INFO: The text marked with bold, is spoken in Norwegian. (Accept the headlines)
Ch. 1: It's here the story begin.
If you where really, really quiet, you could clearly hear the birds sing outside the window. A light breeze blew through the leaf in the trees and made it rustle. Marina opened her eyes. The room was completely lid up, one of the many advantages of living north for the polar circle. The sun shined all summer. She stretched out in her bed and yawned, pulled her hand out to reach for her phone. The watch showed her that it was too early to wake up. She hit the pillow with a muffled sound. No reason to stress when it was the summer holidays.
The dream about cotton candy clouds and unicorns was brutally taken away from her as someone shaking her shoulders with supernatural powers. "MARINA!" A well known voice screamed into her ear. Marina sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Then I'm officially deaf on my left ear…" She stared furious at her best friend, Mia, who stood over her with an exciting expression on her face. "Guess what?!" She cheered. "Guess what?! Guess what?! Guess what?!" Her bouncing up and down made the pigtails at the top of her head dance. "Don't jump. You're making me dizzy…" Mia put a winy face on and quitted jumping. "If that's how you're gonna be, you fart." But she couldn't hold her serious face on to long. "Pack your suitcase! We're going on vacation!" She squealed out of pure happiness before she disappeared out the door. Vacation? What the fuck? Marina pulled her blankets off and followed Mia out in the living room. "What are you talking about?" She scratched her neck and scowled at the sun that brightened up the room. "We're going on a vacation. Hurry pack, the flight is leaving in a few hours." Mia pushed a white t-shirt down in the light blue suitcase of hers and ran into her own bedroom to find more she could bring. Marina was staring at her suitcase for a moment before her eyes slid over to the tickets at the table. She walked to the table and studied the tickets. Tromsoe Oslo – Frankfurt – Seoul, did they say. Her heart skipped a beating when she read the destination. Seoul… Like Seoul? The capital of South-Korea? "Miiia?!" With panic right around the corner, Marina ran into her best friend's room. "Why does the tickets say Seoul?" She waved them in front of Mia's face. Mia just smiled wide. "Guess once." She jumped at the spot she was standing. "Nooo…?" Marina didn't believe her friend. Mia nodded. "Yes!" She squealed. After that, everything was a complete mess. The two girls was jumping around, holding hands and screaming out of joy.
With two large wheel trunks each they stood outside the airport and stared excitingly up at the big building. It was as if they've never seen it before, even though they had drove by it at least thousand times. "It's happening now." Mia took Marinas hand and together they walked in. All out of a sudden, Marina started to laugh hysterically. It echoed in the hall they stood in. "What the heck are you laughing of?" Mia looked at her friend in embarrassment. "Nothing!" Marina straightened herself. "I just forgot to tell mom where I'm leaving." She put up an angelface and smiled innocently. Mia shook her head, but Marina could tell from the way she walked, that she smiled. Marina rapidly took up her phone and dialed her mother's number. "Hello?" Her mother's impatient voice in the other end. "Hi." Marina waited. How her mother would react, would always be a mystery. "Mia and I are going away for a while…" She said and waited for her mom's reaction. "Going away?" She sounded suspiciously. Marina could see her mom frown and clench her teeth. "Yes. Mia's dad had tickets. So we're leaving today, right now to be exactly." If she had to judge it by the silence in the other end, her plan wasn't really something her mother liked. "Is he going with?" Marina shook her head, but when she realized that her mom couldn't see her she quickly added a no. "Where are you going?" She sounded stiff. "Seoul." Marina looked over at Mia, who had dragged her to the counter where they were supposed to deliver their baggage. She could hear her mother draw her breath. "No." She said. Marina lost her chin. No? What the fuck? "Listen, mom… I am eighteen, it's the summer holiday and we have free tickets. You don't decide what I'm gonna do or where I'm doing it!" Her mom was just about to answer as Marina hung up. "I'm ready." She smiled at Mia and put her suitcases away to boarding.
The two girls were sitting at the café, waiting for their plane to Oslo to get ready. The boarding wasn't too many minutes away, but still they had taken their time to buy something to eat, since the food on the plane usually tasted like plastic. "Why did you get the tickets from your dad?" Marina looked at Mia over the edge of her cornbread before she took a big bite of it. "His original plan was to go by himself, with his fiancée, but she refused to go." She shrugged her shoulders and ate a little more of the cheese and ham baguette. "But that don't make any sense! Why didn't he just send the tickets back?" to talk with food in her mouth was one of the many bad habits Marina mastered. "One; you cannot return tickets if you already paid for them. And two; he knows that we absolutely love South-Korea, Japan, China etcetera…" She said it as if it was the most natural thing in the whole world. "Did you tell K?" Marina decided to let the tickets be and just be happy that Mia's father's fiancée had refused to go. "Yes. He knows, and he wished us happy travels." K was the girl's second best friend, besides each other. His name was actually Kristoffer, but K was so much easier to say. Marina was just about to ask Mia how her mother had taken the news about their little trip when the plane was called up to boarding. "Boarding til Oslo, gate fem." First in Norwegian. "Boarding to Oslo, gate five." Then in English. Marina filled her mouth with what was left of the cornbread and stood up. Looked inside her pockets to make sure she had her ticket. "Ready?" Mia was suddenly right by her side and she had a big smirk over her face. Marina pulled the ticket up and flashed it to Mia. "As an egg!"