A Short Story: You Only Live Once?

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You Only Live Once
It was about three o’clock in the morning and I could not sleep. I felt like a thousand butterflies were fluttering around in my stomach. I kept pounding myself with the question of why I agreed to go skydiving. I finally fell asleep about an hour before my alarm went off.
The day had come; I was going to jump and sore high in the sky. When I arrived at Skydive Carolina, the first thing I saw were people falling out of the sky above me.
At Skydive Carolina I took a tandem class that taught me the basics of skydiving. After seeing a few of the people around sixty years old, I felt more confident.
With barley any sleep, I found myself eating a large delicious breakfast, which could have been my last meal. I then had to pretty much sign my life away with a waiver that basically stated if anything happened, they are not responsible.
The tandem instructors discussed how to exit the airplane all the way to freefalling, pulling the parachute, and landing. They made me wear a jumpsuit. My jumpsuit was purple, so I didn't complain even though it reeked of body odor. My i...

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