Chapter 28:

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Louis took out two coupons. "Skydiving, or zip lining?" He grinned.

"What?! No no no no no no-"

"Cmon Ellie! It'll be fun! Which one?" He chuckled.

"Zip lining."

"Yessss! Ok cmon, lets get everyone together! Guys guys! We're going zip lining!" Louis shouted to everyone like a little kid.

I giggled at his enthusiasm.

{At lè skydiving place}

I gulped as the manager put the gear on me. "Louis, Louis I cant, I-"

"Ellie, you'll be fine, trust me," He squeazed my hand tightly and gave me a smile.

I nodded and nearly screamed my lungs out when we got to the platform from fear. I always have been afraid of heights. But I mean, isnt everyone afraid of them? Or at least afraid of fallin off 'em?

There was three different platforms. One next to mine, about 10 feet away, and one next to that one. I looked to the right where it was. Niall was getting ready to go, and he smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up when he caught my glance.

I couldn't help but smile back at him. I secured a helmet on my head, strapping the bottom and getting ready to go. When I was finally all hooked together and ready, the safety guy gave me a thumbs up, indicating that I could go.

I sighed and closed my eyes for a second. Next thing I knew, Louis was pushing me over and I drifted across the line. I screamed at the top of my lungs and opened my eyes. It was a gorgeous view, but I couldn't help but pull my hands back over my eyes.

"Elle!" That wonderful Irish accent filled my ears and it felt like he was right beside me.

I opened my eyes and all of a sudden, knowing he was riding his at the same time beside me, made me feel more comfortable, and the fear went away for a few seconds.

Until it swooped down in the middle of the forest, right in between two trees. I screamed in terror, but made it out alive. I could no longer see Niall, because his line crossed over mine to the left of me now. I looked over and there he was giving me the biggest grin in the world.

I giggled as he made funny faces at me. I joked around too and began pretending to be an airplane. Using my arms as the arms of the plane, and swiveling around.

He chuckled and I kept doing that until, on the what used to be an empty zip line, Zoe apeared. I looked back ahead of myself and groaned. She was still chewing the gum obnoxiously, and I hoped that when she was riding, she would swallow it and start choking. I know its mean to think, but to be honest I did.

Suddenly, horror filled me again and my stomach dropped. I felt like puking and I held my hands to my eyes again, but the cool breeze brought me back to reality. I remembered all of a sudden, what the instructer told me before I went down.

"Dont forget to pull the ring at the end!" I could hear him yelling in my mind.

I looked down. There was a wall ahead of me. "Elle! Dont forget to pull it!" I heard Niall yell from my right now.

I turned my head to the right and saw him. "Shit," I mumbled under my breathe and reached for the ring.

It was just out of reach, because it got swung over the line once. I sweared under my breathe again and called out for help.

The wall was closer than ever and just as we swooped down beside a tree, I grabbed a tree branch and ripped it off.

I tried getting the branch into the ring, and just as I did the branch slipped from my hands. "ELLIE! Pull the RING!"

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