“I had a great time tonight,” Zay Wagner said as he walked Avery Fuller to the door of her family’s penthouse.
He didn’t know whether she’d fallen, or been pushed, or whether-crushed by the weight of unspoken secrets-she’d decided to jump. He didn’t know who she was, or how she’d gotten outside. When the dock monitor found what remained of her body and shakily pinged in a report of the incident, all he knew was that the girl was the first person to fall from the Tower in its twenty-five years. If only she hadn’t gone up there in the first place. But as the ground rushed ever faster toward her, the girl could think only of the past few hours, the path she’d taken that ended here. They say that before death, people’s lives flash before their eyes. But now-her hair whipped up like a banner, the silk dress snapping around the curves of her body, her bright red mouth frozen in a perfect O of shock-now, in this instant, she was more beautiful than she had ever been. In just three minutes, the girl would collide with the unforgiving cement of East Avenue. The floor-to-ceiling windows were squares of velvety darkness, though in the distance the sun was quietly rising, the skyline turning ocher and pale pink and a soft, shimmering gold.Īnd then a scream cut abruptly through the silence as a girl fell toward the ground, her body falling ever faster through the cool predawn air. The sounds of laughter and music were dying down on the thousandth floor, the party breaking up by bits and pieces as even the rowdiest guests finally stumbled into the elevators and down to their homes.
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