"Last call for boarding flight 1248 for Los Angeles." The woman over the PA system said, for the second time. As much as I wanted to go back to LA, I couldn't pick myself up. I stayed there for who knows how long, hearing, but not really listening to, the woman on the PA system call out the names of the flights arriving and departing. To Nashville, to New York, from Dallas, to Boston, even a flight arrived from LA. I sat rooted in my uncomfortable plastic chair until a security guard came over and spoke to me.
"Ma'am? Can I help you? You've been sitting there for the past 4 hours." He said, a rather concerned look on his face.
"Oh, no I'm okay. I think I missed my flight though." I said, weakly.
"Oh, well let's see what we can do about that, shall we?" He replied, with a little smile.
After going talking to the ticket salesman, we came to the conclusion that there wasn't going to be another flight to LA until tomorrow night. So, after thanking the kind security man and the ticket man, I sledged back outside into the wet embrace of the never ending rain. But before I could get to my car, the security guard came back after me.
"Miss? I'm sorry to bother you, but I believe there's someone here looking for you." He said, holding his black standard issue umbrella in his left hand, extending it my way. Not that it would help too much. My brunette hair was already beginning to drip and the droplets of water on my clothes were long gone from being distinguished raindrops.
"For me? Surely you have me mistaken for someone else." I began, but I was cut short by…
"Oh, Sonny, I'd never mistake those brown eyes anywhere." Said a voice I hadn't heard in 3 years. I felt butterflies in my stomach and a lump in my throat, and I gasped silently, not really knowing how to react.
"Chad…?" I said. It started out as a statement in my head but ended up coming out more like a question. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say. The only thing I could manage to do was stare at him as tears welled up in my eyes.
"The one and only."
What. The. Hell.
Sorry the chapter is so short, I'll be uploading another chapter by tonight. I just started going to college so I've been incredibly busy. But thank you for your patience. Xoxo