Free Falling

The Fall

Hayden flung her eyes open and shrieked as she kicked her legs, falling through the sky. She held her hands to her face and looked around frantically, wind forcing it's way down her throat, into her eyes and through her hair. She was distracted by her ringtone blaring and her phone vibrating in her back pocket she jerked it from it's tight place and accepted the call, holding the phone tightly to her ear.

She tried to keep herself from hyperventilating as she spoke in a panicked tone, watching the minuscule ground below inch closer "h-hello?!" the phones silence was eventually broken by a woman's voice, breaking up, "keep your legs together, to slow down put both your arms out the side, try not to distance yourself from the landing spot, to speed up put your head down and move your arms closer to your body, use the parachute when you are close enough to the ground try and be quick about getting down here Tyro, we don't have a lot of time to wait for your sorry ass" the call ended almost as quickly as it started and questions flooded into Hayden's mind, she tried her hardest to register what the woman had said.

She slowed herself down as the lady had told her to, "Landing spot, landing spot" she whispered to herself repetitively, scanning the city below her for anything resembling a landing spot. As she got closer to the ground, she could finally make out details of the landscape. Hayden spotted a large heli-pad symbol painted in the middle of a parking lot, attempting to speed up she pulled her arms closer to her body and aimed to the spot. As Hayden got closer she pulled the cord of the parachute and gasped for breath. Glancing up at the parachute, panic struck her, a small tear trailed through part of it. She shut her eyes tight and felt the fall, trying not to cry.