Eyes Behold

2. Mels

'This is frieking huge ' a terrified Rose thought. Now that the adrenaline from the goodbyes had worn down, she could not help but suppress the anxiety of her first flight. How was she supposed to do it alone. Hearing her frantic heartbeats she was damn sure she needed no proof to say that she had acrophobia even though she was particularly fine.

She was gripping the sides of the seat in a death grip . While trying to control her almost inaudible uneven breath, she never realised when she started squeezing the hand of the person sitting next to her .She closed her eyes shut and clenched her teeth tight willing herself to not vomit all over the place.

Finally what felt like hours but were a few minutes she felt someone poking her upper arm ..She snapped her head to see a familiar face next to her . Her mouth dropped open when she saw her childhood friend Amelia sitting right next to her .

Amelia too couldn't believe that it was Rose sitting next to her, her Rose .As she boarded the plane a bit late she just hurried to her seat and sat down listening to the flight attendant carefully .She never noticed who she was sitting next to unless she felt a hand squeezing her's in a death grip .

She was about to tell the owner to stop doing so when she saw the girl with long black wavy hair that went beyond her waist braided in a loose french braid , wearing a blue sundress that flowed down to her knees and knee high black boots . She felt a sense of familiarity and when she took a close look at her face , her eyes shut , pink small lips parted a bit releasing small frantic breaths she instantly recognised her best friend Rose .

She could not believe her eyes that after 3 years she was seeing her friend again. The friend who left in a hurry back then informing no one about her whereabouts, leaving no contact behind and just vanishing in thin air as if she never existed .She was so angry at first when she didn't come to school for a week without informing her . She then turned frantic when she could not reach to her through any way .

She asked the teachers , the staff and even the principal but all she got to know was that her Rose had applied for a Transfer Certificate and left the city . No one knew about her and even if they knew they were unwilling to tell her anything. She broke down and cried for weeks , grieving the loss of a beautiful part of her heart .But she could never bring herself to hate her best friend . They were after all together for 9 years now . She could just be worried for her and pray for her well being .

She was so lost in her thoughts that she never noticed when the plane took off. It was the first time she didn't panick during a take off . Normally she was no better than what Rose was at the moment .

Rose was dumbstruck too .There had not been a single day in these 3 years when she had not missed this girl who was closest to a sister figure and her all time best friend . She had regretted her decision from back then every single day .She never intended to leave her birthday twin hanging in the middle of nowhere by suddenly losing an important part of her life .

She had felt miserable back then and till date could not forgive herself for what she did back then . Now that she looked at her she hadn't changed much in these three years . Her dark golden brown almost black shoulder length hair had grown a bit longer dropping just below her shoulders ,her button nose , big doe shaped eyes with the same ocean blue colour, nothing had changed in her Amelia .Wearing a blue jumpsuit with black boots ,it was really Amelia sitting right next to her .This was just plain unbelievable.

Both were snapped out of their staring contest when the air hostess came around asking everyone for their choices in reading material. They mumbled a small ' no ,thank you' .