Marissa's Travels Chapter 2
Marissa arrived at the airport, she paid the driver and walked into to the terminal, it seemed large and scary to her, she walked over to the check in desk for the airline that she was going with and the flight she was about to take. The woman behind the desk asked a few questions as she handed over her passport and tickets over. Once she did she put her back on the rack and it got ticket and she found the gate that she had and walked towards security. Once through security and onwards towards the duty free, she had some money and went to a few shops and bought some little things as she waited for her flight, the air was cold from the air conditioning, every person, and she could see Ryan in them, it maid her cry, she wished that he was here with her not in Berkeley.
Her flight was called and she walked towards the gate, and to the next stage of her life. The flight took its course stopping in London for a change of plane, she would like to have stayed in London longer but she had to get her connecting flight to Tokyo and once there she would meet an old family friend, who she had not seen the day of her ex step fathers funereal, Hailey, she had been working in Japan for now nearly 3 years, they were meeting up to talk about Fashion, home life and what had been happening in Newport the past few years since she had been in Tokyo. The flight took longer than she thought and she slept right through it, it was tiring travelling alone by oneself.
The flight arrived to a wet looking Tokyo; it seemed all together different from Athens and Newport Beach. She steeped of the plane and walked into a different culture and time. The area around seemed strange and weird. She walked to arrivals and saw a familiar face standing out from the crowd, she walked over to the person and the person smiled and pushed her way to the front as Marissa walked over, she came over to Marissa and said
"Marissa, hey how was your flight and welcome to Tokyo"
"Hailey, great to see you flight was great and thanks for the welcome"
"Thanks, let's get your stuff and have some lunch"
"Great"
They both left the airport towards the car park, to were a BMW was parked and Hailey opened the car and put Marissa's duffle bag and rucksag in the boot of the car and they both got in, Hailey started up the car and drove out of the car park into the streets of Tokyo, after 30 minutes they arrived at a small restaurant in the city and another car park. They had been talking in the car about her flight, her time in Greece with her dad and what had happened in the last 2 years of her life.
They got out of the car and for the first time Marissa could smell the Japanese air, it smelled different in ways that she could not explain. They entered the restaurant and where directed to a table, and sat down. Marissa looked at the menu and did not seem very hungry, she just thought about eating some salad, but her thoughts were that she had to try the food.
Marissa had finished her plate of Steamed vegetable stir fry and was thinking this whole thing might not be to bad.