Chapter Fourteen: Too Late
"MOVE!" Nicki screamed at the drivers in front of her as she banged her head on the steering wheel. There were such idiots on the road this morning; not to mention the fact that it was pouring down rain which made people even worse idiots. And for some reason, to her dismay she was catching almost every red light.
"Why is it the faster you want to go, the slower you end up going?" she sighed asking herself quietly. She looked over at the clock on the radio and wanted to cry, it blinked 7:15. She was never going to catch up to Randy and it was breaking her heart. She swerved around the car in front of her which was going about 30mph and she sped in and out of traffic at about the speed of 90mph. She had never sped so fast before in her life, but right now Randy was more important and she needed him to know all of her feelings. She needed him period.
The rain poured down harder and faster, bolts of lightning hit her car windows like fire. She yelped a few times, terrified of thunder. She remembered when she was a little girl, her mother used to hold her at night when it thundered until she fell asleep; Sometimes she would let her sleep in bed with her and dad. After passing a couple red lights and speeding like a mad man, she finally reached the airport. She quickly turned and swerved her car into a parking space. She glanced quickly at the clock; 7:28. Her heart almost leaped out of her chest. She had literally one or two minutes left to catch him, not even that.
She stepped out of her car door, feeling the huge drops of rain come down and wet her skin, she knew that soon she`d be soaked. She ran as fast as she could towards the inside of the airport. It took her a few seconds to get inside and once she did she had heads turn and stare at her drenched figure. She looked like she had just taken a shower with her clothes on. She didn't even pay attention, right now the most important thing was finding Randy. She knew the flight number was Flight 67 to New York. Now the challenge was getting there fast enough, in time.
She zoomed through each and every one of the gates that the airport had to offer and when she finally reached the correct one, she looked around not seeing any sign of Randy or any WWE superstars for that matter. She ran up to the sturdiest. "Has the flight to New York left already!" she questioned out of breathe and hope in her eyes.
The sturdiest gasped at her drenched figure "Ma`ma do you need a towel or a blanket; you can catch a cold."
"I need you to tell me if the flight to New York has left already!" Nicki exclaimed a little louder than she needed.
The sturdiest hesitated and nodded her head "Yes bu-"
Nicki didn't even let the sturdiest finish she just softly replied "W-what?" As the sturdiest was about to speak again for a second time Nicki just ran. She ran out of the gate and didn't know where to go. She looked up in the ceiling and cried, she cried and for the first time it was all her fault. "I'm too late…" She whispered and let her head fall, her eyes filling with sadness. Seconds later she felt the touch of a finger graze against her chin and lift it to meet their gaze. When she looked up and met eyes with them, she gasped.