Chapter 1:
"Where are we going?"
September 11th, 6:00am
It was early in the morning, I was out on my bedroom balcony, watching the sun slowly starting to rise out from its behind, making the sky glow with its bright mix of orange and pink colours, making it come to life. It was so beautiful that all I wanted to do right now was just sit here all day, admiring at the scenery and start doing a painting of it. But sadly and disappointed, I couldn't right at this moment as I was getting ready to go on a 2 week vacation with some friends. My friend Vanessa booked this as a surprise trip for my birthday which is 7 days from now. She wouldn't tell me where were going until we arrived at the airport. Damn it, I hate waiting this long, I start to get impatient after awhile. But I really didn't have a choice though.
As much as I wanted to stay here and bicker about it, I didn't want to waste any more time, I went back inside to my bedroom to get ready and pack any last minute things I needed.
15 minutes later… 6:15am
I was sitting down in the living room downstairs waiting for Vanessa to arrive, her Mom was going to drive us to the airport. I was watching funny cat videos on my phone which I was dying of laughter from, that's when I heard something buzz, I looked on top of the screen to see there was a text from Vanessa, I clicked on it:
"Were leaving in a couple minutes, just waiting for my Mom to finish up, meet us outside"
- V
I text her back with a quick reply
"Ok"
- K
With that I quickly got off of the couch and went to go do any last minute stuff I needed to go do.
September 11th, 6:27am
*Beep! beep!*
I heard a car horn outside the house, that must be them. I was about head out the door when a heard a voice behind me.
" Uh, hello? Your not going to leave without giving me a kiss first"?
I turned around to see my Mom standing in her blue pyjamas, hair all messed up, looking tired and dazed
"My bad" I said apologetically while going to go kiss her on the cheek, then giving me a death hug which meant she didn't want to let go of me. " Mom, MOM! Can't breathe!" But thank goodness she let go after a few seconds.
She then looked at me giving me a reassuring look.
"I'm gonna miss you so much! The house feels lonely when your not here" she said looking all sad and pleading.
"I know it doesn't" I said back to her.
"Alright, don't want to keep you waiting, have fun, be safe, smile, be chatty-"
"Yeah, yeah I get it!" I said while grabbing my luggage and backpack.
"Email me at work when you get settled in"
"I will" I said before heading out the door, waving bye to her once more
"Say hi to Vanessa and her Mom for me"
"I will"
With that I closed the door behind me and headed out to the car that was waiting for me outside.
I looked to see Vanessa standing in front of the passenger side of the car on her phone waiting for me. She looked up, smiled and waved when she saw me coming down the front stairs of the house.
"Hey, you ready to go"? she asked while giving me a quick hug.
"Yeah"
"Ok, you can just put your stuff in the trunk, bring your purse with you though, were gonna get breakfast at the airport" she said while getting back in the front seat.
"Yep, awesome, sounds good" I said as I was walking towards it, seeing that its already opened for me. I put my stuff in, except my purse which I was bringing with me, closed the top down, got in the back right side seat of the car while closing the car door.
"Good Morning Kristina, how are you?" Mrs. Garcia asked looking at me through the rearview mirror
"I'm good, how about you?" I asked while putting on my seat belt.
"I'm good thank you, are you girls excited?"
"Well, yeah, why wouldn't we!" We both said in unison.
"That's good, well it's getting late, don't want you both to miss your flight"
"Yep" We both said
With that, she started the car and drove off down the road towards the airport which only about 20 minutes from where we were.
"Oh, my Mom says hi by the way" I said to Mrs. Garcia.
"Say hi back for me, how's she doing?" She asked.
" She's good, work's the same, nothing new" I said
"That's good"
***
As we were getting closer and closer to the airport, I was looking out the car window as my mind was just overflowing right now with mixed thoughts and emotions, the more I think about it, the more anxious and nervous I get. My stomach was filling up with butterflies making my stomach muscles tighten every second, my whole body was shaking up a bit too.
But really, I was more worried to be honest...because this is actually the very first time I'm going out of the country on my own. I've been on numerous vacations by myself with friends and family but that was in our own home area.
Was it going to be somewhere that I've gone to before? I was thinking of possible countries that I've gone to before...Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico. Could it be one of those places but to a city I've never gone to before…or somewhere completely different? I don't know.
I'm probably going somewhere that I've never gone before, what if I hate it and never want to go back again? or maybe, if it's really good, then I just might end up liking it in the end and would want to go back again, who knows? But then again I don't know what I'm going to expect. Where ever we were going then hopefully it'll be worthwhile. I just pray and hope to God for the best that everything will work out perfectly.
