Runaway (Marianas Trench Fic)

Chapter 3: The Flight

Matt's POV:

"That's attractive" Chloe said with a mischievous smirk as I opened my eyes, still smiling in satisfaction as I ate the sweet and flakey chocolate pastry that Chloe gave me. She was making this plane ride all the worthwhile. I smiled back and looked into her piercing ice-blue gaze. It was hard to miss. My thoughts were interrupted as the flight attendant came back to collect garbage. Chloe handed me her trash and I added mine to the pile handing it all to poor Mike. Mike smiled and passed each item one by one to the flight attendant who smiled and took them with ease only to toss them into a garbage bin. After getting our trash, he turned to Josh's row and did the same.

 Poor Ian was just waking up and never got to eat. The flight attendant must have been thinking the same thing because he asked what Ian would like to eat. Chicken of course. Too bad they didn't have any seafood. He'd be all over that. When the flight attendant walked away to the next group of people I looked over Mike's shoulder to see Ian better. 

"Nice of you to join us Mr. Casselman!" I said in a mocking voice, smiling slightly. His only response was a giant yawn and stretch that almost resulted in him punching Josh right in the face. I was kind of disappointed that he didn't as that would have been fucking hilarious, but I laughed regardless at the thought of it. 

"Watch where you're swinging those things tough guy!" Josh snapped trying to keep a mad face and not to laugh. Ian chuckled and just shrugged. 

"Well now that you're awake," I continued, "this is Chloe" I said gesturing to my right, where she was quietly sitting and waved to him with a shy smile. Damn was she cute. 

"Hello Chloe, nice to be of your acquaintance." Ian said with a smirk. Typical.

She giggled and nodded.

"You too!" She said, smiling with emphasis. Mike joined in the conversation this time

 "Yeah apparently she's moving to Vancouver!" He said with a smile. I felt like we'd been through this a hundred times already. Ian, still sleepy, seemed like he was quite intrigued by the conversation. 

"Where are ya from?" He asked. 

"New York" Chloe responded but quickly added "Northern New York. Not the city." 

They continued conversing about where she was from and her moving for a little bit longer before Ian's food arrived and he was preoccupied. I took a sip of my beer and sighed afterwards. I turned to my right to see Chloe trying to suppress her laughter. 

"What?" I asked, trying not to smile. She ran her fingers through her bangs and let her dark hair move between her fingers like a comb before answering. Must have been a nervous thing, but it was frickin' cute. I placed my elbow on the arm rest that, in my opinion, rudely separated us and placed my face on my hands expectantly waiting for the answer. 

"That just seemed so dramatic the way you took a sip and sighed afterwards." She almost couldn't finish her sentence before bursting out into a fit of laughter.

 I couldn't help but giggle too. All of a sudden she brought her hand to her mouth, trying to cover a giant yawn from escaping her mouth. When she stopped yawning she adjusted herself in the seat and blinked her sleepy eyes. Awww. I realized I was staring at her and quickly turned towards Mike who was listening to music with his eyes closed. Damn. Josh was reading and, of course, Ian was stuffing his face. Nobody to talk to. I didn't want to force Chloe to talk to us if she didn't want to. Maybe she wanted to be left alone, who knows. I put my earbuds in and turned on the screen attached to the back of the seat in front of me. Hopefully I could find another decent movie to watch. All of a sudden I was almost blinded in my right eye by a bright ray of orange light. The sun must have been setting. Chloe stared out the window, mesmerized for a moment before squinting her eyes shut and pulling down the grey window cover. She sat back and glanced over to me. I quickly looked back at the screen. Shit. Did she see me looking at her? I finally found a movie worth watching after scrolling past ones I'd already seen and ones that just didn't appeal to my interests. The Expendables. Score! I pressed play and turned down the volume as I waited for advertisements to end.

  Chloe also had her earbuds in and was already watching some chick flick. Oh. The Notebook, I guess. She didn't look like she would make it through the first ten minutes without passing out. I had to keep myself from laughing at how insanely tired she looked. It was adorable, yes, but hilarious at the same time. I turned back to my screen, the movie was finally starting. I reclined my seat slightly and sighed, turning up the volume ready to watch the movie and, most likely, take a nap. I almost jumped out of my seat as the flight attendant tapped me on the shoulder. I took out my earbuds wide eyed and looked up at him. 

"Would you like a snack, or a refill on your drink?" These guys just wanted us to be obese, huh? Oh well. 

"I'll have a bottle of water and a bag of cookies please." He handed me what I wanted and smiled as I handed him my empty bottle before walking away.

 I carefully pulled both sides of the packaging, trying not to make the cookies explode everywhere. I cracked the seal on my water bottle and raised it to my lips to take a sip. Mid-gulp I almost choked all of a sudden feeling a new weight on my right shoulder. I carefully placed the cap back on the bottle and looked down slowly to see Chloe, out cold, resting her head on my shoulder. Well that escalated quickly. I looked over to Josh and Ian who were trying their hardest not to burst out laughing at the scene that just occurred. With my left, free, hand I gestured to her unconscious body. 

"What do I do?" I mouthed. Josh eyed her for a moment then looked back to me.

"Just leave her!" I looked down at her and then back at them who were smiling at me. Well, personally, I didn't mind this one bit at all. I was only afraid of what she might do when she wakes up finding that she's sleeping on a random dude she met on an airplane only a few hours earlier. I smiled at the thought. I put my earbuds back in my ears again and pressed play on the movie. Ever so slightly, I rested my head on hers. Hoping that when she woke up she wouldn't think that I was a creeper or something. This was way too comfortable to pass up. All of a sudden I felt the fatigue settling in. Unwillingly, my eyes heavily shut as I fell asleep.