“I thought I’d give you something you could both use and enjoy” Shane winked naughtily.

“Oh I’m sure we will Shane” Alice winked back and looked over to me, winking at me too while I felt my face blush with embarrassment.

After about half an hour we arrived at the place where the next event of the day that I had planned would be taking place. I reached into my pocket and took out a silk scarf which I tied over Alice’s eyes as a makeshift blindfold, much to her protest. We led her out of the car and stood her in front of the sign at the entrance of the place and I took off the blindfold, while Shane filmed on the video camera. We were standing in front of a sign that said “Skydive LA”. Alice’s face lit up when she saw the sign. I had remembered Alice telling me that one of the things she had always wanted to do was go skydiving.

“Oh my god! Are you serious? I’m really going to go skydiving?” she hopped up and down on the spot excitedly.

I walked up to Alice and wrapped my arms around her back while she looked at the sign and kissed her neck. “Yep, you’re really going to go skydiving”.

Half an hour later we all sat in a waiting room chatting happily while Alice was getting briefed on what she would have to do and getting changed into the right outfit.

Shane turned to me. “You’ve really put a lot of thought into today, I’m so happy for you guys, I can tell how much you love each other”. Shane’s words touched me.

“Yeah we really do, I never thought I could love someone so much. I just wanted today to be special for her” I desperately wanted to ask Shane if she knew of Alice’s self-harming but I knew that it would be an invasion of her privacy. Just then, Alice walked through the doorway and her expression was pretty pissed off. The whole room erupted into laughter when we saw what Alice was wearing.

“Shut up” Alice pouted. She was dressed in a horrendous pale blue body suit but the funniest thing was her egg-shaped hat that was made of a rubbery material and was slightly pointed at the top, making Alice look like some kind of pixie. Over this hat were some plastic goggles.