A/N: HI! This is the last chapter! I'm sad to see it end! Fear not, my friend and I are writing an EPIC sequel! Anyway, I did not write this chapter. My wonderful friend, TheRealLizzie, did! I want you to review for her and tell her how awesome her writing this! Even though she doesn't have an account on here, she is an amazing writer! Now READ!
Sebastian:
We had been driving for almost an hour.
"Keep them closed." I muttered. The boy beside me scrunched his eyelids together even tighter than before- however, his mouth showed he was not enjoying my little game of peek-a-boo where there is no peeking involved. We pulled through a few gates and into a vacant parking space.
I leaned towards Ciel. "You can open your eyes now." I whispered, slightly parting his silk-soft hair with my breath. He immediately opened his eyes- bluer than normal... or maybe my nervousness was just overwhelming me. I had parked in front of the sign where it would be clearly visible. Ciel scanned the sign, and his eyes widened with excitement.
"Come on." I hopped out of the car and immediately heard screaming and laughter. The smell of cotton candy and popcorn filled my nose. I ran around the front of the car to open Ciel's door for him.
We walked through the enormous arch, passed a crazy looking person selling popcorn and balloons, a scary guard who popped a gum bubble in my face, and Ciel and I emerged into a crowd of kids and couples in the great amusement park of America. In other words, were standing inside Great America-screaming and food galore?
"So, have you ever been here before?" I asked, taking Ciel's hand and heading towards a general direction of food and rides...but mostly food (I was hungry- don't judge).
"No. My mom hates the noise and my dad gets car-sick, bus-sick, bike-sick, anything-that-moves-sick, so I never got around to going." He replied in a rather serious tone, making me laugh.
"Have you tried cotton candy at least?" I asked, now worried he had been improperly raised, not knowing what an amusement park had to offer.
"Yes, I've had it before. I've had just about every color of the rainbow...all except blue." he said wistfully.
I pulled out a wad of cash and pulled Ciel to the nearest cotton-candy-selling stand. I bought each of us a blue cloud on a stick and we went to sit against a wall of a building even though there were plenty of tables available. Ciel didn't protest. I didn't expect him to. It quickly got awkwardly silent and I began to waste away my breath on questions- rallying them out like a rapper would spit out curse words. I asked almost every question that came to my head...almost. I was saving the most important one for later. We finished our clouds and threw away our sticks. Ciel ventured toward the tallest, scariest, vomit-calling, scream-filled roller coaster in the park. Looked like fun. And I'm not saying that statistically.
Surprisingly, the line was very short. I guess the screaming victims scared away the majority of the line's length. The cars arrived and the riders stumbled out, some dazed, some green, some red from hyperventilating, and a few were grinning like lunatics... I think I would rather hyperventilate than come off the ride looking like that. Ciel was starting to look nervous- who wouldn't? We got in the first car, which was farthest away from the other passengers who all crammed into the back. We lowered the bar, and Ciel gripped it like letting go would mean losing his life. And maybe in his mind, it did. The coaster began to move and quickly gained speed. Loops, turns, upside-down-ness, none of this bothered me. However, what did bother me was a strange feeling in my stomach- like butterflies except five times bigger and five times more hyper. I couldn't help my hand from slipping into my pocket. My important question couldn't wait any longer.
"Ciel..." I began, my heart threatening to have a seizure.
Ciel:
I was rather excited to go to Great America. The cotton candy had been great- just as I had remembered it from my time at a traveling carnival when I was six. I had gone with my dad. He usually avoided places like this, but it had been on my birthday, so he made an exception when we drove past it from our picnic in the hills. We didn't stay for long- but I went on the Ferris wheel and had a huge load of cotton candy. I had gotten through my green one when it was time to leave. I wanted to finish going through all the colors of the rainbow, so I quickly bought one from the closest stand- purple. I was going to run and buy a blue one from the stand which stood past a few rides, but my father caught me, and I had to go home.
"Now I'm completing the rainbow." I solemnly thought to myself as Sebastian and I sat against the wall of a store selling shirts, key-chains and other knickknacks. Sebby kept throwing questions at me. I tried to truthfully answer them all, but how do you answer, "Is the color of your shoes black or gray?" When you don't know what color they originally were, and you're not sure how dirty they are either?
Eventually, we decided to kill ourselves by going on a roller coaster. I found one that looked promising, and pulled Sebastian towards it. While the other rides had lines that snaked all the way across the park, this one was short, only about fifteen people in front of us. My heart started beating fast as the cars pulled up in front of the gates. Sebastian was looking a bit nervous too, and that confused me because he was normally so brave about these things. We climbed into the first car- front row seats were a good thing on a roller coaster... right? We jetted off and I instantly regretted picking this ride over all the others.
You know those people who scream so loud on roller coasters they deafen anyone within a one mile radius? Yeah, well, that was me except that other people would have been screaming from joy... me? Not so much. Sebastian was still looking uncomfortable. I finally shut up because I had run out of air, and now I could barely breathe at all rather than having so much to spare on screaming. I looked down at the bar that was controlling whether I fell to the ground and broke like an egg or not. Both my hands were turning white. I tried to loosen my grip, but I found that rather hard to do while not half-vomiting (the thing you do that look and feels like you're vomiting, but you're really not). I turned my bug-eyed glance to Sebastian's side of the bar- he only had one loose hand on it. The other one was in his pocket digging for something. I wanted to yell that he should be holding on rather than digging around for gum that he would choke on and die since we were riding on a swerving roller coaster. I tried, but I couldn't. Not enough air remember? Sebastian was saying something next to me, but my eyes were glued onto the HUMOUNGOUS hill that we were approaching. "Oh no..."I thought. I began processing several mathematical equations in my head.
Probability I would get off this thing alive, in one piece, without puking...0%.
Probability of me dying while puking into Sebastian's lap...150%...with a little extra I subtracted to make me feel better about my results.
"No..." I began in a whisper that was barely audible through the screeches of the people behind us.
"No..." my voice gained volume.
"No."
Sebastian:
"Ciel, I want to ask you something..." I trailed off, my hand fidgeting in my pocket. I could have sworn I heard Ciel reject my question, but I went on anyway.
"Ciel..." I began.
"No." I heard Ciel say- this time clearer than before. How could he say no if he didn't know what I was going to ask? I decided to move on- ignoring that little moment where my self-confidence level dropped a mile and a half.
I turned in my seat towards Ciel, "Ciel, I love you...with all my heart, my soul, my existence..."
"NO." Ciel said rather loudly this time, still not looking me in the face.
At this point my self-confidence as at level -45635. I also noticed that was literally impossible for a being to feel this bad... but guess it wasn't if I was experiencing it at that very moment.
"Ciel, I love you...with all my heart, my soul, my existence, but I..." I began again, now rather frustrated that he wasn't hearing me out all the way.
"NO!" Ciel was screaming now.
"NO NO NO NO NO!" he yelled again, "NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!"
"OH MY FUCKING GOD! JUST LISTEN TO ME!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Getting as far up in my seat at the bar would let me. "CIEL..." I tried again.
Ciel:
We were more than halfway up the hill now. The decrease in speed slowed up my breath but sped up my heart beat. Slowly climbing this hill was probably worse than blasting over it at 100 mph.
"NO!" I screamed holding back tears of fright.
"NO NO NO NO NO!" I yelled as we got to the top and slowly began teetering downwards. The ground must have been 400 feet away. I could hear Sebastian yelling too somewhere in the back of my mind to where my mental-ness had not yet spread.
"NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!"
Sebastian:
"CIEL, I LOVE YOU...WITH ALL MY HEART, MY SOUL, MY EXISTENCE, I DONT WANT TO PUSH YOU INTO IT IF YOU DONT WANT TO, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE OUR RELATIONSHIP FURTHER...MARRY ME CIEL, I LOVE YOU!" I shrieked.
Ciel:
I let out one last "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
as I plunged down the steep slope that would lead to my predicted death.
Sebastian:
I sat, stunned as Ciel rejected my marriage proposal for the seventh time. The hand that had been fingering the wedding ring box immediately stopped, dropping it onto the seat from which it slid to the floor, down into the track and slipped to the ground below us. I guess it didn't matter anymore. It was over. Forever.
Ciel:
After the death plunge, the ride was less of a suicidal mission. A few swerves and we were done. I was amazed I hadn't vomited. I got off and Sebastian followed me. He looked down-right depressed. He looked...empty, dead. I would have asked, but he looked too sad to say anything, so I stayed quiet. We walked by the booth where they took the photos of you during the ride. I looked up and found two of my freaked out self. How embarrassing. Sebastian muttered something about using the restroom and left. I guessed his stomach wasn't as at ease as he had let on, and I decided to give him a few minutes and then come for him. I turned back to the screens and looked to Sebastian's half of the pictures. Now I was down-right lost. Sebby looked really... preoccupied in the first picture... I guess in this was the part where he had decided his breath smelled bad, and he needed gum to freshen up. The second confused me even more. First of all, he was yelling louder than I've ever seen him yell before. Second, I had not heard him clearly say anything during the ride, which embarrassed me even more. I was about to turn away when something in Sebastian's hand caught my eye. Had it been the think he had been looking for? The box was too flat to be a pack of gum. It seemed to be open and Sebastian was handling it with most utter care...on a roller coaster...how ironic is that? Something was glittering inside...something gold.
And that's when it dawned on me. I finally figured out what Sebastian had been holding. I figured out what he had yelled, and I also figured out I was screaming "no" in his face all the way through his speech. My face burned red hot as my and Sebby's pictures faded off the screen wand were replaced by a picture of a girl with frizzy red hair.
"SEBASTIAN!" I yelled and I ran. I ran and got the thing that could change my life forever: a map.
Sebastian:
I had wanted to run to the car and cry there, but I figured I would be outside the park and technically leaving Ciel. Instead I ran to the store against which Ciel and I had eaten cotton candy against, and slunk into the video game house next to it. My sobs couldn't be heard there, there were too many sound affects to hear anything in there. I sat down in as much of a corner as possible- between a ninja killing pirate game and a pirate killing ninja game. Tears began to flow down my face, and I was immediately thankful of the dim lighting. Every tear felt like acid against my skin.
"I had given him a choice." I muttered to myself, swallowing tears while doing so, "So there should be no reason for me to assume he would have said say yes." I told myself over and over that he didn't really care, and that everything would be fine, but even though I could be very convincing at times, this was not a lie that sounded like the truth.
"I have to go get Ciel. Then I'll drive him home, and continue sobbing so horridly later. I told myself. It took a minute for me to gather my broken self, but I dragged myself toward the nearest empty bathroom. I hobbled in and turned on the sink. I dunked my head under the gush of water.
Now, I can't say I was trying to drown myself so I could die and hear Ciel's voice saying "yes" instead of "no" in my head as I ascended into heaven (the water rides would have been more efficient at that), but I can say I really heard Ciel screaming my name. I just stood there, astounded, until I heard it again.
"SEBASTIAN!" Ciel cried as he swung into the bathroom.
I took my head out from under the running faucet, freezing water streamed from my hair and down my back.
"Ciel?" I croaked. He ran to me and slammed into a cry-and-squeeze-until-you-die hug.
"Sebastian, YES! YES YES YES! Forever and after YES!"
E/N:
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