6.2.08

airline 4

Phoenix peered at Nathan, as much as she didn't want tp hear another long dialog from him, the energy it was taking to hold back her anger was incredible. Anything to momentairily sustain controll was welcome. She didn't have to wait much longer, for as soon as Nathan finished reading teh pamflet he slid it back into the pocket and turned to look intenetly at Phoenix. She stared back, his eyes burned with curiosity. He began to talk again, this time slower and more intensional.
"Why don't you have any parents? Are you running away?!"
"My parents know where I am," she said sharply
He hesitated for a moment but then asked, "But..do they where your going" He asked with his eyebrows raised. This was not a question Phoenix had anticipated from a blabbering six year old. He seemed to sense that she wasn't going to answer that question, so he gave her a sad smile and leaned across his mom's lap into the asile to tap the flight attendent on the shoulder.
"Please and thank you for fourteen pillows over here, these seats are hard as rock."
She must have fallen asleep because terbulance jerked her asleep from her stiff sleep. Her face was pressed against the window with her slow breathing fogging the view. She turned her head to see Nathan being jerked awake as well. The plane continued to baounce around; send a cup in the next row over right into a woman's lap. She let out a shriek of rage and began scolding a man in Italian. Phoenix's head began to throb at the noise. Phoenix peered over the top of her chair to see all th flight attendents scurying around to scure the galley. Clearly the woman would not be attended to soon. Phoenix grabbed her blanket and got out of her seat, carefully stepping over Nathen and his mom. Although there was so much turbulance that she almost squished his sleeping mother. She made her way to the woman.
"Singora, per favore, capisco..."
"I speak english"
" Here ma'am," She said as she handed her the balnket. "There are a lot of us and I think that we all need to cooperate here for just a little bit while we get through this rough patch. Grazie"
As she staggered back to her seat, the lights went out. The only light was coming from the few open windows. There was a wave of frigtened screams as phoenix finally collapsed into her seat. She sat up to see Nathan's mom blot upright and Nathn's eyes wide with fear.

2 comments:

Lacy said...

I liked this because of all the detail. I could just picture the scene in my head.

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