(I do not own Death Note or the characters.)

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Chapter 13

"MELLO! WAKE UP!"

I flinched as I awoke, my ears ringing from being screamed into. I rolled over and saw Matt standing over me, already dressed and overly excited.

"Finally," Matt said a playfully exasperated tone. "I've been trying to wake you up for the past," he glanced at the clock, "twenty-three minutes. Now get up and get dressed." When I didn't move the redhead waved his arms at me in a shoo-ing motion and added, "Hurry up!"

I groaned and reluctantly pulled myself out of bed. I just grabbed whatever was on the floor and ended up wearing my only pair of non-leather pants and a plain black tee-shirt. I stumbled over to the mirror and began combing through my long blonde hair.

"Please contain your excitement, Mello," Matt randomly said sarcastically.

I sighed, saying, "Sorry, Matt. I just don't get what the big deal is. Seriously, it's just an amusement park. No big deal."

My friend gaped at me. His green eyes were wide and nearly popping out from behind his goggles. He stuffed his gameboy in his pocket and said in an astonished voice, "No big deal? This is the trip. The 8th grade trip to the amusement park, and you're telling me you're not excited?" I could tell he was absolutely incredulous.

I shrugged. "I guess I'm sorta excited, yeah. But I'm not like bouncing off the walls, counting down the seconds till we leave."

"Yeah, I can see that," the redhead muttered under his breath.

I rolled my eyes and continued getting ready for the day.

Matt and I were forced apart on the bus to the amusement park. I was sitting with a girl I used to be friends with, and Matt was sitting with Linda. The girl I was with, Katie, stayed quiet and just listened to her iPod the entire time. Talk about boring. Though I had the window seat, I could still see Matt and Linda in the seat across the aisle, and she was all over him.

From the sounds of things, they were playing truth or dare. To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to what they were asking each other because, to be honest, I really didn't care. What bugged me, though, was the way Linda was all over my Matt. She was practically sitting on top of him and she was chewing her gum all flirtatiously. She kept leaning over which probably gave Matt a great view of her breasts. I hadn't realized how much of a slut Linda had turned into until that bus ride.

Thankfully, however, Matt remained oblivious. He never looked down her shirt, even when she seemed to be begging him to. I even saw him inching away from her when she got too close. The sight made me smile. He was such a good, faithful boyfriend. Regardless, Linda's behavior still pissed me off. It's not like she didn't know Matt was taken. Her actions were inexcusable. I really just wanted to chew her out good and proper.

Finally we made it to the amusement park and Matt and I were able to join up again, leaving Linda a thing of the past.

We waited in line to enter the park for a good twenty minutes. We kept fooling around and being obnoxious, not to mention all over each other, thus gaining us some interesting looks from the people around us. We didn't mind though, and we actually found it pretty amusing.

Naturally, my studded belt set off the metal detector. I therefore had to take it off, walk through, and put it back on. Even this made people look at me funny, so I quickly decided that people in amusement parks are just weird.

First, we went on a spinny ride that literally went up and down and all around. We sat in the yellow section. Matt mocked me for wanting to ride it, but we ended up having fun on it. We kept trying to grab the leaves off the trees. Or, rather, I kept trying to and Matt kept telling me to stop.

After that we went on a roller coaster. The cars were designed so that one person sat in back and the other sat between their legs in front. Needless to say, Matt was in back and I was in front.

Rather than going up on a slant with a chain, it spiralled upward. The first drop wasn't actually a drop, but a mild slope that led into a quick turn. We soon learned that this was the roller coaster's specialty as we were whipped violently around, over water and near trees.

The redhead and I then went on a ferris wheel-type ride. There was twist, though. Instead of bringing you around in nice calming circles, this ride flipped you upside down. It was like a never-ending loop. To make it worse, there were no restraints of any kind; no seatbelts, lap bars, anything. You just had to sit in an enclosed cage and let gravity keep you in. Talk about discomforting.

We walked up and saw an interesting-looking wooden roller coaster. It wasn't even painted or anything. Obviously we rode it. It was pretty rickety, and I felt rather unsafe on it. The turns made you feel like the train was going to fly off the track and the drops made you feel like you were going to fly out of your seat.

At the bottom of one of the drops was a camera. It was probably there to capture terrified faces so you could laugh at yourself later. Matt and I saw it, however, and decided to flick it off. After the ride when we saw the picture, we couldn't help but laugh. Our hair was all wind-blown and our cheeks were rosy, but there we were, giving the innocent camera the finger and smiling like idiots.

After checking the time, Matt and I decided it was a good time to eat some lunch. We walked over to a food court, set on getting foot-long hot dogs. That didn't happen, though, since all the hot dogs there had all sorts of weird things on them. Not wanting to hassle the people or wait longer or anything, we went to the shop next door and got bacon cheeseburgers instead. When we bit into them we knew we'd made the right decisions. They tasted so good, and the fries were pretty amazing too.

When we finished our lunch, I decided I wanted Dip 'N Dots. Matt had never had Dip 'N Dots before, but decided to try it anyway. It was delicious, though somewhat painful. For some reason, Dip 'N Dots ice cream sticks to your mouth and kind of burns it in a way. Still, it tasted good, so it was okay.

With all that said and done, the gamer and I strolled over to the largest roller coaster in the park. Its first drop was very tall, and its smallest camel hump was the size of the main drop on the wooden roller coaster. It seemed pretty frightening, but it couldn't be that bad if so many people liked it.

The line was ridiculously long. It weaved throughout one whole house thing and then continued onward, up some stairs, and into the main house where we'd get on the train. We were in line for a good hour, but it wasn't really that boring. We talked and acted like idiots, disrupting those around us.

Just as we left the house part of the line, I bought a blue icee. It was incredibly refreshing on such a boiling hot day, and it tasted amazing too. Too bad I didn't get to finish it. We got into the final part of the line much quicker than I had anticipated, and I sadly had to throw away my refreshment. What a waste of three dollars.

Matt and I sat toward the back of the train simply because it had been the shortest line, and after having waited so long already, we just wanted to get on the damn thing. Just after we had our restraints checked, the train lurched out of the station quite unexpectedly.

The climb up that first drop was murder. My breathing got ragged and I started screaming, "Fuck! I can't believe I'm doing this! It's too high! I'm fucking scared, oh my God! Why am I fucking doing this?! I don't wanna, I don't wanna!" I was pretty much in a state of panic.

Matt on the otherhand was surprisingly calm. He'd told me that today was the first time he'd ever been to an amusement park, so he'd never ridden a roller coaster before either. So, while I was freaking out, the redhead was looking down at the park below him, silent and calm as ever.

Suddenly, as the train reached the top and was about to go down, I realized I was being immensely stupid. I'd been to amusement parks before and I loved roller coasters. I'd ridden much scarier ones than this and hadn' been afraid, so it made no sense for me to be freaking out now. So I stopped screaming and threw my arms in the air as the train raced down the drop.

The rest of the ride was a breeze. I was laughing and yelling happily the whole time, leaving my arms up the whole time. We didn't flick the camera off this time, but only because we didn't see it in advance like we had before.

Exhilerated and ready for anything, Matt and I went to ride a roller coaster that went upside down four times after that. It was big and black, and the guy operating it laughed like a super creep before sending each train off. He sort of reminded me of the Joker.

The ride itself was pretty bumpy. My head got bashed around a bit, but otherwise it was a decent ride. Matt, however, was not so optimistic. He complained about his head getting bumped around quite a bit.

After that, we went and rode another wooden roller coaster that consisted of a main drop, multiple camel humps, a spiral, and more camel humps. It was pretty short and rickety, but well worth the wait nonetheless.

That's when the thirst set in. the redhead and I were suddenly incredibly thirsty. We knew we could get glasses of water for free, so we went up to a funnel cake shop to get some. We waited in a long line of funnel cake buyers, only to find out that the pop machine had mixed itself up and made the water taste like beer. We were then not only discouraged, but also quite a bit more thirsty.

Down a little ways, however, was our savior. Actually, it was a bar with a nice man running it that gave us glasses of water. It had to be the best glass of water I ever had in my entire life. I'd been so thirsty I thought I might collapse, but with that one little glass, I was completely refreshed and strengthened.

Though the water was great, Matt and I were still warm and in need of a way to cool down. Across the road was a water ride. It resembled a roller coaster, but it was a water ride. You got into logs and it brought you up high via lifts and turns.

The drop was actually fairly tall and we weren't seatbelted in or anything, so at the top I had another little freak out. It wasn't as bad as my other one, but I was still screaming like a maniac all the way down. At the bottom I calmed down and was able to laugh it off.

After that was the last ride of the day. It was another roller coaster that went upside down. We were only in line for probably about ten minutes, so we got on quickly.

The ride was very fast. It went up, then down it's first drop. It then proceeded to go around a loop, a corkscrew, and another loop. Then it did some turns, a few mor corkscrews, another turn, and it ended. It was so fast, I didn't even know what was happening. Oh, and did I mention your feet dangled during the whole ride?

I had promised Matt that we'd go to the arcade, so that's what we did. He was enveloped by the claw machines, assuring me of his skills. He said he'd win me something, so we went over to the claw machine that had poorly-made stuffed bears in it. I requested a hot pink one, only because it looked easiest to get. On the first try, Matt won it for me. I was amazed and happy.

We then tried to win electronics on the claw machines: Nintendo DS's, iPods, etc. After Matt lost again, I realized that it must almost be time to leave. I checked the time on my cell phone, and sure enough, we had five minutes to get back to the font of the park to meet up with the class.

Since we were on the complete opposite end of the park from the front, we had to run the whole way. We just barely made it in time, and we were out of breath by the time we made it. After quick bathroom stops, we all piled back into the buses and headed back to Wammy's.

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This chapter was actually based on a trip I really went on with my 8th grade class. Actually, every detail of this chapter is from that trip. I had lots of fun, so I'm sure Matt and Mello did too. I'm going to try to get the next chapter up soon. I know everything that's going to be happening from now till the end, so it really shouldn't take me long to finish it. There's gonna be 2 more chapters, unless I suddenly decide to add something in, but I doubt it. I wanna thank all of you that have been following this story since the beginning and all those that have recently joined in. It really means a lot. But enough of that, I can do all the formalities after the last chapter. -Bloodmuffins