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freedom thoughts

my ears were full of airplane noise. talking, laughing, flying was all i heard with my eyes closed. my head was on the cold airplane window when I felt a bang in my head. I woke up. we landed. we are here. free. in Haiti.
"oh fuck, are we here?" I asked zulema as I put my head away from window all tired.
"mhm. grab your things, we're going out soon."
she said as the plane started slowing down and it stopped. people started packing and going out of the airplane. I grabbed my things and I wanted to look at zulema but she wasn't here anymore. the seat next to me was empty.
"zule! zulema!" I shouted and I heard Saray's voice from the other side of the plane shouting back:
"we're here!"
I followed her voice when I finally find saray with zulema.
"are you packed?" Zulema asked me and saray as we both nodded.
"Okay, let's go." She said and we got of the plane.

Warmness, fresh smell of mangos and oranges was all I smelled when I took my first breath of Haiti air. The smell of freedom. I saw zulema smiling and almost tearing up when seeing a bunch of green palms. I hugged saray and zulema when zulema said to us to follow her.
we came to a beach with a small white house. We went inside and it looked very pretty and comfortable.
"is this where we are staying?" Saray asked Zulema.
"yes, make yourself at home." Zulema said as we started unpacking. After an hour me and saray were sitting on our beds laughing about what silly thing happened to her in Cruz del sur when I saw zulema standing in sea fully clothed  looking at the sky.
"I'll be right back." I said to saray and went after zulema fully clothed too. She was quite of far away from the beach so it took a while to get to her but I finally did. she didn't see me. I got next to her.
"Are you okay?" I asked her but I still didn't see her face so I got in front of her when I saw her crying. I looked at her and caressed her cheek.
"what happened zulema?" I asked when she pulled away with a "dont touch me" look.
"did I do something?" I asked her again.
"no" she said and started to go away from me.
"hey zulema!" I shouted at her and she stopped. I followed her and gave her a warm hug which she resisted to give back but at last she did.

"I don't know what happened but I promise that it will be okay, alright ?" I said as she slowly nodded into my shoulder. we were still hugging as we both heard:
"OH BITCHES! NO CRYING! ITS TIME FOR PARTY" we saw saray running to us in bikini with two champagnes in her hands. Zulema and I both laughed. she opened the champagnes and we started dancing to sarays singing. This moment was one of the bests things in my life. I didn't have so much happiness in my life. After sometime we finally got out of water. I grabbed my towel and dried myself with it. We all sat at the beach and watched the sunset. We were all smiling. I sat down as zulema layed down on my lap and smiled at me.
"thank you" she said looking at me.
"for what?" I asked her as I put my hand on her shoulder.
"for that hug you gave me. it really helped me a lot." She said and I smiled.
"I'm glad it did." i replied and zulema started scanning me with her eyes as she still layed on my lap.
"Love birds, I'm here too!" Saray said and laughed as we both laughed with her.
I just really wish I could know what was going through zulema's mind when she was crying. what was she thinking about? what was she going to do? that hug is the only thing I could do in that moment. But it really seems like I helped her. I don't know with what but I did.

We went inside and zulema cooked some potatoes with salt and butter for us. We ate the dinner and got ready for bed. We got three beds. I was on the left, zulema in the middle and saray on the right. We went to sleep. In the middle of the night I woke up not seeing zulema in her bed. I freaked out and woke up saray.
"Saray! Saray! Wake up!" I shout-whispered at her.
"for gods sake y/n, what is it?" she asked me all tired with her eyes closed.
"where is zulema?" I asked her and she looked at zulema's bed not seeing her anywhere.
"I don't know, go look outside." She said and I peaked out of window. I saw her sitting on she beach looking at the sea. she was calm but she was again thinking about something.
"she's out there" I said to saray as she went back to sleep. I went outside and sat next to zulema.
"Couldn't sleep?" Zulema asked me.
"that's what I wanted to ask you. what are you doing here?" I asked her, she looked down.
"thinking about what will we do tomorrow." she replied.
"why are you worried about that?" I asked her.
"because they will catch us tomorrow, castillo knows where we went, probably he just got on the island." Zulema said still looking down.
"they won't catch us if we keep running" I said as she looked at me.
"But I don't want to run anymore. I want to stay here forever, enjoy my life and be free" she said as I saw a man coming through the beach looking at us.
"who's he?" I whispered to Zulema.
"I have no idea" she whispered back.

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hey guys! sorry for not posting for a long time but I was pretty busy with school. I hope u like this part and I hope you're doing well. I love u forever ! <3
 
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