The Parachutist

This story was written with the help of Rory's Story cubes but I managed  to delete the photo and don't have the cubes with me. Maybe you could try to guess which cubes were on display.



Marco hadn't seen Danny looking so happy for ages. it had been 6 months since Sue had walked out and Danny had hardly smiled since. But tonight in the Bridge public house, Marco didn't have to be a genius to notice that something had changed, which was lucky for two reasons, one Danny's moping was really beginning to get on Marco's nerves and two Marco wasn't a genius. 

'What's up with you?' He said as Danny took a swig of his beer.

'What do you mean?' Danny was playing coy but he was desperate to tell someone. 

'That gormless grin.' Marco said. 

'You won't believe this,' Danny started, 'but I've met someone and I think she might be, well you know, the one.' 

'Cool, what's her name?' 

'Jenny,' Danny said, 'and you won't believe how we met.' 

'Try me.' 

'Well it was New Year's Day, I was pottering around the house when it seemed to go dark, like there was a shadow falling over the house. Anyway I nipped out side half expecting to see a flying saucer hovering over the town but it was not a flying saucer, it was a parachute.' 

'A parachute?'

'A parachute and somehow it was being drawn to my house like a magnet. Closer and closer it came, until boom' Danny slapped the table, 'the parachutist landed slap bang in the middle of my garden like that was exactly where she was meant to land. Anyway she took off her helmet and ‘chute and boom, standing there was the most wonderful woman looking all apologetic and a little bit scared.' 

'What did you do?'

'Well what could I do? I stood there speechless looking at the woman who had the keys to my heart hoping that she was going to use them. Eventually the cat gave me my tongue back and I offered her a cup of tea. We chatted  while we were waiting for her team to come to pick her up. I didn't know it was a tradition to do a parachute jump on New Year's Day and she didn't know how she'd got herself blown so badly off course. Anyway eventaully a man with a van came, she gave me a cheery wave godbye and i thought that was that. 2 days later I got an envelope through the door with a card, thanking me for my kindness and suggesting she took me out for a drink to thank me properly for looking after her. That was two weeks ago and we've seen each other every day since. ' Danny sat back smiling at his friend who looked a little bemused.

'You're right' he said eventually. 'I don't believe it.'