CHAPTER TWO
Arriving.
The next few weeks consisted of everyone trying to convince their parents that going to England with the school was a good idea. Daddy wasn't that hard to convince because like I said, he loved anything that had to do with learning. I mean since Jackson didn't ever learn anything new, his last hope was with Hannah and me.
Lilly's parents only allowed her to go if Hannah and I were able, so as soon as the two of us got the a-ok, Lilly was all for it.
Nick's parents were a little harder to convince. They were pretty strict with him, not allowing him to do much. And the fact that he would be away from them for a whole two weeks, well they considered that a problem. But I got my dad to talk to them, since there was no way I could ever go on this trip without my best friend. It was just not possible. Finally they allowed him to go.
Oliver's mother said yes as soon as we asked. Apparently his mother needed a little break from him and his crazy ways. But she insisted that a two week school trip was the perfect thing for her to take a breath.
"See I told you guys we would all be able to go!" I stated, as the five of us were sitting outside the school on the grass during lunch. I can't believe that we are leaving tomorrow – time sure flies when you are looking forward to something. Usually it is the other way around, but the past two weeks just flew by.
"Yah yah, well the only thing I'm worried about is not being able to pack everything by tomorrow," Hannah complained, letting out a sigh as she rested her chin in the palm of her hand.
Oliver scoffed, and rolled his eyes. It was always funny to watch those two, they were always arguing or fighting. I never really understood why, I mean they were the best of friends, yet they were always arguing.
Lilly pulled her knees up to her chest. "The plane ride is going to be soo long!" She whined. I put my arm around her and smiled. One of her greatest fears was flying, and to say she was worried was a complete understatement.
"It'll be ok. Just think of it as a long car ride. Bring your music, plug in a movie and you'll be fine," Nick stated, blowing a curl out of his eye.
"That reminds me, I have to charge my iPod. Miley, you can't let me forget!" She said, pulling the device out of her pants pocket.
I gave her the thumbs up and sent a wink to Nick. I admired him, I really did. He always knew how to make someone feel better, or the right thing to say at the right time. I don't think I've ever heard him say something stupid.
Popping a Ritz cracker in my mouth I reached in front of me and grabbed Hannah's juice box. Last night when dad made our lunches, he must have been in a hurry because he forgot to pack me one.
"Hey!" She shouted, fixing her bright blue eyes on me as she snatched the box out of my hand before I could take a sip. "Get your own!"
"Hannah come on, just one drink. I don't have cooties or anything."
She shook her head and placed the straw in her mouth, taking a long sip as if to tease me. "Ahh," She said, closing her eyes enjoying the cold drink.
I just rolled my eyes. She wasn't going to get to me like she thought she was.
"Here," Nick handed me his bottle of water, and smiled.
"Thanks. At least someone knows how to share," I glared over at Hannah, but she just tossed her hair and ignored me0.
Lunch seemed to fly by after that, because by the time we knew it we were all sitting in our last classes. By now I was buzzing with excitement – I mean only a few more hours and I would be on my way to England to see Dougie! And McFly.
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"And so that concludes the lesson for today," My science teacher said, closing the textbook that was in her hands.
That had to have been the longest class ever. Reaching ahead I tapped Lilly on the shoulder and she spun around, a smile on her face.
"Only like fourteen more hours!" She squealed.
"I know!"
Just then the bell rang and everyone stood up to leave. The two of us waited for Oliver to gather his things, and then we walked out into the hallway to Hannah's locker.
"Ugh jeeze Hannah, another new poster?" Oliver complained, his eyes scanning over her locker door that was covered with pictures of Chase Crawford, from the hit TV series Gossip Girl.
She pushed her long blonde hair off her shoulder and looked over at Oliver, her eyebrows raised, and lips pursed.
"Yes Oliver, I added a new picture."
Letting out a quiet laugh I opened my own locker which was right next to Hannah's and quickly ran my eyes over my posters. There were about a dozen pictures of McFly and another dozen of Dougie alone. Every one of the band pictures had a heart around Dougie's face.
"Miley's just as bad!" Hannah whined, pointing her manicured finger at my locker door. Before anyone could look over I slammed it shut and pushed my backpack strap up on my shoulder and started walking out the door. I could hear everyone talking loudly behind me so I knew they were following.
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"Just one more pull and…" I pulled on the suitcase zipper, trying my hardest to get it shut without it breaking on me. Why did I have to pack so much? I packed like we were leaving for two months, not two weeks. "Gotcha," I let out my breath and flopped on my back onto the bed. Across the room I could hear Hannah zipping up the bags. She had three already, and was working on her fourth.
"Miley, come sit on this for me will ya?" She asked, looking over at me with a cocked eyebrow. Slowly I lifted myself off the bed and dropped down onto her pink suitcase while she zipped it up.
"Done!" She cheered, throwing it into the pile of bags. "Jackson come get these will ya?" She shouted, and soon we heard the sound of someone stomping up the stairs.
"Can't you do anything yourself? Jeeze, your fifteen years old!" He grumbled, and grabbed two bags, one in each hand. The only reason he was doing this was because Hannah promised to give him twenty bucks.
"You girls ready?" Our dad asked, leaning against the door frame.
"Yep!" I said, a smile appearing on my tired face. All I wanted was to go to sleep, and wake up in the morning so we could leave!
"I'm sure gonna miss you buds," He said, pulling us both into a group hug.
"You too dad," The both of us said in unison. Truth was, yes I was going to miss him, but it would be nice to get away and spend some time with Hannah and our friends.
"Now get into bed!" We both laughed as he shooed us into bed and left the room.
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"Twenty one, and twenty two," Mr. Riley finished up the headcount as we all sat anxiously in the plane seats. "George, we're ready to go!" He said to Mr. Paul when he sat down up near the front of the plane.
Our school was lucky enough to score a plane ride there and back where we were the only ones on it. Sure it was a little old and crappy, but it was a plane none the less. And the fact that there weren't five people crammed in one row, instead it was just two it was nice.
I was sitting with Nick, and behind us were Lilly and Oliver. In front of us, Hannah was sitting alone (as requested) with her two carry on bags sitting on the seat beside her.
Just then I felt the engine heat up and soon enough we were going down the runway.
"Oh my gosh, I am so excited!" I exclaimed, looking over at Nick.
He smiled at me. "Same here."
Behind me I could hear Lilly freaking out, and couldn't help but feel bad for Oliver. He was the one who was going to have to calm her down.
"Lilly, just take deep breaths! One two, one two, one two," She did as told and grabbed onto his hand and that was resting on the shared armrest.
She squeezed it as hard as she could, while trying to calm down by deep breathing.
"Oliver I need to get off!" She cried her eyes wide with fear.
"No, it will be fine just squeeze my hand when you get nervous," He paused. "Not that hard! Not that hard!" He pulled his hand away and looked down at it, wincing in pain. Lilly reached for it, and held onto it only this time she didn't squeeze as hard.
Her ears popped and she looked over at Oliver in terror. "My ears! I'm deaf!"
"You aren't deaf, they just popped."
She continued on with her deep breathing until the plane finally evened out, and everything was smooth.
"See you made it," He smiled at her, trying to pull his hand away – she wouldn't allow that.
"Barely. I barely made it."
He laughed and leant farther back in his seat, resting his head against the headrest. His fingers were still intertwined with hers.
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The plane ride seemed to go by slower than usual, and at the moment I was so bored. Everyone was either asleep, or listening to their music/watching the movie. Beside me Nick was asleep; his head was resting in the palm of his hand while his elbow was on the headrest. He looked so peaceful sitting there that I didn't want to wake him.
Ah, who am I kidding I'm bored!
"Nick!" I poked his cheek, but he didn't move. "Niiickkk," I said in a sing-song voice, poking it once again.
Wow was he a heavy sleeper or what? A smirk playing on my lips I pulled his arm out from under him and his head dropped. "Nick!"
He shot up, and opened his eyes wide. "What, huh?"
I smiled over at him and pulled my legs up onto the seat, sitting on top of them.
"How's it going?" I asked, and he rolled his eyes. "Whaatt? I'm bored!"
"So watch the movie," He yawned and rested his elbow on the armrest again.
"It's boring, and I've seen it like ten times," I wined.
"How much longer do you know?"
I looked at my watch then out the window. "About an hour."
The next hour seemed to fly by now that I had Nick to entertain me. We played cards, talked about what we were going to do once we got to the hotel, and even turned around to wake up Oliver. We decided that it would be a good thing to let Lilly sleep so she wouldn't cut off all circulation in Oliver's hand again. Though I did notice that they were still holding hands even though we had been up in the air for quite a few hours now.
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"Welcome to England kids!" Mr. Paul shouted, spreading his arms wide as we stood outside the airport. People walking by shot us a few strange looks before continuing to their destination. Quietly I snickered in my hand and Oliver nudged me in the shoulder, telling me to keep quiet.
"First off, we have to check into the hotel and settle the room situation. Once we arrive at the hotel I will hand out the room arrangements." Mr. Riley stated, waving a handful of papers in the air.
Just then a large white van pulled up, and an older man probably about in his fifties got out and started loading our bags into the van. Once he reached Hannah and her four bags, his face dropped into a frown and he started mumbling something under his breath that we didn't quite catch.
Inside the van was pure torture. It was so much smaller on the inside and we were all squished into the four rows of seats. Well three since all the bags were overflowing into the fourth row.
I was squished between Nick and Lilly, and I was barely able to breathe since Lilly's long hair would blow over and whip me in the face, and land in my mouth due to the broken window that was stuck open. It was freezing inside, because just like the window, the heater was broken. I didn't even have enough room to grab my gloves out of my pocket.
"Nick, you have gloves!" I shouted, causing the kids in the front rows to turn around and give me a strange look, but I ignored them.
He chuckled and held up his hands to show me.
"Ohmigod, warm my hands up!" I took his hands in mine and felt the cloth starting to block out the cold air.
"Don't you have any; they were on the required list."
I nodded. "I do, but I'm so squished I can't reach them since Lilly wont move over."
"Hey!" She shouted, sticking out her bottom lip. So she was still in a bad mood about the plane, but why take it out on me?"We're here kids!" Mr. Riley shouted, as we all started piling out of the van. I let go of Nick's hands and grabbed my own gloves once I was outside.
"So here are the lists, please don't complain about your room situations, you will all survive!" He started handing out papers to everyone and suddenly I heard groans erupt from the rest of the group. Ok, so this was making me a little worried.
"Please let me have Lilly, please!" I mumbled under my breath as I took the beige colored paper from his hand.
Scanning it over quickly I pumped my fist in the air when I saw the names. Lilly and Hannah. Thank you Mr. Riley, you are my new favorite teacher!
"Oh thank goodness, I didn't have to share a room with any of those grease balls," Hannah whispered in my ear as she picked up one bag from her pile.
"Now go up to your rooms, unpack and relax. Tonight we wont be doing anything, but tomorrow is going to be a big day!" Everyone picked up their things and walked into the hotel.
"So, who's your roommate?" I asked Nick as the five of us stepped into the elevator.
"Oliver," He replied.
I heard the ding, and we all stepped out and started the search for our room. The girls were in room 556, and the guys were in 559 so it wasn't that bad.
"Goodnight guys!" I shouted down the hall, waving at Oliver and Nick.
Tomorrow I had so much to do. I have to find out if McFly will be playing while were here, and if they are I somehow have to get tickets. But that won't be a problem; I mean nothing is going to stop me from seeing them.
Especially some stupid ticket problem.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter is very uneventful, but I had to get them to England without skipping over everything hah. Thank you for the reviews and for favoring my story I really appreciate it! I decided that I am going to put my other story Summer Love on hold for awhile, until I get this one going. Anyways, thank you for the reviews, don't forget to review this chapter as well! I love reading them, and they mean so much to me so go and do that right away. The next chapter should hopefully be up soon, so keep an eye out!
