Then I Met You by Dunn Matt

Author:Dunn, Matt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Simon stared at Lisa as she marched across the park for the umpteenth time, though with a fair bit of admiration. She’d plainly hated that first ride, so he’d asked ‘What’s next?’ – sure she’d say ‘Home’ or something similar. Instead she’d led him on a loop of the funfair to check out the rest of the attractions, then picked a ride called Pendulum, which looked even scarier than the one they’d just been on.

So he’d allowed himself to be strapped into the seat next to her, prepared for the bones in his other hand to be crushed, and braced himself as the ride gathered momentum, swinging – and eventually suspending – them some hundred or so feet above the ground. But while Lisa (along with the ride’s other passengers) had screamed her head off again, this time she’d kept her eyes open, even when they were upside down. And, even though he’d offered it, she’d left his hand un-held – and therefore uncrushed.

They’d jumped off Pendulum and made straight for Pinball X, where the two of them were thrown around in a manner befitting the ride’s name, and Lisa’s screams of terror turned into ones of delight, so much so that as soon as they got off, she made them rejoin the queue and ride the thing again. From there, it had been Dreamland Drop, a ride that lived up to its name when Simon lost most of the loose change from his pockets (he’d wondered why a group of young boys had been hanging around underneath when they were plainly too small to go on it, but when he saw them scrabbling around on the ground for his coins as he sat, helpless, a hundred feet above them, he got it). Lisa’s whoop of combined terror and excitement as they were catapulted upwards had made him laugh, though, and he’d had to remind himself he wasn’t supposed to be enjoying himself.

Then he’d suggested they ride the Scenic Railway, which Lisa had complained was too sedate but Simon had insisted. It was a classic, he’d reminded her. The only original thing left in the park. They couldn’t possibly miss out on it. Though in reality, he didn’t really care about that. He just needed a break from being thrown around.

‘Slow down!’ he called after her, but Lisa just beckoned for him to keep up.

‘The park closes at six!’

Simon checked his watch as he jogged after her: half past five. ‘Thank god!’ he muttered under his breath.

‘I heard that!’

‘Sorry.’

‘No, you’re not.’

‘I am! Sorry you heard it, that is,’ he said, falling into step alongside her. ‘Okay. Onwards and upwards – for the next thirty minutes, at least, then photos. Then . . .’ Simon stopped talking. They both knew what ‘then’ meant, and he found himself strangely saddened by the prospect of saying goodbye.

‘Fine.’ Lisa narrowed her eyes and nodded at their destination. ‘Dreamcatcher.’

‘What on earth is that?’

‘Hard to describe, really.’ The ride was next to the first one

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