remember this?

"well, do you?" she asked him again.
"of course," he replied.

because, of course, there was no way that he couldn't remember something like that, was there?
how did you forget the sensation of your two best friends gripping onto your arms and slowly lowering you over the side of a ten-story building? how did you forget the feeling of every cell in your body shrinking away from the ground, willing itself to crawl upwards against the force of gravity? or the knowledge that it was only your friends that held you back from the abyss? how did you forget the strength in their eyes as they hauled you back up? and how did you forget the responsibility when they asked you to do the same for them? or the sense of absolute trust, bonding, and love that such an act engendered? you didn't. that was the simple answer. it stayed with you for always.

"i wish we could do it again," she said.
"we can't. i'm not strong enough to hold you on my own, and you're not strong enough to hold me either. it would take all three of us together."
"i know." as she slipped her hand into his and squeezed it hard...
"that's why it's only a wish."