Natalie pulled her two suitcases behind her, making her way into the lobby of the New York airport, she stopped and looked around for her class, she saw hands waving about in front of her, and girls running up to her, "Nat! your late!" one of the girls screamed at her, taking one of the suit cases from her, "I know, I know, my dad was meant to drop me off, but he had to go to work, so I had to call a cab," Natalie explained as she and the other two girls walked towards the group of twelve other students, "Natalie, nice of you to join us" the teacher smiled at her, ticking her off of the list he held in front of him, "that's everyone, come on let's get signed in and start boarding this plane," the teach said, tucking the clipboard under his arm and picking up his bag, Natalie grabbed the handles of her bags and started walking but was stopped by and a firm grip around her wrist, she looked up startled by the sudden pressure on her wrist, she sighed as her eyes met the piercing blue ones that belonged to Cody, "let go of me," she hissed, pulling her wrist away from his tight grasp, which caused one of her suitcases to fall over, "here let me" Cody said as he started bending down, "no!" Natalie yelled, bending down and picking it up, "I can do it myself," she spat, as she continued following the class that was a little ahead. Cody sighed "Don't worry about her," a voice said behind him, turning around he faced Sarah, who walked towards him, "we better get going, or they will leave us behind" Cody joked, walking away after the group.
The teacher held out the fourteen tickets in front of him, "when I give you these you are not allowed to swap or even change one seat over to what your ticket says, I need you to sit exactly where your ticket says, do you understand?" he explained, the students groaned in response but agreed to what he was saying, "good now when I call you name, come and collect your ticket,"
Natalie picked up her bag from the conveyer belt of the security check, and held her ticket tightly, she still didn't know who else she was sitting with, she knew that she was in a middle seat with Sarah on the window seat, but didn't know who was on the aisle seat, until she heard Sarah behind her shouting her name, "Natalie! Natalie!" she screamed running up to her, "yes Sarah, what is it?" Natalie sighed, "guess who's sitting next to you?" Sarah smiled, "who, Sarah?" Natalie asked intrigued, "that would be me" a British voice cut in, Natalie turned around to see a smirking Cody, Natalie groaned, which caused Cody to laugh, "you won't even know I'm there" Cody said smiling over at Natalie and Sarah. Natalie pulled her bag onto her shoulder tighter and walked over to the others.
Natalie walked down the aisle of the plane, looking around for her seat, spotting it, she noticed Cody and Sarah where already there, Cody spotted her making her way down to them, he got up so it made it easier for Natalie to slide into her seat, Natalie opened the overhead locker and took of her bag and pushed it in, and then walked past him and slid into the seat opposite Sarah, Cody sat down back in his seat and rested his elbow on the armrest next to Natalie, Natalie sighed resting her head back on the head rest, and closed her eyes, Cody looked round at Sarah but still could see Natalie out of the corner of his eye, "so Sarah," he smiled "excited?" Sarah smiled back at him, "very, I can't wait to see London, even if it is under a blanket of snow," Natalie shut her eyes tighter but opened them finding Cody leaning over her so that he could talk to Sarah, Natalie pushed him back so that she could reach the earphones that where located in the back pocket of the seat in front, she unravelled them, and plugged them into the socket, and started browsing through the movie list.
Half way through the plane ride, Natalie paused the movie she was watching and pulled off her head phones, and stood up, Cody pulled his own off and looked at her "where are you going?" he asked, "the bathroom, why? do you want to come?" Natalie scoffed looking at him, "can you move please" she asked staring at him, he stood up letting her get out and sat back down in his seat, Natalie made her way down the plane and opened the door of the unoccupied restroom, she grabbed a wet towel and wiped her face with it, she hated planes, they made her feel sick, she closed the lid and sat on the toilet, and put her face in her hands.
Cody looked around, "Sarah," he said softly, but found that she was so intrigued by the movie she was watching that she didn't notice him talking to her, he sighed and looked down the aisle to the back of the plane, it had been twenty minutes since Natalie had left for the bathroom, he got up and made his way down the plane, and looked to see if any of the toilets where occupied, luckily only one was, he knocked on the door, Natalie lifted her head when she heard the knocking, but didn't say anything, but stood up as the knocking got louder, she unlocked the door and pulled it open, "what!" she hissed, but found that it was Cody, "what are you doing here?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest, "You've been gone for ages, plus I needed to go," he said, "couldn't you just use the other one?" she suggested but just as she was saying it a person slipped into the bathroom opposite, "now I have to use this one," Cody smiled, "ok, whatever," Natalie sighed, moving so her back was against the side or the door, making it easier for Cody to get in, as they were moving past each other the plane gave a sudden jolt downward causing Natalie to stumble into Cody, Cody grabbed her one arm around the waist and one hand on her back, making sure she didn't fall any further, "you ok?" He asked softly, Natalie's stomach twisted into knot by the pressure of his arm around her waist, "F-Fine, T-thanks" She stuttered realizing her hands where on his chest causing her to quickly pull them away, taking a step back, she turned around running her hands threw her hair and made her way back to her seat.
Natalie's eyes were forced to open as someone had started softly shaking her, she groaned, sitting upright in her chair. She ran her hands threw her hair and looked at her left shoulder that had a hand placed on it, she looked up and saw Cody looking at her, "30 more minutes until we land," he said, Natalie smiled softly "thanks,"