The Hart Game

Chapter Nineteen

CASSIE

       

"You were actually being serious?" Luke says as I parked the car in the Goofy section of the parking lot for Disneyland. He's been quiet until I turned into the parking lot. Since the talk I had with Dean, we came up with ideas of to how I can make someone fall in love with me. And I'm the devil for even thinking that. But I need to win this. I can't go the rest of my life with the responsibilities of being the biggest Mafia boss in the US. I can't.

    "Yes. My Mom used to bring me and Christian here whenever we had a bad day." I say. What was weird, was that when I mentioned my Mom, it was more of a happy feeling than the feeling of my heart tightening. I guess with Luke here with me, helped with that. Focus Cass!

    "Really?" He asks as he makes his way to me from the other side of the car. I take his hand, interlacing our fingers together and dragging him to the trolley things that brings people from the parking lot to the Park entrance.

    "Yeah. I used to love coming here. And I thought, since we had a sorta bad day, that we would come here. I would've asked Cameron and Dean but it seems that they aren't on speaking terms right now." I say looking down feeling bad that we both had left our best friends at school. I guess Luke noticed cause he turned to me putting his hand to my chin to lift it so I was looking at him.

    "Like, I said. They will be fine. Dean just needs to be patient and to not push Cameron. He'll come around when he realizes that he doesn't need to be afraid." He says before placing a small sweet kiss to my lips, causing the butterflies to erupt like a tornado. And I'm pretty sure I'm red as a tomato. "Come on, our ride is here."

    I couldn't get this stupid grin off my face through out the whole ride to the entrance. We had made it through the entrance, getting Park Hopper VIP tickets. I hate waiting in line. We had decided to go the Disneyland side first.

    "So, Princess. What are we doing first?" He asks. I tried to think about what my favorite ride was, every time my Mom brought me here. A smirk comes to my face and I'm literally dragging Luke to my favorite ride. Mad Hatter spinning tea cups.

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    Hours later and we've been on every ride here at Disneyland and California Adventures. We've taken pictures with a bunch of Disney characters. And we stuffed our faces with a bunch of popcorn and cotton candy and everything we can get our hands on that looked delicious. It was getting really late, but I didn't want to leave yet. We were just walking around the park, enjoying the nightlife of this popular amusement park. Our hands entwined with each others, walking in comfortable silence.

     "Have you ever wanted to ask something but too scared to ask it?" Luke says once we get to a good place to watch the World of Colors show. I look up towards him and he's looking anywhere that isn't my eyes. I could see the nervousness in his expression.

    "Is there something that you need to ask someone?" I ask. He finally looks towards me and I see that he wanted to ask me something. I can still see the nervousness. We are silent for a moment, until he breaks it again.

    "What are you doing after graduation?" That wasn't the question I was hoping for. Should I tell him about Oxford? I was thinking for a moment and it looked like he was battling a inner argument. After a moment, I decide to answer his question.

    "I've got accepted to all the colleges I applied for. But I've only ever wanted to go to one."

    "Which one?" He asks suddenly interested.