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CHAPTER 15 : AND HE GAVE US A RIDDLE.

Leena's P.O.V.

              -"I'm heading to see what's holding this line up", Max said waving his hand carelessly.

-"Whatever", I said moving the stick in my hand around.

-"Gosh! This is taking forever", groaned Chris, tilting his head backwards.

To explain things to you; after centuries of standing in line, Chris and I got tired of standing, and decided to wait for our undecided fate on the cold, bare ground. I actually think I sprained my leg from over stressing it.

-"There was a problem with the ticket machine or something", Max said, returning after finishing his quest, "And would you two get off the ground please? It's been exactly seven minutes since we arrived."

                - "So the death coaster?", I asked confirming.

-"Duh", replied Max, who was holding onto me for his dear life a few moments later. "I never thought it would be this high"

-"Just close your eyes", I reassured him, while Chris who was seated in front of us seemed to be less than excited because of his partner who kept popping gum balloons nonstop, and so we rode our first ride, before moving around the park, riding almost all the games.

                      Deciding we've been on enough rides, we headed to buy some ice-cream, each holding to the prices we won in our hands. I chose the classic Teddy bear, while the boys, being so mature, chose nerf guns.

-"Just get up from there, boy", a woman's loud voice with a heavy Mexican accent caught our attention, and so we followed it to find ourselves standing within a crowd, watching a fight between a woman in her mid fifties and a kid in a wheelchair.

                    - "But ma'am I assure you, this is my wheelchair, and I definitely didn't take yours", the boy said ever so politely. This continued with the woman screaming at the boy, and him denying her lies politely. And yeah I said lies, because now I remember where I saw this woman before. She was the one who screamed for Lori earlier, and as far as I remember, her wheelchair looked nothing like that.

             Suddenly, a bulky man from the crowd approached the boy, "C'mon boy let's end this", he said trying to move the boy out of his chair, but what surprised me even more was Max's voice that erupted from beside me, catching everyone's attention,

-"They say I'm bad, but woman, you're way worse", and his rude words made me realise that I should say something.

-"How can you be rude to me, boy? Respect your elders!", the woman snapped at Max, who didn't seem affected at all.

                 -"I'm sorry ma'am, but that isn't your wheelchair. I saw yours earlier, and it was different than this one", I tried to reason with her as I noticed Chris approaching the man and the kid. He said something to the man, before kneeling to talk with the kid.

- "Are you calling me a liar now?!"

-"No, I just think you mixed them up"

-"How will I not recognise my own wheelchair?!!!"

               - "Mom!", a familiar voice interrupted our argument, "Are you causing trouble again?" Looks like the woman got some history.

-"This kid took my wheelchair"

-"Your wheelchair is here with me, mama", she pointed out the wheelchair, "I'm sorry for trouble", she apologised to us.