Exopink Drabbles And Short Stories

8.1 ChrisRush (HL)

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Apologies to anyone who is living in UK and is reading this 🙏

Lisa knew it was a bad idea. But was that going to stop her? No. According to her mom, Mrs.Manoban, she was so determined not to leave the womb that she had tangled herself with the umbilical cord, fortunately the gynaecologist was able to bring her out to the world without any harm. Summary of the story: Lisa was stubborn, something that she inherited from her dad. If she decided to do something, she would do that by every means.

Well, not all times it brought success. She had learnt from past experiences that failure was an important part of life. So, it wouldn't matter if things didn't go as planned. Atleast, she was going to have a new story to narrate to her future grandkids on how she had worked out on surprising their grandpa who was 3359 miles away from her, that too on christmas. Yeah, she was a hopeless romantic and she knew it. Probably this could explain the reason behind buying tickets to Paris rather than London. Apparently she wanted to be in Bristol with him on Christmas Eve and the flight to Paris would land two hours earlier than London. Then a train straight from Paris to Bristol and she would be in his arms a bit earlier which meant she could steal more kisses and hug longer, something that she always missed being in a long distance relationship.

A few minutes before her flight took off Lisa found herself sitting behind an awfully in love couple, those who can't keep their hands to themselves, much to her dislike they were a newly married couple flying to the city of love for honeymoon.

Just thirty minutes after take off, she had already heard the name "Chanyeol" more than twenty times and "babe" more times than she could count. It was really giving her a headache, the constant sounds of smooches weren't really helpful. And now, the "babe" was heading towards the washroom and sent a wink over her shoulder which was enough, well more than that for the giant to follow her like a lost puppy. She was already fed up, how was she going to manage 23400 seconds (6.5 hours)? She couldn't sleep either because on one side of her was an old grandpa who had lost his front teeth along with some in the bottom, was drooling on her shoulder as he left the world for dreamland and on the other side was a rowdy dude reeking of alcohol and smoke with countless tattoos, arms bigger than her face, she knew judging people wasn't a good thing but given her current situation she had been forced to do so. To add cherry on top, the seat behind her was occupied by a 6 year old who would occasionally throw tantrums at her mom or poke Lisa's back, she had requested the mom, with the most kind smile and sincere voice to keep her kid in control, which went all in vain.

After two hours, Lisa was sure she was going to lose all her sanity by the time she reached Paris. A couple literally in Honeymoon phase, an oldie and rowdy sleeping on each side of her shoulders,both drooling and snoring, an annoying kid at the back who was screaming at every five minutes intervals, given poking was constant. She must be paying for stealing those hand sanitizers from the Bath and Body shop. In her defense, she had no clue those weren't free, when she learned it was little too late as she had already taken home more than sixty of them. She kept praying, "Jesus, I'm sorry. Let this be a nightmare. I'll visit church every Sunday. I'll not call Leo fat anymore. I swear!"

Almost three and half hours of struggle Lisa gave up everything to the hands of the God who was laughing at her condition, probably enjoying it with a bag of popcorn and planning to make it worse. She decided to temporarily close her three of the five senses- sight, hearing and smelling, which seemed quite impossible given her current situation. She took a deep breath and drifted to meet the grandpa on her shoulder in Dreamland to tell him to wake up, she wouldn't dare to repeat the same words to the rowdy dude on the other side.