Not wanting to sully the moment, you push back into Heather, knocking her over a little bit. But due to the centripital force of the ride, she smacks right back into you. This time your hip pops.
"What's wrong, grandpa? Break your hip?" Heather mocks, obviously having a blast.
"At least I have a hip!" Wait, where did that come from? I didn't know you were capable of snappy comebacks.
Heather fake frowns. "My butt may be small, but I can still do this!" She grabs onto the safety bar holding you two in, and heaves as hard as she can. She manages to pull her way up to the other side of the carriage, and she grins mischeviously. Before you can say anything, she lets go just as the ride changes direction and flings herself into you. Hard.
She lands in your lap, and you grunt in pain. However, you can't stop laughing, and neither can Heather. The ride ends with the two of you kissing, Heather's hair making it look like the two of you were sharing a bag on your heads.
The ride operator kicks you out, so the two of wander around, arms around each others' waists. On your way back to Heather's car, she sees a fun house.
She slaps your chest. "Oh, oh, Default! Let's go in there!"
"But I thought it was time for us to leave." You say, although you know you two aren't leaving yet. You wouldn't have it any other way.
"They'll kick us out when they close. Come on!"
Heather runs to the entrance, dragging you since you can't exactly run that fast. It starts out in a hall of mirrors, where Heather separates herself from you and runs on ahead. After a while, you're lost inside the mirrors and can't see any sign of Heather. You consider giving up and going outside to wait on her.
"Hey Default," Heather coos in a sultry voice. "If you find the real me we can make out in the spinning tunnel."
Incentive found. You charge into one of the mirrors, which now all have a version of Heather on them. Apparently glass is hard. You bounce backward onto your butt, the mirror barely even scuffed.
Heather giggles and in a singsong voice says, "Heather and Default, playing at the fair. K-I-S-S-I-N-G."
In your desperate attempt to find the real Heather, you run headfirst into fourteen more mirrors. Each time Heather laughs. After the fifth one, she started saying "warmer" or "colder" just to mess with you.
When you finally find the real Heather (because you can actually wrap your arms around her and not hit a flat wall), she pecks you on the lips and runs away, further into the fun house.
"Catch me if you can!"
"Hey!" You yell. "Get back here!"
"You'll have to catch me first!" You hear pounding metal; Heather running up the stairs. You follow the noise, and you find her wading through a ball pit on the second floor.
"Gotcha!" You shout as you dive for her. You fall into the ball pit, only managing to scrape her back with the tip of your fingers.
"Not quite." You hear the shuffling of the balls around you, but you managed to get a good grip on her ankle. She shrieks as she trips and falls underneath the surface of the brightly colored balls.
"Come here, you," you say as you pull her closer to you. You can feel her struggling, although it only appears to be a playful struggle and not her actually trying to get away. When your faces are level with each other, she's beaming from ear to ear.
"Hi."
"Hi."
She kisses you hard, throwing her arms around your neck and pulling you close. It almost hurts she's pushing so hard. But you aren't about to say anything.
After several minutes, you both find yourselves gasping for breath. You also come up out of the ball pit when you remember where you are.
"I told you we'd make out in the spinning tunnel, not in the ball pit," Heather says, pouting.
You look her in the eyes, somehow not awkward for the first time in your life.
"Then let's go."
You rush to the spinning tunnel, where you almost immediately trip and fall over, and Heather jumps on top of you, planting a big one on you. As the tunnel spins, so do the two of you, neither of you on top of the other for more than a few seconds.
You're so enraptured by Heather that you don't even notice all of the people around you making noises of disgust and the two workers trying to stop you.
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