Chapter Forty Three- Adventure

"Cassie" Tom sang shaking me lightly.

"Mnmn" I answered turning away from him, in hopes that his voice would go away.

"Baby get dressed" He said softly nudging my side.

"What for?" I asked my eyes still shut tight, blocking out the light.

"Rupert is here we are....going somewhere" he hesitated

I opened my eyes and looked at the clock "Tom it's eight in the morning, I want to sleep" I whined flipping back over on my stomach.

"You can sleep in the car." He picked up one of my hands that was hanging off the bed and tugged on it, grabbing my elbow and lifting my limp body into a sitting position.

I glared at him and was about to fall back into the bed.

"Oh no you don't" He said wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me up. I leaned against him for support.

"Just go get dressed please" he asked holding me, at arms length making sure I wouldn't fall.

I lazily swatted his arms away, and walked like a zombie towards the closet. I barely knew what I was doing as I grabbed some jeans and pulled them on. I was in some sort of ultra universe where I was half asleep and half awake.

When I walked out, he had put his leather jacket and sunglasses were on top of his head. "Good you're ready" He said examining me.

"Wherearewegoing?" I asked my words slurring together.

"You'll see" He said grabbing my hand and pulling me along next to him. He wrapped an arm around my waist making sure that he was supporting more than half my weight.

I must have dozed off for a second, and I was in front of Rupert's car.

I tried opening the handle but it was being so stupid. I fumbled with it until Tom finally opened it for me and helped me climb in the back, before he walked to the other side.

"Hey Cas" Rupert said looking through the rear view mirror.

"Uminum" I mumbled in reply.

"Cassiebear is grumpy" Dan stated turning his torso around to look at me.

Tom shut the door behind him and patted his lap. I happily laid down, trying to get comfortable, with my head in his lap. I fell asleep with him softly brushing my curls through his fingers.

I opened my eyes to beautiful blue ones. I blinked rapidly to clear my vision. I wasn't at home in a bed; instead I was in a car. I slowly sat up confused; looking outside to find that we were at a gas station.

I turned back to look at Tom, who was the only other person in the car. "Where are we?" I asked

"Well...we are in Rupert's car at a gas station" He answered carefully.

I rolled my eyes "Where are we going?"

"You'll see soon enough"

"What kind of answer is that?" My voice rising higher. I was starting to think that they had kidnapped me, which really wouldn't be such a bad thing.

"You're a smart girl, you'll figure it out" He said trying not to smirk.

I huffed and looked out the window as the passenger door opened and closed. "Hey look who is awake" Dan said turning around to face me.

I leaned over the seat and asked "Where are we going?"

He looked sideways at Tom, then looked back to me "Somewhere"

I fell back into my seat "This isn't fair" I stated

"Life's not fair Cas" Tom reminded me. I stuck my tongue out at him.

"We ready to go?" Rupert asked opening the door, climbing in, and starting the ignition.

"Yep" Dan said eating some of his candy bar.

I looked out the window the entire time. Tom said I could figure it out, so I was thinking, where would they take me that they wouldn't want me to know about?

I was coming up blank, when we passed a sign that said:

WONDERLAND THEME PARK

23 MILES

I turned to face them so fast that I almost got whiplash. "You have got to be joking" I glared

"Oh she figured it out!" Dan said excitedly turning to see me reaction.

"Why in the hell are we going to a theme park?"

"It's fun" Rupert stated dully.

"Not for me and you all know that!" I was getting really frustrated. Where they aiming for me to faint?

"Well Tom was the one who wanted to bring you" Dan said in his defense.

I turned my gaze solely to Tom "Why?"

"I didn't want to leave you at the house all by yourself and Emma's out of town-"

"I lived at that house a month without you guys" I told him, shooting down his point.

"Will you just chill out?!" he said, almost shouting.

"Uh oh there fighting" Dan said and held out his hand, which Rupert grunted and gave him money.

What is with Dan and betting? More importantly what is with Dan betting and winning?

"Fine...but I'm not happy about this" I hissed

"No one said you had to be" Tom replied

"I feel too much attitude in this whole situation" Dan stated.

"Shut up" Rupert breathed.

I wasn't necessarily mad, I was scared. I hated throwing fits, I hated crying in front of people, and most importantly I didn't want to draw any attention to us.

Sometimes they can be so inconsiderate.

Around half an hour later we were standing in front of the entrance looking at it. You could hear the screams of people echoing off the loud roar of the rollercoaster's.

They were admiring the property ahead of them fondly, as two men came and stood behind us.

I looked behind my shoulder. They were taller than any of us, and seemed to lean over us almost... shielding us. They wore black suits, and dark tinted sun glasses. You couldn't see their eyes which freaked me out.

I gulped "Who are they?"

The three of them turned around in confusion, and then upon realization their eyes relaxed.

"That's Lyle and that's Hank" Rupert pointed out.

"And they would be...?"

"Our body guards" Dan said indifferently

"Body guards? Are body guards really necessary?"

"Actually it's your fault we have them" Rupert said, with a pinch of glaring.

"My fault?" I said a little louder.

Tom sighed "You realized us the last time we were at a theme park Cas. We don't really want to repeat that" I glared at him offended...were they saying that they hated the day they met me? "No not like that, with you it's different, we don't want crazy people to see us... and this way we don't have to wear disguises..."

"And we gets to skip lines" Dan added

"And if someone is bugging us, we just give the signal and their out like a light" Rupert added.

"...okay" I said in a small voice. So the creepy guys would be following us like stalkers....brilliant.

Tom laughed as he flung his arm around my shoulder and started walking behind Dan and Rupert who were already three paces ahead of us.

"So what are we riding first?" Dan asked after going through metal detectors and tickets and that sort of thing.

I coughed "What you're riding first"

"Cassie" They all whined.

I shook my head unattatching myself from Tom. "Nope I'm just going to walk around, see some of the shows, play some safe carnival games...and I'll meet up with you guys when you're done risking your lives."

"What is your problem with heights?" Rupert asked, with a tint of anger.

"You guys go ahead, I'll be there in a second" Tom said standing in front of me blocking my view of them.

Though I saw over his shoulder that they started walking the other way with Hank, while Lyle stayed put three feet away from us.

Tom looked at me with a pinch of disappointment. "You have your phone right?"

I rolled my eyes and nodded.

"Do you want Lyle to follow you?"

"Uh no. I think that I can walk around a theme park by myself without getting attacked."

He rolled his eyes "Fine, call me if you need anything"

"Okay"

He leaned in and kissed me sweetly. I wasn't a big fan of personal displays of affection, especially in a theme park with fans that would know I was kissing Tom Felton.

He half-smiled and walked off with Lyle right on his tail.

I sighed and turned on my heal, examining the twisty turning lanes that held adventure in them. I thought that it would be good to get a map, so I walked directly to the girl who was passing out maps.

She had blonde hair and was dressed like a doll; you know with those old striped dresses and their hair in pig tails, with the rosy cheeks. She had to be about eighteen at the oldest.

"Hi" I said taking one of the maps.

She froze midway into handing me the map. "Your...Your Cassie Dean"

My eye brows creased in confusion. I was almost positive that I have never seen this girl in my entire life. "Yes" I said hesitantly "How do you know my name?"

"Your Tom Felton's girlfriend" She said waving her hand as if it were obvious "Wait does that mean- Is he here?" Her eyes were wide as if the answer was crucial to her survival.

"Yes" I said again hesitantly. Only now did I get a full grip of the map.

"Where is he?" She asked almost hoping up and down.

"On a ride I suppose" I answered hesitantly.

"Well why are you not with him? Did you break up?" I could tell this girl was into a lot of gossip just by the way she was talking.

"Look I just wanted a map" I said starting to walk away.

"Wait don't leave!" she said in protest; obviously she wasn't allowed to leave her post.

I didn't look back as I started walking down one of the paths. When I was out of eye sight I pulled up the hood of my jacket, so that hopefully I wouldn't be recognized.

I went to three shows. They were not high class entertainment, but they had a few of those good kid joke laughs. But soon those got boring, so I walked around for a little bit; when I saw a crowd of about twenty people surrounded around something.

I climbed on one of the many benches around and saw a red head, brunette, and bleach blonde in the middle. I scoffed and hopped down, walking toward them.

After pushing my way past a couple of people I reached the middle and after he finished signing an autograph I tapped Tom on the shoulder.

He sighed and turned around.

"Tired Tommy boy?"

He smiled after the shockness wore off "Cassie, you found us"

"It's not that hard to find you three"

He laughed, and continued to sign autographs. I smiled as my phone rang.

I walked away from the crowd, as I answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey Cassie" I heard Emma say on the other line of the phone.

"Oh hey what's up? How's the trip?"

"Not much, and it's been good...I saw this really gorgeous guy about an hour ago"

"Did you talk to him?" I asked

She sighed "No. I turn away for one second and he's gone"

"Aw I'm sorry Em...what did he look like?"

"Three words Cas Tall, Dark, and Handsome...to the extreme"

I smiled at myself, just imaging this wonder boy. "Sounds amazing"

"It was!" the she sighed dreamily again "So what's going on over there?"

"They kidnapped me!" I exclaimed

She started laughing "How did they kidnap you?"

"Tom woke me up at eight in the freaking morning and practically threw me into Rupert's car. Then they took me to Wonderland!"

"That's not kidnapping you"

"They did it without my consent"

She scoffed "You're so stubborn"

"I don't care and the Tom came up with such a dumb excuse"

"What was his excuse?"

"He didn't want to leave me at the house alone"

"Awwww"

"No don't 'awwww' I spent a month there by myself, and he knew that"

"They just want to have fun with you"

I sighed rolling my eyes, when two arms wrapped around my waist and lifted me up. I screamed.

Tom laughed as he spun me around in a circle. Dan came up and grabbed the phone out of my hand holding it up to his ear. "Who's this?"

"Oh hey Emma!"

Tom put me down again, but didn't remove his hands from my waist.

"She told u we kidnapped her?" Dan frowned and shook his head. As Tom and Rupert started attaching me; messing up my hair and tickling me.

"Stop!" I shouted laughing against my own free will.

They chuckled and stopped. I glared at them, as I hunched over trying to catch my own breath.

"We didn't kidnap you Cas, and I'm saddened that you feel this way" Dan said still with a frown plastered on his lips.

"Then what is your definition of kidnapped?" I questioned, still breathing harder than normal.

"Taking someone, while they are kicking and screaming, to some secret location and hurting them" He shrugged

"Or holding them ransom" Rupert added. Dan nodded in agreement.

I crossed my arms over my chest "Then what is your definition of this?"

He thought for a moment "Guiding someone somewhere without them knowing?"

I scoffed and walked away from them, until I was flung over the shoulder my none other than Tom. "You're going the wrong way princess"

"Wrong way? What is the right way?!" I snapped at him.

He turned around and started walking back the way we had come, or rather the way that I had come. I could almost hear the smirk in his voice as he said "This way"

He wouldn't let me down. He carried me through the park with Dan and Rupert laughing on either side of them and me fighting him the whole way to whatever our destination was. Which I feared could not be good.

He started walking up a ramp, which I noticed was a line for a ride. "Thomas Andrew Felton put me down right now!" I screamed no doubt creating eyes to linger at the four of us.

To my shock, he did place me down. Only as I tried to run away from them he grabbed my arm tightly and dragged me along side of him.

It was only now as we were walking up the stairs, to the platform the ride would be on, did I calculate that my chances of running away were not even that great. With Tom having an iron grip on my arm to having two body guards behind us, which would probably do anything Tom told them to do. Let's face it my chances were slim to nothing. The question is why is he doing this to me? Why after he knows why I don't like roller coasters? Why?

We got to skip the line of course, much to my dislike, and I was suddenly strapped into the ride.

My eyes filled with tears as I started to beg. "Tom...Tom don't make me do this please, please don't make me"

The ride started with a jolt causing me to whine and a new round of tears flooded my face.

"Cas...Cassie listen to me...I want you to have fun" he said calmly as the ride started clicking up our feet dangly in thin air.

"This isn't fun! This is the farthest thing from fun!"

He shook his head, as we were inching closer to the very top he said "I know you can do this Cas"

He held his palm up waiting for me to take it. I slid my hand in his and held onto it tight as the clicking ended and I plunged to my death, hyperventilating along the way.

This ride, never got to hear the name of it, was worse than Death Adventure. Death Adventure was in the dark, so you couldn't see how high you were or what was coming next. This ride seemed thousands of feet up in the air and you could see what horrendous event you were about to embark upon.

The ride jolted to a stop three times before it actually came to a full stop and the harnesses' were raised. I fled for my life. Not hearing my name called, not hearing anything. My ears were still ringing. I ran down the stairs and down the ramp, to a bench nearby and sat down trying to erase my mind.

A few minutes later, after many stares from passing bystanders, Tom put his hand on my shoulder causing me to jump. "That wasn't so bad"

I stood up shaking his hand off "Wasn't so bad? That was horrible and scary and I could have died"

He rolled his eyes "You could not have died Cas"

"Really? I think that I could have died...so many things could have gone wrong do you even realize that?" I waved my hands around from dramatic effect.

Tom put his hands on my shoulders and made me look into his eyes. "Do you really think that I would let you ride that if I thought you were going to die?"

I sighed, still pouting "No..."

"Then what is the problem?" he asked rubbing my arms comfortably.

"You know how much I hate heights!"

"Fine no more roller coasters okay?" He said rather coldly walking away.

I hadn't even noticed that Rupert and Dan had been standing three feet away from us the entire time.

They both looked at me with solemn faces.

"Cas he was just trying to get you to loosen up and have some fun" Rupert said almost as coldly walking after him.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He was defending him?

Lyle went to follow Rupert and Tom while Hank stayed behind.

Dan looked at me sadly. I must have looked like a complete and utter mess, with my make up streamed down my face, and hair windblown.

"Cas?" Dan asked

"What?" I muttered whipping a stray tear away.

"Why are you so afraid of heights?"

"You know my mum died right?" I asked trying to not look at him.

"Yeah" he answered hesitantly

I sighed "Well my mum and I drove off a cliff, and that's how she died"

"Cassie...I'm sorry" he said giving me a half hug.

"It's okay Dan you don't have to be sorry"

"But that's horrible"

I really wanted to just change the subject "How about we go and catch up with them?"

He shook his head "No, I think you both need time to cool off so... lets go get some ice cream!"

I laughed shakily "ice cream?"

"Yeah come on" he linked arms with me and we walked away in the opposite direction, with Hank following behind us.