107: true end Their Love
To be honest, after riding the roller coaster once, Lu Lele felt a bit dizzy, a sensation akin to motion sickness, so she didn't really want to go again.
But if she refused Liu Lili, it would mean admitting she really was too scared to make a sound just now, which would certainly make her the target of Liu Lili's mockery.
Thus, Lu Lele was reluctantly dragged over by Liu Lili and sat back down on the roller coaster seat with a look of resignation on her face.
Immediately following this was another round of climbing, dropping, and screaming.
Lu Lele couldn't hold it in this time. During the process, she screamed out loud along with Liu Lili. But what surprised Lu Lele was that she felt much better after letting out the scream. The dizziness she felt afterward wasn't as severe as the first time.
She turned her gaze to the Liu Lili beside her and asked:
"Lili, did you have fun?"
"Hmm..."
After the second round on the roller coaster, Liu Lili still wore an expression of wanting more. She looked reluctantly in the direction of the roller coaster and said softly:
"To be honest, I still want to ride it one more time..."
"I'm not accompanying you if you go again. If I ride it one more time, I'm going to get spun until I'm dizzy."
Lu Lele didn't blindly indulge Liu Lili. Instead, she patted her lover on the shoulder and said:
"Lili, stop staring at the roller coaster. There are many other thrilling attractions in the amusement park. We should play a few more to make the ticket price worth it."
Liu Lili didn't insist either. She nodded and said:
"Lele is right. So, where are we going next?"
Lu Lele smiled sweetly, the corners of her mouth slightly raised as she suggested:
"Of course, we are going to the famous haunted house to play!"
"...The haunted house?"
"That's right! Aside from the Ferris wheel, this amusement park's most famous attraction is their haunted house, 'Dracula's Castle'!"
Lu Lele explained to Liu Lili with great enthusiasm, as if she were reciting a familiar grocery list:
"It is said that they spent two years creating this box-style haunted house, hiring famous foreign castle designers and the best domestic haunted house designers!"
"I see."
Liu Lili nodded again, then asked suspiciously:
"But, Lele, why do you know it so clearly? Have you been here before?"
Lu Lele giggled:
"Hehe, I haven't been there before, but since I'm coming here to play with Lili, of course I have to do my homework in advance."
Of course, in reality, all this information was collected by Lu Lele during a previous attempt. After all, collecting information a timeline in advance also counts as doing homework beforehand, does it not?
"It seems Lele has a very high opinion of this haunted house. Then let's go play in this so-called Dracula's Castle."
Liu Lili acknowledged Lu Lele's point, then changed the subject and asked:
"By the way, Lele, are you afraid of ghosts?"
"Ghosts? I am a materialist. How could I be afraid of such illusory things? Let alone ghosts in a haunted house meant specifically to scare people!"
Lu Lele answered this way, then immediately smiled and asked back:
"What about you, Lili? You're asking me this question. Don't tell me it's because you're a coward who will cry if you get scared by a ghost?"
Liu Lili froze for a moment, hurriedly shook her head, and argued:
"Th-that's not true at all. Of course, I'm not afraid of ghosts that I know are staff in disguise or made of models and special effects! Don't look down on me, okay!"
"Of course I won't look down on Lili. It's just, I remember Lili in elementary school would be scared into wailing tears just by someone making a scary face." Lu Lele teased.
"Th-that's all in the past. Today, I will make you, Lele, change that long-standing stereotype and let you know that three days apart, and one should look at you with new eyes! Lele, don't smile so happily either. If I remember correctly, you are very timid too! You should worry about whether you'll be scared into crying first!"
"Then, let's settle this in the haunted house."
...
"Aaaaaaaaah!!!!!!"
A scream like a slaughtered pig came from the gloomy castle. It came from Liu Lili, whose legs had gone weak from being scared by a bat projection that suddenly floated past.
The expression on Lu Lele's face, whose arm was being tightly hugged by Liu Lili, didn't look much better than her lover's. But she still tried her best to comfort Liu Lili, who had been scared out of her wits:
"Lili, you, don't be afraid. Th-that's just a bat. We shouldn't be far from the exit..."
She had only spoken half the sentence when Lu Lele suddenly stepped on something. She lowered her head and found that it was actually a skull with green fire floating in its eye sockets. Her face instantly turned pale in shock, goosebumps crawled all over her body, and she let out a scream sufficient to burst eardrums:
"Uwaaahhhh!!!"
Actually, Lu Lele and Liu Lili were a matching pair in this regard, both roles who claimed not to be scared verbally but got scared however they were supposed to when actually in a terrifying environment.
And Lu Lele hadn't been to a haunted house in previous save files, so naturally, she didn't know that she was actually afraid of ghosts.
This really is a sad story.
By the time Lu Lele and Liu Lili came out of the haunted house, both of their faces were green. It took nearly two hours for them to recover their vitality.
Immediately after, the two of them played some other attractions in the amusement park until the night grew thick. Then they went to the last attraction, and the most famous location in the amusement park, the Ferris wheel.
On a night in early summer, the sky was full of twinkling stars.
Lu Lele and Liu Lili sat inside the Ferris wheel. As the Ferris wheel slowly climbed, they got closer and closer to the stars.
"Wow, Lili, look over there quickly!"
The fleeting, bright meteor attracted Lu Lele's attention. She pointed excitedly at the other end of the sky, where the meteor was gliding with a tail and leaving a conspicuous trail. "It's a shooting star! To actually encounter a shooting star at a time like this. Lili, make a wish quickly! It is said that if you make a wish on a shooting star, the wish will definitely come true!"
"So beautiful..."
Liu Lili stared unblinkingly at the passing star and let out a sincere exclamation.
"Don't just look; you have to make a wish quickly. Otherwise, once the shooting star disappears, the wish won't work!"
"O-okay..."
Palms together, the two girls devoutly made their wishes toward that shooting star.
A few minutes later.
The shooting star finally disappeared without a trace on the other side of the night. Liu Lili looked infatuatedly at the trail left by the meteor and said:
"It's really beautiful... Thank you for bringing me here to play, Lele. I'm very touched."
"Lili, what did you wish for?" Lu Lele asked.
"Secret." Liu Lili said.
"Let's trade ours."
"Lele, but if I say it out loud, can the wish still come true? Will it not work?"
"Of course, it can come true!"
"Oh, okay then."
Liu Lili nodded. For some reason, a flush of crimson spread across her face. She looked at Lu Lele, her eyes full of undisguised love:
"My wish is that days like today can last forever, and I can be with Lele forever. Is that a very ordinary and greedy wish?"
"It's not ordinary at all, nor is it greedy. What a coincidence."
Lu Lele smiled sweetly. Her smile was so pure and gentle, like a pure white lily:
"Because, Lili, my wish is the same as yours. To be with you day and night, never to part, until death do us separate."
"Lele, I love you..."
"I love you too, my Lili."
In an inconspicuous corner of the amusement park, the grass grew vigorously. The crystal-clear dewdrops reflected the base color of the night.
A shooting star streaked across the night sky. The girls on the Ferris wheel interlocked their fingers and kissed sweetly and happily.
The twinkling stars that seemed to blink gently covered them with starlight, just like a mother covering a child with a quilt.
That was the night sky that belonged to them. That was the meteor that belonged to them.
That was the love that belonged to them.