You’ve got to read this story — by May
“No, really Hero,” said Bree. “It’d really be something to tell your children.”
Hero glared at her as she replied, “Definitely not. I wanna live long enough to have grandchildren.” Then Orli said, “You might want to keep distance after I do my jump though. I don’t want to scare you.”
“What do you mean?”
“Adrenaline rush.” Then, without any other explanation, he gave her a quick kiss and went on to get ready for the jump.Hero’s knees were shaking by then. He’s really crazy. She saw him take a deep breath, wave at them, then jumped. Everyone cheered and Orli was definitely screaming for sure, but Hero didn’t hear. Her ears were ringing and she was mumbling, “Ohgodohgodohgodohgod.” It was as if she was the one doing the jump. She gripped Bree’s arm painfully as she strained to see what was happening below. He was bouncing back, and then he fell back again, like a yoyo. She felt like puking. After what seemed like forever they finally hauled him back in.
The minute he got out of all the binds and whatnots he started looking around wildly. And there she was. Looking scared like how she did when he got off the bridge. Still breathing heavily with the adrenaline in his blood, he took the few steps to her, and then said in a low voice, “I told you to keep away from me after the jump.”
“What the hell for?”
Her answer was a searing hot kiss. Nothing they’ve ever done before. He was holding her head firmly with his hands on the back of her head and the nape of her neck, keeping her in place. She was too shocked to do anything else but open her mouth to the relentless attack. Then when she thought it couldn’t go any hotter, he slowed down, sucking her lower lip gently, and then the kiss finally watered down to butterfly ones, soft dances of lips. She sighed as she ran her fingers through his hair. All thoughts went flying out of her head like a century ago when she felt his lips brush against hers. She felt the love well in her heart and she felt like crying. Oh damn. Wh does he have to do things like this?
The kiss finally ended, but he didn’t let her go. Not yet. Not ever. Shit. Can she be the one? Please don’t let this one go wrong this time. I don’t know if I can’t take it anymore. He felt like crying as he opened his eyes to look into her dark ones. Oh damn. Why does she have to do things like this?
“Okay, break it up people,” Lij called out. “I swear, everytime you two bloody idiots get together, we always end up contemplating on whether to sell tickets in a few seconds.”
“Shaddup!” said two voices simultaneously. Laughter. Then Orli said to her, “That takes care of the heights thing. Next challenge would be the cockroaches. And the actual jump of course.”
Thwap.
God May. How do you do it?