Silence. What a boring plane ride this has been. Actually it hasn't even been a plane ride, yet. Nope, we're just sitting here waiting for the engine to defrost. Yeppers, North Carolina weather got in the way of. Such joy! Alright soo I'm being a little over dramatic, but everyone is doing their own stuff and I'm stuck just sitting here next to a sleeping old man and Nate. Peyton's listening to music and sketching, Jake's writing lyrics, Brooke's reading the latest gossip in Hollywood, and Lucas and Nate are both asleep. So here I am complaining about the lack of sleep I have had and the lack of actual airplane flight. Argh I'm starting to not like North Carolina right now! Okay soo I have to stop being soo negative. I know what will help Jack Johnson!

"Ladies and Gentlemen, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. We will depart for our trip to LAX in five minutes." A flight attendant announced.

"Yippee!" I cheered allowed. Grunt. Uh oh, I think I woke up the old man. His eyes are fluttering and yes in fact he's awake.

"Miss could you please keep it down? I really would like to get some sleep before I see my daughter." The old man asked kindly.

"Oh I'm soo sorry. It's just the flight attendant just announced that we are going to take off soon and I'm just really excited to get to California." Haley told him. The old man smiled and told her that it was okay. Then he drifted back to sleep. Well he was a really kind man.

bTwo Hours Later /b

"Go fish." Haley told Nathan. He had woken up about fifteen minutes ago and Haley insisted that he did something soo she wasn't soo bored. They decided on a game of Go Fish to keep their minds off of the boring plane ride.

"Fish, fish, got my wish!" Nathan announced. Haley groaned, Nathan was beating her by five pairs.

"Not fair Nathan you are winning." Haley pouted. Nathan smiled and kissed the pout off her face.

"How bout I let you pick the next game and you can win." Nathan said

"Deal." Haley smiled brightly, "Okay when this is over were playing Crazy Eights."

"Well considering I don't know how to play that game you're gonna have to teach me." Nathan told her.

"You don't know how to play Crazy Eights?" Haley asked and when Nathan shook his head she faked gasped. "Well then we need to quit this Go Fish game and teach you. It is like a James/Davis/Jygelski tradition to know how to play Crazy Eights.

"You guys sure do have a lot of traditions." Nate teased

"Well when you live together and not with your parents you make new traditions. Plus Brooke loves to make new ones for the hell of it." Haley giggled when she remembered the first time they went to Tric. An hour later Haley had fallen asleep in the middle of their fourth game of Crazy Eights. Nathan took out Haley's I Pod from her purse and listened to some Lil' Jon. Normally Haley wouldn't have much R&B or rap on her I Pod, but he kept whining that he didn't like the music that she listened to. So she bought some music that Nathan liked, just for him. The old man turned in his sleep. Nathan had the music up just little too loud.

"Son could you please turn it down?" the man asked. Nothing. He tapped the boy on the shoulder, which quickly got Nathan's attention. He pressed pause and turned to face the old man.

"Son, could you please turn it down? I'm trying to get some shut eye before we land in California." The old man asked again.

"Sorry, yeah I'll try to keep it down." Nathan apologized.

"You and that young girl are very similar. Do you two know each other?" The old man asked

"Yeah she's my girlfriend." Nate smiled. The old man smiled inwardly.

"I could kind of tell." He winked. "You guys can play one hell of a Crazy Eights game." They both chuckled.

"Ladies and Gentlemen we are currently going to come around and take drink and food orders." The flight attendant informed all of the passengers.

"I'm Nathan."

"Ben"

"Have you told her that you love her?" Ben asked. Nathan was surprised.

"Huh? What?" Nathan's words were all jumbled up

"I take that as a no."

"How did you know?" Nate asked

"I can see it in both of your eyes." He informed Nathan

"She loves me too?" Nathan asked hopefully. Just at that moment a flight attendant came by and took both of their orders. Nathan told her not to wake up Haley and to just get her a bottle of water.

"Of course, son, it's written all over her face and etched into her smile." Ben said, "I don't wanna meddle, but you should tell her soon before it's too late. I made that mistake and I know you don't want to" Ben said with a sad expression. Nate just nodded and they both finished the plane ride in silence.

"We will be landing shortly. Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened until the plane is completely stopped." The captain informed all of the passengers. Nathan lightly shook Haley up and smiled when she yawned.

"Ben was right. I am totally smitten by this girl." Nathan thought to himself. "This is gonna be one hell of a trip."

b Well lovies there is chappie 19…I think…I hope you liked it…you guys all thought the old man was going to be disgusting or something?...huh…well nope he just helped Nathan sort out his feelings…okay soo the next couple chappies is the tournament + whatever goes with it…alrighty eight replies and you'll prolly get and UD!...peace out…Jess!