Star Crossed In Time

I nearly bounce with excitement as we finally climb onto the ride. Bai Lei follows me with caution but he carefully follows my every action. I reach up and pull the safety restraints down over my head and carefully latch the buckle between my legs. 

Bai Lei does the same after watching me.  My stomach starts to flip in excitement as the ride quickly fills up. Haha... I'm gonna buy the pictures for this ride... his face will be priceless! The workers come by and check the restraints before quickly moving to the next person. I swing my feet back and forth in happiness as they freely hang in the air.

My smile slightly falters... The guy behind the control panel comes on over the speakers telling all of us to have a fun time as the ride jerks forward in a slow crawl. I look up as my brain suddenly starts making all the connections.

The restraints come down over us completely holding us in... our feet are hanging... does this ride flip!? I can barely handle a normal roller coaster... I really can't handle the ones that flip!! I look over to Bai Lei in panic only to see him watching me with a slight smirk.

"Don't tell me you're suddenly scared..." He says with a dark grin. I swallow hard as I mentally kick myself... I knew it was a new ride... but I never bothered to check what kind of ride it actually was! I was so eager to screw him over... I screwed myself over!!

What makes all of this so much worse... We're sitting in the very front! The ride jerks again as it slowly starts climbing up the steep incline. My heart races in panic as I look back over to Bai Lei. His smile was now full-blown as he says "It can't be that bad! There are even kids riding this." 

I bust out in a nervous laugh as I say "You have no idea..." Bai Lei's smile slightly falters as the ride reaches the very top. My heart nearly stops when I see how far the drop is... To make it worse, the ride spirals around as it drops!!!

I quickly reach over and grab Bai Lei's hand as I say "I may not survive this!!!!" The ride suddenly dives down causing my stomach to flip as my ass to nearly come out of my mouth! I can't even scream!! I just clench my teeth tight and try to remember to breathe!

The ride suddenly twists to the side as in continues to dive down and disappear into an underground tunnel with bright flashing lights. "WHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!" I scream at the top of my lungs as the ride speeds through the tunnel and back out.

It shoots up into the air before completely looping around in the air and twirling down again. When I see another three loops coming up, I nearly break down in tears! I look over to Bai Lei as we hit the first loop and nearly die from laughter.

We both hold on for dear life with a look of fear on our faces but at this point, we're both laughing at each other at the same time. I've never seen him laugh so hard! We hit the last two loops and shoot straight up into the air as the ride spirals around to a stop high up in the air.

"Well... this just got a whole lot worse..." I say looking at the bright blue sky with a straight face. To Bai Lei's credit, he hadn't screamed once! And he still holds onto my hand without crushing it. "W..what do you mean?" He asks in a shaky voice as he struggles to keep his smile from earlier. 

I look at the blue sky with tears in my eyes as I say "We can no longer go forward... that means the ride will..!!!" Before I can finish my sentence, the roller coaster drops into a spiral descent! It was now going backward!!!

I hold on for dear life as the ride flips around over and over while going backward. I no longer know who I am or where I am as my soul nearly slips out of me. The ride finally comes to a jerky stop before slowly pulling back into the starting point. 

The restraints release with a hiss as people begin climbing off the ride with laughter. Bai Lei and I remain sitting but when I look over, I find him looking like a wronged mistress. He looked as if he'd seen the underworld... his hair was sticking up everywhere as he stares off blankly.

"Would you two like to go again?" The man says finding us still sitting. I quickly drop Bai Lei's hand as I quickly say "No!! No, we're getting off!" I struggle to get the buckle undone and nearly fall flat on my face. 

My legs weren't working! I turn to Bai Lei and quickly help him out of the seat. We both stumble away from the ride as I try to fix my own hair. It was just as bad as his! He walks over to the edge and leans over the fence with a white face. 

I was almost just as bad... after a few minutes, the two of us walk away from the monstrous ride in silence. When we reach the picture booth, I cringe. That should be illegal! I try to pull Bai Lei away but he looks at the screen in amazement. 

"How is this possible..." He asks in wonder. I forgot... "Look, I'll take a better picture of us okay? Let's go get something to drink." Bai Lei refuses to budge as he says "But I want this one..." I look at him with conflicted feelings before looking back at the atrocious picture.

I looked possessed... My tongue is sticking out of my mouth as my eyes are rolled into the back of my head. Bai Lei looks okay... his eyes are just large in fear/shock but overall, he looked fine. "If you can let this picture go... I'll take as many pictures of us as you want. I give you my word." I say with a pitiful look.  

Bai Lei looks to me as he silently debates but after a few quiet moments, he nods his head and says "Okay." I give him a relieved smile as I turn around and head straight to the snack booth. Bai Lei's dark eyes watch me walk away as an evil grin slowly crawls across his handsome face.