A.N. HI! Well, just one thing to say, thank you to the one single person out of 41 people that reviewed. It was really nice, and thus, here I am to post one more chapter. I hope you all like it .
Two days later, while lying in her new bed in her new room in a completely new country, Cerri swore to herself that she would never, ever, eat airplane food again.
Which, of course, means it wasn't exactly a pleasant flight for Cerridwen.
When Sara and Charles had woken her up the morning before the flight and she'd gotten dressed in an outfit that she'd gotten the day before, she had been so exited. Her inner self wanted to just jump seven feet into the air, while she forced herself to stay calm on the outside. But, once she got to the airport, she started to get nervous. Having lived in the orphanage for her entire life, she'd never once been on an airplane before, and as she went through three hours of security levels, she became more and more scared.
"Oh I'm so exited!" squealed Sara; jumping up and down and looking quiet like a little kid. Cerri gave a small laugh, thinking about how strangely hyper Sara really was.
"Yea…this is great…." Cerri said, pretending to jump up and down as well.
Cerri never was good at hiding her real feelings, even if she'd been doing it since she was four years old.
Charles laughed, "Don't worry Cerri, its gonna be fine. You'll just love it in England."
"Yea"
Cerri couldn't finish her comment as suddenly a loud, robotic, female voice echoed throughout the speakers above her.
"Gate 23, flight to London, England at 2:30pm is now boarding. Gate 23, flight to London, England at 2:30pm is now boarding"
"That's us" smiled Sara, putting her hand through Cerri's and walking towards the door surrounded by flight attendants collecting people's tickets.
"Never been on a plane Cerri?" asked Charles as he handed in their ticket, finally getting the hint from Cerri's pale face.
Cerri's answer was little more than a squeak. She had those butterflies in her stomach again, but these ones weren't exited.
"Don't worry love, it'll be fine" Charles grinned and patted her on the back as they stepped into the long tunnel that lead to the plane.
Cerri found herself thinking about The Shining as she walked down the tunnel and the floor vibrated softly, eventually getting to the plane. It wasn't exactly the smartest thing to start thinking of though.
A friendly attendant greeted them and led them to their second class seats, telling them that drinks and a snack would be offered once the plane set off. Cerri slid into the third seat next to the window followed my Sara and then Charles. It wasn't until after she was seated that she realized sitting by the window was very likely a big mistake.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. It looks like we are going to have a great flight today; amazingly clear sky's ahead. Please buckle your seatbelts and turn off all cell-phones and pagers for the rest of the flight. Remember that this is a non-smoking plane and we'll most likely be arriving at around 5:30pm London time. Thank You very much and I hope you enjoy this American Airlines flight."
The engine of the plane slowly revved up as the plane began to drive to its designated driveway. Cerri gulped and buckled her seatbelt, pulling it as tight as it would go. She nearly jumped out of her skin as the video screen in front of her turned on and began to give all of the emergency instructions. Sara laughed when she saw the wide eyed expression on Cerri's face as the screen showed a group of people loading into a raft as a computer animated plane plunged into the ocean.
"Calm down Cerri, everything is going to be fine" she whispered into Cerri's ear, suddenly sliding her hand into Cerri's and squeezing it comfortingly.
Before she could really prepare for it, the plane began to go faster and faster, and slowly, it rose into the air. Cerri looked out the window open mouthed as the huge towers of New York slowly became small little ant hills and the ocean began to spread into her view. After about twenty minutes she slammed the window shade shut, horrible freaked out by seeing that they were surrounded by water. She forced the images of sharks and sea monsters out of her head and tried to pay attention to Sara and Charles nonchalant conversation about what Charles was working on with his Greek Mythology class at the university.
"Yes, we're going over the war's between the gods." After a while, Charles's voice droned out as Cerri sat down with her cup of sprite and tried to fall into her new book Magyk and forget about where she was. It worked, and before Cerri knew it, the plane had passed through the time change and the outside all of the neighboring windows began to turn black with the night sky. It was really weird, since, in Cerri time, it was only around 5:00pm.
"Hello again Ladies and Gents, just wanted to tell you, we have an amazing chance to see a perfectly clear sky outside tonight, and even a couple of stars, so be sure to look out your windows and see the great view…"
At the mention of stars Cerri immediately brightened up. She'd only seen stars once on a field trip away from the city, and they were amazing. As she pulled her window shade open and immediately spotted the six large stars ahead, she let herself relax and spent a whole hour looking at them and day/night dreaming about her new home.
After a while Sara tapped her on the shoulder and asked weather she wanted chicken potpie or beef. She picked the chicken potpie and sat up as her plate was handed to her and she put it on the little table that came off of the seat in front of her. At first she poked at it with a little shudder, but then she realized she was really hungry, assumed it was better than the school food she had to eat in New York and decided to dig in.
It most certainly was no better than the school food.
The rest of the flight flew by quickly as Cerri fell asleep and woke up a couple of times, getting an Advil from Sara and hugging her stomach as she wished to god she hadn't eaten that stuff. Finally she fell asleep again and dreamt once more of snow.
The bumps of the landing woke her up and since she didn't know they were landing, the sinking feeling in her stomach made her grab for Sara and squeak. Sara just grinned at told her it would be a few more minutes before they landed.
"Thank you for flying American Airlines. Please keep your seatbelt on until the seatbelt light above you has been turned of. It is now 5:25pm in London England as we land. Once more American Airlines has arrived early. Please remember this the next time you choose to take a flight. Have a wonderful evening and thank you again for choosing American Airlines"
And then it was all over. Cerri, Sara and Charles walked out of the plane, received their luggage, and stepped out of the airport into the cold breeze of London England.
Sara took a deep breath and smiled happily. "Home sweet home." She whispered, looking down at Cerri and smiling.
Cerri didn't really look at her surroundings as their Taxi drove them to the huge house about ten minutes away from London's main square, seeing as she was both very tired and pretty cranky die to that pot-pie.
And so, Cerri soon found herself laying in a huge queen sized four poster bed in a large room with cherry wood walls and an amazingly pretty carpet covered with red roses surrounded by snow drops. She was almost too tired to look around, but even a blind man would have seen how huge and richly furnished this old Victorian house was.
As Cerridwen at last fell into a jetlagged sleep at 7:30pm, she wondered how it was that she'd managed to slip into this fairy tale and asked herself how long it would be until things stopped going up and plunged down.
Unbeknownst to her, her dreams answered her question as, for the third time in three nights, she dreamt of a tall boy in a school uniform with white bleached hair and deep green eyes reaching his hand out to her.
A.N. Okay, just thought to let you all know, I've already typed out the next chapter, and its longer than this, and includes Cerri's first day at her new school, thus meeting 'the boy of her dreams'. But, like last chapter, I'm not going to post the next one until I get two reviews. Yes two, not one, so, evil grin, click that Submit review button right there and take three seconds out of your busy schedule to tell me to post chapter five. .