Yay! A Matsuda chapter! I was wondering when a word would remind me of him!
7. Airport
Matsuda liked airports. It made him feel like he was going somewhere. . . Although he rarely was.
He took a deep breath, his nose overwhelmed by the mixture of smells: Food, old coffee, bleach, luggage. It smelled like people who were tired, but also like hope; the hope of going somewhere new, or coming home.
But sometimes you could sense a peculiar sadness, or dread. As people walked by, Matsuda would try to imagine why they were here. Were they going somewhere, arriving somewhere, or coming home? Were they meeting someone?
That's what he was doing. He looked down at the paper in his hands, printed with an English name in large blocky letters, as he waited for the flight to arrive with the new recruit: a woman, by the name of Veronica Pallet.
What new recruit, you're wondering? Who the heck is Veronica? Well, I don't know! But it is fan fiction, so . . . For now, let's say she's a new love interest for Matsuda! Anyways, it must be pretty insulting for Matsuda to be sent to pick someone up from an airport, but someone's got to do it. Plus, Matsuda's famous for being treated – not nice. So he's just the man for the job!
Keep your eyes peeled. I may just use Veronica again!
Note: I've only been to an airport twice in my life, both times when I was very young, so it's difficult for me to recall the exact atmosphere. Hopefully I got it pretty close. I wrote it as I remembered.
