That thing called L O V E...
Everything was blaring at me. Flashing lights of the black, London Taxi cabs making their way through the city and straight past me. Their bright lights mixed with the street lamps and the reflections of light shining off the Thames murky waters, blinding me. I breathed on my hands, trying to heat them up the best I could as I made my way to the London underground just infront of Big Ben. The mighty clock towered over me so high you could only just make out the details at the top. It chimed loudly through the lamp lit, winter night of the London streets, marking the time as 9 in the afternoon. Just a few more hours till my flight to America. To meet a close friend of mine. My hands started shaking slightly at the thought of it but I quickly shook it off and carried on walking down the stairs to the windy, underground tracks just ahead...
The train shook to a stop as a young womens voice announced that the train had arrived at heathrow airport over the radio before quickly warning everyone to mind the gap between the train and platform. Not like anyone listened to that anymore. I picked up my bag and stepped off the train as the doors quickly closed behind me. I sighed with relief. The never-ending hour of switching trains was over at last. I quickly figured out where to go to get to heathrow airport then made my way to the nearest esculator and slowly waited as I made my way up to ground level again.
There were lots of people in the airport. Some sat down on chairs waiting for their flights, others in the coffee shops sipping on their overly priced Starbucks coffee, while the last few we're either making their way to their flight docks or looking around the clothes shop that were neatly lined down the large white hall ways that towered up around me, clearing showing what was on the next floor. I sighed then looked at the time on my phone. Just as I expected, I had got here way to early. An hour early at that. I was just so worried that I would miss my flight so I ended up leaving earlier than needed just so I didn't end up worrying all the way here. Maybe a cup of hot chocolate would calm me down I thought to myself as I looked over to the small Starbucks coffee shop. I winced at just the thought of the expensive, thick liquid. Yet... it still tasted so good! The thought of caramel and whipped cream on a steaming cup of hot chocolate with a small biscuit made me go. I mean... it was only once right? And I had plenty of pounds left that I didn't exchange into dollars incase something bad happened. I made my way up the stairs and found a empty table for me to sit as I waited for someone to come serve me. Soon enough a pretty, young girl with a small mole underneath her bottom lip came to take my order.
I smiled as she walked away with my caramel hot chocolate with extra whipped cream noted down on her pad, knowing she was only acting nice because everyone one of my pennies that I wasted on the expensive drink went into her little piggy bank.
After I had taken my time to gulp down my warm beverage I found myself in a small Tesco's express that I found, buying myself a western fried chicken wrap to keep me fed for the next 45 minutes as I waited paitently for my flight to arrive. I worked my way back down to the ground floor and sat myself in one of the empty, blue seats in the middle of the large airport, pulled my phone out of my pocket and stared at the screen for a while before smiling when I saw the name 'Alfred BurgerLovin Jones' there. I unlocked my phone then started to slowly read the text message, taking in everyone of his daft words that most of the time made no sense to me because they were so random.
"YO! Alice! I hope your journey so far has been safe. I can't wait to see you again! I know you haven't got any credit left and can't text me back but just keep smiling all the way here for me okay? So the first thing I see of you is your smile! \(w)/"
I laughed slightly as a small blush appeared on my cheeks, hidden by the red glasses I was wearing. That was Alfred alright... That was him...