The 40th Floor

Chapter 5 - Florida

Cara's POV

Without even hesitating me and Daniel both clenched onto each others hands and locked them. We jumped back into our seats forcing ourselves to go further into the chair. Our hearts were beating miles, hard to outrun them, taking huge breathes quickly. The whole plane was in shock, too shocked to even panic. The plane is still going down, then..BANG! We all go flying foward our hands hitting the chair before our heads could. We stopped and we're flying again. The plane is shaking now, almost as if it's going to burst into millions of pieces. "I'm deeply sorry for the surprise, there seemed to be a leak so we are quickly running out of fuel. Please don't panic, we will have to turn around and it will take quite a while to reload and recheck everything so you will all be a signed to a new flight when we get there. Thank you", the pilot called over the speakers, cool as a breeze. "You okay?", Daniel asked me as he loosend his grip on my hand. I was still clinging on to him in full shock. "Ye...yeah, I aahhh, I'm fine", I said in a panicky voice then slowly calming down nodding. We exchanged smiles with worry hiding in them.

Peyton's POV

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. WOAH WHAT THE FU... Okay Peyton girl calm, you did not almost die. I took a deep breathes really fast starting to panic even more. "WE ARE GONNA DIE", I shouted assuming the rest of the plane was screaming so couldn't hear me. Got that a bit wrong.. Everyone stared directly at me giving me that "Really? The airports like legit two yards away.." look. I looked to where Ed was sitting in front of me to see if he noticed. "Hm Ed..? Cute" I thought to myself a few more nicknames I could call him for when we're dating. I never realised I was staring directly into his eyes while thinking about him. He was also looking at me. I flinched when I realised he saw me and he sent a sneaky smirk over my direction. Me being the dumbass I am, I look behind me to see who he's looking at then I realised. Ella saw me and started smirking and laughing to herself and Ali next to me just couldn't stop nudging me. "God she's almost as bad as Cara. Who am I kidding no one is as bad as Cara for the old nudges" I shook it off and pretended nothing happened and carried on with being worried. I looked over to Cara to see if she noticed but she was clinging on to Daniels hand so of course she didn't. She probz already forgot what just happened to the plane at this stage. Oh why couldn't he have been next to me I want that to happen!

Lauren's POV

We landed back in Dublin airport and it wasn't a very soft landing. We had to get the slide out of the plane just to be on the safe side. To be fair we had a great craic going down it. "Okay one by one please and no rough behaviour", the air hostess instructed. Of course Kayla and Cara didn't listen. I was up next and they were behind me. I was about to slide down when four hands pressed hard against my back that sent me flying past half the slide. I landed so hard on the slide all you could hear was a crack. I screamed in agony as I slid down the rest of the slide. I looked up and saw the guilty and worried looks on their faces. "OMG ARE YOU OKAY! CRAP SORRY!", they both shouted. I gave them a look then burst into laughter. I saw the confused looks on there faces. HAH TRICKED YA THAT WAS JUST MY NUCKLES! CARMA B****ES", I yelled up to them. The air hostess gave me some look then the girls. She cleared her throat. "Your turn", she said to Cara putting one hand in front of Kayla to stop her incase she decided to push Cara. Kayla laughed at her posh behaviour and snobby look. Cara slid down and gave me a playful punch in the arm.

Soon we were all 'escorted' to the airport where they would supposedly give us our new flights. There were two more flights heading to Florida today. One at 2pm and another at 3:30pm. Out of the whole plane we were in the middle of the que which isn't that good. We were waiting for about a half hour when it was finally our turn. They had to do it quick because the next flight was leaving in an hour. "How many?", the innocent lady asked the teacher. Her name is Ms.Bennett by the way. "21 including myself", Ms.Bennett responded. "Well I'm afraid there's only four seats left on flight 211 at 2pm and 19 at 3:30pm, sooo ? What would you like to do?", the lady asked. "Uuggghh no why didn't they send two teachers on the trip", Ms ranted to herself. "Umm I dunno guys what do you think?", she asked us. We all stayed silent not sure what we should do at all. "Great help, okay well, Edward you are the most responsible student so you can be in charge of the three others I send on the 2 o' clock flight with you, ssoooo..", the teacher said looking around and deciding. "Luke you are fairly strong looking so you can go to look afterrrr..... Lauren. Peyton I'll also send you so Edward you can take care of Peyton", Ms.Bennett finally decided. "Luke you are fairly strong looking so you can go to look after Lauren" Oh my God, okay awkward. "The rest can stay with me and wait till 3:30", she finished. The lady behind the computer quickly typed onto it, probably doing some sort of flight thing that suits the teacher. "Uggghhhhhh", the rest of the class groaned in annoyance and walked over to the rows of seats. Cara came up and practically squeezed poor Peyton to death as Courtney and Elise quickly gave me a hug before we left. Elise winked at me. Probably because of Luke. "Okay so I want you to listen, you are going to wait by gate 7 when you get to Florida because thats where we will be around 11pm, okay?", she explained to us. "Yeh", Luke said in a low 'whatever' voice. I smirked at him and giggled a little. "See you later on okay? Be safe and if you need help go to a worker who looks like they know what they're doing. Okay? Have a safe flight guys", Ms.Bennett said getting a bit worried. She put her arms out for a group hug. We all went in for the hug and it must have looked so cute. We stepped out. "Goals", I said whipping away my imaginary tear. They all smiled and we walked to our gate. The rest of the class were all standing on their chairs waving away to us. It looked so cute, I might actually have shed a tear. We all smiled and waved back.

Cara's POV

My bæ's they're leaving me. I won't see them for like 9 hours. It was another hour or so before we had to start heading to our plane. We were all exhausted so a few of us took quick naps. Stuart was wide awake as he's an early bird and could run three marathons and still be wide awake. Even tho he can barely walk a mile without panting repeatedly. I was sitting next to him and he had his arms at the back of the chair thinking he looks so cool. I was exhausted so I fell asleep on his lap and Kayla dozed off on my leg aswell.

"Cara, Cara ? Cara !?", I could hear Courtneys voice calling me, she is like the only one who could wake me up. "Cara, its 3:10 come on", she demanded. "I hardly slept I thought I blinked", I responded all confused. "Well ya didn't come on". We all made our way to our flight. I wasn't sitting next to Daniel, this time I was along side Kayla and Courtney. I couldn't be bothered to think about anything or chat to anyone so I just fell asleep again.

Peyton's POV

It was really windy on our way to Florida but some how I felt really safe during this flight. The turbulence was fairly strong but I didn't mind it. I pretended to be nervous so I politely asked Ed if I could hold his hand. "Sure, here", he agreed and held out his hand with a huge smile on his face. Omfg he's gorgeous is he human like? I smiled back and took his hand. He pressed his hand right into mine and held on tight. We were both looking at our hands. I'm dieing. I'm like mentally and physically dieing. Oh his hand is so warm ahhh stop please just give me air. It's like I have no lungs around him. He steals two very important organs every time. The heart and lungs. Like hello they're mine but you can have them whatever. Okay now I sound weird. We both look up at each other and smile and we sit back into our chairs feeling.. safe.

Lauren's POV

I looked over at Peyton and Edward and saw what Peyton just pulled off. "Oh you smart child". I started acting nervous to see if Luke could notice. A minute went by and he just sat there. Eh.. wake up please. I started making it very obvious now and I finally caught his attention. He looked at me then smiled. He put out his hand. "Here, take my hand", he demanded. My heart was no longer in my chest. I automatically thought of the time when I said "My hearts in my chest" when I was with Cara and Talia. I tried not to laugh. I put out my hand and we both clenched each others. We smiled and sat back into our chairs. Still smiling. I closed my eyes and went for a snooze. Peyton better be watching him while I'm out.

Cara's POV

I woke up just before it was announced we were in the middle of landing. I took a deep breathe. "We made it", I said to myself. Kayla smiled and said "We made it". "Made what?", Stuart asked. "Ah bless", Talia said sarcastically but also feeling sorry for him. We finally landed and and we took the stairs out of the plane not the slide, sadly. As we were walking out of our gate I was looking around every where for Peyton and Lauren. We came out and there was a crowd waiting. All the sudden I see Peyton's head pop out behind someone. "AAHHH", I screamed and ran towards her. I pushed everyone out of my way and hugged her so hard the child couldn't breathe. "Let go of me child", she could barely ask me. I didn't listen I only listen to things when I want to. I saw Lauren then gave her the same hug. We all 'reunited' should I say and then Ms.Bennett brought us to where we were being collected. We were on the ground floor now and all quickly went to the bathroom. We all went in and I was walking with Peyton. "Omfg Cara I'm dead omg", Peyton said smiling making her gums very visible. "OMG WHAT! WHAT HAPPENED !? WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE!? SPILL!", I screamed too loud into her ear. "I'll tell you at the hotel", she told me knowing I'd get pissed. "B***h", I smirked then elbowed her.

We were all back to the front of the airport now talking when a sparkly gold bus came smoothly driving around the corner. Our mouths drop. It didn't take us two minutes to throw our bags into the storage boot and run onto the bus. We all sat down and the teacher stood up. We all went silent. "Welcome, class", she greated. "To Orlando, Florida", she finsihed then smiled. We all screamed and chanted clapping our hands. "Next stop The Bush Hotel!", Ella and Talia shouted. Edward, Charles and Ben suddenly went quiet.