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“Airport? Are we going on a trip?” I asked.
“Sort of,” Kerem answered.
Kerem parked the car in front of a small building in front of an airplane hangar. He got out of the car and walked around to open my door. I kept running scenarios through my mind until it finally clicked.
“Are we going skydiving?”
“Yep,” Kerem looked at me and smiled.
We’d had a conversation about me stepping outside of my comfort zone and doing things afraid. I appreciated him listening to me, but I wouldn’t have minded if we would have started at the indoor skydiving place first. This wasn’t stepping out of my comfort zone, this was jumping out, literally.
I took in a deep breath, tightened my grip on Kerem’s hand, and instantly made up my mind that I was going to do it.
We walked through the doors of the small building and was greeted by a man wearing a blue jumpsuit with the airport’s logo on a patch on his chest.
“Kerem and Keeva?” He asked as he extended his hand.
“Yes,” Kerem said, and they shook.
“I’m Teddy. I will be one of the jump masters making the jump with you today,” he said as he reached to shake my hand.
I’m sure he felt the moisture on my palm. I was so nervous.
“Follow me.”
We followed him into a small room with long tables and chairs. We watched a short video about what we were about to experience, then Teddy walked us through the process step by step.
We had to fill out some paperwork, in essence, saying that if we died, it wasn’t their fault. My signature was barely legible because I couldn’t stop my hand from shaking. Everyone there did a great of job of trying to make me feel comfortable. However, I was still nervous.
“Baby, you good?” Kerem asked as we were being outfitted in our harnesses.
“I’m nervous, but I’m going to do it,” I replied.
“Okay, Keeva how far are we going to go up in the air?” Teddy asked.
“Umm, two miles?” I responded recalling the information from the video and Teddy saying it more than once.
“How long will we free fall?” Teddy asked.
“We free fall for one mile,” I answered.
“Good, let’s go!” Teddy said as we walked to the airplane.
We loaded onto the plane. I was hooked to Teddy, so he sat behind me. Sully was Kerem’s tandem master. They sat across from us.
Teddy had a small camera recording us the entire time. He tried to ask me questions to get some good footage, but all I could concentrate on was my form; the way he told me to situate my body, and not dying.
There was a red jump light next to the garage-like door on the side of the plane.
“When this light turns green, it will be go time,” Teddy explained.
I kept my eye on the light. The moment it turned green, my stomach knotted up, and I had second thoughts. It was too late. It was “go time,” in the words of Teddy. There were several solo jumpers on the plane who did a lot of yelling and woo-hooing when the light turned green, and the door opened. The solo jumpers eagerly moved to the open door, and in one quick motion, they were gone. It looked as if they were sucked right out of the plane.
Kerem and his tandem master, Sully, scooted towards the open door.
“I love you,” Kerem said and reached for my hand.
“I love you, too,” I said.
