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“No, don’t!” I screamed as he pulled the second chute.
It wouldn’t be enough.
I’d kill him.
His secondary parachute opened, and though it worked, it didn’t slow us down near enough.
My momentum, paired with the combined weight of us… it was too much.
“Shit,” I breathed. “Please, let me go!”
He buried his nose into my hair and said, “Never.”
TOM
I’d never seen anything like it.
I’d watched her jump from my plane so many times at this point, it didn’t even phase me when I lost her.
Circling back around to land, I was vaguely watching the two falling figures out of the corner of my eye as I got into place.
One parachute opened.
But the other…
I circled back around, heart in my throat, as I watched from the plane high above them.
The second parachute never opened.
And the black shape in the sky was going so incredibly fast.
“Oh, no.”
GERMAINE
“What are we all doing here again?” I asked the group as a whole.
My family, all of them, including kids and spouses and grandkids alike, turned to look at me.
“We’re gonna watch him propose, remember?”
“He already proposed, though,” I pointed out.
“We know, dear,” my wife said. “But he wants to do it again, big like. So we’re all here to witness it. Remember?”
I did, but…
“Why aren’t they both deploying their parachutes?” my eldest granddaughter, Addison, asked innocently.
The conversation stopped, and we both looked up into the sky.
Addison was right.
Only one parachute was open.
My heart started to beat harder inside of my chest.
“What’s…”
