The Bad Boy

Chapter 156

Harry's P.O.V.

Stephanie is holding my hand. Yes, she's dragging me towards the carousel like an 8 year old girl while she's doing it, but she's still doing it.

Stephanie drags me into a never ending line that wraps around the entirety of this ginormous carousel. I'll justify her excitement a little by how fast these fish are moving. As I look a little closer, I notice that there's always only one person per fish...that totally shits on my romantic carousel ride idea. With my luck, we'll end up on fish that are at different ends of the carousel and are on completely different tracks...

Stephanie interrupts the complaining I was doing in my head by saying, "This is so cool Harry!"

I turn and look at her. The sun has now completely set now, so the only light is coming from the glowing fish. It casts her in a pale, blue light and she looks beautiful.

"I'm glad you're excited." I reply.

"Oh my gosh, am I!" She smiles widely. "Wait, you are going to ride this too, right? Please tell me you won't just stand there, you'll actually get on the ride and enjoy it."

"I'm going to get on one of the stupid fish." I concede. Honestly, if she'd have asked me to go up, break a fish off the carousel, and then carry it back to her apartment for decoration... I would have done it in a heartbeat.

"Yay!" She smiles. After she speaks, a group of riders get off the carousel and another group goes on, making us among the next horde of riders.

We were still holding hands until the line moved forward, but when she rushes up to the front of our new position in the line, she releases my hand. When I catch up to her, on the other side of the circle near the ticket booth, she's hopped up to sit on the top of the metal railing separating the different rungs of the line.

I lean back against the railing next to her. We wait in silence, watching the colorful fish 'swim' by. Stephanie is infatuated, and in all honesty, I watch her face more than the fish. Soon enough, the line moves up more and we're ushered through the gate, and past the ticket booth where I pay $10 for the two of us. Stephanie is too busy choosing a fish to argue with me this time.

I'm about to get on a giant f****** fish and ride it around like a horse. Yay.