5:45 p.m.
Come on! Harper get up! I'm screaming at myself in the inside. I have to get up for Nathan. Memories flood into my mind. Sitting on my bed not being able to speak and Nathan with his baby face-hugging me. He also cried with me too. Come on do this for him. I stand up with my hair whipping around and snowflakes in my eyelashes. Right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot,
I start singing Thousand Years, by Christina Perri.
"Heartbeats fast, Colors and promises" Right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot,
"How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?" Right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot,
"But watching you stand alone. All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow. One step closer" Right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot,
"I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot. "I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more"
"Time stands still. Beauty in all she is" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I will be brave. I will not let anything take away" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"What's standing in front of me. Every breath" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"Every hour has come to this. One step closer" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"One step closer. One step closer" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I have died every day waiting for you. Darling don't be afraid" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
"I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more" Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot.
5:53 p.m.
Right hand, left hand, right foot, and left foot. I grab the final grasp with my right hand, left hand, and I pull my full body weight up and run to the buzzer. I hit the buzzer and it plays a siren noise, WEE-oww-WEE-oww.
I did it! Nathan! My fingers are shaking. Damn it finers unclip the damn rope from my harness. Finally! I run over to the zip line clip and clip it in. Clip. Wow, it's high up here! Don't let this get to you. Find Nathan! I push off the mountain wall.
It's a pretty and beautiful view up here. The sun is setting now too. The semi-circle sun at the edge of the mountains. The purple, pink, yellow, orange, and blue tie-died clouds all around too. The glistening mountain tops with their untouched and jagged snowdrifts.
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Thin Ice
RomanceOne important rule of competing: Don't show your emotions; don't show mess-ups. Harper is finally a junior in high school and is ready to compete for her school in the Snow Sports Competition. Her mom was a two-time gold Olympian Ice Skater; she has...
