Mysterious

Chapter 63

"Holy crap..." Arissa whispered squinting her eyes in the bright sunlight. It's only 6:30...She rolled over pulling the blanket from Bruno to cover her head.

"Hey...that was mean." he said quietly taking some of the blanket back. She pulled it away from him again making sure to cover her head sliding down below her pillow so she was just on the mattress. Bruno turned sliding underneath the blanket watching her close her eyes to go back to sleep. He wrapped his arms around her kissing her head. "Good morning, Riss."

"I don't want to get up yet." she said with her eyes closed.

"We don't have to." he said not moving his arms from around her.

"Good, because I'm not moving from here until I have to pee." Arissa told him.

**

A few hours later she felt Bruno moves her arms from around her.

"Where are you going?" she asked him.

"Just stay there...unless you have to pee."

"I don't..." she said opening her eyes to watch where he was going.

Bruno danced into the bathroom shaking his big hair every step he took.

"Oh god...Bruno...I lied...hurry uppp...I gotta peeeee." Arissa yelled a few seconds later as she heard him brush his teeth. "Come onnn..don't be mean to m...."

"My lady..." he opened the door holding it for her.

"I hate you." she said kissing him on the cheek running into the bathroom. She brushed her teeth while she put her hair up in a ponytail. She walked out the door catching his eye when she walked out the door.

"Rissy..." he started as she followed his hand to the bed. "I'm..." she knew what he was going to say. She stopped him from talking kissing him. "That...." he told her.

"I got you." she smiled at him.

**

"Where are we going? Actually...don't answer that because you're not going to tell me anyway..." Arissa complained that afternoon. "You'll seeee." she mocked him lovingly.

"What? You will." he said smiling at her through his sunglasses.

"Ugggh. Bruno. You know I'd get excited if you told me where we were going before. I don't think there's anything here I wouldn't want to do...except that..." she pointed to the sign for bungee jumping. He started to laugh at her reaction to the sign. Too bad. That's what we're doing. He thought to himself.

"Brunz..." she got a little scared. "Is that where we're going? Bruno! Nooo! I can't do that. That's too much."

"I'm jumping with you." he told her.

"Okay...I might have said I wouldn't do it..." she answered. "But I think I can...I think I can do it." she psyched herself up. "If you can perform in front of a hundred thousand people I can jump off a cliff."

"That's the spirit!" he exclaimed.

"But if the thing snaps and I fall to myself I'll tell St. Peter is was your fault."

"And I'll say a little prayer asking him to let you in." he answered.

"What?!" Arissa answered his sarcasm.

"Yeah...because you're going to go first." he told her driving down a dirt road.

"No way! Not even." she yelled at him.

"Okay, maybe not. But it was funny to see your reaction." he laughed at her stopping the car to get her out. "Let's do this." he said in a serious tone.

"Okay. Let's do this." she repeated. Oh my god. I'm going to die. Today.

They received all the instructions and signed all the release forms. To get to the small bridge where they were going to jump they had to hike up a high hill. Bruno walked behind Arissa who was awkwardly trying to follow the guide through the rocks and brush. "Stop staring at my butt, Bruno. That's gross." Arissa turned around to flirt with him.

"It's my butt. I'll do whatever the hell I want to with it." he answered her walking up next to her.

"Then walk in front of me so I can look at your butt." she replied.

"I don't want you to faint before we get up there, Riss. " Arissa squeezed him laughing at his response.

"Okay...here we are..." the misplaced English tour guide pointed toward a ladder for them to walk up.

"Riss..."

"Shhh...if you say anything to me I'll freak out..." she told him.

"Okay..." he answered following behind her.

The guide strapped Bruno into the restraint.

"You look hot." Arissa said pulling her phone out of her pocket snapping a picture of him making a silly face.

"When don't I look hot?" he asked her.

"Okay, Mr. Mars. Jump. I want to hear you freak out." she told him holding the camera up. "And this is going on youtube."

"Then I better make it really good." he said dancing over to the edge.

"On the count of three Bruno..." the guide told him.

Arissa held her phone up watching his feet leave the edge. He let out a big scream that made her laugh so hard she could hardly breathe. "Oh shit." she gasped watching the cord bounce several times before someone grabbed him to get him out of the restraint.

"Are you ready?" the guide asked her.

"I should have gone first. This is scary as shit." Arissa told him.

"You'll love it." the guide told her wrapping the cords around her. When he finished she glanced over the edge where the water was rushing. "Oh my god." She looked over to see Bruno with his phone up.

"Youtube!" he yelled at her. She shook her head.

"I deserve that..." she said to herself.

"On the count of three, Arissa." the guide told her as he started to count.

She felt her feet slip from the edge with the wind rushing through her ears. She screamed the loudest she had ever screamed as she hurled to the ground. As she slowed down all she could here was Bruno laughing at her. Another guide undid her restraint. She was still shaking.

"Take a picture of her, bro." Bruno leaned over to the guide who was going to lead them back to the car. He snapped the picture as Arissa jumped on top of Bruno kissing him.

"That was amazing." she smiled at him as he held her up.