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“Just wing it,” I told her as I closed and locked the bathroom door.
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A smile spread across my face as I spotted the Ferris Wheel up ahead.
Trace parked in the gravel beside a shady, run-down strip mall, and I slid from the car, my eyes wide with excitement. I couldn’t believe I was actually at a carnival.
I took a moment to soak in the bells, dings, and cheers from the people playing games. The smell of popcorn, hotdogs, and cotton candy, invaded my senses, along with the scent of pot. Lovely.
I felt Trace’s calloused hand slide into mine and we started towards the entrance. We stopped and paid for the bracelets that allowed us on the rides.
I stuck the purple paper bracelet on, sure that with my luck, it would fall off.
“I’m going to meet Luca,” Avery waved as she backed away, her phone held in front of her, the glow of the screen illuminating her face.
“So,” Trace?
??s hands wrapped around my waist, “what do you want to do first?”
I looked around at all the booths with all the different games. Different colored lights flashed all around on the rides. Pinks, purples, silvers…you name it, the color was flashing somewhere.
“What do you think we should do?” I asked. “I’ve never been to a carnival before, so this isn’t exactly my forte,” I laughed as we passed a stand selling corndogs.
“Hmm,” he tapped his chin, “since it’s not as crowded as it will be soon, I think we should do the Ferris Wheel first. There will be a wait now, but it shouldn’t be too long, not like it will be later.”
“Okay,” I smiled up at him.
We made our way to the large round circle in the distance. Lights winked all along the structure and excitement bubbled inside me.
While we waited in line, I looked around at the other various rides. There was a swinging ship, cars that spun in circles, and a ride that lifted straight up into the air, on a metal pole, before it came flying back down to the ground.
Music pumped through the massive speakers throughout the area.
I grinned like a small child when it was our turn to get in one of the swinging chairs that would lift us high up into the sky.
For some reason, I had never been afraid of heights. When I was little, I used to watch the birds, longingly, wishing I could take flight with them.
The Ferris Wheel started it’s ascent into the sky and I giggled giddily. Trace was going to hate me by the end of the night. I planned on riding everything, even the carousel.
When we reached the top, I gasped aloud as I gazed below us. The carnival looked beautiful. The rides were cheap and silly, but with all the sparkling lights, music, and the cheers from people, it seemed…magical.
“Wow,” I breathed. It seemed like the only word to describe what I was feeling. It was incredible, how different the world seemed, when you got a different perspective of it.
Trace’s warm hand covered mine, where it gripped the metal bar.
“This is amazing,” I gazed at him with wide eyes. “The world looks so big from up here…infinite.”
He smiled. “The world is big, we’re the ones that pretend it’s small.”
His words were so true. It was so easy to forget everything that was happening outside your own circle and not directly to you.
He leaned towards me and the chair we were in shook slightly. His lips pressed gently against my cheek, his stubble rasping against my skin. My eyes closed involuntarily at the small touch and my heart lurched.
“I think you’re a more beautiful sight than this,” he waved his hand to encompass the carnival below us and the surrounding town.
I eyed him. “Are you trying to get laid?”
He threw his head back with laughter. “Olivia,” his fingers skimmed my neck, “you should know by now that I have smoother moves than that.”
