Birthday Girl
by NihilisticAmbition313
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or any of it's characters. I do this only for entertainment purposes. I do not make a dime from this.
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#1
Krillin had barely parked our hovercar outside of Wonder World when Marron leapt out of it and jumped up and down at the sight of the brand new amusement park. To see her unbridled excitement made me glad that Krillin chose to bring us here. I'd already conceded that this outing would be more for Marron than for me in any case.
Before she could run off through the parking lot by herself I gently took her little hand to keep her near. The last thing I wanted on my birthday was some idiot hitting my daughter with their car (and then dying a painful death). Krillin put the car back into its capsule and joined us at my side.
"So, what do you guys wanna do first?" he asked as he fished around in his wallet for some money
"Roller coaster!" Marron emphatically replied
I was not too keen on that idea, but I did not say so. It would only have resulted in Krillin saying 'Aw come on, Eighteen. She's a big girl now, she can handle it'. Sometimes you must choose your battles.
After standing in a rather lengthy line for approximately twenty minutes beneath the warm late-morning sun, our time to approach the ticket booth had arrived.
"Heya. Two adults and one child please." Krillin asked of the cashier, who looked less than thrilled to be stuck inside of a hot ticket booth
The cashier unenthusiastically told Krillin what he owed (which made my husband's eye slightly twitch), and took the money in exchange for three wristbands, two being red and one being yellow. Why on Earth it was called a 'ticket' booth if they gave wristbands was beyond me. The next phase of our grand entrance into Wonder World was to have our wristbands 'expertly' attached to our wrists by some pimply-faced teenage girl with braces. I assumed the bands were to identify people who actually paid to get in as opposed to people who crashed the gates (admittedly something my brother and I would have done back when we were brazenly defiant against society).
"Have a wonderful Wonder World time!" the girl wished us, for what must have been the hundredth time she had to say that meaningless drivel today
"We will!" my daughter assured the teenager
Looking over the landscape of the park, I had to admit to myself that what I saw was impressive. We began our adventure in the midway, which was lined on either side with souvenir shops and food vendors. Marron was not interested in such things however. She wanted to get to the nearest roller coaster immediately.
"Can we get on that!" she shrieked, pointing at a rather insidious looking roller coaster to our left
"Whoa..." Krillin breathed "Uh, I'm not so sure you should do that one honey."
Part of me wanted to agree with Krillin, but another part of me admired my daughter's bravery. She was ready and willing to take on a ride that consisted of any number of corkscrews, loop-de-loops, and really steep drops, something that would scare any normal kid. I was proud.
My God, I wish I had agreed with Krillin that day, at that moment...