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Her lip trembled when she looked back out at the water, whispering, “Don’t look down. Don’t look down.”

Then…nothing.

I waited, alternating my gaze between the water below, the rocks across, and the beautiful, terrified, pale woman next to me. I was about to pull her back from the edge, make the decision that she wasn’t doing this, when through quivering lips she said, “One.”

I looked back to my target, stared straight across.

“Two.”

I turned to her and smiled. She was still trembling, but she bent her knees.

“Three.”

I jumped before she finished the word, pulling her along with me as I launched us both off and over the ledge, far enough where there was no danger of hitting land on the way down.

“David!”