Pick Me Up!

ROLLERCOASTER OF LOVE

As the cart juddered towards the top of the peak, I grinned, my stomach sick with anticipation. But, it wasn’t the ride making me nervous.

A month ago, childhood best friend Lewis, then 17, had finally asked me to be his girlfriend and we were on our first date at LEGOLAND.

It was a perfect date – we bonded over our love of Lego.

What’s more, we both loved theme parks, so it was a perfect combination of our interests.

We finally go to the summit, and I looked over at Lewis.

‘Here we go!’ I grinned at him.

We swooped down shrieking, and by the time we got off, I was grinning from ear to

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