I dedicate this chapter to firey-bookworm because her comment made me smile and want to keep writing. :) Thank you so much! :DDD
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Keira and Sylvia both boarded their plane. They made their way to their seats in first class and made themselves comfortable. Keira pulled out a book and began to read; Sylvia took out her ipod and began searching through her songs.
"I'm going to miss everyone." Sylvia glanced out the window, sighing.
Every one of their friends had come to say goodbye. All the girls were bawling and the guys were giving them massive bear hugs. Sylvia had begun to tear up as Keira assured everyone that they'd be back in a month's time.
Keira smiled, sympathetically. "I know but at least you know they'll miss you too."
Sylvia smiled at that and said, "Yeah, but don't act like you won't miss them too. Especially after the party that they threw for us."
It turns out that the SBO meeting after school was really a farewell party. Keira smirked remembering how everyone yelled 'Surprise!' as she and Sylvia walked into the conference room. The room was filled with balloons, a banner that read 'We'll miss you!', streamers, people, and best of all, a cake!
Keira snapped out of her reverie as Sylvia continued to speak, "And who else is suppose to annoy you? I mean, we're going to be gone from Matt and the rest of the group for a month!"
"I'm sure you'll make up for all of them." Keira laughed when Sylvia glowered at her.
"Meanie."
Keira maintained laughing a few more minutes as Sylvia huffed and grabbed a magazine from her bag. They went on awhile in silence both relaxed and content in their very comfortable seats until Sylvia whispered, "Sis?"
"Hm?"
"Why do you think Abraham is making us visit so early? He doesn't ever call us for anything. Well, besides visiting every summer."
"I don't know, Syl. But Abraham wouldn't ever call on us if it weren't something important."
Sylvia's forehead creased with worry. "Sis? You don't think something bad happened in," she glanced around before murmuring, "in you know where, do you?"
Keira placed her book in her lap. "I don't know, Syl. We'll just have to wait and see."
Sylvia sat in complete worry the rest of the trip. She wasn't satisfied with Keira's answer but she knew Keira was never the type of person to say everything will be fine or okay, if she didn't know herself.
~*~
"Abraham!" Sylvia cried and ran over to the gray-haired man standing at the end of the escalator. She hugged him tightly, practically squeezing the life out of him.
Abraham chuckled and returned the hug. "It is so good to see you, Princess."
Keira had left them to chat while she walked over to the baggage claim. She had just about gotten all of them when the two came up to her.
"Is this all of your bags?" He stared wide-eyed at the ten extremely large suitcases in front of him.
Keira snorted. "Correction! Those are all of Sylvia's bags." She hoisted a large black suitcase and a small red one of the conveyer belt. "These are mine."
"What? We're staying here for a month!" Sylvia defended sheepishly.
~*~
They had finally arrived at Abraham's mansion after an hour of shoving Sylvia's baggage into the trunk of the black SUV and taking up half of the back seat. And that was only seven of ten bags. The rest, along with Keira's luggage, had to be brought in via taxi.
