CHAPTER 3: Amusment Park
"Hey you," Junior said walking into the barn where Grace and Kris stood by Wildfire's stall. He gave Grace a meaningful squeeze and a kiss on the forehead before turning to look at Kris. "Hey."
Kris nodded and turned her focus back to Wildfire. "Hey baby," Grace said in her "happy" voice. Kris rolled her eyes but didn't look at the couple.
"So, I got three tickets to the new amusement park, Santa Anita Mountain (A/N-I JUST MADE IT UP ITS NOT REAL!!). Are you in?" he asked Grace.
"Duh!" she sqealed. "But what about the other ticket?"
"Well, I figured Kris could come with us. She never gets out anymore," Junior said. Kris could feel them both turn their attention towards her.
She turned my head slowly and look at the couple, "What?" Kris said.
"Come with us, Kris, PLEEEAAASSSEEE!!" Grace grace begged. Kris rolled her eyes and popped out on hip.
"Okay, whatever, I'll come. When?" she asked.
"Tomorrow. Grace, can you get off work?" Junior asked.
"I can try. I know I have to do the morning stuff, but I'm only there until eleven. That's when Ray can come in," she said.
"Okay, cool. Then I will pick you both up here at 11:30. We'll take the Expedition so we can all fit," he said. "Grace, you need a lift to work real quick?"
"Yep," she said and they both headed out of the barn.
"What did I get myself into Wildfire?" she asked before turning and heading to the main house.
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Kris was in the trailer getting ready to go to the mausement park. She had on some khaki shorts and a teal wife-beater, and some tennis-shoes. She was in the process of pulling her hair into a pony tail when there was a knock at the door. She looked at the clock, 10:55.
"Come in!" she yelled trying to hold her hair-bows in her teeth. She watched as Junior walked through the door. She pulled her hair-bows out of her teeth and tied her hair up.
"You're here early," Kris said. She looked at him, he had a weird expression on his face. "What?" she said.
"Grace just called. Ray won't be there until about three, and the other waiter's dont come in until after that," he axplained to her.
"Oh, so are we not going?" se said looking down at her outfit.
"She said she didn't want to ruin our fun, and she wants me and you to go, since the tickets are for today. But I told her it would be up to you," he told her.
"Well, I'm fine with it, if you are," Kris said sitting down on her bed.
"Good," he said smiling, "me too. You ready?"
"Yep, let me grab my bag," she said. She walked into the bathroom and grabbed her shoulder bag that contained her wallet, sunscreen, and bug spray. She walked out of the bathroom and followed him out. "I thought we were taking the expedition."
"We were, but there are only two now, so we will fit in my Porsche." They both got into the black sports car and headed out of Raintree.
"This isn't weird or anything going without Grace, is it?" Kris asked Junior after twenty minutes of riding.
"I don't think so. I mean, we are best friends, right?" he asked as a reply.
"Umm," Kris thought for a minute, "yeah. I guess you're right." She looking out the window for the rest of the twenty minutes it took to get there.
.:Sisters by Blood, Enemies by Nature:.
"That was crazy!!!" Junior exclaimed sitting down at Mel's Diner after riding the last roller coaster.
"Tell me about it! I about flipped when it stuck upside down!" Kris said laughing thinking about the look on Junior's face when the large green metal monster flipped them head-down and stopped for atleast a minute. "You should have seen your face though!" she said getting into another fit of hysterics.
"Hi, we are from the newspaper and we wanted to get pictures of people on opening day," a blonde guy said walking up next to the table they were sitting at, a brunette behind him.
"Oh, sure," Kris said. She sat next to Junior and they both smiled big for the camera.
"We got some pictures of you two laughing, I hope that's alright," the brunette said.
"Yeah, it's cool," Junior said taking the notepad from him and wrote down his and Kris' name for the paper.
"That's some front page stuff right there," Junior laughed. Kris rolled her eyes and looked around.
"What next?" she asked.
"Sky buckets?" he asked.
Kris smilied as they got up and the same time.
After three more hours af riding random rides Junior finally convinced Kris to go in the 'Scary House' with him. They stood in line waiting for there turn to get on the two-seater boat. Kris' eyes widened everytime she saw a small child come out crying.
"It can't be that bad," Junior said bumping into her as they stepped onto there blue boat. But boy was he wrong. They had things popping out at you and everything.
Kris thought the ride was almost over until the room whent pitch black and the boat jerked.
"Oh no," she said. Next thing she knew the floor gave way under them and the boat fell thirty feet!
She began screaming and crying. Junior grabbed her and held her to his chest.
"It's okay," he soothed once they hit the bottom. Kris sat up breathing hard and crying. Out of instinct she grabbed Junior's hand and closed her eyes until the ride was over.
Kris didn't release his hand until they stepped out of the boat.
"That was interesting," Junior stated walking next to Kris.
"Yeah, sorry I freaked," she stated rubbing her hand. She couldn't get out of her mind how nice it felt to have his hand in her's.
Junior's POV
I though back to how nice it felt to hold her in my arms against my chest, and to feel her hold my hand. I looked at her tear-streaked face and smilied. She looked up at me and returned my smile with a small shy one before quickly looking away. I couldn't get the feeling out of my hand.
"How about something a little less exciting," I said walking up to the swan boats.
"Sure," she said stepping in line in front of me.
The wait wasn't long, only about ten minutes. We stepped into a small white boat with two swans on the back of it. The sign said the ride was twenty minutes long and took you around the park.
"Look," she said to me once the boat got moving, "I'm sorry I grabbed your hand. I hope that didn't make you feel uncomfortable or anything."
"Quite the opposite actually," I stated. I saw her shiver and I put my arm around her and pulled her closer to me. She tensed at first but then snuggled closer to my side. Oh how good she felt there.
"I feel the same," she said so quiet I barely heard her.
"Kris, I," I said. "I still love you."
She lifted her head and looked me in the eyes.
"I know," she said a tear coming down her cheek. I wiped my thumb gently across her cheek and removed it, but more started coming. They weren't tears of sadness, they were tears of regret. "I love you, too, Junior. I always have. And it's killing me seeing you with Grace!"
"Shh," I said wiping the tears as they came. "I'm sorry."
When the next one came I brushed my lips across her cheek and softly kissed her.
"I don't want you to hurt Grace," she said, "but I don't want you to hurt me either."
"I don't know what to do," I said holding her face in my hands.
"There is something you need to know," she said. "I promised her I wouldn't tell you. But I think I have to. Some nights Grace sneaks out and meets a guy she knows from back home. And I walked in on them this morning and they were, well, they were doing stuff."
I tensed. I had a feeling she was cheating on me. She often had a distant look in her eye, and one time I saw her phone lying open to a message she had recieved. I tried to believe it wasn't true, but it was.
"Thank you for telling me," I said. I stroked her cheek and leaned down and kissed her.
"What are we going to do?" She asked me.
"Pay back time," I said thinking of what we could do.
"Junior, we, we really shouldn't tell her you know. She will be so mad at me," Kris said with saddness in her eyes.
"Kris, she cheated on me. Maybe, just maybe we could work out any agreement to see other people?" I said. But I knew it wouldn't work. Then I would feel like I was cheating on Kris.
"Or maybe we could just tell her the truth," she said looking me straight in the eye.
"You're right," I said.
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"Grace, we need to talk," I said walking into the trailer, Kris was out in the barn.
"Yeah, babe?" she said sitting close to me.
"I saw you and, that guy, together the other day at Ray's," I really didn't see her, but I know she was there and I didn't want to involve Kris in all of this.
"Oh," was all she could say before getting really quiet.
"Grace, listen. I know that wasn't the only time. I saw your phone the other day. I'm not going to have you running around cheating on me. I'm sorry Grace, but this just isn't going to work out," I said looking her in the eye.
"Junior," she began crying, "please don't do this. Just give me another chance. I love you!"
"If you loved me,"I began, "you wouldn't have cheated on me in the first place."
I watched her put her head in her hands, "I guess I better tell you now."
I looked at her confused, "Tell me what, Grace?"
"I'm pregnant!" sh cried.
"What!" I yelled. How could she? She wouldn't even have sex with me.
"Listen, please?" I nodded. "I about three months ago my ex-boyfriend came up here to find me. And he did, he found me at work. You and I had been together for about three months at the time, and I was crazy about you. Everyone knew it. Well when Justin, my ex, was asking around for me, he found out about you. So he came to the diner at asked to talk to me. And the first thing I told him was that I was in love with a great guy at the moment and I didn't want to go back with him. Well, we talked and talked and caught up, becasue we had always been best friends, we broke up becasue I thought he was cheating on me. But, I found out he wasn't. And made up, but that make up lead to other things," she told me. I looked at her wide eyed.
She continued, "Junior, I never fell out of love with Justin, I fell in love with you, but that was something else. It was a summer fling type deal. I just got so cought up in plans to mvoe in together and I figured I would forget about Justin. But since he started coming to see me every weekend he's been hard to forget."
"Grace, why didn't you just tell me this to begin with. Why didn't you tell me about Justin?" I asked.
"I don't know. I'm sorry. But I'm not stupid. I see the way you look at Kris. You're really in love with her. And I think it took me coming here for her to realize that she loves you too. Now Junior, don't be an idiot and let her slip through your fingers again. I'm serious," she stopped talking and looked me straight in the eye. She was right, I did love Kris, and if she wouldn't have come, Kris might not have ever realized it.
"Now go get her tiger," she said. I smiled and ran out of the trailer and sprinted all the way to the barn. When I reached the barn I stood in front of Kris. She looked at me and I get down on my knee and watched her mouth fall open.
A/N-Soo....cliffhanger. Review and tell me what you think is about to happen.