Capturing Ella

Chapter 5 - Ella

Whilst the plane journey was a fairly relaxing time for the three girls, having slept for eight of the eight hours and forty five minutes and only waking up when we hit some turbulence just over the Atlantic near England. However, I just lay awake looking out the windows, the large expanse of dead water stretching out for hours and hours as we travelled across the Atlantic. It made me feel very small and insignificant in the world we live in. The expanse of a single ocean took up a good five hours of the journey as we covered the unchanging landscape of the Atlantic. Five hours in a plane just looking at the off cloud at the sea gave me a long time to think about the predicament I would no doubt find myself in when the plane landed in London Heathrow. I didn't know what to do now. I was so certain that I never wanted to meet my Soulfinder and never actually get together, but was it worth giving it a chance? I doubt he knew about his relationship with me, so surely I could talk and meet him like we're just colleagues, and if he was an asshole then I could disown him and the whole theory and start my life without the hope that my parents fed to me. But what if he was nice? I hadn't settled on my decision for that possibility.

Shortly after we all departed the aircraft, politely saying "thank you" to the flight attendant remembering our Britishness and the manners that were spoon fed to us ever since we were toddlers, we waited to pick up our luggage.

'So what are we doing after this?' Phoenix said, waiting by the conveyer belt looking slightly on edge. I couldn't blame her. Before she got married to my "twin" brother Yves she belonged in a community of Savant thieves, who used their gifts in order to gain a bounty of stolen goods to keep their place. None of us held it against her – she did what she had to too survive. But because of her past, even though she hasn't even thought about stealing anything she is always feeling really on edge in places with high security.

'Go back to Michael's, I guess. Get some food –' I went on to explain, knowing our bags weren't going to come out any time soon - they had just got on the rail for screening before being sent up here and that was a five minute journey at the very least.

'Don't we have to do that 5km you signed us up for as well?' Sky said, and I looked over at her laughing slightly. Sky wasn't thrilled when I suggested we joined in with the Maui girls at the headquarters doing the annual Race for Life. Apart from this year, it was the Pretty Muddy event, which includes obstacles and mud – lots of mud.

I nodded, 'Yeah, that's tonight at 6:15. It'll be fun.' I reassured the girls.

'You'll run off.' Phee said, glaring at me.

'Nah, I'll stay with you. We'll go around and do it together. Run at the beginning and get some distance before a good gossip. Michael ordered our costumes for us a few weeks ago and they arrived so we've got them as well. Then I guess we'll just come back and crash then go our different ways tomorrow, then we're all meeting back up at the train station three days time as we have a part we're invited too in the evening, then a day off before we go down to Cornwall,' I explained, having spotted Crystals polka dotted suitcase coming around. I darted forward and grabbed it, triple checking the name like normal human even though I had already checked it when I projected down to the bag screening area. If hers was through, ours was only minutes away.

'Am I still okay to stay with you and Michael? He doesn't mind?' Phee asked again. Whilst Crystal was off to visit her nieces and nephews, grandparents and sisters and most of her family and Sky was doing the exact same, Phee didn't have any family to visit. She's been an orphan since fifteen, so I offered her to stay around with Michael and I, and Maui Headquarters has even given her the pass to get into base with her name on it.

'Of course, we have a Disney film night with our name on it.' I joked, pointing to the rest of the suitcases that have all just come out of the entrance of the baggage turntable.