Sorry it's been a while since I updated this one, I went away to Kenya then forgot about it... And then school happened and that always gets in the way. Anyway, I'm back now and here is the next chapter! Thanks for being patient x
Chloe lay in bed, thinking about how grateful she was that the Christmas holidays had begun. The incident had happened the last Tuesday of term and they were excused for the remainder of the week, which then led them into Christmas break. Christmas had been and gone, and it was quite honestly the best one yet for both of them. It was now New Year's Day and Chloe turned over in bed, expecting to face her girlfriend who was probably still asleep judging by the silence, but was shocked to see an empty bed.
Instantly she started to panic. "Beca!" she called out. "Babe, where are you?" Still there was no answer. Becoming extremely worried, Chloe raced downstairs and frantically searched the house, calling out her girlfriend's name over and over again. Just when she started to imagine the worst, the front door opened. Chloe spun around in anticipation and saw Beca walk through the doorway. She breathed a sigh of relief as Beca said, "I thought you'd be at least dressed by now. Come on, hurry up."
Confused, Chloe was ushered up the stairs by Beca, still wondering what on earth was going on. "Where were you? Why do I have to get dressed?" So many questions, but Beca answered none of them.
Ten minutes later after Beca had practically dressed Chloe, they both headed to the front door to greet an awaiting taxi. "What…" Chloe began, but she was silenced with a kiss and the words, "Trust me." They got into the back of the taxi, and to Chloe's misfortune, the driver already knew where to go and the GPS wasn't giving any clues either. Beca soon began to tire of answering, or more specifically not answering when her girlfriend demanded to know where they were heading, so they sat for the rest of the journey in silence.
Twenty minutes later, Chloe had a sore throat, but finally she saw where they were. It was a field with a couple of blank buildings at the front of a car park. They both got out of the car and Beca still kept her mouth firmly shut. Luckily, Chloe was too busy examining the vast green land to bother asking more questions, and allowed Beca to drag her by the hand into one of the buildings. "Booking name?" The receptionist's voice snapped Chloe out of her studious investigations.
Beca gave her details and the busty receptionist led them through a door and instructed them to wait in the "suit room" for the accompanying instructors. "Please can you tell me what's going on now?" Chloe pleaded. Beca said nothing, other than that she would have to wait and see, and so Chloe decided it was time for a new persuasion tactic. She slowly walked across to Beca and held both of her hands. "That isn't going to work," Beca said rather unsurely. Chloe ignored her and gently pushed her against the wall.
She kissed her neck and collarbone, slowly working her way up to her lips. "Babe, I'm not going to tell you anything," Beca protested, anxiously looking at the door hoping no one came in. As she felt Chloe's teeth graze her skin she knew that her protests would soon fall apart if the redhead carried on, which of course, she did.
Their lips met and despite her earlier protests, Beca didn't pull away. She was so aware of Chloe's body pressing against her and became so weak willed. She felt Chloe's hands run down her sides, and then her fingertips toyed with the tops of her trousers. Instantly she moved her girlfriend's hands away and said, "Stop! Someone might see!" She wasn't about to admit that she was secretly liking the thrill of being caught.
"Give me a clue then!" Chloe demanded, still resting her fingers on Beca's trousers.
"Fine…" Beca said eventually, bringing a huge smile to Chloe's triumphant face. "What we are about to do, is something that you've never done before." The smile quickly disappeared and Chloe edged her fingers beneath Beca's jeans while whispering, "You are such a bitch. Tell me something good."
A small whimper left Beca's lips, urging Chloe to dip her hand lower beneath her girlfriend's underwear. Suddenly aware of their surroundings, Beca grabbed Chloe's wrist and gave in. "Okay, okay… We're going skydiving." Chloe removed her hand, looked at Beca and whispered excitedly, "Really?"
Beca nodded, proud that she had impressed her girlfriend so much and smiled as Chloe whispered, "I love you." She gave the tiny girl a quick kiss before releasing her from the wall. After a short pause, Chloe decided to be honest. "I already knew what we were doing."
"What?! How?" Beca moaned, "I wanted it to be a surprise!" Chloe laughed and put her hands up in defence. "Calm down! I only figured it out a few minutes ago when I saw that," she explained as she pointed at a photo of two people skydiving with a plaque underneath it saying who founded the site.
"So if you already knew what we were doing, why did you try so hard to get it out of me just then?"
"Maybe I just wanted an excuse to be close to you." Beca couldn't help but smile, and moments later two instructors walked through the door. It took a while to get through the safety talk and getting strapped into the equipment, but they got there eventually. The harnesses were designed so that a professional skydiver was strapped to the back, and the way that the very young, and very cute instructors flirted with both girls made them laugh.
When they sat down on the plane, it hit Beca what she was actually doing. It was something that both she and Chloe had wanted to do since they were little, and now it was really happening. They were about to jump out of a plane thousands of feet high and free-fall for a long time; their only hope of surviving depending on how good their instructors were. The fear of it filled her whole body with adrenaline, and looking to her side and seeing Chloe's face told her that she wasn't alone in feeling that way. Silence screamed around them, but then just as Chloe was about to say something, the engine of the plane roared and they felt it begin moving. That was it now, there was no way out other than to jump.
No one even bothered trying to talk and compete with the engine, and so Beca and Chloe sat there hand in hand, clinging on tightly to each other. It was as if they were communicating simply through their hands. Beca squeezed Chloe's hand at first, looking for reassurance and Chloe gently stroked the back of Beca's hand with her thumb whilst still leaving the rest of their fingers entwined. There was a sudden jolt of the plane that shook them about, and Chloe stopped comforting Beca and gripped even tighter, almost cutting off circulation.
Several minutes passed, and then the thing that they both were dreading happened. The instructors strapped to them began moving, and therefore the girls moved with them. Chloe began squealing, but it was hard to tell whether it was due to excitement or fear, probably a bit of both. Beca started to repeatedly say, "Oh no…" along with screaming for every footstep close they got to the door. Eventually they managed to prise their hands away from the tight hold they had on each other, and Chloe went first.
The cameraman had just headed out and was gripping onto the side of the plane, camera ready to go. It was probably already filming Chloe's expressions; they were too hilarious to miss. At first Beca wondered why she was screaming so loudly, wasn't the part when you sit by the door the most beautiful bit? She watched Chloe's gorgeous red hair fly around her head like flames, and her hands kept shooting out to grab onto the sides of the plane, but the instructor kept grabbing them and putting them back in front of her.
When Chloe insisted on holding onto something, the instructor placed them onto part of Chloe's top, and mouthed something to her. Beca figured that if she was to hold onto anything, it would have to be her own shirt. She saw her knuckles go white, and then Chloe shot her one last look. Her mouth was open, but at the same time she was smiling so much. There was a look of fear on her face, but at the same time there was pure thrill. Her head turned away, and looked out of the plane again, causing her to scream yet again. Not even one second later, she was gone.
Beca edged forward, or moreover her instructor did, in turn forcing Beca to move. They reached the edge of the plane, and then it hit Beca why Chloe was screaming. Sure, the view was beautiful, but only then did you realise just how high up you really were. In the sky, she could see Chloe freefalling, and could just about still hear her screams. The worst or maybe the best bit was that just before you jumped, you weren't actually in the plane. Beca could feel her heart racing at what seemed to be a million beats per minute. Because she was strapped to the instructor, he had to sit on the very edge of the plane, because after all, he decided when they jumped. This meant that Beca's whole body was simply hanging out of the plane whilst she was perching on the instructors lap.
Her arms began to fly out to the sides and hold on tight, until she too was instructed to hold her shirt. She took in a deep breath, and they began to fly. The feeling was amazing, her screams sounded so unreal up in the sky. Before long she was closer to Chloe, and the cameraman was filming her face. She gave thumbs up to the camera as she saw Chloe do the exact same thing to her cameraman moments ago.
After about a minute of freefalling, the parachute opened with a jolt. The next five minutes was spent slowly gliding down to the ground, down to reality. As Beca took in the scenery, she realised that she was wrong. The most beautiful part of it all wasn't at the edge of the plane, it was now. Now, when she could see everything from a completely new perspective, and when she could see her beautiful girlfriend smiling.
Chloe hit the ground: she had been hoping for a more graceful landing but knew it probably wouldn't happen. Above her she could see Beca floating down, and moments later she too landed on the ground. They both got up after being unhooked from their instructors, and walked towards each other. "I love you," Chloe said.
"I know," Beca replied with a smirk. They headed back indoors to grab their stuff and then head off to a café, and Chloe said, "How the hell did you get money for this?" And much to her surprise, Beca revealed that she had a job editing amateur newspaper articles for mistakes in grammar etc. "You're so sneaky," Chloe said just as the instructors walked through the doors. "So we were thinking, we finish our shift now so do you want to grab some lunch, purely as friends of course?" Chloe smiled and looked at Beca with a look in her eye.
"Actually we have plans, but here's both of our numbers if you want to call us to rearrange?" She said whilst scribbling their numbers on a piece of paper. The men looked at each other as if to say, "Yeah! We pulled!" but their reactions were premature. Beca put her arm around Chloe's waist, and said, "Come on, we're going to miss our reservation." Chloe merely smiled then kissed Beca on the lips before walking away. Funnily enough, the instructors never did call them.