Get in the Car, Jupiter by Fisher Amelie

Author:Fisher Amelie
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Sixteen

Ezra and I arrived at the waterfall shortly after Ruby and Kai, thankfully before she started undressing. We stood at the top of what looked like a ten- to twelve-foot waterfall cascading into a deep blue pool of water roughly fifty feet wide and thirty feet long and half surrounded by a rust-colored beach that met bits of nature that climbed up a steep hill. The pool fed into a ravine through a small crevice on the opposite side where a rock face surrounded the other half of the pool and shot straight up to where we stood near the waterfall’s edge, similar to The Narrows in Zion. The water fell aggressively enough to churn the base, creating a gorgeous repercussion against the rock face. The water foamed and frothed where the fall met the calm. I itched to jump in.

It was a sight for the ears as well as a sight for the eyes. Ezra bent forward toward me, and my belly felt much like the stirring water below. “Unbelievably beautiful,” Ezra commented in my ear.

I felt like I’d swallowed my tongue and so nodded my answer.

Ruby broke the moment in half with a happy girlish squeal, something I knew boys found attractive if Kai’s reaction meant anything, but could never bring myself to duplicate.

“Oh my God! Let’s get in!” she yelled over the deluge, reaching under her shirt for her bra clasp.

I grabbed Ezra’s arm, confident in my triumph, but she threw a wrench in my short-lived victory by simultaneously toeing the heel of a sandal. We both braced ourselves. It would be a race to the finish. With one shoe gone, she threaded her arm through the loop of her arm strap as she shoved the heel of her other sandal off and, much to my dismay, kicked it off to the side before she even got the other arm through.

“No!” I shouted at the sky, then fell to my knees. Goodbye, Colonel Brandon monologue!

Ezra could not stop laughing at me as Ruby jumped over the drop. Silly Kai shoved his shirt off his head and joined her, shouting something as he fell.

“You won!” I cried out.

Ezra bent over me, holding out his hand. I took it and he pulled me so quickly up to his side, my head swam. An unsubtle reminder of how strong he was.

“Shall we?” he asked, gesturing toward the falls.

I bent to unlace my boots and tugged them off, walking a bit to tuck them into the V of a low tree. Without thinking, I ran straight for the edge of the falls, past a surprised-looking Ezra, and tossed myself over, turning toward him at the last second to catch an expression of wonder and something liken to amazement. I winked as I disappeared behind the mantle and over the brink, in every sense of the expression.

The fall was exhilarating. Three seconds of pure adrenaline, free falling to the sound of rushing water, and suddenly I couldn’t remember a moment before that one, at least not with the same eyes.

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