Dead Inside 2 ~ Alive again

Patton

It's my birthday! Logan says we are going to a water park today! It will be so much fun! I put on a t-shirt over my torso to cover up a bit more whilst we get there.

"You ready to go?" Virgil asks, knocking on the door.

"Yeah!" I call back grabbing my hat and placing it on my head. Roman is stood holding a bag of towel and Virgil has a bag filled with water bottles, "Where's Logan?"

"He went to call a cab," Virgil says. We walk outside and Virgil locks up. Logan is stood on the curb with another bag. What's in that one?

"Hiya, hun," I smile and hug Logan from behind whilst resting my chin on his shoulder.

"Hi, sweetheart," Logan moves his head and kisses my cheek, "Are you excited?"

"I am!" I grin as the cab pulls up. We all get in and 10 minutes later, we arrive.

"Where do you want to go first, Patton?" Roman asks.

"What about log flu?" I say pointing to it on the map they gave us at the front desk.

"That looks fun!" Roman nods and we begin to walk to the ride. We queue up for a few minutes and soon the four of us are on the ride; me at the front then Logan then Virgil and lastly Roman. The ride slowly climbs the ramp until we stop at the top. I whoop loudly and after 10 seconds the ride plummets down the steep slope, all of us excepts Logan screaming and laughing.

"Oh my Gosh!" I laugh as we get off the ride and look at all of us. We are all soaked from head to toe. I grab Logan's hand and pull him to look at our photo.

"Logan and Virgil look so scared," Roman laughs.

"Shut up," Virgil says, but he's smiling.

"Have you two never been to a water park?" Roman asks.

"Never." Logan shakes his head.

"I grew up in the 15 and 16 hundreds, what do you think?" Virgil raised an eyebrow.

"Do you want to buy it?" Logan asks me.

"I'll pay for it," I smile.

"No, I'll pay," Logan says, reaching for his wallet which was tucked away in a waterproof pocket.

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"¿Qué te gustaría pedir?" The lady at the food stand asks.

"Tres porciones de patatas fritas, por favor," Roman answers. It's good he's here or we would be lost. The lady nods and we take a seat after paying.

"When did you learn to speak Spanish?" I ask.

"My dad's from Spain. We normally talk in English but occasionally we'll talk in Spanish to piss off my mum and sister." Roman shrugs.

"Would you be able to - I never thought I would say this - teach me how to speak Spanish?" Logan asks, "School Spanish taught me nothing useful and I can't find a good teacher online."

Roman smirks, "You really want me to teach you how to do something?"

Logan sighs. He's never gonna here the end of this, "Yes."

"Tres porciones de patatas fritas?" A waiter calls.

"Sí!" Roman calls. The waiter places the chips on the table, "Gracias."

"Where do you want to go next?" I ask as Roman, Logan and I tuck in.

"What if we go to this one," Roman points at it on the map with a chip. It's huge even when it's shrunk down onto the paper. It's a giant cobra and supposed to be the biggest one in Europe.

"Ooh, that looks fun... also kinda scary." I shrug looking at it. You can kind of see the top of it from where we are sat. It's orange and black and you can see the top of the green-yellow eyes too.

"Are you okay, Virgil?" Logan asks. Roman and I turn to look at Virgil. He's staring at the photograph from the log flu earlier on.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Virgil doesn't look up when he answers.

"What's wrong?" Roman asks.

"Something's off with the photo, but I can't put my finger on what."

"May I take a look?" Logan asks. Virgil passes the photo to Logan over the table. After a few minutes of nervously eating at chips and watching Logan examine the photo, lifting his glasses up occasionally to get a closer look, he passes it back to Virgil, "I can see what you mean, but there doesn't seem to be anything there."

Virgil sighs and waits quietly as the three of us finish our chips or at least as many of them as we can. When Roman is placing his finger to the last bits of salt on his plate and I'm chasing the last few chips around mine, we decide to start making our way to the ride. We sit and watch people fly down the slopes of the ride for an hour before joining the queue. There were a lot of stares leading up to the top of the ride. It actually looks quite similar to a skateboard park. You sit at the top of one side of the curve in an inflatable boat with your friends, then they push you out and you slide up either side until you lose all momentum and stop in the middle at the bottom. When we get to the top, Virgil looks like he's about to be sick.

"Are you ok?" Roman asks his boyfriend placing his hand on Virgil's shoulder. Virgil nods but doesn't speak as we sit down and get ready to be launched onto the ride.