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A Brush With Death (climbing for lust). PART 2.
<p><strong>Part 2: The Sound That Changed Everything</strong></p><p>CRAAACK.</p><p>It wasn't a loud sound.</p><p>It was worse.</p><p>It was the sound of certainty disappearing.</p><p>For a split second, my brain refused to accept what my ears had heard.</p><p>No...</p><p>The branch dropped beneath my foot.</p><p>My stomach lurched.</p><p>Instinct took over.</p><p>I threw both hands forward, grabbing at anything within reach. Another branch. A handful of leaves. Rough bark. Anything.</p><p>Nothing held.</p><p>The world tilted.</p><p>Then I was falling.</p><p>I remember the strange silence more than anything.</p><p>People say you scream when you fall.</p><p>I didn't.</p><p>It was as if my voice had been trapped somewhere inside my chest.</p><p>The sky spun above me.</p><p>Green leaves flashed past my face.</p><p>Branches whipped across my arms and shoulders as they snapped against my body.</p><p>Everything blurred together.</p><p>This can't be happening.</p><p>I'm falling...</p><p>I'm actually falling.</p><p>Time slowed in the cruelest way imaginable.</p><p>Every second stretched.</p><p>Every thought arrived all at once.</p><p>What if I hit my head?</p><p>What if I break my back?</p><p>What if I never stand up again?</p><p>For the first time in my seventeen years, death stopped being a story that happened to other people.</p><p>It was suddenly close enough to breathe.</p><p>Close enough to touch.</p><p>I could almost feel it waiting beneath me.</p><p>My heart pounded so hard it drowned out every other sound.</p><p>I didn't know where the girl was.</p><p>I didn't know if she was screaming.</p><p>I couldn't even look.</p><p>The ground was rushing toward me faster than my mind could keep up.</p><p>I wanted to stop.</p><p>I wanted to wake up.</p><p>I wanted someone—anyone—to catch me before I reached the earth.</p><p>But there was no one between me and the ground.</p><p>Only air.</p><p>Only fear.</p><p>Only the terrifying realization that I had no control anymore.</p><p>And then...</p><p>The ground was right there.</p><p><em>TO BE CONTINUED...</em></p>
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