Chapter 10: Love Day
The Festival for Autumn/Fall had finally arrived. Love Day! I was going to surprise Claire by taking her there. Central Park was decorated just for the festival and luckily it was a sunny day, which usually would have been normal in Sunset Valley. I went over to Claire's house, it was easy to get there I knew way in my head. I knocked on the door; I didn't know if Claire's mother was home, Claire opened the door. "Claire, I want to take you somewhere."
"What? Where are you going to take me?"
"To the Love Day festival."
"Really!? I thought you forgot about me?"
"I thought this would have been a nice surprise."
"Well it is a surprise and it sounds like fun!"
We both rode our bikes to Central Park, lucky it wasn't raining or it would be a wet festival. We arrived at Central Park, both of us tired; we hadn't got any exercise in a while. Maybe we could get some exercise on the roller-skating rink? In the centre of the park was a big, ivy-leafed statue thing, I think that was a sign that the festival is on but you could also tell by all the booths and stands so it was really pointless.
The sun was shining on my face, I looked at the things we could do, we could go slow-dancing, but I've never done it before and I think I tried it would just all go wrong. I smiled at Claire, "What shall we do first?" Today was Claire's day, this was for her and she could do whatever she wanted.
"Why don't we go roller-skating?" She thought it would be a great idea; the only problem is that we have never been roller-skating before. "Sure, just hope we don't trip..." We put on roller-skates we hired and as soon as I stepped on the rink, I nearly slipped into Bella Bachelor who was with Mortimer Goth. "Whoops! Sorry about that Bella."
"It's okay, so you are at the festival too. Your treating Claire, well Morty's treating me too. Today's going to be a good day!" Bella said to me.
"Yeah", I replied to Bella.
We both needed to fix up our roller-skating skills but we were still having fun. After a while we got better and we were skating like the professionals. We got tired after roller-skating so we went get some food, we asked one of the food stalls attendant,
"Ah, excuse me, can we have two grasshopper pies please."
After a minute or two, "Oh sorry, are you sure you don't want one big pie to share?" "Nah, were fine", Claire said suddenly. We both sat down on a small table, opposite towards each other and we eat, fast.
"Why are eating so quickly?", I asked.
"Because I can."
Then we saw some children run past, they were going on the egg hunt.
I thought about; if we did it when we were younger but I remembered we had nothing like that. I wish we did but... Oh well I'm having fun with Claire right now. Claire and I had both finished eating; we decided what we were going to do next, "What about playing some horseshoes?" I asked.
"I wanted to do something a little...more...romantic."
Hmm. Romantic, I thought; there were many options, I could kiss Claire for the first time or I could go slow dancing and finish off with a kiss? I went up and held Claire's hands; they were warm from the hot Claire suddenly had an idea, "What about we show the others how to slow dance? How about we go slow dancing?"
"That was what I was exactly thinking!" I laughed. Great minds think alike.
We both walked up to the dance floor holding hands again I was trying something new today.
My heart started to race, I was having fun with Claire and I was excited to be with her. We walked up to the dance which was near the centre of the park. Slow music started playing; we danced with just a one-two step, with both of us holding each other's hands. We were both smiling; we were in love and having a good time. The star-crossed lovers. That's what I like to call our relationship with each-other.
As we were slow dancing, time seemed to slow down; Claire looked more beautiful than ever, maybe that was just me and my eyes. I didn't seem to notice everyone looking at us and Bella and Mortimer; we were the new young couples, young love. I was spaced out in my own little world with Claire and I, everything was glorious and happy, meadows of flowers; exactly like Spring.
Then a big announcement came; we stopped to hear the announcement, the festival today was not supposed to be Love Day but Spooky Day, it was Autumn/Fall not Spring and the weather reporter from the weather channel got it wrong.
I felt terrible, this agitated me but it was a good day and the event kept going even though the trees haven't turned brown yet, I couldn't believe it was Autumn/Fall. Claire and I still had fun, we went off to play horseshoes and I won! Then we used the love tester machine, to test our love, it hit the maximum, I gave a sigh of relieve. Claire and I had a lot of fun; she went home very happy and was so elated that it was a hit. I hope you have a happy Love Day!
Author's Note: Sorry for the chapter being later than usual. I had lots of schoolwork and are there any improvements I could make or any story ideas? I hope you enjoy the chapter. :)