In My Hour of Need

Chapter 17

Two hours later we arrived at this amusement park called "Le Pal". The first thing I saw as I parked was these huge roller coasters. I knew that Junior was going to ask me to join him in all of them. I didn't mind though; I loved roller coasters. Before I could even open the door, Junior was halfway to the gate. I rolled my eyes, but laughed. He was like a little kid. "Come on, come on!", he yelled impatiently, while running backwards in front of me, "We don't have all day!" I just laughed. He didn't expect me to run, did he? But he started pulling my arm, so I just followed him. "Dave, Dave! Join me in that one!", he said, pointing at some loops far away. "Junior, can't we just walk through the park, and when we get there, we'll take it?", I sighed. I wasn't quite in the mood to run back and forth to whatever he found. "Oh, OK", he said, but kept pulling my arm so I would go faster. Honestly I was a little nervous that someone who knew who we were saw us. I knew I shouldn't think about that, but I couldn't help it. I just turned gay yesterday, it's not like it's something that happens every day that I'm used to.

We ended up in the longest line I've ever seen though. Seriously, it was longer than the lines to come into a Queen concert. It was the roller coaster with the loops. I was sure that we had to stand there for hours. I sighed. "Junior, isn't it anything you'd rather do?", I asked. He shook his head. "Nah, come on, we just walked through the entire park to get here!" I sighed once again. At this rate, we weren't going to make it home before over midnight some time, and it was only ‪5 P.M.‬ Wait a second, didn't the park close at like ‪6 P.M.‬!? Goddamnit...

When the line finally ended, and we could hop into the carts, we got told that the park was closing, and we couldn't have a ride with the roller coaster. "What the fuck!?", I exclaimed, "We've waited here all day, won't you just do one more ride!?" Junior was standing behind me, kind of pulling my shirt. "Dave, it's OK, it's not that important..." The guy that ran the roller coaster just glared at me. I turned to Junior. "No, it's not OK!", I complained, "You've waited for this ride all day, and I'm gonna fucking give you the ride today". I had just had it with this guy. I just pushed him aside and hopped into the cart in the front. "Junior, come on!", I said impatiently. He was still standing behind the dude, looking really insecure, afraid to break the rules or something. "Sir, step out of the cart, please", the guy told me. "No, man", I said, "Give us the ride, I demand you to do so". I think he got tired of waiting, so he just sighed and rolled his eyes and went to start it. "Yeah, come on, hop in", he said to Junior, and gestured him to sit next to me. Junior didn't even get to say "thank you", before we were on our way to the first loop.

After the ride, we started walking back to the car. "Dave, thanks for doing that", Junior told me, "It was really sweet". I laughed. "No problem", I said, "I wouldn't let him do that, like, seriously, we were the only ones left". He laughed. It wasn't hard to find our car, because practically everyone had already left. We got in, and Junior looked at me. "What?", I asked. He was completely serious, not even smiling. I didn't start the car, because I thought something was wrong. Then I understood what was going on, and I got serious too. None of us said anything, but we didn't have to. Slowly, I leaned closer to him, and he did the same. Closer, until I was close enough to put my hand behind his neck. I twirled some of his hair with my fingers, and looked down at the dirty floor of the car. Junior looked into my eyes, and then closed his. I guess it was kind of obvious what I was going to do. I closed my eyes too, and softly pressed my lips against his. It was kind of warm, oddly satisfying. I hate to admit it, but hell, I loved it. I'm sure he did too.