Author's Note: Hello! Thank you all for all the great reviews! Some people had some really great ideas for the ferris wheel, so I hope I do them justice. People I want to thank for suggestions are : willow tree angel, flippin sweet Twilight lover, ChibiLaryla maherbabyand MercuryAshlingPrincess. Sorry if I missed anyone. I'm going to try to fit all those ideas in. If you haven't read their reviews yet, don't! If you don't want to spoil the surprise anyway.
In the last chapter, Bella gained some of Rosalie's respect by jumping off the log, so, that's why Rosalie's not so hostile anymore.
Also, please note that this chapter takes place at Twilight, so it's starting to get dark. This means that this is the last ride of the day. However, the Cullens will return with Bella tomorrow, seeing as there are so many rides that haven't been written yet. Would you prefer them to come back to the same park, or do you think that they should go to a new park where nobody's heard of them? It's your call! Please let me know in a review.
One more thing. Does anyone know the lyrics to the Brady Bunch theme song? Sorry, can't give away any information on it's use in the story…
Chapter 15 – Wheel of Doom
or The Fascination of Spiderssss
or Suspicion
or "I'd like to return my receipt, please."
Or I Love Sugar! :hysterical giggle:
(A/N: Take your pick…)
The six darted down the concrete path, Bella panting, since she had flatly refused to be carried again.
"Let's see…" Bella said, "Alice's turn, correct? Everyone else already gone?"
"Well, I have not…" Emmet started, but at the glares he amended, "Seen any reason why Alice should not pick right now?"
The others rolled their eyes.
"Well, he's right about one thing," Jasper said, "You're turn, Alice."
"Ok… let's see… so many choices and I think this will be the last ride of the day…" The others groaned as they realized she was right. She sun was starting to set.
Alice glanced at one ride, and her gaze lingered on it for a moment before she shuddered, "No, an instinct tells me that would certainly not be a good choice." Her eyes lit upon the ferris wheel. "There!" She said happily, pointing at the ride.
They stopped on the way, near the food court area, for Emmet's convenience.
"Is he ok?" Bella asked warily, eyeing Emmet stride over to the nearest garbage can.
"Oh, yah," Rosalie assured her, "He's eaten weird things before all the time. Emmet seems to forget that he has to cough it up sometime later."
The others watched Emmet… err… getting his receipt back and the scene that followed kept them from noticing Rosalie drag Bella off.
"Ewwww! Swhat(what) are sha(you) shoing(doing)? Thatsh(that's) sho(so) grosh(gross)!"
Emmet coughed the receipt into his hand.
"Getting my receipt back," Emmet said nonchalantly, holding out the soggy paper to the kid.
"Eww," said the kid.
"Isn't it just!" Emmet shot back happily. "In fact, I'd like to return my receipt. Here! Have it back!"
Emmet shoved the receipt to the kid.
The kid thought a moment, then deciding not to loose face, did the most intimating thing he could think of. Well, technically Emmet had thought of it, but that didn't matter.
The kid grabbed the receipt and ate it.
Or, at least he tried to. Before he could stick it in his mouth, Alice grabbed it from him.
"Emmet, how could you? Think of the venom! What if the kid had an open wound in his mouth? Then what, ay?" Alice scolded him. "Are you ok, err, little kid?"
But the kid was already gone, have run away with a high-pitched scream at the first mention of venom.
Alice glowered as Emmet clapped her on the back. "Good going, Alice. Even I hadn't thought of such a quick and efficient way to scare off the mini-stalker."
Alice opened her mouth to respond, but Edward interrupted.
"Hey, where's Bella!"
A quick scan showed she was not nearby. Neither was Rosalie. Hmm…
"Rosalie's kidnapped Bella?" Jasper suggested.
"So she could turn her?" Emmet added helpfully, then yelped and ran away at Edward's look. "You know what? I think I'll go look for them… right now!"
Before anyone could object, he was off.
Five minutes later, a suspiciously long time, Emmet returned, with Rosalie and Bella following. All had a cross between conspiratorial and manic grins on their faces.
Last but not least, the most suspicious thing of all had to be, without a doubt, the canvas bag Bella carried slung over her shoulder.
Edward was extremely curious about this and wasted no time in asking. As soon as they were within human hearing range, Edward said, "Bella! What's in the sack?"
Bella grinned, "Just a snack."
"Can I see?" He asked.
Bella shrugged and let him peek into the bag.
Cotton candy filled it to the brim.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Jasper asked warily.
"Of course it is!" Emmet said brightly.
"Right…" Jasper said, still unconvinced.
Bella shrugged. "What could go wrong? Let's go!"
So, they continued on their way to the Ferris wheel.
They was hardly any line for the Ferris wheel, it being so close to closing and all, and they were soon on one of the cabin things. These were the kind that were enclosed. The wheel on this Ferris wheel never stopped, merely went at an excruciatingly slow pace.
Luckily, six people were allowed in one cabin. Here's a peek at what the seating arrangement looked like.
Bella Emmet
Alice Jasper
Rosalie Edward
Jasper, Alice, and Edward were beginning to get more than a little suspicious of the other three, who took it upon themselves to grin at one and other at random times. The most suspicious part of that? Rosalie was grinning at Bella! And not as if she was planning Bella's death! Very, very, suspicious.
On the way up, Bella ate her cotton candy.
Half way up, Jasper said, "Uh, Bella, are you vibrating?"
"No, no, of course not! Why would I be? Ay, ay, ay!"
"Bella," Edward tried to say sternly, "No more cotton candy, ok?" He started to reach for her bag, but she gave out a weird sort of howl.
"No more cotton candy, I promise. But can I keep my bag, please?"
"Ok…" Edward agreed warily.
He watched her carefully as they mounted higher and higher. Bella merely watched out the window, as if completely normal once more. The sun was setting low into the sky. Hardly any people were left in the park, but from this height, Emmet could see a little kid running around waving his wanted poster at people.
Emmet tuned his ears on him and heard the kid saying, "Thish onesh eshvil, I tells shoe! Eshvil! Shish kid hash venonsh! She wantsh to takes over sha worlsh!(This one's evil, I tell you! Evil! This kid had venom! He wants to take over the world!)" Unfortunately for the kid, because of his lisp, he only got a bunch of weird looks and a scolding from his mom. Unfortunately for Emmet, because of the lisp, the kid had called him a 'she'!
A giggle from Alice told him he was not the only one to have listened.
The ride was nearly over and the conductor was getting ready to open the doors when Emmet stood and barred the doors. The conductor tried to get them opened, but couldn't and started yelling at Emmet, who shrugged innocently and said, "Why can't you get us out?"
So, they went round another time, this time it was much darker.
They were near the top when it happened.
Emmet plied open the window and crawled out and climbed to the top of the cabin and stood triumphantly. "Wahoo!" He yelled triumphantly.
People's head's turned up at him and Edward could hear gasps and thoughts below. "Whoah! It's that actor dude. Don't jump, man!" "Oh no. Bad business for the park. What will the boss think. Bad publicity." And the like, but also the ever popular, "DON'T JUMP!"
Emmet frowned at the people down below and then slunk down so he was pressed against the Ferris wheel, making him invisible in the bad light. He went down the side that no one would see him on and began climbing around on the spokes.
"I'm spider man!" He hollered happily up to his family up in the cabin, who were currently battling between amusement and disapproval.
"And I'm spider woman!" Bella yelled happily, making her way toward the window and started to crawl out.
"Bella!" Edward screamed…err… yelled and pulled her back in.
"What?" She said crossly, obviously not happy with her interruption.
"You are not spider woman." Edward said firmly.
Bella gasped. "Am so!"
"Are not."
"Am so!"
"Are not."
"Am so!"
"Are not."
"Am so!"
"Are not."
"Am so!"
"Enough!" Yelled Emmet, poking his head in. "Settle this like civilized people."
They looked at him expectantly, so he finished, "Rock, Paper, Scissors."
The others nodded at this, but Rosalie objected, "You can't beat Edward at Rock, paper, scissors! He cheats!"
"I can't help it if I can read minds," Edward defended.
"Edward can't read Bella's mind," Alice said helpfully.
"Ok. Tis fair," Rosalie agreed grumpily.
Alice played referee. "Ok, ready! Rock, paper, scissors! And Edward wins with his rock. Again! Rock, paper, scissors! Bella wins? Yes, she does, with paper. Once more to break the tie! Rock, paper, scissors! Wow! Bella wins with paper again! I guess Bella is Spider Woman."
Bella grinned and started out the window again.
"That may be," Edward said, pulling her back in, "But that doesn't mean she can climb around the Ferris Wheel."
"Can so!" Bella argued.
"Can't! Oh wait, not this again!"
Bella smiled, as if it were forgotten and picked up her bag.
Rosalie's eyes widened and she grinned. "Edward! I'm going to jump out the window now, watch!"
Jasper, Edward, and Alice watched Rosalie leap from the window and perform some acrobatics around the Ferris wheel. Then they turned to Bella.
Bella, who was now poised at the window.
With a cackle, she leaped from the window and fell towards the ground.
Edward did not notice the bungee cord tied to the edge of the window and leapt after her, trying in vain to go faster. "BELLA! WHY! OH, WHY! BELLA!"
Several yards from the ground, Bella stopped her fall, whereas Edward didn't despite Bella's wild attempts to catch him.
He was fine however, landing catlike on the concrete, and very bewildered, "Bella?"
"Heh heh?" Bella laughed nervously. Edward looked up to see Bella attached to a bungee cord, which was being pulled up once more towards the cabin.
Edward frowned then climbed up the Ferris wheel, following Bella's progress as she made her way back up.
Bella got to the top before him and he heard Rosalie saying, "Want to go again, Bella?"
Followed by a. "I AM SPIDER WOMAN! WHEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Edward sighed and jumped down after Bella.
After climbing up a second time, Bella was instructed that they were too close to the ground to bungee jump again, so she shrugged, but didn't come in, instead, she climbed around the wheel spokes, trying to work on her "spider powers", which consisted of:
1.Punching random (supposedly bad guys) Spokes (Didn't turn out so well for Bella fist, but hey, she had fun doing it)
2.Jumping from spoke to spoke(Let's just say it was a good thing she was still wearing her bungee cord)
Using her handy dandy squirt gun to fight crime (Emmet did not appreciate the face full of water, but as Bella said, "That's what you get for trying to steal my cotton candy!")
Then, they had to come in once more as the ride neared the ground. Emmet unbarred the doors, since Edward didn't want to go again.
When they reached the ground, they leapt out and ran off, not even pausing to hear the conductor's yells of, "YOU CAN'T BAR DOORS! THAT'S JUST WRONG!"
When they paused for Bella to catch her breath, Edward asked unhappily, "Where did you keep the rope anyway?"
Bella and Rosalie grinned at each other and Bella patted her bag, still half full of cotton candy. She stuffed another handful in her mouth.
Author's Note: My Beta reader is now demanding credit. Yes, I writing it write now. You won't Beta read this part? Why not? Oh yah, back to the point. thanks for Beta reading, LunarTears
