April POV

I saw plane coming and going. But none of them were mine. I got here four hours early because the plane got delayed and I didn't check my port screen. I still had another hour and a half. While I was waiting I bought gum, looked at gossip online, and went to a coffee shop. I still had a little coffee left in my cup but it was cold. I decided to go back at looking at planes.

I could only keep looking at the planes for another minute or two. I was too bored and I decided to go buy something else. I didn't really care what I was going to buy. This trip was paid for by my parents because I was visiting them and they were rich. They were so nice, but it got annoying when you lived with them for years. It was so annoying I went to collage in a different country. I still visited them a lot though.

I remember when I was young people thought I was like them too, unlike my brother who wasn't anything like them. Now my brother is one of the most wanted criminals in the galaxy. I even changed my last name to Smith since my brother goes by his last name, Thorne. I'm glad I went to college.

I got up and bought a bagel. I just ate it and keep reading gossip. The internet was going crazy since the emperor was kidnapped. But I knew Cinder would keep him in good hands, and not because she is with my brother. I think if it was just him kidnapping him he wouldn't be in good hands. I don't want to think about the reason.

Then I heard, ''Flight 3, takeoff in 10 minutes.'' Finally!

But then I heard, "There has been a change of plans." No, not another delay or that the flight is cancelled.

"All passengers please come on right now. We are all putting you in the back of the plane, in different seats." I wonder what is happening as I walked towards the line of people who were coming on the plane.

I got into line of a smaller row of people then I thought. There was a woman with two children in front of me. She had a blue dress and a flower in her long, blonde hair that flowed around her. She was beautiful, but not so much the kids. They were both boys and the bigger one had something stuck in his hair and was shoving the other. The woman was trying to grab something that was in the smaller ones hand. I couldn't imagine her being their mother. She looked very young and pretty. I couldn't get my eyes off her. She gave up on trying to get the thing in his hand.

I had to ask her, or talk to her. ''Are you their mother?" I asked

"Yes" she said, sounding almost a little hurt. I regretted it so much. I probably sounded like I thought those kids were out of control and making sure they were here with someone.

"Why are we all in changing seats?" I asked trying to change the subject.

"There is not enough people going on the flight because most of the fighting is in New Beijing and the least is in America. Also they are sending people to fight." She said. I could tell she didn't want to talk to me. So I looked out the widow as the line moved up. Sure enough I saw people in uniforms with guns walking onto the plane.

Then as soon as I looked back at her she started talking "You know lunars are sneaking onto earth to be spies for Luna. Lunars that look normal," she looked at her kids."Like dads of three little girls." Then she tried again to get the toy out of his had.

When she talked the second time she didn't look as pretty. She had dark circles under her eyes and it looked weird that she was wearing a flower to the airport.

Then a flight attendant got up. She said,"I'll you up in pairs of fours or twos that you'll sit next to during the flight. I will also tell you what seat you are sitting in."

When she came towards me she put me and this girl in a cloak, that I couldn't see her face, together near the very back.

The girl just keep looking around the plane most of the flight. She looked nervous. I didn't want to talk to her. She didn't talk to me until the end of the flight.

"Why are you going to the most dangerous place on the earth?" She asked looking at her toes.

"I live there and have a job. I also already I have a ticket and don't feel like getting rid of it. Why are you?"

"I live there also." She said still looking at her feet.

"Lots of people live there that are staying with family far away. I'm not because I am not planning to live there long and all my family lives here, but I can't live with them. Why are you?"

She looked uncomfortable, "All my family lives there and I have to live there."

"Why?" I don't think it was that big a deal, I was bored of gossip online and needed to talk.

"You seem nice, and nobody really cares about me anyway. They just care about my brother." She took down her cloak to reveal spiky black hair and weird, but beautiful rainbow eyes.

I felt bad that it took me a moment to realize that she was the princess because of the "no one cares about me."

"So you have to take your brother's place until he gets back."

"Do you think he is going to get back?" She asked looking up at me with those creepy silver eyes.

"Yes." I said, but it felt weird.

"I think Luna will win the war and Linh Cinder, Carswell Thorne, and my brother will all be forgotten. They'll probably crash in the middle of the ocean." Then she laughed. "Take that Levana!" Then more laughing.

My heart broke when she said Thorne's name. She couldn't see it because of the laughing. She almost seemed a little crazy. I just looked at my shoes until the flight ended.