Chapter 4
I fell asleep listening to music, when Anna thought I was listening to her. Anna soon woke me up by shoving me awake
"What?" I groaned peeling my eyes open. Anna's face came into view her eyes wide
"They're serving dinner and Hairspray is about to start" she pulled down the food tray from the seat. I rubbed my eyes and slid the cover of the plane window; city lights lit the world below me.
"Wait dinner?" I asked confused
"Yeah, well, you slept through lunch and like nearly the whole trip. And man you slept forever, I had to do the polite thing and eat your lunch before it got cold" she grinned at me, but when she saw me not smiling she stoped. My stomach growled at me and Anna cracked up laughing, I scowled at her. Anna sobered when a hot guy walked down the isle, he caught her eye and winked; Anna being Anna giggled and blushed and watched him walk back to his seat.
"He's pretty hot" Anna said looking at the food that had suddenly appeared in front of her. I groaned, and made a gagging sound
"Yeah and so does his boyfriend" I said looking back at the hot guy who was now kissing another guy. Anna frowned and ate her dinner angrily, I smiled and ate my roast lamb and vegies, and Helen had ordered us vodka and Tropical juice. It was cool, Helen actually trusted us with alcohol, but as she always said "only one" and would walk off and we knew even with her back to us she was smiling. Anna took a sip of her Tropka, as we liked to call it or Vodcal, and waved a hand at me and pointed to the screen in front of her.
"Hairspray's starting" She put her headphones in her ears and pointed to the pocket on the seat near my feet, and I saw a pair of white and red headphones. I soon copied her and we watched the small screens on the head of the seat in front of us. Anna sighed while I gagged at the really cocky bits, but we both mouthed the words when they were singing and laughed.
It wasn't until they changed the movie from Alien Vs Predator that, Anna and I actually snuggled up to each other; Anna buried her head in my neck and covered her eyes, but I sat there on the edge of my seat inching closer and closer to the screen. About half way in the movie the screen went black and the voice of our pilot came in different languages, first French, then Italian, German and than English.
"Dear passengers, this is your pilot speaking, we are flying over the lower half of Italy, please fasten your seat belts we should be landing soon. Thankyou for flying with Virgin Blue" I looked at Anna, she was asleep and stirred, but then found peace again. She looked like a little kid, who had exhausted herself by swimming all day.
I looked out the window again and saw the sunrise above the ocean, the clouds were pink and orange, the sky was a dark purple and suddenly I had butterflies in my stomach. I popped my head above the seat in front of me and looked back, something shinny caught my view. A silver heart pendant, with a red centre, like the one I had, I looked at the person wearing it. He had brown hair, his skin as pale as Edwards, but there was something different about him, he wore all black. I sat back down and reached towards my own necklace, the metal had gone cold, but the heart was still warm. All of a sudden it zapped me; I pulled my finger back and looked at it the skin was dark pink and then a bubble of blood oozed from a prick in my finger. I cursed and sucked my finger, my eyes widened at the taste of it; it tasted like a sweet dessert, similar to raspberry sorbet.
Wow, that drink must've had heaps of vodka, I thought to myself. I shook my head and decided to wake Anna; I shook her and whispered her name, until I pulled her from the fantasy of her dream.
"What?" Anna yawned, sitting up properly.
"We're just about to land, so put your seatbelt on," I said buckling mine up. Anna sleepily put her's on and went back to sleep. After five minutes of listening to Anna lightly snoring I heard the wheels appear from their sleeping place and were ready for contact with the Earth once more, I braced myself for the rough landing and only got a few bumps from it. Amazingly Anna slept through all of it, but when we were ready to get off the plane she was wide-awake. I waited for the line to move so I could get out and board into Italy, Anna and I waited in the seat area for Helen, Tyrone, Lucas and Justin, the guy I had seen earlier with the same necklace as me walked out of the terminal and looked at me, he held my gaze and soon enough I looked away breaking our contact.
"We shall meet shortly, Tammilia" a voice from the back of my head said, I looked at the man again, but only caught a glimpse of his back as he walked out of the airport into the white world outside.
"That was the longest plane ride I've ever had" Justin stretched and caught the eye of an Italian girl who was sucking a lollipop, he winked at her and walked over.
"Hear we go, the all mighty Justin, makes his move on his poor clueless prey" Anna said watching Justin approach the girl. She smiled and pulled the lollipop out of her mouth, she grabbed a pen that had been used to hold her hair up, and grabbed Justin's forearm, pushing his sleeve up, she wrote her number delicately on his arm. Justin leaned in when she looked up; their lips met moving as one.
"Huston we have touchdown" Anna said making radio noises. I felt awkward watching Justin kiss a random girl, but then again that was Justin. A sleazy heartbreaker who never ever took a girl seriously, I rolled my eyes and walked over to a vending machine.
I came back with a packet of Ferrero Rocher's and looked for Justin, he was making his way back, his hair was tousled and he had a grin on his face.
"And that's how we do it in America" he said showing his forearm, and grabbed his phone.
"Oh, it's too bad that she's a two dollar hooker" I said, Justin looked at me confused.
"Look at what she's wearing; there is no way someone would wear a hot pink mini skirt and a skimpy singlet in the middle of this weather". Justin looked at the girl again and then shook his head and went to the bathroom. I placed a chocolate in my mouth and walked towards the exit with Helen and Tyrone.
Everything was white, well, almost everything; except for the already parked cars although the snow was already setting on the roofs, the windows were frosting. A strong wind tousled my hair letting spray out everywhere, I looked inside of my handbag and grabbed a grey scarf and wrapped it around my neck. A taxi/bus pulled up for us and Helen looked at me to translate and tell the driver where to go. The taxi was warm and toasty; the taxi driver was a little pudgy, with black hair that was balding, green eyes like emeralds and a funny moustache, like the ones you see in war movies.
I awkwardly got into the front, I waited for the others to hop in, and I turned to the driver and cleared my throat.
"Ciao" I said nervously, I hadn't spoken to an Italian, except for my teacher, it was my first time.
"English, maybe?" the driver asked, I nodded and he smiled and took off, my eyes widened and he chuckled.
"Where to?" he said exiting the airport.
"Uh, La Coda Davincietta I think that's how you say it" I took my eyes off the paper in front of me and looked at the driver, he kept his eyes on the road and swallowed, but kept smiling.
"Yes, you're very good at Italian" the drivers voice came out shaky and said nothing for the rest of the trip.
The hotel was beautiful, probably the biggest hotel I had ever seen in Italy, it was painted an antique white, there were about twenty-five floors and instead of being a cube like the other hotels it was a cylinder, making me love it more. I opened the front door and was offered a hand by one of the butler's from the hotel. He looked at me for two seconds and said,
"Welcome, to La Coda Davincietta. Please wait in the waiting area for you keys", he placed a hand gently on my waist and with the other arm showed me where to go, I turned and smiled and nodded to my family where to go. Lucas looked at the butler with a sour looked came and put an arm around me.
"No one touches my little sister, at all," he said under his breath to me. I smiled and walked awkwardly under Lucas' protective gaze. Helen instructed us to sit in the waiting area, the rooms were old fashioned they looked like they had been taken from a mansion in the nineteenth century, there were red couches in a semi circle and in the centre was a giant circle table holding a giant pot of plants, there was a bar next door and Lucas and Justin, being eighteen, were attracted to the waitress in the bar. She was short with blond hair and dark circle's under her eyes too, she looked up as the too boys approached and smiled.
"What can I do for you boys?" she answered in plan English; she even had an American accent. Justin, being the flirter of the family, leaned across the counter and gave her a smile.
"You can tell me the time you knock off" Lucas put a hand on Justin's chest and pushed him back.
"Excuse my brother, he's a bit delusional ever since he fell from a tree at five years old, but I'd be happy to know the name of the beautiful lady serving us" Lucas held out his hand, the waitress slipped her hand in his and Lucas kissed in gently.
"Jane. And I finish around two this afternoon" she smiled and pulled her hand back. I rolled my eyes and listened on what Tyrone and Anna were talking about. Helen came back into the room, with two keys,
"Room numbers, 199 and 198" she said "right under the pent house" Anna looked at her mother in amazement.
"Right under the pent house?" Anna repeated in amazement. Helen looked at her then me and blinked.
"Yes, under the pent house. Now why would I have to repeat that Anna?" Helen said folding her arms over her small torso. Anna's eyes widened and a giant grin spread on her face.
"Oh nothing…it's just that all the celebrities stays there!" She said doing a little dance looking like she was praising the roof. I laughed and put an arm on her shoulder.
"Anna, I know what you're thinking we are not going to get invited to a VIP party," I said between breaths "not going to happen". I sobered and took the key from Helen, and dragged Anna to the elevator.
"C'mon Anna. Let's go explore!" I said pretending to have a lisp like a little wilderness explorer. Anna laughed, crouched and saluted me. Before the elevator doors closed, we saw Helen raise her eyebrow, Anna and I both grinned and saluted her, the doors closed too soon for us to see her reaction, but we knew she was laughing; even if she wasn't laughing on the outside we knew she was laughing on the inside. That's what Helen did.
I had heaps of fun writing this! I originally put that Short Stack was in the pent house, but nah! Anyway enjoy and I will write soon.
