Five Weeks by Shruti Omar (good books to read for teens .TXT) 📕

"It's not about that." She sighed irately looking down, "I, kind of, trust you but I am afraid of heights and that's not something abnormal, every person has some fears in his life, what can we do?"

"We can fight with them, we can overcome our fears. Life is too short, Anahita and living as a wimp is not the best option. I know you can't be completely intrepid; no one can. Even I am not but this is very trivial and I know you can do this, you just need to build faith."

"What if I die?" Horror dripped in her eyes.

"Then let's die together." He winked at her, scoffing at the situation. She smiled, rolling her eyes and nodded halfheartedly, "Okay, let's do it. Choose that orange one, it has so many strings. At least we shall be little safe."

Then suddenly a thought trespassed her mind and she clutched his hand when he was about to go for the booking, he craned his neck to face her and wiggled his eyebrows questionably. "We are riding together, right? You're not going book two, okay!"

"I know. I will never send you alone for doing something like this and if it relives you, I have done paragliding so many times. You'll be safe." He assured her and waded off after she nodded, thinning her lips.

Her palms were clammy and she was sweaty. She was still having second thoughts. Why the hell I had to say yes? She mentally whined and swallowed looking at the cliff where people were taking a race to fly and her heart thumped, what if I fell from here? What if our glider bursts? What if we never get to see our family? What if we die in cold waters of Sardinia?

She closed her eyes taking a deep breath, "No Anu, you can do it. It's not that difficult and you've seen worst situations before and this is just a sport. An activity thousands of people indulged themselves in. Trust yourself, trust....Yuvraaj. Have faith Anu. Have faith!"

After her mini self-motivational piece of soliloquy, she was ready to believe and staggered towards her husband who was enthused for no valid reason. She made it to the point that if they were going to die, they would die together as he quoted but she knew, he would not let them die so soon.