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Chapter 7: Make our own fairy tale

Chapter 7:

"I'm going to make my own fairy tale"

The sound of their voices debating each other is really upset me. But she has to know the truth. I take my backpack and put my cellphone in my pocket. I open my bedroom window and step outside. I close the window again, and get out. I climb the tree in the middle of the night and throw my bag to the ground then climb down the tree. I take my bag and run away through the empty street. I can't believe I actually do this. My adrenaline rushes as the cold night air this my skin.

I ran about 10-15 minutes until I'm arrived at the forest that Lexa was talking about. It's only for a couple of days. You'll be okay. A voice says in my head. "Aiden Chris!" I saw Lexa going towards my direction. She wear a beanie and a grey sweater "Hey, Lex. Where is Sam?" "He went home, because he thought you weren't coming." "Oh, okay" She sees the bag that I'm holding on my hand, "What is the bag for?" "I-uh" "Do you want to tell me something? And what's with the 'I'm going to make my own fairy tale' thing?" She said while imitating my voice. "I kind of ruined something up. I saw my dad cheating with another women and I told my mom about it and they got into a fight, so I runaway from home." She seems surprised, "WHAT? You actually did that?" I show her my backpack as a proof that I'm not lying. "You actually did that! Well someone is actually trying to make their own fairy tale." "Beside, it's only for a couple of days. It won't make any harm. I don't even think that they will be looking for me." "So, are you serious you're going to do this?" "Yes. Are you in?" "Duh. So where are we staying at?" She smiles, and my smile got wider.

***

We walk down the street heading to the city. The night is silence with the echoes of our footsteps. "Where are we going now?" Lexa asked, "I don't actually know where" I said awkwardly. She look front to the road, put her hands on her pocket, "Isn't it weird? Two fucked up teenager, wondering around the street, trying to figured out their lives together, with a low-cost money budget?" "It is kind of weird. But they exist." I rose up my shoulders. "Why don't we have a camp inside the forest? It'll be fun, right?" Lexa suggest. "Why don't we stay at a motel?" I suggest. I'm not a really outside environmental person. "But staying in a Hotel or Motel is just an ordinary vacation. Make this one special." Lexa says. Something come up from my mind, "Why don't we rent one of those minivan for vacation? We can go and ride with it? So it would be profitable." "But, I thought renting a minivan is expensive" She says, I took some money from dad's drawer incase if I will run out of money. "I got extra cash from my dad's drawer. It wont be a big problem." "Whoa, Aiden, what happened to you?" She says surprise, she continues, "So, how about, you take care of the transportation, and I will take care of the food and other stuff. Like tickets," She suggests. "Tickets? Tickets for what?" I asked. She answered, "I don't know, like go to a theme park or something" We keep talking about what are we going to do in the next few days of our runaways. A couple minutes more from walking, we go find a taxi and headed to the city.

***

"One room for 2?" "No, N-no two rooms for two people, we're not a c-couple" I said awkwardly. "No, it's okay, we'll take 1 room for 2, please." I looked at Lexa confused, "A room for two? We're going to sleep in the same room?" I asked, "We need to save our money. I can sleep on the couch, if you want?" she said simply. "No, I'll sleep on the couch. It's okay-" "WHAT. Room." The women impatiently ask for the room order. "One room for two"

In the morning, we go searching for a minivan rental. "It's really hot today." I said. My cheek and forehead are a little bit sweaty. I looked at Lexa and she keeps wearing that beanie since yesterday. "It's summer, Aiden Chris. Of course the weather is hot" she said, "why do you keep wearing a beanie anyway? The weather is really hot for this kind of time. Your hair will got moist" I asked. She suddenly become quite. "I just love wearing my beanie. It's cute right?" she smiled. We walk around dozens of minivan to find which minivan we would want to pick. "What about this one?" Lexa show me a white minivan with orange stripes on it, "That one is a good choice, but what about this one?" I said while showing her a half white and half red minivan. We go into a lot of minivan choices, and we ended up picking the blue and white minivan. "i LOVE this one!" Lexa got in to the minivan and look around. "Yeah, I like this one too. Do you want to rent this one?" "Sure"

We finally take the white and blue minivan and buy it.

We drive all around the city and we decided where do we want to go.

"Let's go to Disneyland" Lexa said. "That is actually a great idea" We book the ticket online. It's almost full since it's summer now. But we finally got it. We drive to Orlando and finally go to Disneyland.

***

"I can't believe we actually go here" Lexa said, while examining the big fantasy world in front of us. She continues, "This is like my dream when I was a child." While me, I went here three times and Lexa, this is her first time go here. "I really hope that we can bring Kaitlin to come. She will be so happy" Lexa said.

We go to the entrance and the security check our bags and we gave them the ticket. "Welcome, and have fun!" the women said to us. "Thank you"

There are so many people here. From kids, to teenagers, to adults. We look around us and the place is so big. I think they add a couple of some new attraction here, since the last time I went here. Food trucks everywhere with Disney logo on it, gift shops, children cheering with pink and blue cotton candy in their hands, and don't think me as freak, but it smells like candy everywhere here. I'm not even making that up. "Look, some one is doing a wedding photo shoot" she said while pointing to the couple in white. "I want to get married here someday." She said with her eyes glimmering, looking at the view. "Yeah, but it would be weird right? To have a wedding photo shoot in a crowded place and roller coaster on the background?" "Who cares about the background view. What matters is what makes it special, right? Photo is just a photo in the end, so what makes it special is the memories." "Hey, did you realize that we just enter our world of fantasy?" I said, she look at me and widen her eyes, "Lets make some fantasy."

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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" i can feel my stomach twirling and my face has been ripped off by the wind. The roller coaster keeps going up and down without stopping. "Here comes the loop," Lexa said while squinting her eyes. Some guy at the back keeps saying, "HELL YEAH!" and a couple of people keep shouting. Here comes the loop. My body suddenly gets pulled back to the roller coaster because of the increasing speed. But in 180 degrees circle, my head suddenly get pulls up but my body keep get down. It's like you're in the middle in a mixed gravities.

"God I feel sick."