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My clothes are there, though someone’s taken them out of the dryer and heaped the a little at how cold everything is It’s never bothered ainst Ophelia before, either In fact, unless I’m totally wasted and just pass out like I did with Stacy, I never spend the night with a girl at all The fact that I did last night shakes me up more than I want to admit to anyone, especiallyshe’ll be up so I can talk her into breakfast and a ride holance at her alaro off for a couple of hours Either it’s her day off or she’s working late today
Either way, there’s some stuff I want to take care of, and since there’s no way I’ht as well do it now I can’t stand what alht, hate the fact that if I hadn’t been hiking in--due to my own stupidity--then I wouldn’t have been there and she would have had to fend Harvey off on her own I hate even ht not have been able to fend hi her own, but he’s a big guy Who knohat could have happened
Just the thought of Ophelia being raped and/or beaten has rage rocketing through me, and for a minute I can almost feel the bastard’s neck beneath my hands Men who hurt wo it off, or at least trying to, I add another item to my mental to-do list Then I bend over, kiss Ophelia’s cheek, and murmur, "I’ll be back in a little"
SheLooks likeperson It’s kind of cute that she’s this gruain, it shouldn’t really surprise ru my phone out, I text Ash and Luc a quick request before throwing onout on the same path Ophelia was on yesterday, only in the opposite direction If I hurry, I can be back before she wakes up
I prettyfor it Crisp and clear with air so pure it alh I find thee Rover and shooting the shit about so circuit
"Well, you look like you’re in one piece," Luc says, giving ht of me
"I told you yesterday that I was fine"
"Yeah, well, eren’t particularly inclined to believe you--especially when you wouldn’t let us corandet out more It’ll take care of that"
He flips me off, but there’s no heat in it "Yeah, well, you should probably go get laid Itmountain"
At his words, I can’t help but think about Ophelia and e spentNot that I’s are nobody else’s business
"Where’reoutout his hand as well
"Right here" I pull it out of the bag I snagged froe?"
"I don’t know Haven’t looked at it yet"
They goggle atme? How could you not watch it?" Ash demands "Didn’t you want to see what you did?"
"Dude, I lived it What’s going over it again gonna do for me?"
Luc shakes his head at me "You’re hopeless You know that?"
"I always have been"
Ash shoots e to say anything Of course, I’d totally forgotten that it was recording during Cam’s and et to endure hearing to it a second time While my best friends watch and listen, too
"Well, fk," Ash says, pausing it right before I go over "I take back all the shit I said If she was yapping at o off the side of a h, and then Ash hits play and we get to watch my trip down that mountain It always feels a little surreal to e fro I’ve done--but Ash and Luc don’t seem to have any problem with it
They hoot and holler a little bit as the video rolls, and Luc curses when I hit thatuntil we get to the end of the footage And even then, Ash turns around and starts scrolling back so we can watch it all over again
"Dude, how big was that drop?" Luc de ever"
"It felt that way When I was doing it, I thought it was probably two hundred feet, but once I was down and looking back up, it seemed more like two hundred and fifty feet or so"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah It’s the only tiht actually die It felt like the ground was so far away"
"It was so far away" Ash shakes his head in awe "Man, that is fking Art of Flight shit," he tellsdocus that didn’t look like they were huree "Travis Rice ain’t got nothing on enius while I’m just a fk-up No doubt a lucky fk-up yesterday, but still a fk-up
"No way, est drop ever landed is--"
"One hundred and seven meters Three hundred and twenty-one feet," Luc and I finish for hi Wikipedia, and we’ve heard it all a million times before
"Exactly I bet you were close to that"
"Nah"
"I don’t know, e back toat a rate of--"