A/N: This is going to
be different in some parts from the film, so that I could get where I want it
to go. Please read and review.
Disclaimer: I do not
own the film nor the characters, all I did was use my imagination.
Aldys sat in her room;
there was a fair tonight to raise money for the prom. She really wanted to be
there, and Josie was also going. The only problem was that Josie couldn't
come until later the evening. Aldys would have to walk around alone; most of
her friends from the math club were having some sort of pep-rally before a
competition the next day. Originally Aldys and Josie were going to participate
in the pep-rally, but Josie had an appointment and as much as Aldys loved her
friends she also loved fairs. Roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Aldys smiled
at the thought, and then she grabbed her purse and left the house.
As soon as she got to
the fair she bought herself some candyfloss. This was life. Just walking around
at a fair, eating candyfloss and feeling good. After she had finished eating
and washed her face in a bathroom, Aldys got in line for the roller coaster.
When it finally was her turn, she got in the double seat alone. But that
didn't last for long. Her nemesis entered it along with her. And he had a
stricken look on his face.
He looked like he was
terrified of being close to her without his friends around for protection. She
couldn't help but to giggle.
"I think you are
fairly safe sitting next to me in a roller coaster. I won't bite, and
neither will my fleas."
Guy actually smiled at
that one. "Don't you think you are the one that ought to be afraid,
Alpo."
He smirked and she hit
him. "Oww. You said I'd be safe sitting next to you." Aldys
smiled. Guy was her nemesis, but he was kind of funny as well. "I am not
guaranteeing for anything as long as you keep calling me that ridiculous
nickname, Guinea-pig." And by that the roller coaster started and they
had no more talking opportunities until the ride ended.
"So
what're you doing now?" She couldn't help but to blush a
little. Why did he want to know? "I am going for a ride in the Ferris
Wheel." He had to think she was childish, in addition to being the total
dweeb. "Can I come?" Huh? He wanted to come along? What was wrong
with the world today? "Sure. Why not?" Gee, she sounded like the
dork he and his friends thought that she was.
There was something
magically about Ferris wheels, and the way you just went round and round gave
Aldys' imagination a free spin. What if…? What if they could become
friends? This night had just shown that he wasn't feeling as hostile
against her as it sometimes appeared. Was that his arm she could feel across
her shoulders? She looked at him. Yup, his arm was around her shoulder. To her
it felt like it belonged there.
But when they got back
down to earth he saw some of his "friends". The arm disappeared in
quite a rush then. And she could clearly hear his voice say, "well, I sat
with Alpo because there was no other available cars." She could feel the
tears welling up in her eyes. He didn't have to be cruel about it. She
hadn't forced him to come along, to do anything actually. Josie was
meeting her here later. Well. She couldn't hang around here, knowing what
Guy felt about her. Aldys went home.
The next day.
"Josie, a few of
us are going to meet at Nana's later this evening. Do you want to
come?" Aldys was back to her old enthusiastic self. Josie sounded
slightly uncertain, but she said she'd come. Guy and a few of his friends
walked straight by them in the hall, pushing Josie and Aldys into the lockers.
They were talking about some sort of concert at the Delloser Hall later that
night. Aldys was slightly tempted to skip Nana's and go to the concert
instead, knowing Guy might be there. "Slow down Aldys. Think sensible and
rationally, like you always do. You don't care much for the persons who
are going to hang out there, so why would you go just because Guy might be
there. He might as well not be there." She constantly had had to give
herself these little speeches lately.
When Aldys got to
Nana's that night she discovered that she had been stood up, not only by
Josie, but also by all her friends. She sat down and ordered a cup of tea
anyway. They might appear. Sooner or later they probably would come.
The only person who had
arrived had been Guy. Aldys could feel the treacherous tears starting to flow
again. Why did these things always happen to her?
O go and get me
some little boat,
To carry o'er
my true love and I
Someone had slipped on
a CD with music. Guy came over to her. "You know, that song is a perfect
sample of how I am feeling right now. Why are you crying?" She lifted her
head angrily. "Why do you care? And what's with the song?"
Guy pulled out a handkerchief and gently wiped her eyes. "I care, and
that's the problem. I am on one side of the water and you are on the
other and as the song says it is wide and I have problems getting over it,
however and how much I might want it." Aldys felt like she had been hit
on the head with something hard. He cared?
After he had wiped
away her tears and she had stopped sobbing, they talked. He told her some
things she suspected he had told very few people. And she told him some things
that seemed to surprise him. He had no clue that she was a passionate artist
and performer of sports. And she had no clue whatsoever that he used to work at
a senior home in the weekends. Finally she had to ask him the question that
hurt her the most to ask. "Why did you say that yesterday? About only
sitting with me because there weren't any other seats." Guy stroked
her hand. "This is really hard for me. But I kind of wanted to protect
you from their silly jokes and such. Having friends across the social steps
aren't exactly acceptable among the people here. East Glen High is a
place where the people are narrow-minded and proud of it. I want to be your
friend, but I don't want anyone of us to be bothered by it so that we
start to regret being friends. I am sorry for all the times I have been rough
on you, I really didn't mean it, but sometimes people expect it of
me." Aldys sighed. "I'd really like to be your friend, Guy.
All of my other friends seems to have gotten lost on their way here. Do you
want to come back to my place and watch tv?"