Finding You by Jo Watson

Author:Jo Watson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Contemporary Women, Fiction / Family Life
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Aaaahhhh!” I screeched. “Aaahhhh!” I screeched again. But in my defense I wasn’t the only one screeching. There were many people screeching. In fact, everywhere I gazed people looked like they were about to either cry or scream.

“Oh come on, it’s not that bad,” Dimitri said from behind me.

“Dimitri! I’m riding on the back of a donkey while it zigzags down the narrowest path I’ve ever seen. There is a sheer cliff face that plummets hundreds of feet into the sea, no one is leading this donkey, and this donkey keeps losing his footing.” At that the donkey slipped again and I came dangerously close to the edge of the cliff once more. My heart jumped into my mouth and stayed there. Why would anyone choose to ride a donkey anywhere, let alone down the deadliest path in the world?

“Does this thing have a death wish?” For a second I looked down over the cliff. It was a sheer drop. You know how in movies when someone tumbles down a cliff face, there is always that one tiny little twig or bush sticking out that they grab onto before they plummet to their deaths? There was nothing of the sort here. It was all straight down.

“Relax, people have been riding donkeys up and down this path for thousands of years.”

“That doesn’t make it right.” Suddenly my donkey lurched toward another one and snapped at it. The other one snapped back and then started chasing mine. “He’s going too fast! He’s going too fast.” The ride had just gotten a million times more bumpy and horrific and awful. I held on to the reins so tightly that my shoulders tensed into a ball.

“It’s only ten minutes,” he shouted as my donkey slipped and slid its way down the 596 steep stairs to the port.

“I’m going to die, I’m going to die. I am going to die.”

“Think of it as a roller coaster.”

“I don’t ride roller coasters,” I yelled.

The descent became even steeper, and the only reprieve I got was when my donkey stopped to eat some plants sticking out of the wall. We finally made it to the bottom and I disembarked as quickly as humanly possible. I felt such a rush of exhilaration at being alive. The adrenaline whooshed around in my veins and I wanted to scream and hug people. In fact I did, another woman nearby who looked like she was also feeling lucky to be alive.

“I’m alive!” I screeched with a kind of joyful exuberance that I hadn’t felt, maybe ever.

“And doesn’t it feel great to be alive?”

My heart was still pumping. It did actually feel great.

“And you get to say you rode a donkey on Santorini. It’s a rite of passage. It’s the ancient Greek way.”

“So what’s down here? It better be good,” I said, glancing around the port that I’d actually already been to.

“Nothing,” he said casually.

“Nothing?”

“Nope.” He shook his head.

“So you made me ride that donkey, endanger my life, almost plummet to my death down a cliff for nothing?”

“But will you ever forget it?”

“No.

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