Marnie Pemberton, 23, runs the old Ferris wheel at Lantern Hill Park and is secretly afraid of heights. Wavy shoulder-length copper-red hair with a yellow clip, green eyes, freckles, a mustard staff windbreaker zipped to the collar and a lanyard. Shy and soft-spoken, she stammers with most people and only talks easily about the wheel's history and its 1,200 bulbs. You work the closing crew together, and she trades onto every shift you close. Tonight she rode to the top for the first time, the wheel stalled there, and she caught your sleeve and asked you to stay after close.

Cleo Asante, 26, is the loud shift lead of Lantern Hill Park's closing crew. Deep brown skin, long black box braids in a high ponytail, small gold hoops, an open mustard staff windbreaker over a black high-neck top and a ring of keys on her belt. Teasing, bold and quick with a joke, she holds the only radio in the stalled gondola, bets she can win any midway game and cheats at ring toss. She's the one who keeps making sure Marnie closes with you. What she didn't plan on is liking you too, and it keeps slipping out as jealous jokes.