Chapter Three
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Author's notes: I AM REALLY REALLY SORRY for not updating it earlier. I know, I know. It's been two months since, but I just couldn't bring myself to write. A lot of things happened too. Like, I started to play tennis. :D Well, i guess it doesn't interest you at all, so I will just post up the chapter. I hope you will like it. And... big thanks to all for my reviewers! X3
I was sitting silently in the airport's waiting room, waiting for my flight. My bag was placed in my lap. Finally we had gone through all the check-ins and for now we could rest and wait until the boarding will start.
Flight. I sighed and looked out of the window. All I could see there was airplanes. Various kinds of size and color. They remind me of big monsters; waiting for their prey to come. 'What a silly thought,' I smiled to myself and gave another sigh.
On TV they sure looked smaller. I didn't expect them to be that huge. The one we were going to fly with was pretty huge too. There were some English words written on the plane, which I couldn't understand. Well, it didn't really matter anyway.
The thing that was worrying me the most was the fear of heights and the sickness. I didn't even know if I had them. After all, I have never flown before. I haven't even been on a ship.
„Nervous?" The voice behind me made me jump few feets in the air. I turned my head to see Madoka's smiling face in front of me. I sighed in relief. She surprised me.
„No. Yes. Maybe?" I said, making Madoka laugh. I smiled and she patted my head lightly. I felt myself relaxing. I didn't even notice how stiff I was.
I guess all the movies about airplane catastrophes made me like that. I couldn't believe how easy I was influenced my movies. Silly me. I should have known better that it was almost impossible to happen.
„I am still surprised that Naru accepted this case so easily," I thought loudly, making Madoka chuckle.
„Oh, I think he had no other choice," she replied and left with a light grin in her features. It let me wonder what could make Naru accepted the case so easily. Well, another mystery to solve.
„We are starting boarding for flight N6194 to England. Please gather at gate number six. Thank you." There was a loud announcement in the airport. People around me started to move to the gate's direction. I got up from my seat and went to others. My bag was hanging from my shoulder.
„Now, if everyone is here, we can head for the plane," Madoka said as she gave tickets to everyone.
People had already make a big row. They were waiting for stewardess to check the ticket before entering the plane. Both stewardesses smiled kindly and said 'thank you' before handing back the seat card.
I stood there silently, waiting for my turn. Naru, Masako and Lin had already seat cards in their hands. They were waiting for the rest of us.
It was finally my turn. I handed my ticket and showed her my passport. In response she nodded and gave me back my seat car with the usual 'thank you'.
Naru and the other had already disappeared in the tunnel and Ayako was still standing next to the stewardess and waiting for me.
"Mai, stop day-dreaming about Naru and come!" Ayako called to me. From the surprise I almost dropped my bag. My cheeks turned scarlet. I certainly did not day-dream about him; I was just lost in thoughts. Right?
Ayako just shook her head and we started to walk down the tunnel to the big bird-like machine, where I would be trapped for many hours high in the sky, I took a deep breath and entered the plane. Right in front of me, there were standing two stewardesses with kind smiles on their lips. I could tell that they were fake in the first minute I saw them.
"Good evening," one of them said in perfect English. She talked fast and I had some problems with understanding what she was saying. My English class was nothing compared to the real life situations with English people. And now I was going to fly to a country, which is full of English people. I think I have lost my mind.
"Good evening," I replied in my poor English and she just smiled back. I walked few steps further to see the inside of this big airplane. The seats were in three colons, each having three seats. I gulped. There were so many people sharing this plane. Most of them were standing and talking in loud voices. I had no idea where to go and where are the others. Really, I have to get of the day-dreaming habit. It always gets my trouble.
"Move!" Suddenly a rude foreigner's voice yelled in my ear making me almost fall from the surprise. I quickly bowed and started to go in quick pace. The man behind me really scared me and I was glad that he already took his seat few rows behind me.
"Mai, where are you going?" I familiar voice made me stop and I turned back to see Naru sitting with one of his leather-covered books in his hands. He didn't really look in good mood, but then again. When was he in a good mood?
Now that I think about it. I have been walking only straight without any idea where my seat was. From the surprise which the foreigner gave me I dropped my seat card.
"Please take your seat, miss. We are taking off in few minutes." Out of nowhere stewardess appeared in front of me and made me take the seat next to Naru even thought I knew for sure that it wasn't my seat. I tried to object, but the stewardess was already gone, trying to make other take their seats and put the bags under the seats in front of them.
I saw that stewardess talking to Bou-san and John who had just entered the airplane. She made them sit next to each other in the seat in front of me and Naru. And now… that let me face the fact that I will be sitting with Naru for the rest of our flight.
I turned my gaze to him. It looked like he didn't pay any attention what was happening around him. Maybe he didn't even notice that I took the seat next to him. He was just reading one of his countless books in a language which I couldn't understand.
Right behind us was sitting Masako and Ayako. Masako didn't look very pleasant because I was sitting with Naru. She had very icy look in her face when I turned around so see her. Okay, now I will know that it's better to not turn around.
I gave another look around the plane. Weird, but Lin wasn't sitting next to Naru like other times. In fact Lin wasn't sitting anywhere near at all, but in three columns away from and five rows away from us. He was sitting together with Madoka and chatting in low voices. 'How cute,' I thought.
I sighed. It wasn't in my plans to sit together with the world's biggest narcissist. Before the flight when I asked about the seats Madoka said that I will be sitting together with John, not Naru. But from other hand… this could be a chance to get under Naru's shell. Well, the time will show what will happen next. All that I could do now was to wait until the plane takes off.
"Please fasten your belts and put the bags under the seat in front of you. Remember that your mobile phone should be switched off. If you don't know how to switch off your mobile phone, then there are plenty of kids on this flight who might know it. Thank you!"
I gasped. I hadn't notice that everyone was already in their seats, waiting for the plane to take off. I closed my eyes and tried to relax. I was totally clueless what will happen next and I was quite afraid as well. I had always feared the heights and yet I am sitting in an airplane who will soon be thousand kilometers above the level of the sea. I didn't know if being in a plane would help.
The plane started to move. The peace was slow and I started to wonder how this huge thing will get in the air, but after some seconds I realized that it got faster and faster making me clutch the arm-rest and closed my eyes. I was trembling a bit.
"Mai," Naru called to me and I opened my eyes to see Naru being perfectly calm. He was still in the same position only this time he was looking at me. My cheeks got a pink color. I guess it really did look lame for me to act like that. After all I was big girl now and I shouldn't be acting like that.
"Stop trembling," he said and gave a sigh, "the plane won't crash. It's perfectly safe." He said and went back to his book like nothing had happened. I kept staring at him for a bit and then smiled to myself. When he said those words I felt myself relaxing. When he says it then I can do nothing but to believe in him. Like when he says things like that, I can be 100% sure that it will be really like he says.
I didn't say my 'thank you' to him aloud. I knew that he isn't listening to me anyway.
And then it happened. The plane took off and all I could feel was butterflies flying in my stomach. It wasn't as bad as I thought. I could call it even pleasant if there wasn't pressure on my ears. I laughed to myself. It really was silly to act like that.
"Naa Naru," I said trying to get his attention. He lifted his eyes from the book he was reading and looked to me with his you-can-speak look. I sighed. I should have been used to his attitude by now, but it still got on my nerves sometimes. Anyway, it was the best answer I could get from him and maybe I should be a little more pleased, because he replied and didn't ignore my questions like he do sometimes.
"Why is Masako sitting with Ayako?" Really, it was weird. I was hundred per cent sure that Ayako wouldn't be sitting with Masako from free mind. I bet she would better be sitting with Takigawa than the doll-like medium.
"Hara-san is sitting with Ayako because Hara-san gets sick on flights," replied without turning his head to me. He still called Masako Hara-san, even thought she had told him thousands of times to call her by her first name. It sometimes really get me grin when Masako was glaring at me because Naru called me by my first name, but not her.
I was watching the screen which showed the main information about the flight. The numbers on the screen were increasing every second. It showed how the plane is moving. Japan was still under us, but it won't take long until we will be flying over the ocean.
Ocean. All this movies about how the airplane crashes on the water and many people die, because they sank in this small cage really get on me.
I shook my head. I had to get those silly thoughts out of my head. I looked around to see if anything could catch my attention. We weren't even twenty minutes in the air, when I was already bored and the boy next to me wasn't one of the most talkative persons here.
Few rows away from me I could see stewardess giving a plate of food to everyone. The all plane smelled like chicken in delicious sauce and spaghetti Bolognese. I heard my stomach growl. I totally forgot that I haven't eat anything serious today, only few snacks on the way to the school.
"Spaghetti Bolognese or chicken?" The stewardess asked us after she had given the food to the rows in front of me.
"Chicken, please," I replied and she gave me a tray with few plates on it. I could see fruits, salads, bread and some kind of cake on the tray as well.
"Could you please give me the tray without chicken or spaghetti?" Naru next to me told the stewardess. The stewardess nodded and handed him the plate without any of the main courses.
"Why didn't you take any of the main courses?"
"I don't eat meat," he replied simply and started to nibble the little piece of bread.
Well, that was quite a surprise. I never knew that he was a vegetarian. I felt very good inside knowing some little facts about him that others didn't know. Those little habits of him made him so interesting and I was happy to learn one of them.
"Are you going to stare at me all the day or start eating?" He asked me and my cheeks turned red again. This was… third time already? I didn't notice that I was looking at him all this time.
'Well, that was awkward,' I thought and started to chew the chicken with rice. I really, really had to erase that bad habit of mine.
"Oh my god, I am so full."
"Yes, same here."
I heard Takigawa's and John's voices in front of me. It looked like they had finished their meal already and were almost throwing up all the things they eat.
"Ayako, could you please give us some medicine?" Takigawa begged as he got up and went to Ayako. Ayako was mumbling something under her breath and didn't look happy at all. I could almost imagine what was going through her mind.
"Here, drink it with water." She handed Takigawa two white tablets. He thanked her and went back to his seat.
"Wait, NO!" I heard Ayako's scream behind my back. Her eyes were widened. "Bou, John, don't tell me you drank the tablets?"
"We did drink them. What's about them?"
I heard nervous laughter from her. "Well…" I couldn't understand what was going on her face. It looked like she was balancing between 'laugh' or 'cry.' What could have happened?
"Well… I accidentally gave you diarrhea tablets."
"WHAT?!"
"Idiots." Naru muttered next to me and this time I even agreed with him.
It didn't took too long when the two of them we already running to the toilet, holding their stomachs. Poor stewardess begged them to stop running, but who would listen to them anymore. Like two tornados they were running to the nearest toilet. While; they both were fighting of which one of them would be the first to sue the toilet, the dumped in the toilet's door, making the situation even worse. Both of them were behaving like small children fighting for a toy.
"Are are you blind or just stupid? There are two toilets here." The same angry stewardess came to the poor guys. Without saying a word Bou-san disappeared in the other toilet and John took the first one. Well, what can I say? There is moral in everything we do and this time it would be: "Don't trust a pissed miko."
"Mai?" I turned my head to Naru who for the second time in the whole flight started to talk to me. Well, okay. If you can call it talking, because apparently his eyes were fixed on the book and not on the person he started to talk to.
"Yes Naru?"
"Get some rest. The flight is long and you need energy for tomorrow."
"Thanks Naru." I replied and closed my eyelids. Slowly I started to drift in sleep, leaving the real world behind me. I could still hear Naru's words in my head and then everything disappeared.
-end of chapter three-
A/N: And for your infromation - I will be updating this more often. I'm writing HOFM for this year's NaNo (I know that I have started it already, but I am not counting it to the word count). I have also started to write the forth and the fifth chapter. Please leave review; it inspires me to write more.
And yes twin. I STILL LOVE YOU! XD