After everyone was boarded and the flight attendant gave her little speil we waited for the plane to take off. I was steadily getting more and more freaked out because I had never flown before. You'd clearly beable to tell I was losing it because I was white knuckling the arm rests and squeezing my eyes as tight as they would go. I almost didn't notice a warmth on my right hand. I opened my eyes and looked at Nathan.
"This your first time flying?" He asked looking conserned and slightly amused.
"Yes" I said stiffly not wanting to give him anymore amuntion to tease me with.
"It gets better after we've cleared the runway. Trust me I've done this loads of times." He reasured me. I was feeling slightly better now that the plane had stopped jiggling so much. After we had 'cleared the runway' as Nathan put it every thing was much smoother. I put one of my walkman ear buds in and resumed listening to music this time I was jamming out to a Stevie Wonder tune. I started humming along and the ear that didn't have the ear bud detected that Nathan was humming along too. I stared at him incredulously. This guy seemed so modern why would he know the oldies? I asked him as much.
"Stevie Wonder is my idol. He is the one that inspired me to be into music."
"You're into music? What do you do with music."
"I sing and do some writing with my band and occasionally play the piano."
"Oh so you're in a band. What kind of music do you do?"
Before answering he gave a face. "Pop dance kind of stuff"
"Really. This coming from the guy who idolizes Stevie Wonder."
"Yeah" he said looking bashful.
"So is your band any good?" when I said this he looked up and smiled.
"You want to take a listen?" He asked pulling out his zune. I plugged in my ear buds to hear The sun goes down the stars come out and all that counts is here and now My universe will never be the same
I'm Glad you Came
You cast a spell on me spell on me
You hit me like the sky fell on me fell on me
and i decided you look well on me well on me
so lets go somewhere no one else can see you and me
Turn the lights out now
now i'll take you by the hand
hand you another drink
drink it if you can
can you spend a little time
time is slipping away
away from us so stay
stay with me I can make
make you glad you came.
The song's lyrics repeated once more and then faded out. He stopped the song and looked at me expectantly. I thought I'd make him sweat a while, and then answered with "You guys are okaay but I don't know if it would ever be big." This was my honest opinion and I hoped that I wouldn't offend him. I was suprised by his reaction, which was huge secret smile.
"Don't know it would ever be big" he said. "Do you want to come to our gig in Texas? I'm sure we can use the extra crowd" He asked looking happier than a cheshire cat.
"I'll go only if my grandma can come too. Shes supposed to meet me at the airport."
"This is going to be fun" he smiled and put on his beats by dre headphones and started listening to something. I got my book out and continued reading. For the first time in a long time I was feeling excited. I hoped that it would last.