how - when -why ARGH! When did you tape it!" Webber asked with exasperation clearly on his face.

I smiled mischievously at Webber. Ahhh. The joy of being able to make an oblivious hot guy nervous about something that will remain betweens friends.

"Alright guys. Stop teasing him. We don't want to waste our time on him when we could go and play right?" Shariat interrupted.

"Right." Evelyn nodded quickly. I inwardly smirked at her tomato red face. Guess she heard the part where Webber kissed her cheeks huh?

A/N : Here's another chapter guys! I know that I promised that I'll update regularly, and I'm trying really hard to make that promise true, but I'm still a student, so I won't be able to update exactly every Friday. Thanks for your support! :D