A Ride Of A Lifetime

• Kayla Stubenrauch, Grade 6M
• Short Story
• 2009

I am standing out the front of Luna Park. I have been here now for four hours waiting for the gates to open. This is the longest I have ever had to wait. It feels like I have been standing here forever but I haven’t. I am starting to boil up inside. I can’t wait any longer. I’m going to explode. But before I had the chance to explode the gates opened. What a relief I thought.

Now I have a problem. I just can’t choose which ride. There are just too many to choose from. What was supposed to be a stress free day had just turned out to be stressful.

I finally decided which ride to go on, the Scenic Railway. I was first in line so I didn’t have to wait long. Thank goodness for that.

I’m sitting in the front row. I don’t know why I’m sitting in the front row or even going on this ride. For some of you that don’t know, I’m scared of heights. I am absolutely terrified of heights. No make that petrified of heights.

While I was thinking, the ride had taken of up the steep hill. There’s no way off. I’m just going to have to face my fears. Here I go.

I opened my eyes. You wouldn’t believe the first thing I did. I looked down. How could I look down? Now I feel really annoyed at myself.

Now I’m up the top, here I go. Oh I forgot to mention I am the only person on the ride. I screamed really loud while it went down the hill. It hurt. Now back to normal speed. Just the way I like it.

All of a sudden it started speeding up. I closed my eyes. It actually helped. I thought the ride had finished. I opened my eyes. Oh oh! It’s not the end of the ride, I am actually going down a hill really fast. What a time to open my eyes.

Actually I’m glad to open my eyes. I feel great. I’m not scared anymore. “I’m not scared anymore!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. Suddenly everybody just dropped everything and turned around and just stared at me. I felt my face go bright red. I feel so embarrassed. I hope nobody is here from school. Just my luck, guess who’s here? The three girly girls. Stacey, Skye and Sarah from my class. They just stood there having a laughing fit.

At the end of the ride I went up to them and said, "well at least I faced my fear of heights, now I would love to see you go on it!"