‘Hey Al, that’s our flight isn’t it?” ‘Yep, I think so, just a sec I’ll check the tickets..... Umm, Anne-Marie?
Where are the tickets?!’
‘AHHHH SHIT!’ they both screamed. Just then, Alana’s mum looked at her laughing and said,
‘Alana, look in your hand.’
‘Oh, whoops!’
‘Yep it is our flight, well bye mum, bye dad, I’ll see ya when we see ya!’
‘Bye mum!’ So they waved goodbye to their family and joined the queue to board the plane to LA.
The two girls were headed on a trip of a lifetime around some of the world, man was this one big OE.
‘MAN, I am sooooo tired!’ exclaimed Alana.
‘Hell yes, I know exactly how you feel. Hey have you seen my Five CD?.
I can’t find it anywhere, and I was sure I put it in my bag.’ ‘Oh sorry, yeah I’ve got it. When you went to the loo, it was falling out of your bag so I put it in mine. Here it is.’
‘Thanks. Ok I’m going to get some shut eye now ok.’
‘Ok, goodnight Annie.’
‘Ditto.’ They both fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow, and were snoring within minutes. The next day it was off to the Big Apple for soem serious spending and fun!
‘Ugh! Al, are you awake?’
‘Mmm, what, I mean yeah, maybe, huh?’ Al answered her sleepily. ‘What time is it?’
Umm.... ohmigod!! It’s 9 O’Clock! Outr flight leaves in 2 hours!!!’
‘SHIT!” They both jumped out bed, grabbed the nearest clothes and raced each other to the bathroom, Alana won
‘Hahaha! I won, in your face!’
‘C’mon Al, you know you take ages in the shower so I should go first!’ Annie argued.
‘Don’t worry, I’ll be quick.’
‘Yeah right, you don’t know the meaning of quick! Fine you win!’ Anne-Marie answered clearly defeated. While Alana took her shower
(which was only 15, quite short by Alana standards), Anne-Marie started packing. Luckily neither of the girls had taken much out of their suitcases so packing wasn’t too difficult.
Annie had just finished locking her suitcase when she heard the bathroom door open, she grabbed her clothes and ran in there and shut the door.
She was out of there in about 5 minutes and ready to hit the road.
Al had made some brekky, so they quickly scoffed down some food, grabbed the suitcases and ran out the door.
‘CABBIE!’
They arrived at the airport just in time to check in, and were led into the international departures lounge...
‘C’mon Al, lets just sit down here OK.’
‘Oh, cant we sit by the windows, I like watching the planes go by. C’mon Annie, please!’
‘Oh fine, you win... again!’
‘Man, would ya look at that!’ Annie pointed out a group of mighty fine looking guys crowded around the ‘time of departure board’, obviously a bit confused as to when their flight was leaving.
‘Flight 12900 to New York has been delayed due to technical difficulties, sorry for any inconvenience, but it should only be a short time, thank-you.’
‘Hey that’s our flight Annie.’
‘Yep, and I think those babes must be on it as well.’
‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, nevermind, at least I get to do some more plane spotting.’
‘Good on ya mate.’ (***speights!! gotta love it***)
‘Do you like watching the planes too?’ an unfamiliar voice asked Al from behind her.
‘Yeah! It’s half the fun of going to the airport!’ She turned around to see who this mystery voice belonged to.
‘OHMYGOD!’ She thought to herself, staring in disbelief at the face that appeared in front of her.
‘Hey are these seats taken?’ Asked another voice, this one slightly deeper and rugged sounding.
‘Uh, no, sure take a seat mate.’ Alana replied casually, regaining her cool, and while sharply elbowing Annie in the side.
Anne-Marie, getting the hint looked up from her magazine and froze in shock.
It was the babes that she had spotted from the departure board, but these weren’t just any babes, this was the the hottest band around.. 5ive!
With the exception of Rich that is.
Just then Rich came back from where ever he was and took the empty seat next to Annie.
‘Hello, who do we have here?’
‘Good question Rich, who do we have here?’ Scott agreed.
‘Oh sorry, I’m Anne-Marie, but everyone call me Annie, and this is Alana (she looks over at Al, only to find her staring absently into space and not paying any attention to the conversation around her) but everyone calls her Al, oh and don’t worry, whe gets like this sometimes, but she’s not completely mental.’
‘Don’t worry,’ replied Rich,
‘it’s the same with Scott. At 3pm EVERY day he goes COMPLETELY mental!’
‘Al doesn’t need a time to go crazy, she just does!’
At the mention of her name in the same sentence as crazy, Al snapped back into reality, knowing that Annie had been telling people she was crazy... again!
‘What were you saying about me Annie?’
‘Don’t worry, all good things. I mean going crazy doesn’t come naturally, you have to work on this sort of thing eh!’ Replied Scott
‘Why hello, and welcome back into the world of reality to the both of ya, have we gotten tired of staring out the window into space?’ Sean remarked sarcastically.
‘Oh shove it up your ass!’ Both Scott and Al snapped, then the both of them yelled personal jinx, and then cracked up laughing. The laughter quickly spread, (although none of them actually knew what they were laughing about!) and soon enough all seven of them were falling over with laughter. After laughing for a while, they all calmed down, well J, Sean, Rich, Abs and Annie did, Scott and Al just kept on laughing.
‘Man I wonder when they’ll stop?’ asked J.
‘When isn’t the question, if sounds better!’ Replied Anne-marie.
‘Hey! Stop dissing me!’ yelled Al.
‘Yeah, we’ve stopped, eh mate!’ said Scott.
‘Yeah, we sure have mate!’ And they started killing themselves all over again!
‘Oh no, here we go again!’ moaned Abs.
While everyone rolled their eyes in disbelief that anyone could laugh for that long for NO REASON! ‘Anyway, where are you girls headed to?’ asked Rich, flashing that sweet smile at Annie.
‘New York, what about you?’
‘Really, we are heading there too.
Are you on the flight that has been delayed too?’
‘Yeah we are. Whoa, that’s freaky!’
‘Yeah it is.’ Rich agreed. ‘How long are you staying for?’
‘A couple of weeks, and you?’
‘Just over a week.’ replied Rich, smiling sweetly (as usual). ‘Are you on holiday?’
‘No! I wish! We are doing a gig in Madison Square Gardens.’(***ok I think Madison Square Gardens are in NYC but I don’t live in the US and have never been there so I could be wrong but still I’m hoping!***)
‘Really, you are in a band then? You must be pretty big to be playing at Madison Square.’
‘Yeah, I guess we are.’
‘What’s the name of your band?’
‘5ive, haven’t you heard of us before?’
‘No, have you Al?’
‘Nah, I haven’t.’ Al and Scott had been listening to the convo, Scott was “shocked” that they hadn’t heard of them before, but Al could see what Annie’s was playing at.
‘What do you live on another planet or something?!’ Scott exclaimed, bewildered by it all.
‘Ok this is me and Al you are talking about here, I think you could say that we do live on another planet, well Al anyway!’
‘Nah seriously, haven’t you heard of us?!’
‘Nope, we haven’t have we mate!’ Annie and Al couldn’t take it anymore, they both burst into a fit of laughter, they were absolutely killing themselves.
‘Wh....wha.... what’s so funny?’ Scott said, looking a little bit frightened, actually all the guys were looking a bit frightened, they just couldn’t see what was soooo funny.
(ho hum or hum ho!).
Through fits of laughter, Al just managed to blurt out...
‘Nah.... just.... joshing!’ With that, the guys got it, and cracked up as well, except for Sean, he still couldn’t figured out what the joke was about earlier, let alone this one.
Just then the lady with the funny voice came over the loudspeaker...
‘Flight 12900 to New York is now boarding please make your way to gate 34 now please, thank you.’
‘Well I guess that’s all of us then.’ Abs said to no one in particular.
‘Yeah, maybe we’ll see you’s at the other end of the trip.’ Said Scott looking a little sad that they all....
well Al had to leave, cos they were having such fun watching the planes go by, Rich was also looking a little depressed as he and Annie were having a nice convo.
‘Well it was nice meeting you both.’ Rich said.
‘Yeah, nice meeting you’s too, and we’ll hopefully see you at New York airport.’ Replied Annie.
‘Ditto.’ Said Al.
‘BYE!’
They all walked over to gate 34 together, but the crowd was quite large so they got seperated. Al and Annie sighed.
‘Wow, I think that was a once in a lifetime thing eh Annie.’
‘Yeah, what could be better than that?’ Replied Annie.
‘I dunno’ said Al, shaking her head. Little did they know that they would meet up with the guys soon enough.
‘Yes that’s right, moving along then.’
The girls headed into the plane, making their way to their seats.
‘Umm, Annie?’
‘Mmmm, yeah.’
‘Aren’t these our seats?’
‘Yeah, I think so.’
‘So why are there people already in them?!’
‘Good question sherlock.’
Shut-up, and don’t call me sherlock.’
‘Nah you shut-up sherlock.’
‘Fine, be that way.’
‘Yeay, I win!’
‘Anyway, what are we going to do about our seats Annie?’
‘Ummm lets ask the lady who told us where to find them.’
‘Good thinking my dear Watson.’
‘Shut-up Al.’
‘Nah!’ replied Al, poking her tongue out at Annie, luckily Annie didn’t see her or else she might have bopped her one.
(kidding!)
‘Umm, hi... I don’t mean to bother you or anything, but our seats are already taken.’ Stuttered Al, glancing .... SHYLY (!) at the smartly dressed stewardess.
‘What!? Your seats are already taken? Let’s have a look at your tickets.
Hmmmm, your seats do seem to be taken don’t they? Hang on a moment, I’ll go talk to the people sitting there.’
Annie and Al stood in the middle of the aisle where the woman had left them, and waited... and waited... and waited. Finally the stewardess returned, ‘I am soooo sorry, but we seem to have double booked your seats, just a moment I’ll check if there is any spare seats, if I can’t I guess we’ll have to put you on another flight.’
‘NOOOOOOO!’ thought Annie and Al.
The stewardess headed for the back of the plane to a group of people, Annie and Al could not see their faces.
The stewardess came back smiling.
‘The nice young men at the back of the plane have kindly given up their spare seats for you, I hope this hasn’t inconvenienced you at all, and have a good flight.’
‘Thanks, we will.’
The 2 girls made their way to the back of the plane, and when they saw who had given them their seats, you could say they were pleasantly suprised.
‘Why hallo again!’ Cried Scott, clearly happy to see them again.
‘How is it going?’ Chorused Rich. The other 3 mumbled responses but neither Annie nor Al heard it.
‘So this is where we’re sitting is it mate?’
‘Yep, when we saw 2 lovely ladies in distress we just had to help.’ Replied Rich, flashing those blue pools of neon at the girls. (tacky cliché!) Annie was absolutely melting, she just wanted to disappear into his eyes.
(another tacky cliché!)
‘C’mon Al, sit over here with me, we can look at all the kewl stuff outside!’ Yelled Scott, very loudly.
‘Ok sure, matey-potatey’, Al replied while scooting into the seat beside him.
‘Hey but that’s my seat!’ Rich cried.
‘Ummm, not anymore’. Annie said, trying not to laugh.
‘Fine, I guess you and me are going to have to sit in the middle with Abs’. Rich told Annie.
‘Rich took the middle seat next to Abs, and Annie took the aisle seat, close to Al.
For a few moments there was silence from the 7 of them, while the crew explained the safety routines, well it was mostly silent apart from the occasional giggle coming from Scott and Al’s direction.
Finally the calm voice came over the loudspeaker... ‘Please fasten your seatbelts and make sure your food trays are firmly fastened in place.
Thank-you.’ J, Sean, Abs, Rich, Annie, Al, and Scott (phew, that’s a lot!) all fastened their seatbelts.
As the plane took off Annie whispered to Rich, ‘God I hate flying.’ Rich looked at her.
‘Have you ever flown before?’
‘Only the once, from home to LA.’
‘And where is home?’ asked Rich.
‘Well I live in Dunedin, and Alana lives in Christchurch.’
‘Umm, I don’t mean to sound dumb, but what country is that?’
‘Hey don’t worry, it’s New Zealand.’
‘Really, I have friends there, I’ve heard it’s a really lovely place to live.’
‘Yeah, it’s a great place.’
There was silence for a few moments..
‘Well that was a convo stopper and a half wasn’t it!’
‘Yeah, Rich agreed, and they both began to giggle, soon joined by Scott and Al, who were laughing about something totally different...
‘So, Scott, do ya have any pets?’
‘Ummm, I had a few Goldfish but I’m not sure whether they still exist or not. What about you?’ Scott asked Al.
‘Wait! I bet you have.... ummm... a cat... a dog.... and.. ummmmm.......... YOU HAVE GOLDFISH TOO!’ ‘Oh... My.. GOD. Are you like psychic or something?! You got it all right!!’
‘What!? Really?! What are their names?’
‘My cat’s name is Bubbles, my dog is Muffy, and I have two goldfish called Fred, and Sheila.’
‘Hehehe, nice names.’
Rich and Annie couldn’t help but overhear this convo which caused them to laugh even more and yes, Scott and AL exploded into fits of laughter.... again.
The voice came over the loudspeaker again.
‘I hope you are enjoying your flight so far. We are now approaching the Rockies, we often experience some turbulence around this area so please get into your seats and fasten the lap belts.
Thank-you.’
The 7 of them fastened their seat-belts and held on.
‘Turbulence is not the nicest thing in the world, we’ve had it bad a few times.’ Yelled J from the other side of the plane.
‘Oh.’ said both Annie and Al, and their faces turned pale.
‘Hey, don’t worry, It’ll be fine.’ Said Rich.
‘Yeah right, don’t worry that’s a good one.’ Annie said, trying to laugh at it.
She looked over at Al, Al was leaning over Scott to look out the window.
Al turned round to Annie, and met her eyes and said, ‘We’re going over the Rockies now...’
Just then the plane gave a sudden jerk and started to shudder.
Kids on the plane started screaming and a baby began to cry, the plane jerked again, almost throwing people out of their seats.
As the plane continued to shudder violently, a very shaky voice came over the loudspeaker, it didn’t sound like the voice it had been earlier and Annie and Al knew something was really wrong.’ ‘We.. are.. just... experiencing.. some.. difficulties.. but... don’t worry...’
The voice ‘stopped’ there.
‘Oh ohhh,’ Said Sean, ‘she didn’t say thank-you.’
‘Oh shit, that can’t mean anything good can it.’ Abs said.
‘Nope, it means that something bads gonna happen doesn’t it!!’ Yelled J so the whole plane could hear.