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Beetle took an i to Shannie Shannie becaée "I just hope Shannie always shaves her armpits," I complained to Count "What's the fascination with hairy ar disgusting!" I retorted

My fingers are uncoordinated and I could never get the hang of rubber banding the risers I becas in the real and by the end of the su chutes "You better not tell a living soul,' Shannie warned "I swear Just James, if you tell anyone, even Count, I'll cut your balls off" She sounded like Beetle Beetle was always threatening to cut balls off

"My lips are sealed"

"I rigged a chute solo today," Shannie said "A newbie's going to jump it What if it malfunctions? What if she burns in?"

"What did Beetle say?"

"Everything looked fine"

"What are you worried about?"

Shannie sighed and rested her chin in her palo tomorrow I'll never be able to live with myself"

The next o "If anyone asks, tell theood" I wasn't surprised to see Shannie and Diane pull into the airport's parking lot The ju

"Couldn't stay away, Huh?" I teased

"Ha-ha," she responded "Who has it," she asked Beetle

"Four," Beetle said

"It would be," Shannie complained In the summer of '86, students went one at a time It meant Shannie had plenty of time to contemplate her pack job "It was fifteen minutes of hell," Shannie later admitted

I joined Diane - who, clad in her custo on the botto lot from tarmac I sat on the top rail next to her "Did she really pack a parachute?" Diane asked I brought a finger to my lips "No one is supposed to know"

Shannie paced fro table into the office, back to the table, to the manifest shack, back to the table, circle around the table and finally back to the ine so that the first ju," I whispered to Diane as I watched Shannie staring skyward