Chapter 2
"Everybody downstairs, it's time to go" My dad yells from downstairs. I grab my suitcase and trudge downstairs where my mom and dad are waiting for my brothers and I. My parents matching outfits are cute but gross. Their wearing khaki shorts with polo shirts and adidas.
"Good morning sweetie" Mom greets me with a kiss and my dad smiles but his facial expression changes when my brothers haven't come downstairs yet.
"BOYS!" Dad takes my bag along with mom's and goes into the garage. Muffled voices come from upstairs.
"Boys when your father returns, he isn't going to be happy that you guys are still upstairs. Come down now!" Mom brushes her hair out her face. "Riley, I'm gonna go help your dad. Can you get the grocery bag out the kitchen? It's filled with snacks for the road." She then grabs her purse and heads to the garage.
I stroll in the kitchen to get the grocery bad that was sitting on the top of the counter next to the sink. Peeking into the bag, I see a few bags of chips, fruit, sandwiches and brownies locked away in a container. Looking to my right, no one is in view so hopefully maybe I can take a tiny bite and.....
"What do you think your doing?" Oh crap abort mission, I repeat abort mission!
"Oh hey Terry" Terry is 6'1 so right now he's kinda looking down at me. Who am I kidding? Just about everyone's taller than me. Just last week, the girls and I went out and saw a twelve year old boy who was like Goliath to me.
"Hands off the food now Riles" I slowly took my hand off the brownie container, but ran away with bag.
"Here..... you...... go mom" Trying to catch my breath, I hand my very confused mom the bag full of goodies.
"Do I even wanna know?"
"Probably not" Dad opens the garage up and Terry and Justin start to load up their duffle bags.
"Everybody ready to go?" As soon as we pile into the ranger pulling out the driveway, Justin makes a big announcement that just annoyed the heck out of my dad and my older brother.
"I HAVE TO PEE?!"
"Justin, dude you literally ruin everything"
"JUSTIN SMITH I TOLD EVERYONE TO USE THE BATHROOM FIVE MINUTES AGO?!"
"Yeah dad I know but I didn't have to go then" Justin explains, dad angrily sighs. He backs up into the driveway and opens the garage.
"Go and be quick or I'm leaving you behind" Justin quickly scrawls over Terry accidentally kicking where the sun doesn't shine.
"Ouch! Watch where you're going" Terry scolds
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"Are we there yet?"
"You asked that a few minutes ago."
"So?"
"Oh my god, dad can we leave Justin on the side of the road?"
"Not my precious baby" Mom holds her hand over her heart. Justin has the most biggest, stupidest smile of his face. Terry just glares at him in disgust and mutters something to himself.
"Don't worry Justin, as soon as you see jets and seaplanes then you know we've reached our destination. Okay son?"
"Yeah okay. Thanks dad"
We continue to drive for a few more minutes passing nothing but trees and a few cows here and there. I've been doing nothing but listening to my brothers argue and watching the clouds in the sky go by.
Eventually we see the airport my dad's friend owns. We all jump out the car and stretch our legs.
"Richard, long time no see. Maddison, you look lovely as always and would you look at this. Look at these kids, I remember when you guys were in diapers. Wow! Well enough talk about you guys in diapers, I'm sure you kiddies are ready to get that island of yours. Let's get these bags onboard." My dad, Terry, Justin, Stan (my dad's friend), and a couple of other guys bring our stuff aboard while my mom and I lean back in the recliner chairs on the jet.
"Alright that was the last bag mate"
*Stan chuckles* "Look at this Richard, you're girls already started to get comfortable." My dad and brothers board the jet. Justin immediately jumps into a chair and leans his head back against one of the pillows.
"Stan, are you going to be the pilot?" My mother asks, Terry plops down beside her and kicks his shoes off.
"Nah, I can't. The wife needs me to be at brunch with her parents but don't worry I have someone to fly this baby. He's a very experienced pilot." A short old man climbed aboard, my dad and Stan approached the man and shook his hand.
"Psst." Justin and Terry motion me over to where they're sitting. "So when Stan said he was experienced, I thought he meant actually experienced with flying not experienced in age." Justin said.
"Yeah, I mean how do we know he won't fall asleep and cause us to crash in the middle of nowhere?" We all stare at our new pilot. I suddenly feel a bit nervous about flying now, it would've been a lot better if Stan was flying us to island.
"Howdy folks, I'm Thomas and I'm gonna be your pilot this morning." Mom is the only one out my brothers and I too introduce herself. Once she finishes, she waves for us to come over. One by one we get aquatinted with Thomas.
Not to long after we say our goodbyes to Stan and we took off into the sky.
We're all doing separate things except for the boys. Mom is flipping threw a magazine, Dad is taking a look at the paper Stan left for him, Terry and Justin are playing cards and I'm getting ready take me a nap.
As soon as I close my eyes, a crumbled piece of paper hits my forehead. I squint my eyes just a bit to see my brothers laughing at me.
"Interrupt my sleeping, I interrupt your breathing" They immediately stopped laughing and I'm hoping they returned to their game. Ahh.... much better. Peace and quiet!
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*Rapid Beeping*
"Uh what's that?" Loud beeping sounds wake me from my nap, Justin is in mom's arms and Terry rushes to me putting his arms around me in a protective force. My eyes are finally adjust to what's going on. One of the thrusters is lit aflame, my dad nowhere in sight and I think I'm gonna pee my pants.
Dad eventually comes back and hands us life jackets. Once we get those on, dad pulls us towards him and holds onto us. We all continue to hold onto each other waiting to hit the water below us.
"What about Thomas?!" Mom screams. Terry and Dad quickly let us go and rush into the cockpit. Seconds later they pull out Thomas, Thomas like us is also wearing a life jacket. The plane tips forward, and I start to lose mom's grip. I slide forward and slam into the snack cart. The glass cups tip over and fall on top of me and instantly shatters. One by one, each glass shard makes cuts into my body.
*Rapid beeping continues*
Then the entire cart starts to tumble over, all the things sitting on top of it falls on me. Something slams into my head, either the lights are flickering on and off or I'm losing my vision.
"RILEY?! Stay with me!" I can't make out who's voice it is but whoever they are they're starting to get darker. I eventually drift off into the darkness and then.........
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And then what? Kidding I know what happens next. Finally finished this chapter, sorry it took so long. Wonder what happens next. O.O
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