An unexpected feeling
Chapter 1
"It's just a goodbye"
Life is sang, life is cried
It changes like colours
Life lights up, life turns off
With no grudge, nothing comes to nothing
Life is sang, life is danced
It changes like the moods…
Everybody has a purpose in life: some had a path all traced since birth, others don't really know where they are going, others think they have their life all planed until they find themselves lost and all of a sudden on an unknown road, opened with lots of hurdles to jump…
Alistair Cornwell had always loved airplanes. He was dreaming of piloting airplanes ever since he was a little boy, that's why after getting his high school diploma in England, he went to piloting school and also did some engineering studies when he went back to the United States. With his diploma in his pocket and thanks to his family's relations, he became a pilot in major commercial airlines. He was engaged to Patricia O'Brien whom he met in school in England. He was a pilot, he had a job, so he was going to pick a date for his wedding with Patricia.
Patricia O'Brien was getting ready to go to dinner with her fiancé Alistair Cornwell. She was a little chubby and she wore glasses. She was wearing a beautiful red dress and had let her hair down on her shoulders. She put on a light make up on and some perfume Alistair had given to her for her birthday. She lived with her grand-mother Martha, whom she loved with all her heart.
- You're very beautiful honey, said grandma
- Thank you grandma, she said smiling
- Have fun with your fiancé.
- Thank you grandma
The phone rang. She answered.
- Patty?
- Candy! Are you all right?
- Yes, Alistair is on his way
- Thank you. He forgot his cellphone again?
- As usual
- Well nothing out of the ordinary. How is it going?
- Yes, Anthony and I are going to have dinner with his father and the old hag, great!
- Whoa! Good luck! Said Patricia laughing
- Thanks, I'm going to need it! Anthony's grandma could be as nice as yours?
- No luck there… that's too bad indeed…
- Have a great evening sweetie
- Thanks, same to you!
Candy, Patricia's best friend and Alistair's cousin had had her heart broken. She was dating Terrence Grandchester, whom she had also met in school in England. They had found each other again in America, Terry was an actor in a theatre and Candy was going to nursing school. They were supposed to get married when there was an accident at the theatre in which Terry was saved by Susanna Marlowe, one of his colleagues, very in love with him, and who had lost her leg in the process. Terry was forced to do the honorable thing and marry that girls and take care of her. Candy thought she was going to die of grief. One day, she had the shock of her life; Anthony, her first love had come back from the dead! The great aunt Elroy was hiding thim to keep him far from Candy, whom she was calling a bad luck bird. Anthony had learn the breakup of Candy's engagement to Terry, decided to go on a hunger strike until his grand-mother let him go to go see Candy. That day, Candy was down in the dumps, completely depressed, when Anthony showed up at her doorstep. She fainted and he caught her. He looked a lot like Albert, but Candy knew it was Anthony and not Albert. The couple got back together. Anthony mended Candy's broken heart. They were now happily married.
Terrence Grandchester had married Susanna Marlowe, he had done his duty because he was a gentleman. His movie career had taken off with a blast, after the media was talking about the story of his life, his bad luck… The producer saw an opportunity to make money. Terrence Grandchester's popularity, poor victim of circumstances, forced to break up with his fiancée to do the honorable thing, had went up to the roof, because he had behaved like the gentleman he was. But unfortunately, Susanna Marlowe contracted a deadly infection and she had died a little while after giving birth to little Sean Terrence Grandchester. In public, he was giving the picture of a happy man, but in reality, he was unhappy and was barely looking at his son. The nannies would take care of him. Learning that not only the flower boy, like he called him, was alive and kicking, but that he had married his Candy, had made him gone mad! Life was really unfair! Candy had married her first love while he had married a woman who was far from being the love of his life. Candy was the love of his life; they were in harmony, sexually, no other woman could satisfy him like her…
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Patricia was at the restaurant with Alistair, they already had dinner, and he told her something.
- The Concorde? Said Patricia, but… your schedule had just doubled…
- It's a supersonic plane… the trip is going to take two times less!
- Yes, but if your schedule is doubled, for me it doesn't change anything
- Patricia, I want to make more hours on the supersonic, to have a better schedule, more flexible. My family helped me get this job, so I have to show them that I can work, that I'm not just a daddy's boy, to whom they had given a job like a piece of Candy…
- Oh Alistair! You know that I don't really like planes that much, I always pray when you leave… and now, you'll be in the supersonic planes…
- It's the plane with the less accident, you know…
- That doesn't make me feel better! Tell me it never had accidents…
- Patty, you know that it's impossible. The Titanic was built to be unsinkable and it sank on its maiden voyage… there are no guaranties in life…
- You couldn't have found a job on land and be passionate about it?
- We're safe nowhere honey… you know that…
- I love you and I don't want to be separated from you all the time…
- Let me do those hours and I'll have more time to spend with you after our wedding… that we will need to postpone…, he said with a little voice.
- What? Oh no! Again?!
- It's the last time, I promise you. You can have your teacher's license in the mean time and start working…
- But…
- Please Patricia, try to understand…
- Are you trying to understand me? I've been waiting for years for you to finish your engineering studies, piloting school… and now you're making me wait again?
- I'm sorry Patty, really, it's for our own good. Think about when we're going to have kids.
- Yes, I'm thinking and I think I'll feel better if you had a work on land and not in the air…
- Patricia…
- I know that it's your passion my darling, but you have to think about me too… about us, we're going to get married and we're going to have a family, and I'd like the children that were going to have to see you more often, every day, for example.
- You knew from the start that I wanted to be a pilot and you agreed with me.
Patricia felt like she was being selfish. Alistair loved piloting, all you had to do is look into his eyes, how shinny they were when he talked about planes and piloting. But an accident could happen anytime… but a happy husband was also important.
- I'm going to miss you and when I'm going to see you, I'll only be too happy to see you again, he said with a smile
Patricia blushed and smiled.
- I have the keys to the apartment downtown, he said
Patricia was living with her grandma Martha and Alistair lived at the manor with the rest of the family, so, the apartment downtown was perfect to have a little roll in the hay after a date… among other things.
So they went to have a last drink and then they went to the master bedroom where the bed was done, fortunately. They took their clothes off and gave into their passion. Alistair the family genius, a little absent minded sometimes, was a fabulous lover and passionate lover. He made sure Patty was satisfy, with the preliminary and she did the same thing… when they were ready, they climb together to the heights of ecstasy. When Alistair had to go to work, he was doubly passionate. They made love three times before he took her back home. They were in front of her door, kissing fierily.
- I'm going to miss you, said Patricia
- I'm going to miss you too.
- Come back to me fast.
- I'll come back, don't worry
- I love you
- I love you
They kissed again and again. Alistair left, he was living in the morning on the supersonic plane, a dream trip for him, a plane so fast… He felt like he was piloting a space ship.
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"We are interrupting our program to bring you a special report, We just learned that the supersonic plane, coming from Paris, going to New York and Chicago, has disappeared from radars… they said to have no survivors…"
It was the morning Alistair was supposed to come back and Patricia was going to make him his favourite meal. Grandma Martha was in the living room looking at her show on televisions…
- Patricia! PATRICIA! Yelled Grandma Martha.
- Yes, Grandma? Said Patty coming all panicky, what's going on?
- Patricia…
Grandma Martha face was decomposed looking at the television. Patricia looked at the television…
"Once again, the supersonic plane coming from Paris going to New York and Chicago has disappeared form radars… there are no survivors…"
- NOOOOOOOOO!
Patricia fainted. Her grandma picked her up and put her on the couch of the living room.
Patricia felt like she was waking up from a horrible nightmare in which she was unable to open her eyes. She finally opened her eyes and she found Candy and Annie by her side.
- Patty? Said Candy
- Are you ok? Asked Annie
- Candy, Annie, what areyou doing here?
All of a sudden the memory came back to her…
- ALISTAIR!NO!
- Calm down honey, said Candy
- Alistair, said Patty again
- I'm sorry Patty, said Annie crying
- NO! NO! He can't be dead! NO!
- The plane exploded in the air, said Candy crying
- NO!
- You have to strong Patricia, said grandma Martha, I know what you're feeling
Her grandma took her in her arms. Patricia cried against her chest. She hugged Candy and Annie, one a the time
Patricia didn't know how she survived the following days…
The whole Andrew family was devastated. They had funeral service without the body, it was going to take months to recover everybody's body… the burial will happen after the recovery.
When everybody arrived, Patricia felt even worse because it had become concrete all of a sudden. Archibald would go see her often with Annie and Candy. They arrived together at the service.
Patricia had lost a lot of weight ever since she got the news, she barely ate. She was literally making herself sick.
The service gave Alistair all the honors, for Patricia it was horrible, she didn't care. Her dear Alistair was gone for good.
Life was really not fair!
Terrence Grandchester had come incognito to assist to the service of his school friend. It was hurting him too much to see Candy with her husband, he tried to pretend he didn't care. Patricia was with her family who were consoling her. He remembered Susanna's funerals. None of his old friends had come. You have to say that he severed all ties with them after his break up with Candy… But he had to come for Alistair, even from afar, he was his friends…
Archie and Annie were married and in the family way. Candy and Anthony had a little girl name Rosemary. And there was no more Alistair and Patricia… nor Terry and Susanna…