"I love you. Either I haven't said it enough to make you believe me, or I have said it too much to push you away."
"Either way, I know you either want us both, or neither of us. I only want to see you happy and to keep you company."
"Thanks. I can appreciate that," she says flatly.
"Can I at least get you out? Just to goof off a little, relieve some stress?" I almost beg of her.
Please. Just so I can see you… maybe touch you.
A quiet sigh on the other end makes my heart fall a little further, but then she speaks up.
"Alright. Just for fun. God knows we can use some of that, right?"
"Yeah. If tomorrow at three sounds good?" I ask, trying to muffle my excitement.
“It's good. See you then," and with that, she hangs up.
It's a start. Maybe...
Hanging up, I call my hangar and set up a skydiving event for us.
I wonder if she's ever done that.
I then arrange for my chef to prepare a meal and have it at my latest mall construction site, just south of the city. Prime rib, potato, salad, wine.
Now it’s time for a good long sleep.
The next day, I pick her up outside her place and drive to my hangar.
"What are we doing?" she asks, fearfully.
"Skydiving, of course." I smile, reassuringly. "C'mon, you'll love it, being the risk taker that you are."
"No way in hell," she says, grinning, getting out of the car and walking to the hangar. "That's too big of a risk."
She turns and walks backwards, motioning for me to 'come on'.
We have a foot race to the inside where the skydiving equipment rests. We are both breathless.
"You little minx." I shout.
She laughs sarcastically as we put on the stuff of air divers.
I wanna be your muff diver.
It's good to hear her laugh. Getting into the plane, there’s no conversation, but I can tell she’s ready to go, letting it all hang out, so to speak.
We reach our altitude and position and I wait for her to jump. Before she does, she turns and gives me a seductive wink.
Glide, baby.
I follow suit, and we fall to the earth at about a hundred and twenty miles per hour.
Exhilarating.
Pulling her ripcord, she hits the site first and then I land to find her on her back laughing so hard that she has tears in her eyes.
"That fun, huh?"