“I’m okay,” Harvey said with a thin smile. He didn’t need his spouse worried, after all -- he had chosen this date. He knew what he had signed himself up for.

But his hands gripped the railing of the hot air balloon and his face had never been so pale. Some sweat slipped from his brow as he looked down. A shiver ran down his spine as a slight shake in the balloon made him swallow a gasp.

There they were, high above the town. And here he was, panicking over his fear of heights. He kept it cool — no use in freaking out now.