God, she’s beautiful.

Kendall was laughing as Jessica jumped up and down like a kid. She was only a few years younger than him? He shook his head.

Damn, but she was an excitable little thing. She was hot, for sure. But for once he could say it was a girl’s personality that set thing off the chart.

It was more than just her enthusiasm. Her energy was contagious. She was fun, with a capital ‘F.’

She made him feel like he'd done something amazing, just by calling in the fame card. Just for being himself. He liked it. He liked it a lot.

All he had done was ask if the rides at the Stratosphere were open.

They were not.

But they opened them for him.

Being a celebrity was kind of awesome sometimes, despite all the phoniness and other crap that came along with it. Especially if it helped his cause with a girl like Jess. And tonight, it definitely was.

Jess was so excited he thought her cute little head might pop off.

They were on a rooftop, high above the Vegas strip. And they were about to climb onto the first of four rides.

The Insanity.

The ride was basically just seats strapped to a huge mechanical arm that extended 64 feet off the edge of the tower. Hanging over nothing.

108 stories in the air.

For some reason Jessica seemed to find this concept magical.

Not, you know, completely fucking insane.

He was feeling a little nervous about it actually. But he couldn't look like a wuss in front of Jessica. No way he was going to chicken out on this. Besides, she'd practically dared him.

“You ready?”

“Hell yes!”

He groaned and helped her step onto the platform.

They climbed into the bucket seats and were immediately strapped down by the automatic safety harness. Jessica was grinning and bouncing around in her seat. He looked at her.

"You know what this thing does, right?"

"No, why?"

"It, uh, goes out there, and then it spins. Really fast. All while pointing you down toward, you know, the ground."

Her eyes widened. Uh oh, was she as nervous as he was?

"Awesome!"

Guess not.

The ride started and he stopped thinking. He gripped her hand tightly as they were hurtled out into space and flung around in circles. It felt like they were going to be catapulted to their deaths at any moment.

Fuck, it felt like that at every moment.

But he would not scream. He could not scream. Jessica was laughing the entire time with absolute glee.

The girl was not just brave.

She was fearless.

They were being pulled back in when he snuck a look at her. She was breathing fast. Her hair was wild. She looked like she'd just…

Christ, she looked like she'd just gotten laid.

Thoroughly laid.

She turned to him, her eyes bright. Then she kissed his cheek.

"That was AMAZING! Can we go on the others now?"

He swallowed. He would have given a chunk of flesh right now if it got her to kiss him again.

Hopefully on the lips this time.

“Of course. Whatever you want."

The next ride she wanted to try was the Big Shot, where they were once again strapped into the ride and shot 160 feet into the air at 45 miles per hour. That part of it wasn't too bad, but the drop back down had Kendall trying to not scream like a girl.

Actually, Jessica wasn't screaming, she was squealing in excitement. He didn’t make a sound, his entire focus on not squealing like a pig at slaughter.

But Jessica? She sounded delicious.

That made him start thinking about what sort of noises she might make in bed. Before he knew it, the ride was over. Hmmm… interesting tactic. If he thought about sex with her, the ride wasn’t as terrifying.

He decided to try it on the X-Scream too.

While Jessica pulled him over to the roller coaster, he was mentally undressing her. While the car took them up in the air, stories above the hotel, he was thinking strategy.

He'd start at the top and work his way down. He was wondering what sort of underthings she was wearing as they propelled straight down- and over the edge of the hotel into space. Then they slid back again, onto the relative safety of the roof deck. That didn't last long though as the ride teeter tottered back into the empty sky.

Kendall was smiling the whole ride.