Colossal Damage

3. Breath

"Rollercoaster !" London bounces on the balls of her feet .

Remember this is the same person from this morning who refused to come out of bed .

"Nope ." Carter and I say in union . I look at him and raise my brow .

"What ? I may ride a motorcycle ; however I am not that much of an adrenaline junky ." I just shrug and watch my sister in the long queue .

"And plus I watched Final Destination too many times ." Carter nudges me , and I giggle .

"Well if thats the case , you don't suppose we should exchange the I love you's before she hops on ." What ? I have a sense of humor .

"Nah she will be good ."

"Ncaww look my two favourite people are getting along ." London shouts from the front of the queue now .

"Its not like we have a choice ." I mutter .

"Take a video of me !" London screams as she hops into the red cart .

I begin to take out my phone when Carter pulls me away .

"The video ?"

"Eh ."

He takes my hand and threads our fingers . I snort and unwrap my fingers from his .

"In your dreams ." I smirk as I skip ahead of him towards the candy floss stand .

"Crate pleaseeeee buy me candy floss  ." I pull London's signature puppy dog eye look .

"Its so much cuter when you do it ." I almost don't hear him say it over the sound of the clicking of the rides , screams and music , because he whispers it to himself . But I hear it .

He clears his throat , "fine ."

"Yay I bounce like a small child ."

"Pink or blue ?"

"Pink obviously , who eats blue candy floss ?" I think its absard and so unorigisard. Candy floss is supposed to be pink .

"A lot of people actually ." He retorts .

"Do tell Mrs Pink Cotton Candy ."

"It was originally pink , why change it ? Might as well change its name while you at it . I mean I hate the colour pink , however its who the cotton candy is ." I firmly state , waiting patiently for the man to finish wrapping the pink clouds around the stick .

"Should we get one for London ?" He calls himself her best friend .

"No she hates it ."

I thank Carter and the sweet old man when I see he made mine extra large . All the little kids who pass me , give me the stink eye .

Carter and I walk side by side both munching from the sugary cloud , back towards the Rollercoaster  to fetch London .

We walk towards the exit and there on the big screen is my sister all in her windy glory. Her hair is sprawled all over her face which is contoured into one of disgust . The picture has a lovely background because the  person in the cart behind hers decorated the air with his breakfast . Carter and I burst out into fits of laughter .

"So glad we chose to be afraid of the ride ." This makes me almost choke on the dissolved sugary heaven in my mouth .

London , however  comes all pouty off the ride marching straight at me .

"I told you to take a video ! Now the only evidence I have that I went on this stinking ride is my puke hair and this ugly picture thanks to you . All because you decided to go on a little walk to calorie- ville to gain unnecessary calories to add to your  -" Carter did not have to cut her off . I already knew the ending of that sentence . When she yanks the candy floss from my hand and throws it in the bin and stomps her way to the restrooms , I look anywhere but up .

I'm fat according to society when they compare London and I . I have a double chin , a lower belly pouch which I call my spare tyre and flabby arms . Whereas London is pure muscle because of being a cheerleader .

"You okay ." Carter lifts my chin . I meet his eyes and give him a small nod .

"Yeah ."

"You should not let her talk to you -" I cut him off mid sentence .

"Its fine , sorry you had to see that ." I shrug it off . She does this all the time but has never done this infront of Carter .

"Does she do this all the time ?" He questions , but before I can give a reply London strides her way towards us .

"I'm hungry ," she smiles sweetly at us as if nothing happened . She is not bipolar , if you are wondering . And she is nice ... when we are just the two of us .

London leads the way and pulls Carter along with her while I walk behind her .She managed to get a good amount of puke chunks out of her hair .

My phone vibrates in my pocket before it rings . I smile when I see who it is .

"Hi babe !" A huge smile takes it place on my face .

"Hey , why so enthusiastic ?" Daron chuckles into the phone . Gosh ! I love his laugh .

"Well if your hot boyfriend was calling you , would you not be exited ?" I hear him laugh again .

"I'm home  and I was wondering if  we could meet up around about five . We need to talk ." This is me ignoring the seriousness in his tone when he says the last four words .

"I thought you were only going to be back next weekend ."

"Yeah , I was . So meet at five at my house ?"

"Okay , see you then . Love ya !"

Before I get a reply he cuts the call .

Deep breath in . Deep breath out .

You've been together for two years now . There is no way he is breaking up with you . Calm down .

I put my phone back into my pocket and catch up to London and Carter .

London stops at a stall that sells bracelets .

Immediately , the plain silver chain catches my eyes . I reach for it , however London's hands  beat me to it . Before I know it she has paid for and its on her wrist .

London hates silver , she is clearly still mad at me .

I take the lead and lead us to a corn dog and hot dog stand . London's two favourite foods .

As soon as she steps near the stand and gets a good whiff her face makes a look of disgust . Next she is running towards a nearby trash can where she throws up . I hold my breath and pull her damp hair out of the way ignoring the look of fine chunks of  someones food in it .

Carter comes with a bottle of water and hands it to London which she gladly takes to rinse her mouth .

"I hate the smell of corn dogs ." She croaks .

"Pizza ?" Carter asks , London nods .

"Not having pizza ?" I know its silly , but after London makes one of her stupid comments about my body I kind of get put off food .

"Nah ." I shake my head and check the time .

4:30 .

Where has time gone today ?

"Hey can you guys drop me off at Daron's ?" They both give me a questioning look .

"His home early ."

"Carter can take you , I need a nap ."

"Sure , not like I have anything better to do ." He glares at London .

"Oh please ! Going home to lay around in bed is not any better ."

"I can go myself after I drop Carter off ." I suggest .

"Thank you . Mrs big mouth are you not going to lay around in bed ?" He retorts .

"I have a car , you don't . So for me its by choice not by must ." She sweetly smiles at him .

Carter sighs finishing his last slice of pizza .

"Shall we ?"

"We shall ."

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