Chapter 2

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Three taps sounded on Jimmy's window. Jimmy, who was trying his best to go to sleep, faced his window, and wondered what the sound was. Jimmy heard three more knocks, and he realised that was exactly what they were. Someone was knocking on his window. Jimmy jumped up from his bed, and walked slowly to his window. Who would be visiting at twelve o' clock, and without even bothering to use the front door?

Jimmy threw open the window, and was shocked to find Cindy sitting on his roof.

"Vortex?" he asked, wiping the sleep from his eyes. "What the heck are you doing here?"

"Oh. . . just thought I'd pay you a visit." Cindy, said unconvincingly. She had failed, before she left her house, to think of a plausible explanation for a midnight visit.

"Don't you realise that it's past twelve? Couldn't you think of a better time to visit?" he asked groggily.

"Sorry, I just really need to talk to you." replied Cindy.

"Fine." said Jimmy, "Hold on one second." Jimmy closed the window. He sat on his bed for a moment, to wake himself up, slipped on his shoes, and a decent pair of pants, and opened the window. Instead of inviting Cindy into his room, Jimmy led her to his clubhouse. There was no way that he would allow her into his lab, but the clubhouse was okay.

"Now, after waking me up in the middle of the night. . . what do you want to talk about?" he asked, sitting on the couch.

Cindy sighed. She hadn't prepared what she was going to say beforehand, but she had a pretty good idea of what needed to be said.

"We fight a lot." she said, simply, sitting next to him on the couch.

Jimmy nodded, still unsure of what she was talking about.

"It's mostly about dumb stuff. School, mostly. We argue all the time." she said.

"I know. . . " said Jimmy.

"I want to know why. Why are we constantly at each other's throats. I mean, it's stupid. We have no reason to hate each other. Maybe it's just that we're afraid of what everyone else thinks. Maybe we don't really hate each other as much as we let on, but we're so scared of what would happen if we didn't fight."

"What are you trying to say?" he asked.

"I don't want to fight anymore." she replied.

Jimmy thought about the simplicity of that statement, but also about the meaning of it. Had his rival just stated that she didn't want to be his rival anymore? Even for his large brain, it was a lot of information to consider.

"Really?" he asked, clearly shocked.

"Yeah. " said Cindy.

"Okay. . . so is that all you wanted to talk about?" he asked, standing up from the couch.

"Uh. . . yeah, that was it. . . " replied Cindy.

"Okay, well, I'm going back to bed." said Jimmy, opening the clubhouse door.

"Wait, a minute, Neutron." said Cindy, following him.

Jimmy turned back around and waited for her to speak.

"Since I really want to try to get along with you, can you do me a favor?" she asked.

Jimmy nodded uncertainly.

"Okay, I know this is going to sound a little crazy, but maybe we should spend a little time together. Maybe if we get to know each other, then we can get along better." she suggested, and hoped that he would buy her story.

"Sure. Tommorow, first thing." said Jimmy.

"Actually, I was thinking that we could start now." said Cindy. She only had a day to spend with him, and she didn't want to wait.

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Jimmy had no idea what had convinced him to go along with Cindy's crazy plan. Perhaps it was her eagerness, or the pleading look on Cindy's face. Either way, Jimmy went along with it. It was past twelve thirty and Jimmy and Cindy were walking. Cindy had pleaded with Jimmy to just go along with what ever she wanted to do. This scared Jimmy at first, but he was also intrigued. What was up with Cindy?

"Where are we going?" asked Jimmy, turning to look at Cindy, who was falling behind. Jimmy could tell by the look on her face that Cindy wasn't quite sure of their destination, either.

Cindy was nervous. She couldn't help it. What was she supposed to do? She was thouroughly grateful for the chance to spend time with Jimmy, but she wished that the angel had given her some sort of advice on how exactly to spend the day. Cindy thought about it for a minute, and then an idea came to her. Why not take him to some of the places that meant something to the two of them? They had created many memories throughout the years, most of them not so great, but memories all the same.

"I know where we're going, just follow me." said Cindy, running ahead of Jimmy.

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"Why are we here?" asked Jimmy.

"Well, what better a place to start our time together than here?" replied Cindy.

There they stood. They were at the metal gate of Retroland. All of the rides were shut off, and not a single sound came from the ghost-like amusement park. It wouldn't open until seven o'clock the next morning. Cindy had already taken that into consideration. They would sneak in. It was the only way they would be able to enjoy it to the fullest extint. She knew that they could go and do something else while they waited for the park to open, but what would be the fun of that? Instead they would sneak in, ride the rides, and be alone.

Jimmy could not tell what thoughts were running through Cindy's mind. Weren't they enemies? Didn't they hate each other? Where had her sudden interest in friendship come from? Jimmy wasn't complaining, though. He was a bit tired of all the fighting, anyway. But, he still did wonder about why Cindy was being so nice to him. Maybe they were growing up.

It didn't take much to get into the amusement park. Jimmy easily picked the lock on the gate. Once they were both inside, he swung the gate shut and locked it back, just in case park security came by to check everything out.

"Well, what do you want to do first?" asked Jimmy.

Cindy examined the scenes around her. It was almost creepy. All of the rides that she loved to go on were completely still. Then, she saw her first ride choice. It was a roller coaster that she and Jimmy had been on once before together. When Calamatous had tried to kill Jimmy by making a movie. Cindy smiled at the thought. Sure, they had almost been killed, but she and Jimmy had also almost kissed.

"Let's go on this one." said Cindy, simply, motioning to that ride.

Apparantly, Jimmy wasn't a very sentimental person, because he just nodded and followed her to it. Jimmy started the ride, easily, also.

They rode the ride in silence. Cindy wasn't sure what she was supposed to say. She had already told Jimmy that she didn't want to fight anymore. I could tell him that. . . .no not right now, thought Cindy. It wasn't time yet.

They rode on many rides. Each one of them held some sort of special meaning to Cindy. She was sure that Jimmy didn't know that, but she didn't care. She was also sure that she had plenty of fun that night. It was so exciting! There was a sense of adventure in the air, as they sat atop the farris wheel, looking out over the entire park. Everything was completely silent. Cindy couldn't help the fluttering of her heart, as she looked down from that height. Was it the fact that she was tetering so high up above the ground that made her heart soar, or was it the fact that she was sharing the moment with Jimmy? Either way, she never wanted to come down.

But, all good things must come to an end. Cindy knew that. Jimmy had programmed the ferris wheel to let them out after a certain amount of time. The ferris wheel jerked forward as it made it's way back to the ground. Cindy grabbed onto the first thing that she could reach. It just so happened that it was Jimmy's hand. She quickly let go.

She checked her watch as they made there way out of the park, making sure that all of the rides were turned off. It was two o' clock. They had spent over an hour at the park. Cindy was sad that she had already wasted that much time, but she was happy that she had spent it that way.

As they left the park, they were stopped by an officer.

"Are you kids crazy?" he asked, shining the flash light in their eyes. "What are you doing here so late at night."

"Sorry officer." said Jimmy.

Cindy could only laugh and walk away. There was no way that she would let an angry police officer ruin her day. Nothing could ruin her day except the end of it.

I know, that was a bit of a fluffy chapter, but we can all use a bit of fluff every once in a while. Hope you liked it. please review!