And Dreams Might Win

Chapter 6

"Thank you for flying with us" Beauty face repeated this for every passenger with a set smile.

I am so proud you didn't thank her for flying with you.

It was an honest slip of tongue. Stop teasing me already-

"So, Vera, someone here to pick you?" Wyatt asked while trying to fix the disheveled strands of chestnut brown hair and failing attractively.

"Yeah, I have a hotel booking." I answered back satisfied that I was grown up enough to have everything planned out.

"Yeah, right. But did you ask them to pick you up?" Bermuda shorts asked sounding worthy of my attention.

"Okay. I guess. I mean it's their duty to come pick me." I gave a tremulous smile keeping panic at normal level.

"The hotel is five star-

"Stop asking absurd questions! Why should stars decide if someone will pick me or not? If no one comes, I'll just take the taxi." I spoke hurriedly to convince myself of my well-being in the future.

"Taxi guy could probably charge you double." Filip darling was making sense.

"It doesn't matter. First, I am not that big a fool. I might give my first expression of being a fool but I am not. Second, all I care about is reaching the hotel. Money shouldn't be an issue."

"Yeah sure." Bermuda shorts concluded.

"What are you guys trying to imply? You want me to drop you somewhere? Because I would love to." I questioned trying to make sense out of these two.

"Are you going to start the sightseeing today?" Wyatt asked picking his bag pack from the belt.

"I could discover the markets and places near the hotel. My official tour will start the next day, I have it all planned out."

"Oh wow. You have maps and buses routes and a translator?" Filip asked questioning my planning.

"Yes, I have a tour guide." I declared giving a gummy smile.

"Oh no"

"Please don't tell me"

"Hey! Stop doing that. You both are ruining my excitement! "

"That's not how you travel. That's touring the city. You learn nothing but just take selfies on your iPhone with beautiful places so you can post it on social media about how you touched this country and return back to your normal life." Wyatt spoke disregarding all those tour guides making their income by helping us foreigners travel.

"Okay. I am a lonely little girl travelling to a foreign country. I don't know how to communicate, not get poisoned or worse robbed and kidnapped to be caught in human trafficking .Besides, I met you two some five hours back, how do you expect me to trust you? For all I know you'd be drug dealers planning to use me to deliver these to some gangster who also is engaged in porn industry and my life which was supposed to turn into a better one will be ruined!"

"Wow that was like the script of a drama movie in like five seconds. You absolutely must take this to a director. You never know... " Both men guffawed at the remark while I smacked Wyatt's arm despite the cackle coming out of me now.

"Take the risk. Come with us believing that besides occasional hugs and smacking we won't be touching each other. Believe us if we say that we don't smuggle drugs or work in the porn industry or sell humans. Travel with us the real way. It's not just the three of us who'll be travelling, gradually people will join us and you'll get a chance to make new friends. This one journey could change all you'd believed in until now."

I took a deep breath. This is something the sensible part of me will never do. But again, the sensible side of me has forced me to remain within the boundaries of my comfort zone. Besides, I have pepper spray and I'd buy a killing knife on my way, just to be safe.

"Let's do it!"

"Thank you infinite intelligence, the lady agrees to join our little caravan" Filip retorts, his hands raised in the air so as to dramatize the situation.

"Okay, be nice. I am still uncertain. The lady could jump and run as fast as she can to escape your little caravan."

"We shall be on our best behavior, my lady" Wyatt concluded bowing down to hyperbolize.

He received a roll of four eyeballs.

"Let's go gentlemen; we have a country to discover and a tour guide to disappoint!" I announced as I walked towards the Tbilisi airport railway station.