"Carousel"
When the carnival comes around, I always am at my best so Mommy will let me spend the day. The people there are as insane as I feel. Like the mime.
I saw a boy there. He smiled at me, then invited me to play. We played the horse racing game. He won, and gave me a dolly. I tried to play with him more at the carnival, but he would always run away from me. He would show interest, but then turn away. He would give, then take it away.
He took my hand and lead me to the playground. But as we were playing, I lost him. I went up to the tallest slide, but I couldn't find him.
Instead of waiting, I went to find some cotton candy. A man was making some shaped like a heart. That's when I found him. He asked me if he could take a bite out of it. I gave it to him, and he ran away with my heart. I chased him around and around the carnival grounds. But I just found I was running around in circles. He was nowhere to be found. All he was doing was feeding money to the machines to keep my heart thumping for him.
After I gave up looking for him, I wanted to go on the carousel. Round and round I went, when I found him. He was watching me with his pretty green eyes. Every time I went around, he was watching me, smiling. I would come close, but then the horse would spin me around again. I wasn't able to get off, I just had to watch him watch me. Once I got off, he was gone.
I was feeling sick, so I tried to find my way around the crowd in the darkness. I felt guided by the mime to exit the carnival. The lights were turning off, the carnival was ending. I quickly ran to the front and began to walk home, when the carnival lights lighted up again. I could hear the cheering, voices, screams, and laughs coming from the carnival. But when I turned around, nobody was there. The rides were moving with no people on them. Music was coming, but not through the speakers. I started running home again. The next morning, the carnival was gone once again. It was if it was never there to begin with.