Chapter One

Kylee

“If this received’t snap you out of your funk,” my cousin Nerf says as he tosses me the packed parachute, “nothing will.”

My coronary heart begins pounding as I look down on the pack. I’m actually holding my life in my fingers.

“Shully packed it,” Nerf says with a assured nod. “He’s the very best packer we obtained.”

I swallow exhausting as I look over at Shully who’s bent over and selecting his enamel within the reflection of the Jeep’s filthy facet mirror.

My life is determined by that man folding an enormous piece of nylon correctly.

“Nice,” I mutter as the fellows head into the Basic Retailer to seize some snacks and drinks.

I place the pack behind the Jeep and observe my cousin inside. The man behind the counter provides him a double take after we stroll in. Nerf is used to it. He’s a tall lanky redhead with large ears and a really distinctive face. Individuals are all the time gazing him, but it surely’s not likely the nice form of staring. It’s the sort that you simply’d do if a four-year-old confirmed you her clay sculpture and also you’re attempting to determine what it’s.

The blokes are attacking the chip aisle. They’re grabbing as a lot as they will maintain earlier than they head over to the soda fridge and begin loading up on Mountain Dew. I chortle as a result of these guys are precisely the kind of guys who’re in Mountain Dew commercials—loopy adventurous nuts who spend their free time doing actions which are attempting to kill them.

“You need?” Nerf asks as he tosses me a chilly pink bottle of Mountain Dew Code Purple.

I catch it with a chuckle. “Certain.”

I’ve by no means had this earlier than and I’m not precisely positive if it’s even meant for human consumption, however when in Rome, you do because the Romans do, and whenever you’re hanging out with wild adrenaline junkies, you danger all of it, even indigestion.

It’s been a troublesome month for me. I’ve been in a darkish place.

Laying in mattress and feeling sorry for myself has been my coping methodology of alternative, but it surely’s not working. I’m not feeling any higher. It’s simply making the whole lot worse.

I knew it was severe when my mom came visiting and recommended I hang around with Nerf for the weekend. Nerf and his buddies are usually not the kind of individuals you need your children hanging out with. Not since you’re extra more likely to get into hassle, however since you’re extra more likely to die. They’re all the time doing loopy shit. They had been doing parkour earlier than it had a reputation. They weren’t even videotaping it and placing it on YouTube for clicks and fame. They had been leaping from constructing to constructing and climbing up radio towers and dangling from one hand for enjoyable. They only do all this loopy shit for themselves.

I wanted one thing to snap me out of my somber daze after the life I labored my ass off to construct got here tumbling down, so I despatched him a textual content.

He despatched me 5 phrases and one quantity again:

Be prepared on Saturday at 8

I used to be too afraid to ask what he had deliberate. It could possibly be something. Using dust bikes alongside the sting of cliffs, paragliding by means of the mountains, wingsuiting over the forest, browsing monster waves, swimming with lethal sharks, mountaineering with no ropes. They’ve completed all of it.

So, I used to be truly relieved when he picked me up and introduced that we had been going skydiving out of a little bit airplane within the Greene Mountains.

Leaping out of a aircraft is healthier than floating subsequent to a Nice White shark, but it surely’s nonetheless terrifying. We’ll be hurtling by means of the environment with solely a pack strapped to our backs. I’m beginning to notice that now, and I’m getting actually nervous.

“Are you positive that is secure?” I whisper to Nerf as his buddy Tito pays for the whole lot. Tito made a fortune from Bitcoin and he funds all the group’s wild actions, together with the extreme quantity of Mountain Dew.

Nerf provides me that cocky grin. “You’re bummed out, proper?”

I sigh. “Yeah.”

“You bought a darkish cloud hanging over your head after what occurred, proper?”

I nod.

“What you want is an adrenaline rush to shake all that darkish shit out of you,” he says with a shrug of his slender shoulders. “You’ll see. Your mind might be so flooded with endorphins, you received’t have the ability to cease smiling, after which you’ll be able to shut this chapter and begin a brand new one having completed one thing loopy and adventurous.”

I’m not fairly positive if I agree along with his logic, however everybody begins working again to the jeep and I suck it up and observe them.

I hope he’s proper. I do want one thing to shake my life up.

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