the reader and the writer (On Hold)

9. how did we get here?

I'm writing at a time that isn't ridiculously late at night. How strange is that?

Yes, the title is a Minecraft achievement. Seemed appropriate tbh.

Tw: gory scenes. Violence.

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Cathy's POV:

So far the day has been amazing. We have 2 activities left to do, and I can't wait to see how it all unfolds.

"So," Jane started, "what should we do now? There's the haunted house experience and the soft play area." Everyone starts discussing what to do next, I couldn't pay attention. There were still waves of adrenaline rushing through me. I'm snapped out of my thoughts when Anne shouts, "yes! Softplay!!!"
I guess we're going to the 14-18 softplay then.

We get into the massive room that holds this play center. I look around this room and everything is so bloody big, things are sized so that teenagers can fit without crouching or crawling throughout the whole thing.

Apparently people who are tall can't go through normal play parks without crawling, at least this is what Jane told me. I just have to bend down a little, although I am only 5'2 so that might have something to do with it.

Anyways, this play park was absolutely massive. Slides everywhere, obstacles sized up to fit the average height of a teenager (from 5'5 to 5'7, I believe). There is a 4'0 deep ball pool, I'm 1'2 taller than it, so that will be fun to get out of. I think I saw a zip line somewhere. There are 2 drop slides and massive pirate ship with those pressured launchers that shoot foam balls. Of course, the pirate ship also had slides and stuff to climb.

Anne immediately got kat and Anna and started running towards the section that isn't the pirate ship.

I followed, speed walking instead of breaking out into a full blown sprint. I passed a hamster wheel kind of thing. When I saw it out of the corner of my eye, I walked back over to it. "Oh my god! It's just like the old one I went on as a kid, but bigger!"

I remember that me and Catherine would stand in these things and run as fast as we could. I always fell because I couldn't run fast enough to keep up, so I just slid along the bottom for about 5 minutes.

I decided while I was looking at it, that I would run in one of these and not fall immediately. I stood inside and started walking to get it started. It went surprisingly fast so I had to start running. Soon enough, I was in a full sprint, that is until I tripped and slid on the bottom as it continued to spin.

"God fucking dammit. Every time."
I was still sat in the wheel, my arms crossed. "You've always been too small for that." I jump at the sudden appearance of my cousin, Catherine.

"Oh my goodness Catherine! Announce yourself before you randomly scare the living shits out of me!" She laughs as I try to catch my breath. I slide out of the wheel and Catherine stands behind me, pushing me to walk with her.

"Where are we going?" I question, being blindly lead around this massive place.
"Up." Catherine bluntly replied.
"Wow. So very helpful." I stated sarcastically.

We climbed up to the top where there were these massive rope bridges going from one side of the U shaped softplay.
"Catherine..." I always hated these bloody rope bridge things. Too high up, they don't feel sturdy.
"Cathy, you faced your fear of the heights in climbing. Now you face this fear." I looked down. The floor was so far.

"No." I said, stepping back. Catherine walked onto the bridge. "Alright. Stay here. I'll be back soon." I did stay on the platform. There where mini zip lines that just stayed on that platform so I just sent myself flying on those.
A few minutes later I saw Catherine coming up to the top of the platform, the same way we got up the first time, with Jane. I knew what was going on. I immediately felt my body fill with fear. I am not touching that rope bridge.