Alarm Clocks and Airports

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BE—stupid alarm clock. I roll over and start to back a sleep. "BETH! Get up now or we are going to miss the flight" yells my mom. "Fine" I mumble. I get up and stretch. I throw on a blue t-shirt and my favorite pair of jeans. Grab an apple for breakfast and brush my teeth. Then brush my hair up into a ponytail. I look at the clock and see that I have an hour to waste. Time to go bug Lizzie!

"Anybody home?" I ask as I walk in the front door.

"You could knock first you know" Liz says as she walks around the corner. She is wearing a faded red button up blouse and dress pants.

"Um Miss. Reynolds I hope you know that the meeting isn't in till tomorrow."

"Yes I do Elizabeth L. Adams"

"Then what is with the formality Lizard's breath?"

"Don't call me that git! And first impressions are important."
"Sure they are and why not?"

"You know why idiot. Go bother someone else."

"Um…No. Owwww what was that for?"

"Get out and I didn't hit you that hard."

"Yes, you did and why must you keep hitting me with your book?"

"Because you are a git now leave."

"Fine." I walk out the door and head home.

"Hey Beth it is time to go." My mom says as she notices me coming up the driveway.

"Ok" I say hopping into the car.

"Thanks for putting my bags in the trunk Dad."

"No problem." The car starts up ad we drive towards Chicago. It isn't long before I nod off.

...like a few hours later…...

"Beth, we are here," Dad says shaking my leg to wake me up.

"Finally," I mumble getting out of the car. "So I am meeting everyone where again?" I ask as we walk inside.

"At the terminal, Beth," my dad replies.

"Oh right." As we walk toward security I turn back to my parents.

"I guess this where we say goodbye, huh?" I ask. My parents nod. "Love you mom! Love you Dad!"I give them both a quick hug then begin the fun part of going through security. When I finally get through I see that I am late…as…well always.

It looks like everyone is here so that means I am last as always. Then my eye catches sight of two people standing with my group that I have never seen before. One is a guy who looks to be around 18-19 years of age and has green eyes and blond hair. He is wearing a green jacket and brown pants with a white hat. The other is a girl who looks to be 12-13 years of age with short blond hair and green eyes. She is wearing a pink dress and has a purple ribbon in her hair. Then I do what anyone would do. I run up to my friends.

"Hey you guys! Sorry I was late. Security is such a pain!" I

"Elizabeth" Kae says politely.

"Its Beth, and Yes?" I respond looking at Kae with a smile on my face. I feel a tap on my shoulder. I quickly spin around.

"Oh, Hi! Sorry I didn't see you there. I'm Elizabeth L. Adams! It is nice to meet you Mr…." I quickly spill out.

"I am Vash Zwingli and this is my sister Lili. We are here to watch over you till you get to D.C." Vash says in a heavy Swiss accent.

"Why do we need to be watched over Mr. Zwingli?" I ask.

"Isn't not obvious? They are here to make sure you don't get us lost or make the plane crash." Lizzie sneers. I glance at Lizzie.

"Why would I do that? We wouldn't make it to the meeting on time if I crashed the plane…" Lili giggles at us.

"What's so funny? Ve~ are we telling jokes, because if we are I have a good one!" Shannon chimes.

"Is it about pasta?" Kae asks.

"Yes!" Shannon remarks with glee. All of us, besides Vash, crack up laughing. We finally calm down and notice Vash staring at us. We squirm uncomfortably at his gaze. Lili blushes

"I'm sorry, brother. They just remind me so much of the others." He nods. "Who do we remind you off?" Lizzie asks curiously. Lili looks down at her feet.

"Just a few people from the meetings…You will get to meet them when we go…" she says quietly.

"Ve~ you're going to the meetings to?" Shannon questions.

"Yes, I am the representative of Switzerland and my sister here is the representative of Lichtenstein." Vash replies curtly. I feel my eyes go wide.

"But you guys are so young…" I state. I catch the gaze of the other girls then look at him. All at once we start asking a million and two questions. Vash cocks one of his guns and we shut up.

"We have ten minutes to board and according to this we are missing one." He says showing us a list.

"How many are supposed to be here?" I ask.

"Well idiot. Since there are four of us here and we are missing one which means there are supposed to be 5." Lizzie remarks.

"There are five people here…"

"How did you get that number?"

"You, Me, Shannon, Kae and May, that's five. Right?" I retort.

"May isn't here, idiot"

"Yeah, she is," I say pushing May forward.

"You are late May. " Lizzie states.

"No I'm not!" May says quietly.

"Yes you are!" Lizzie states now clearly annoyed.

"I have been here the whole time." She says also sounding annoyed.

"She has." I chime.

"Nobody asked you git." Lizzie scoffs.

Vash's gun goes off again. "We are all here. Then we can go already." He says as the speakers announce that group 1 on our flight can now board.

"That is us." I say.

"Yes it is git, so let's go." Lizzie says as she picks up her bag and heads to our gate with everyone else. I quickly grab mine and chase after her.

Dear Readers,

Ugh... thats all I have to say about this chapter. I am sorry it took me so long to update. I am going to try to start updating every week on the weekends. I apologize about the spelling mistakes and the grammer mistakes. Lets see what else was I going to tell you. Oh right, a special thanks to Wierdkid20 puts up with me annoying her about my story. Go check out some of her stories. Next chapter has a lot of little info that will be important later and just a bunch of attempts to make you again sorry for being behind on my update. Review! please. XD

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