Love Story: Thalia and Luke

9

Luke had finally agreed to go to Disney World with Thalia...she had been begging him for ages. Finally he agreed to it under one condition...Thalia had to ride the Tower of Terror and Expedition Everest with him. Thalia agreed to his conditions and hoped that he'd have forgotten by the time they had gotten there.

"Which park are we going to first?" Thalia asked.

"Epcot." Luke shrugged, "It seemed like the most boring from what I read."

Thalia punched him, "Disney is not boring."

"We're not standing in line to see all the princesses." Luke said.

"Yes we are now get over it." Thalia rolled her eyes as they waited outside their resort for their bus.

"Just keep in mind that you still have to ride those two rides with me." Luke grinned wickedly.

Thalia nodded, "Whatever."

Thalia ended up with a cool surfer style sweatshirt from Mexico and a pair of light up ears.

The next day they stood waiting for their bus once again. Thalia looked over at Luke, "What park today?"

"Hollywood Studios." Luke replied.

Thalia's stomach did back flips, "What fastpasses did you book?"

"Well our first one is Star Tours....you know the Star Wars ride?" Luke said.

Thalia nodded, "Star Wars is cool."

"The second is the Rockin' Rollercoaster, the Steven Tyler one." Luke said.

"No way." Thalia shook her head.

"It'll prepare you for Expedition Everest. Last but not least we have the Tower of Terror." Luke said waggling his eyebrows.

"Seriously?" Thalia asked.

Luke nodded, "This was part of the conditions. If it makes you feel any better we'll changed the roller coaster and the Tower of Terror around and see how you feel after that."

Thalia nodded, "Fine."

"Cool."

Later that night Thalia and Luke were standing in the line to get onto the Tower of Terror. Thalia was pale as a sheet and Luke couldn't help but chuckle, "Thalia it's going to be ok, you can hold my hand if you need to."

"Whatever." Thalia muttered.

"Besides it only drops once." Luke murmured before kissing the top of her head lightly.

Soon enough they were on the ride and strapped in, Thalia was terrified before the ride even dropped. She held Luke's hand so tightly Luke thought she might cut off all the circulation in it. Finally they got to the drop and as expected Thalia was screaming. When Luke thought it was done they were going back up for another drop...they dropped a total of three or four times and Luke felt a little guilty about dragging Thalia on that ride.

They exited into the little gift shop and Luke looked over at Thalia, "Hey I'll buy you those gloves you wanted earlier at that villain store."

Thalia nodded but didn't say anything, she looked like she was about to throw up.

The next day was the Magic Kingdom where Thalia practically had full reign of what they did. They went on the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, It's A Small World (as requested by Luke), and a bunch of other rides that Luke found mildly amusing.

They watched the parade and the fireworks, they ate dinner at one of the most expensive restaurants, and Luke made sure that he made up for what happened the day before...though he did find that Thalia enjoyed Fantasmic or whatever the show was called.

Finally it was their last park to visit and Luke booked the fastpasses. Thalia looked over at him, "What did you book today?"

"Well you wanted to go see Nemo so there's one, there's the safari, and then lastly Expedition Everest." Luke said. He figured that Thalia could handle it after the Tower of Terror.

"You know that goes backwards right?" Thalia asked.

"No it doesn't." Luke rolled his eyes.

"Yes it does." Thalia argued.

"If it does, you'll be going to see Nemo after it so you can wind down then." Luke smiled.

Finally they were in line for the roller coaster and Thalia once again looked super pale. Luke grabbed her hand and smiled at her, "We're in the middle so it won't be that bad."

Thalia nodded and Luke swore there were tears in her eyes. Now Luke felt a little bad about making her do this.

"You can hold my hand if you want to." Luke whispered.

Thalia shook her head, "I'm fine."

Luke nodded as they got into their car, "Ok then."

It turns out the roller coaster really did go backwards and Luke looked over at Thalia who wore a stony expression the whole time. He decided that maybe, since this was Thalia's first real roller coaster he would buy her something. So once again they exited through a gift shop and Luke bought her a little yeti keychain.

"Are you ok?" Luke asked.

Thalia nodded, "Can we go again?"

Luke chuckled and kissed her softly on the head, "If you want to."