AN: Any guesses as to who the girl Tommy saw was? And who her mother might be? I really don't know, but if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Disclaimer: Of course I don't own Instant Star or any of the characters. If I did, our favorite punk princess and her beloved blue-eyed prince would live happily ever after in their rockin' realm.
Chapter 12: …Come True?
SME followed me there, and surprisingly, Sadie was in line.
"Sades, what are you doing here?" I said, guilty for not checking up on her earlier.
"I figured I'd get on here so that I can find out where you guys are," Sadie said. It drove me crazy just how she could be so practical sometimes. And other times, she made no sense at all. There's my sister for you, impossible to figure out.
"Look, we're up!" I said, pointing at the line. As soon as we cleared the gate, I grabbed Tommy's hand and ran to the nearest one and climbed in.
Bad idea, I thought, as I glanced over my shoulder to see where Sadie was.
Kyle had seen what I did to Tommy, and he'd done the same thing to Sadie, who was now stuck sitting next to Kyle, frowning. Her frown deepened as Kyle put his arm around her shoulders, and she used it to her advantage and elbowed him in the ribs hard. He winced painfully and bent over, trying to regain his composure. Sadie sat back, smirking in satisfaction.
Meanwhile, Speed had gotten stuck with Wally, who had been hoping to get a ride with the girl next to him, and Speed wasn't happy either. I could tell, since he had a similar expression to the one Sadie had just had before she purposely injured Kyle.
I leaned back as Tommy wrapped his arms around me, and he smiled at me as we went up. Soon we could see all the sights below us, but we were too wrapped up in one another to pay attention to everything around us.
"Mmm…I could definitely get used to this," Tommy smiled as he leaned in for a kiss.
After a minute, we broke apart. "Too bad you taste like peanuts and pretzels and hot dogs, though," Tommy grinned as I pretended to look shocked.
"Way to spoil the moment, Quincy," I said, pretending to be offended.
"I promise I'll make up for it later when we get back. What can we do to get rid of the SME boys, and have time to ourselves?"
"I don't know, but I'm sure we'll think of something," I said, even though my mind was on something else.
"Let's have linguini later, shall we?" I said, trying to regain the moment. I was thinking of the movie Lady and the Tramp, where they share a plate of spaghetti and they kiss. If you can actually call it that. I mean, they are dogs, so I guess that really isn't kissing, is it? Either way, I was trying to recreate our romantic mood.
"My treat," Tommy said, pulling me in for another long, intense kiss. We made out for what seemed like 10 minutes, when suddenly I felt a jerk. We broke apart, and looked to see what the problem was.
"Don't let us get stuck up here," I muttered under my breath. I mean, I didn't mind that I was on a Ferris wheel at night, with none other than little Tommy Q, and we had just made out for the last 10 minutes, but the thought of plunging headfirst into the cement below was a completely different story.
"What's going on down there?" some people called out to the operator.
"The lever's stuck. Don't worry, we'll have you down in no time," The operator tried to calm everyone on the Ferris wheel, but some had panicked and were making the situation worse.
"Hurry up, will you? I gotta go," Speed yelled.
"Yeah, me too," echoed Wally and Kyle.
Sadie looked repulsed. "You'd better not go right here."
The people below the Ferris wheel moved out, and all of them were looking up at the Ferris wheel suspended in the air.
"Guess you should have thought of that before you drank those Cokes," Tommy called out to them, laughing. I nudged him gently in the ribs, and he said, "Watch it, girl, or I'm gonna make you regret it."
"Ooh, what are you gonna do now? You don't scare me," I teased back.
"Oh yeah? Watch this," I saw Tommy's eyes darken for a second, and then he pulled me toward him as our lips met and hungrily devoured one another's, as if our lives depended on it. He kissed me like he's never kissed me before, and I loved the feeling of being in his arms, feeling his lips on mine, and knowing that there was nowhere else I wanted to be, except right then and there.
AN: OK, I know this is a really short chapter, but the next one will be longer. I promise!