Christmas Time

Amusement park

London

3rd December 1974

It was 8 in the morning when Freddie decided to wake up John, Roger and Brian. He first woke up John as gently as possible with who he shared the bedroom, then, he went to Brian and Roger's "Goodmorning darlings! Today it's gonna be a beautiful day!" He yelled as noisy as possible... Both Brian and Roger sat up on their bed "Fred, tell me why the hell you're waking us up at 8 am when today we have a free day from recording?" Brian told Freddie, rubbing his forhead. His eyes were sleepy as he hadn't slept last night as always. Roger yawned while stretching himself "First, you don't need to scream. Second, I'm going to fall asleep again, so leave and let me sleep in peace" Freddie put his hands on his hips "You're not going to sleep today sweety because I've prepared the four of us a special surprise!" Roger's sleepy eyes were now shining. He loved surprises "What surprise Fred?" Freddie grinned "You'll find out soon dear, but first, you need to get ready, we're leaving at 10" Roger turned himself to stare at Brian; they smiled at eachother. Brian felt like his heart had skipped a beat; Roger's smile always had that effect on him. "Get ready dear!" Freddie said before leaving.

When Freddie got out their room, Roger got up from his bed and yawned "What do you think Freddie's surprise will be?" Roger gave Brian a questioning look and thought about it a bit. While he was thinking he took a good time to look at Brian. His curly hair were a mess and his eyes were sleepy, but he was still gorgeous "I don't know what Freddie's surprise will be, but I know that it will be something special and amazing. Maybe something exaggerated" Roger replied to Brian who was reluctant to get up since he still felt weary " Yes... He is Freddie, it obviously will be something really exaggerated" The two man burst out laughing "I think you have to get up now Brian. I'm going down stairs, I need something to eat. I'm starving" Roger stretched himself for the last time, smiled at Brian and got out the bedroom.

In the meantime, Freddie and Roger were preparing the kitchen for breakfast. Roger was laying the table, while Freddie was cooking pancakes "Fred, please! Tell me where are we going at 10!" Freddie was singing softly, and he nearly ignored Roger's question, but then he said "I'm not gonna tell you, so, will you please stop asking me?" Roger rolled his eyes; he was now more curious than before. After a while, breakfast was ready. "John! Bri! Breakfast is ready!" Roger shouted. When John and Brian arrived in the kitchen they all sat down and ate breakfast together, talking and making jokes. After they were done eating, they tidied up and got ready to discover Freddie's surprise.

Now it was five minutes to ten, Freddie was waiting for his friends to came down stairs "Darlings! Hurry up!" "Fred we're coming!" John shouted from Brian and Roger's shared room. Then Freddie saw the three of them running down stairs. "Here we are Fred!" "Give me your car keys Roger! I'll drive us to the special place" Roger gave Freddie a glare, he then threw his car keys at Freddie"If you make a single scratch, I'll kill you. Pay attention on what you do Fred" Freddie raised his arms in surrender "I will treat it like a jewel, I promise" Roger was a bit jealous of the fact that Freddie could drive his car, but he needed to deal with it; however, he was going to receive a surprise... They all sat in Roger's car, Freddie was on the driver's seat, John next to Freddie and both Brian and Roger in the passenger seat. Freddie turned on the car and drove for about twenty minutes. Sometimes Roger asked "When will we arrive?" Like those impatient kids, while Freddie was playing the part of the mother "No child, we haven't arrived yet" At some point they heard something familiar at the radio "Is this what I think it is?" Asked John. Brian and Roger looked at each other "THE SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE!" They singed along all the song, really happy to hear their song passing at the radio. But then, they had finally arrived.

"Here we are my darlings!" The four on them got out of the car. Roger eyes became shining "Amusement park!" Freddie began to laugh "Of course Roger, we all deserve it! These are the tickets" Freddie gave a ticket each, and, not even the time for Freddie to finish, that Roger had already gone "Roger! Wait for me!" Brian screamed to make Roger hear him "Brian! Hurry up! I want to go on a rollercoaster!" Brian run to Roger "Please, let me breath a bit now" Brian then, heard Roger laughing "Hurry up I told you!" Brian loved Roger's enthusiasm, but he was already breathless. Suddenly Brian started to walk "Let's go then!" Roger was overwhelmed with excitement. He loved amusement parks, specially roller coasters, but, on the other hand, there was Brian. Yes, Brian loved amusement parks, too, but not rollercoasters; indeed he was already scared, but he didn't want to break Roger's enthusiasm, so he kept those thoughts for himself.

Roger dragged him back and forth through all the amusement park. They went on several rides, but they hadn't gone on a rollercoaster yet, or, at least, untill Roger decided to go on one of them. "Brian! I want to go on this one! Let's queue up!" Brian's blood froze in his vein when he saw how much tall was that rollercoaster "Of course..." he told whispering. Roger stared at him for a bit, then he laughed "Are you serious Brian? Are you still scared by the roller coaster?" Brian blushed, but this made Roger laugh more and more "Let's go Brian! You don't have to be worry! Trust me!" "Now I feel more relaxed Roger..." He told with an ironic tone. But, while he was trying to hide his embarrassment, he was surprised by Roger taking his right hand "Trust me Brian, please" Brian's eyes were caught by Roger's pleading ones; how could Brian refuse Roger's request? He just couldn't "Ok... You won..." defeat in his voice. Roger, instead, began to jump all around "Let's go!" Brian sighed, and followed a jumping Roger. When they were going to start the ride, Brian became pale "Take it easy Brian. Don't worry" This is the last sentence Brian could hear before the ride start.
After the ride, Brian felt oddly excited "I have to admit that it was exciting..." Roger now was making fun of Brian for how worried he looked before.

It was lunch time when they went to a restaurant to eat something, and, after they had eaten something, they decided to search for John and Fred. They did other rides and later, they decided to go in the "Mirrors labyrinth". "Look at how weird is my silouette in this mirror!" You could hear sometimes from one of them. But suddenly they all got lost in that maze. After a half an hour they found each other out the labyrinth, but Roger was missing "Where is Roger?" Freddie looked at Brian with a frown "I thought he was with you..." John looked first at Brian then at Freddie "I think he is still in the labyrinth..." They all looked concerned "If he isn't here in ten minutes, I'm going inside to search for him" the other two nodded at Brian's statement.
But twelve minutes were already gone and Roger hadn't came out yet...

"I'm definitely going to search for him inside, wait here" Brian went again it the mirror labyrinth, but he didn't know that actually, Roger had arrived... "Fred, John, where is Brian? Is he still in the labyrinth? I thought he had already came out of it..." Freddie and John turned themselves to stare at Roger, who was holding a cotton candy "Roger? Weren't you in the labyrinth?" Roger began to laugh "No, actually I've been out of it since we all got lost, because I've found the exit quickly. I wanted some cotton candy, so, when I found the exit, I went to buy some" Freddie's eyes widened "Are you joking!? Brian went inside the labyrinth to find you because he thought you were stuck inside!" Roger blinked twice "Oh, really?" "Ok, so, we have to wait for him now..." John told grinning as much as what had happened seemed stupid... Another half an hour had gone, and finally Brian came out of the labyrinth "I couldn't find Roger... Wait..." he saw Roger who was laughing "What are you doing here?" Roger began to laugh more and more "Long story Brian... Can we get home first? You two will talk about this later"