"Lindsey, come on! We're already late and the plane's not going to wait for us!" Kate called and sighed while she nipped at her coffee in the kitchen. Her younger sister, Lindsey, was still in the bath. The door swung open and she called,
"I'm finished, jeez! Why are you always so grumpy?" She entered the kitchen and Kate chuckled.
"You look like if we're going on a party instead of a one day flight to the other end of the world," the elder girl said and cocked an eyebrow. The young one wore a V-neck sleeveless top featured all over leopard print, a contrast waistband, pleated bust and a keyhole back detail. Her jeans looked like leather but were just black denim.
"Well, sorry that I want to look good by arriving in another country," she rolled her eyes at her older sister, grabbed her bag and lifted it over her shoulder.
"Can we move now?" Kate asked and Lindsey nodded. Kate grabbed her bag as well and together they left the apartment and stepped out on the street.
"Taxi!" Lindsey called and raised her hand to stop the black cab in front of them.
"Hello, ladies. Where to?" the young driver with dreadlocks asked with a wide smile which revealed some marvelous white teeth.
"Heathrow, please. As fast as possible," Kate said and the two sisters dropped into the backseat of the car. The driver led the car back onto the street again and snaked through the morning traffic of London.
"I'm so glad that we're in New Zealand tomorrow. I really need to get out of this loud and busy city for a couple of months," Lindsey said while her forehead leaned against the window of the cab.
"And don't forget that we're able to celebrate your eighteenth birthday on the other side of the planet. We can picnic at the beach and watch the sun rise and in the evening we can go to a club and dance through the night. After that we're off to the wild. That'll be wonderful!" Kate added with a smile.
The driver watched them through the rearview mirror and turned the music down a bit.
"Going on an adventure?" he asked with a smile.
"Yes! We're off to New Zealand," Lindsey replied happily.
"Sounds great," he said and turned the volume up a little again.
"You're lucky. The boarding had just begun a couple of moments ago," the woman at the security check said as the sisters finally passed and rushed to the gate with their bags on their backs. They reached the gate and tried to catch breath again while the man checked their boarding tickets.
"Everything seems to be in order," he finally said and waved them through. They entered the plane and stored their bags into the overhead locker. Kate lowered into the window seat. She always took the window seat while Lindsey took the seat next to her. They smiled at each other, relieved that they were finally on the plane.
'I can't believe she's going to turn eighteen soon,' Kate thought while she watched her sister. Lindsey had just put on the headphones of her iPod. Her long black hair fell over her shoulders while her blue eyes drifted along the other passengers around.
Kate smiled and cast a glance out of the window. Thoughtfully she watched her own reflection. She had long blonde hair and amber-colored eyes. She was more like their father while Lindsey was more like their mother.
Since that tragic car accident in which they had lost their parents, the two sisters had created a very tight bonding. Lindsey was the energetic one and Kate often had to be the mature one for she was already twenty-three. Sometimes she was a bit stubborn and moody but that's just because she somehow had the urge to take her mother's place to protect Lindsey from all that evil in the world.
She bit back a smile as she thought about that totally girly side of Lindsey. The young one was so into Prince Harry. She always dreamed about marrying him someday. She always tried to be tough, but that girly side often broke free whenever Harry was in the media.
Soon the plane lifted off into the sky heading to New Zealand. Kate closed her eyes and tried to catch some sleep. Next time she woke up was shortly before their short stopover in Hong Kong. They didn't have to leave the plane which was much of a relief and after two hours the plane was refueled and back in the sky.
The flight was long and exhausting and after another period of sleep, Kate opened her eyes and saw that Lindsey was asleep as well. Her head rested on Kate's shoulder. She placed a soft kiss on her sister's head and started to flip through the in-seat-entertainment to find the flight details.
According to the plan they seemed to be somewhere between Australia and New Zealand already.
'Wow, did I really sleep that long?' she thought and cast a glance out of the window. She could see nothing but the endless blue of the ocean beneath them.
Suddenly the plane started to shake. It was just a short moment but Lindsey jolted awake within a second. She grabbed Kate's hand in panic and asked,
"What was that?"
Kate gently stroked her sister's hand. "Nothing. That was just the wind. That's perfectly normal," she tried to calm her sister but the plane shook again, this time it was more violently than before and turned to the side. Lindsey cried and Kate could hear the loud screams of the other passengers while the plane continued to shake.
"Kate!"
"Hold on tight to me, Lindsey!" she said and could feel her sister's nails digging into her arm.
The air masks dropped down and Kate took one to put it on Lindsey's face before she took one for herself.
"Stay calm! Everything will be okay," she silently repeated over and over again.
The next thing she could hear was the evil sound of steel hitting the ocean.
Finally: Darkness.
