Pick Me Up! Special

LOVE IS A ROLLER COASTER

As the cart juddered towards the peak, I grinned, my stomach sick with anticipation.

But it wasn’t the ride making me nervous.

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

It was a perfect date – we had 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 got to the summit, and I looked over at Lewis.

‘Here we go!’ I beamed at him.

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

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