Panting heavily and out of breath, Wams collapsed atop a grass-sewn hill, with her hair so dark and midnight-colored it stuck out so blatantly from the eye-straining lights of the Ferris Wheel behind her.
Wams had the audacity to look back at April and glare, "Hey, April!" she jeered, "Guess which ass has the pleasure of losing today!"
April snapped her head over to Wams locked her vicious eyes on her before she started galloping up the hill with such vigor that Wams flinched. As clawed her way through grass blades and bramble with the scent of murder in her flaming eyes, Wams backed away, with her broken legs and failing posture – with her smile sore and bleeding from laughter.
But when April made it up the hill, she rammed right past Wams, and jumped right into one of the Ferris Wheel pods.
"That sorry-ass loser," April snickered, "Would be you! I made it first!"
Wams looked at her with her eyes so panicked and her mouth clumsy with words. "Oh my god," she gasped, "You're nothing but evil." She heaved herself upright, her legs now royally suffocated by activity and strain, she could feel her bones and the blood whisking beneath her skin.
Just then, the intercom turned on, "Strap in, everybody!" it said, "Ferry the Ferris Wheel is gonna start spinning, so buckle up, and countdown with me! 10, 9, 8..."
"Oh crap" April muttered, then snapped her head back to Wams, "WAMS!" she exclaimed, "GET OVER HERE!"
5, 4, 3...
Wams shot back up with her heels aching with erraticism and piercing pain, then she barged forward toward the pod, which was already starting to move.
April reached out her hand, 2, 1, 0...
Wams took a hold of it, their fingers intertwined once more. The Ferris Wheel started moving upward, and Wams struggled to lug her pencil-thin form up to the platform.
"Holy..." April jutted after helping Wams up, "Ok, holy crap, we're never doing that again."
Wams legs were practically screaming from the fact that her legs like bendy pool noodles, "At least," she let out a pained giggle, "We're finally here."
April helped Wams up to the seat beside her, "Yep," she goaded jocularly, "Now you have all the time in the world, to... think, about... stuff."
"Don't test me." Wams hissed.
"Ok, old man" April sneered, leaning back against the seat.
For a while, it went silent. There was that soft undulation below the girls, the ferris wheel reeling itself toward the sky. The stars from up here almost seemed touchable. The void that they stared at somehow felt full; felt alive.
Wams marveled at the abyss that stretched throughout the multiverse. Glitter sparks splattered, littered, across so spontaneously it almost seemed toddler-made. She could almost feel the weight of all those syzygies lost in space – the endless supplies of nebulas and galaxies.
Wams wondered, how long would it take to travel to the world where you were mine?
Then, what she did next, she couldn't control. She didn't anticipate this happening – not tonight, not ever. Absentmindedly, her head fell drowsily onto April's shoulder, cheek leaned against her hair. The blushing spreading like an infection across her face. Wams didn't move, and April didn't either.
None of them spoke, no matter how much Wams felt like exploding in a burst of a billion mumbles and screams, it was silent. Then suddenly, April grinned and clasped Wams' shoulder, pulling her in closer in a sort of embrace.
Leaned on each other, lifting their heads to stargaze upon the lights of eternity and the lights of a glowing bright Ferris Wheel. Wams didn't know why she did this, but it was far too late to back out now. Not when the night was as perfect as this – not when the stars finally aligned in her favor. Maybe she didn't have to travel the universe after all – maybe the world she wanted ever so longingly wasn't that far out of reach.
At the peak of the ride, the highest altitude the Ferris Wheel could reach, Wams turned away from the abyss and looked at April.
"I love you." Wams whispered nearly inaudibly. But April heard every single syllable.
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I'll Reach into Eternity
RomanceWams feels empty and lost after that incident. But that was a week ago, and to keep moving forward, she'll look into eternity. She has to be there, floating among the stars. Where else could she be? Maybe she's out there - in the void - inside the...
