Since i already got a good amount of reviews on my first chapter, and i updated my other ones, i figured i'd give you guys another chapter. But don't expect fast updates all of the time. Enjoy! Review!
I watch him sit down, with his headphones already glued to his ears. He's going through his Ipod, his thumb gliding slowly across the touch screen. I look away from him, my shyness appearing when I realized he saw me looking. I put my focus onto the window, and watch the other planes be loaded up with passengers. I can't help but think that Caroline probably hates this, him sitting with me. But he probably hates it, too. Because it's obvious he didn't choose to be seated next to me. It just happens to be where he was put.
After a long agonizing eight whole minutes, the flight attendants voice appears over head, telling us to put on our seatbelts because we are about to take off. Austin's music is noticeably loud, and he doesn't move, so I assume he hasn't heard the announcement. I put on my seatbelt, and tighten it as tight as it can go, and I hesitate, take a deep breath and tap him on the shoulder.
He turns to me, and takes out a head phone, "Yeah?" He asks, in a monotone.
"You need to put your seat belt on. We are about to take off." I say in an odd voice. I'm nervous when I talk to him, for some reason.
He smiles, "Oh. Thanks." And with that he puts his seat belt on.
I'm in panic mode now, my fears hitting me at once. Is take off going to be freaky? I wouldn't know. I know that Trish would be in totally therapist mode right now, but she isn't here. I have to deal with this myself. I stare straight ahead at the back of the seat in front of me and start breathing lightly in and out. Now, I assumed Austin went back to his headphone world and would have no idea what's going on with me, until I look in the corner of my eye and he's staring at me.
I stop my probably freaky looking breathing and turn to him. The plane is moving, taking off, and I try so hard to pretend it's not happening.
"Are you okay?" He asks me.
"Me? Fine." I say, with strong breathing in between.
"You've never flown before have you?" He asks. But I don't see even a touch of humor in his question.
I just shake my head and turn my attention back to the seat. Eventually, the plane is flying smoothly, and what I thought was terrible, was over in a matter of seconds. My breathing slowly goes back to normal while Austin still stares at me in what seems like concern.
"We're fine now. We're up in the air. Everything's going to be fine now." He says nicely.
"Until landing." I sigh.
"It's really not that bad; Just a little bumpy." He says.
The conversation sort of just, drifts off, and Austin puts his music back on, but only puts one headphone in. His ear facing me is free, maybe in case I freak out again? I don't know. I decide to grab my songbook out of my bag and look through it. I haven't had much inspiration to write a new song lately, and I don't really know why. I put it away after a few minutes, bored of it already. I wish I had brought my ipod, I totally forgot it on my desk. I lean back on the seat and sigh, staring at the ceiling. I turn my head to Austin and he's already looking at me again.
"Are you bored?" He asks.
I nod. "You didn't bring an ipod or anything?" he asks me.
"No, I forgot it." I say sadly.
He then switches his earphones, and hands me his free one. He wants me to listen to music with him, and this means I'll have to lean in closer to him, since his headphone chord isn't very long. I wonder how Caroline would feel about this, and I wonder why Austin, the jock, Mr. Popular, is even paying attention to me at all, but man, I'll take what I can get.
I grab the head phone and cautiously put it into my ear, just in case this is a sick joke and it explodes. I lean in near Austin, and our shoulders are touching. I think of how our music type probably isn't the same, and I may get bored soon. But after the first song plays, and I already love it, I have a good feeling about this.
A few hours into the ride, and we find out we are into the same exact music, and we're both ecstatic about it. After we start to replay our favorite songs, I find myself drifting off to sleep, but I force my eyes to stay open. What if I fall asleep on his shoulder and he like hates it and pushes me off? But I'm so tired…
Eventually I do fall asleep, and yeah that's right, on his shoulder. I'm awaken not too long after by someone loudly coughing, and I look over to see that it is Caroline, staring right at us, fake coughing to purposely wake me up, but when I move my head up to look at Austin, he's asleep; which means he obviously didn't mind me falling asleep on him. I can't help my evil smile, Caroline, miss popular, is jealous of me.
I sit back up, and stretch, and that's when the plan sudden jerks to the side slightly. I think I felt my heart stop right there. Austin jumps awake, his face all sleepy and his hair messed up and looks around. I grab on to the arm of my chair and look around wide eyed. No one else really reacted much, just a little surprised, but not in full out panic mode like me.
Austin turns to me and sees the horror in my face, "It's fine, things like this happen sometimes." He says.
I nod, but that's when the plane does it again, and my eyes are about to bulge out of my head, "Sorry folks, we're going through a small storm, everything's fine. Keep tight." The pilot says.
"See, we're fine." Austin says in a reassuring voice.
I nod, "Sure sure." I say breathlessly.
After a few minutes of being still, I figured everything was okay, until the plane starts to shake, like there's an earthquake or something. It shakes for only about 30 seconds, but it mind as well have been a year. My grip tightens on the arm, and my knuckles start to turn white. Austin looks around, watching other people's reactions. I think they are starting to panic a little, especially the woman in front of us. She's nudging her husband awake, asking him what's going on.
Suddenly, the plane feels like it drops a few feet, like when you're on an elevator and you feel it fall underneath you. This sends my stomach in knots and I jerk forward on my seat. Austin's arm falls in front of me, stopping me from falling too far forward. I can feel his arm on my stomach, "Are you okay?" He asks.
I nod, "What's going on?" I ask in a whiney voice, too afraid to hide my tremendous amount of fear.
"I-I don't know." He stutters.
The plane does it again, and then jerks to the side, while shaking, all at once. A flight attendant voice appears out of nowhere and tells us to put our seat belts on. I start to freak out, my breathing becoming hard, and I struggle to put my seatbelt on, my hands shaking too much to focus on anything. Austin puts his on quickly and notices my struggling. I'm shaking so violently that the seatbelt falls out of my hands. Austin quickly grabs my trembling hands and moves them to my sides, and he securely clicks the belt into place.
The plane keeps doing random horrible jerks forward and downward, and everyone starts to panic. An elderly couple in the back starts yelling at a flight attendant, asking what's going on, and she runs into the front of the plane. I can hear Stacy complaining behind me because she can't write in her diary, and Caroline is yelling at her seat buddy, Thomas.
Flashes of light appear everywhere, and that's how I know we're in the middle of lightening. The plane starts to tremble and this time, it's bad. Our emergency oxygen masks fall out at our heads, and when I can feel the plane falling, and I mean falling downward. This is when I realize the horrible truth of this situation, we're crashing.
Everyone's screaming, and the plane is making terrible noises. Tears start to stream down my face as I watch everything that's going on around me and that's when I feel something, and I look down and it's Austin's hand, grabbing mine. I turn to face him and that's when I see his face, for the first time ever, full of fear. And this is when I know, things are bad.