My Innocent Roommate

Lotte World (1)

"Life is like an amusement park, you have only a limited time to enjoy. So, play all the rides before the time ends."
-Divya Manikumar

I hate roller coasters. A lot.
Why do people love them so much?
I mean, what's so fun and enjoyable about a roller coaster?
It's tall, it has steep drops and sharp turns...it looks more like a nope coaster to me.
TaKe ThE RollEr CoAsTeR, they said!
It'll Be FuN, they said!
I rather get sick off the tea cup ride...okay, maybe not.
After I turn off the Discovery channel, Juno suddenly enters the living room, smiling as he held something behind his back.

"Mackenzie~ Guess what I got~"
(*^^*)

"If it's coupons for free food, I'll take some~"

I giggled as I wait for his surprise.
Juno shakes his head before showing me what he had:
Two tickets to...huh?

"I got us two tickets to Lotte World! Surprise!"
(*^▽^*)

"Eh?! Those must've been very expensive! How'd you get them?"
(。･o･｡)

"Don't worry about it, all I want is to make you happy! Come on! You're going to love it!"

Juno urges as he pulls my hand, dragging me out the door and soon, we were on a subway going straight to the amusement park.
While Juno was gazing out the window as we wait for our stop, I then received a notification on my phone.
I glance down and my eyes then narrowed at the message on the screen:

Happy Birthday buddy buddy buddy!
-Val

Ah yes, I had forgotten that it was already September...and it was my birthday today.
But Juno didn't know that.
Because I didn't tell him.
I quickly turn off my phone before Juno turns to me, smiling.

"We're almost there!"
(*^▽^*)

"Ah...okay okay"

I replied with a sad smile that Juno didn't seem to notice.
Few minutes later, we got off the subway and followed the signs showing the directions to Lotte World. We then stop by the counter to turn in our tickets.
Once me and Juno passed the turnstiles and go up the escalator, I felt my legs turn to jelly as my heart began to race the more farther we went up the escalator to get to our destination.
I was only excited because I haven't been to an amusement park in so long...not because coincidentally today was my birthday.
We then see a bright light on the other end, we were getting close...I brace myself, waiting to see what kind of place I was getting myself into.
Juno then covered my eyes with his hands, causing me to gasp at his sudden actions.

"J-Juno?!"

"Get ready to have some fun Mackenzie~ I promise you that I'm going to make this the best day ever!"
(*^^*)

I gulp as I wait a few seconds which felt like hours as I felt the escalator continuing up and up. I then felt Juno's breath in my ear, causing me to shudder.

"On the count of three...one...two...three!"

He then takes his hands off my eyes and I quickly cover them back up again due to the bright light that hit me. Then when I opened them, I gasped at the beautiful sight in front of me...
I have always thought that Lotte World was a small amusement park.
Was I so wrong.
Lotte World was actually HUGE, like a sports arena!
A glass dome covered most of the ceiling above the park, the sun's rays shining down upon us as it casted a natural light for the park.
Because it was decent weather today, some of the glass panels were opened to let a cool breeze flowing into the park.
There were many attractions in the park like a carousel and bumper cars and in the middle was an ornamental castle floating above an ice-skating rink two floors below!
This honestly had to be the most coolest park I have ever seen, maybe even better than Disneyland.
Scratch that, it IS better than Disneyland because Juno had told me that the tickets were actually cheap!
Disneyland, you better take good notes on pricing because this place has more visitors than you!
Juno smiles as he then grabs my hand, our fingers intertwining.