Page 93 of To Hell With It

Three – you can come home when you’ve done them.

What are the challenges? I won’t be bungee jumping off any bridges, that’s for sure. I hate heights.

You won’t be jumping off a bridge.

OK fine.

I made it sound casual. It was not casual. Anyway, Niall wouldn’t know if I’d not done them. I could just lie and say that I did.

Take a photo and send it to me as proof.

Damn it.

A short while later, Niall sent me a link.

Throw your fears away – Jump Bungee Today!

I grabbed my phone.

I said no jumping off bridges.

It’s not off a bridge.

I don’t do heights.

You’ll be attached to something, it’ll be fine.

I’m not doing it.

You’ll love it.

I won’t love it, because I’m not doing it.

Why not?

Because I might die.

You might.

Exactly.

Or you might live to tell the story.

Tale.

??

It’s ‘live to tell the tale’.

What’s your tale going to be, Pearl?

Easy – ‘Once upon a time, there was a girl called Pearl, who flew to NZ to see a guy she liked, but he had a fiancée so she flew home again. The end.’

Or, how about. ‘Once upon a time, there was a girl called Pearl, who flew to NZ to see a guy she liked, who had a fiancée, so she stayed out there to do some cool things instead, and then she came home. The beginning.’

I didn’t know you were so creative.

There are lots of things you don’t know about me, Pearl.

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