'Liseberg,' Kuri-chan had said during club cleaning day. Well, compared to the pictures she showed them this was nothing like the Liseberg both Kuri-chan and Urufu-kun knew from their previous life.
This park was much larger and they had spent a respectable amount of time on public transport to get here. Where Liseberg looked like a fairytale forested town the park they were about to enter seemed strangely clinical with tarmac and concrete instead of the ever present greenery the Swedish amusement park sported.
The maniacs responsible for Liseberg had placed that park near the city centre. Visitors walked there. If Urufu-kun could be believed.
He also claimed that an international capacity athletics stadium and a major indoor stadium were placed pretty much at leisure walking distance from the centre of the city as well. Everyone knew those kind of buildings were always erected in the outskirts, if even that close. Urufu-kun could be unreliable that way.
"So, are we going in?"
Noriko got seven nodding heads in return. Wada-san and Taniguchi-san had chosen to enjoy their company today.
They had been showered by a sudden downpour on their way here, but right now it was only overcast. Sunday, May 22. A dating day. Spring of her life.
Kyoko-chan and Yu-kun are closer to dating than I am, and those two don't even have the brains or eyes to see what the rest of the club, everyone in 3:1 and 6:1, and probably half the prefecture has known for a while now.
By now it wasn't even painful to watch any longer. You stopped caring for clowns when they hurt themselves for the umpteenth time.
Amusement park. Amusing for six of them at least. Noriko looked at her idiot brother.
Make that seven. You know you're not supposed to drool that way. We'll need a leash for you.
She paid for a day pass at the booth, as did the rest of them, and they were inside the gates. Behind her the parking space grew smaller and smaller until it was only a partial backdrop on the other side of the multiple gates feeding the park.
"I have a schedule for the rides," Ryu announced proudly.
Noriko stared at an ice-cream parlour rather than let anyone see her face. Of course you have.
Getting here woke memories in her. Not from this place, because it was the first time she was here, but from a much smaller park just outside Suzuka Circuit. The smell of hot tarmac was the same.
"Bet the ferris wheel is last on that list. Can't miss that scene just before the end of the episode." Yu-kun pinpointed exactly why her idiot brother Ryu was wrong in so many ways.
"Ferris wheel scene?" Urufu-kun asked.
"Man, not funny. You two," Yu-kun stabbed a finger at Urufu-kun and Kuri-chan each, "aren't allowed to pretend you don't know. Taniguchi-san and Wada-san are excused if they feel embarrassed."
And only one out of two couples have the decency to blush. Kuri-chan, Urufu-kun, you must have done amusement parks as love birds in your respective earlier lives!
Kuri-chan shrugged and grabbed hold of Urufu-kun's left arm. She pointed frantically ahead and Noriko had a visual of a puppy drooling with excitement. "Roller-coaster! Joining me?"
"Hang on, Christina, let's see what the others want first," Urufu-kun suggested.
Kuri-chan gave him a stare of dislike in return. Or rather his clothes, Noriko guessed. She couldn't fathom what had made him wear that.
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Transition and Restart, book one: Arrivals
Teen FictionUlf Hammargren transits from one world to another, from Sweden to Japan and from the peak of his career to his high school body. He must rebuild his life and live with memories that never were. He must find himself again, find friends again and mayb...
