"You know Jimmy, you're making this too easy for me…" he said as he stood in front of the Ferris Wheel controls, flipping switches and pressing buttons. "First you played right into my hands when you first came to Bullworth, then you went and tried clearing your name with the cops when I tried framing you and now you've lead me to one of the most combustible places in this forsaken town and are hiding on one of the worst rides you could ever hide on…" he turned the dial on the controls and the Ferris Wheel began to move.

I'm Jimmy Hopkins! I'm not a hider—I'm a FIGHTER! If this was the last stand, I was gonna stand up and finish this once and for all!

"Fine Gary! You win. No more hiding. No more games. You and me, just like you said." I stood up in the car I was hiding in and waited for it to rotate towards him, knowing full well he'd get on.

"You know Jimmy, I bet we could have been real good friends, if you hadn't have screwed me my chances of taking over Bullworth. "

"Why'd you even want to take over that shit hole anyways? Nothing special there."

Gary paused a moment. "You wouldn't understand, Jimmy boy, and you'll never understand it! You're too stupid to understand! No one understood! No one except Alice!" he screamed, glaring his teeth.

"Who's Alice? Some whore you met somewhere along the lines?" In an instant, I knew that was the wrong thing to say. He lunged at me so fast, full of rage as we were nearing the top of the rotation. Down below the fire had spread and burned through the wire, cause the Ferris Wheel to halt at the top.

Gary's hands were at my neck, pushing me halfway off the ledge. A few hard punches to the face and I knew my face was finally bleeding somewhere.

"Don't EVER talk about her! Because of YOU she's DEAD and now YOU are gonna DIE too!" he screamed as he lifted me up and threw me out of the car…

I latched onto one of the metal beams and held on for dear life! They say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die—that happened.

It seemed as if time had slowed down. I saw my mom, my friends, Lilah. Oh Lilah. I wish this never had happened. I wish Gary was never at Bullworth and then everything would be the way it should! Me, her, King and Queen of Bullworth. Free to love and do whatever we wanted with no one to fuck it us…

Out of nowhere Gary jumped down onto the beam I was attempting to climb up from. He stood over me, looking down at me and the huge blaze far beneath us, waiting patiently to swallow us whole. I looked up at him, struggling to hold on.

"Well Jimmy. I guess this is goodbye." He said as he stomped his foot onto one of my hands. I yelled in pain.

"Come on Gary! You don't have t do this! We can work something out! I'll move out of town and you can have it all to yourself!" I pleaded. I had never begged before in my life—this was a once in a lifetime time only!

He sneered. "What's this? Begging? How intriguing! The infamous Jimmy Hopkins groveling before me! What a touching way to go Jimmy! I'm impressed!" he smiled and leaned down. "But that's just not good enough for me" With that, he stomped his foot on my other hand, but not before I latched onto his ankle and took him with me.

I managed to land on a beam, stomach first while Jimmy continued to fall. Before he fell to his flaming doom, I grabbed a hold of his forearm and held on tightly.

Gary was taken a back. "What are you doing Jimmy?"

"I'm not gonna let you fall!" I yelled, trying to pull him back up, but he was slipping.

"Why not? This is the stakes! One of us has to go!"

"Why does it have to be that way? You said it before, we could have been friends! Why not give it a try?" I held on tighter as he latched on to my arm with both his hands.

"You would risk your life to save mine so we could try to be friends?" he laughed. "I think you're the crazy one, Jimmy Hopkins!"

"Takes one to know one pal!" I said, smirking as sweat poured down my face from the stress as well as the heat. Jimmy looked at the fire below and then back up to me. He smiled.

"This town isn't big enough for the two of us Jimmy boy. You know this. I know this."

Sirens sounded and I could see the fire department starting to put out the blaze. "See Gary! Just hang on a bit longer and we can both walk out of here alive!"

He shook his head and smirked. "This is the way it has to be Jimmy…."

"No! Gary! Don't you do this!" I pleaded, trying desperately to pull him up, but as soon as I pulled him up to where we were face to face, he latched on to my shoulder. I looked at him confused, but he just smirked and leaned in towards my ear.

"Forgive me Jimmy…" he whispered as he then looked directly into my eyes. I nodded my head.

"I forgive you Gary!" Gary looked at me and suddenly his face changed from hatred to respect. The smile that crept on his face was nothing short of innocent. Whether or not he was getting ready to chuck me off the ledge, I didn't know. All I know was at that very moment Gary truly experienced a sense of happiness.

"Thank you…" whispered Gary.

Within a blink of an eye, Gary let go of both my shoulder and my hand. I didn't realize till after he was falling away from me did I know what happened. For a split second, time slowed down as Gary fell down to his fiery death. I tried to reach out and grab him, but he was too far away. The last thing I remember of Gary Smith, before he was engulfed by the flames, was that he was finally at peace for the first time in his life.