Passport to Love

Baggage Claim

Chapter 2

It took over twenty minutes in the bathroom to get that gum out of Monica's hair. With the mint flavor still hanging with her in the air around and the fact that she was about thirty hairs less than what she came with, she just ignored everyone around her and waited for the flight to land. The seat belt light lit up for the final five minutes.

Grabbing her belongings when the plane was set to get off she made her way through the doors and into the airport.

Monica sat patiently watching for her luggage at the baggage claim. She noticed how much her classmates were being so loose and inattentive that it seemed they were oblivious to the fact that they were in London. London! The city where love happens. Her parents fell in love in London, they went on their honeymoon in London. Even her grandparents celebrated their anniversary of 43 years in London. It wasn't a city where you just sight-see, it was a city where the magic seemed to appear and the romance sparked.

Which brings her back to her Senior class. The class she just so happened to be stuck with. She disliked every single person on this trip. Well except for Mrs. Emerson, she hasn't done anything wrong. But everyone else she disliked. They don't take in the moment, they are too busy getting busy with other things. Take the beauty queens for insistence, they went straight to the bathroom to 'freshen up', then there are the jocks in the food court playing with a stupid hacky sack; the nerds and science geeks over by the window as they watched the planes take off. Like they had nothing better to do. Get your luggage! Looking over she spotted Janice Hosenstein. She felt bad for Janice. Like her last name wasn't bad enough she had the most annoying laugh. If you were blind and didn't know anybody's face, you could easily spot Janice just by her famous laugh. People say they try not to say anything funny just so they didn't have to hear it, but Monica thinks it's not that they try not to say anything funny, they are just that boring.

And finally the famous Chandler Bing, the one she had to deal with since kindergarten, was hitting on two blonde 'supermodels' over to the side that he spotted just as he got off the plane and onto solid ground. God, did she need Rachel's intentional spirits to finding the one she was meant to be with and her unwitty claim that she already found love. Her love for shopping.

If it wasn't for the loud bang from the person next to her grabbing their bags, Monica may still be day dreaming into another century and miss her luggage coming up next. She quickly grabbed the handle with her one hand before she missed it. But that one hand didn't help bring it over and off the conveyor belt because it was now pulling her along for the ride.

Monica hung on for dear life as she hurried with it. "Excuse me...excuse me..." She ran into people that were waiting for their luggage "Sorry." She took her chance before it went through the tunnel and grabbed it with her other hand "Ugh!" She pulled it off with all her might.

The heavy bag caused her to lose balance and fall backwards. Without hesitating and giving the people around her a show to laugh at; Monica quickly stood and brushed herself off, looking around to where Mrs. Emerson might be located.

Without luck, she grabbed the rest of her things before heading outside to where the bus was to be in five minutes in order to bring them to their hotel. The Ibis Hotel in London City.

Walking up to the side of the curb Monica scanned the crowd looking for any sign of her group. She got strange glances from people passing through. "Why did I choose the most comfiest outfit to ride on a plane for 6 and a half hours? Gosh, what were you thinking Monica, that people would be doing the same thing? That would be madness!" She rolled her eyes and tried to fix her pony tail so it wasn't so messy.

"Hey bookworm. Lost again?" Chandler stride by walking up to Joey Tribbiani. Joey and Chandler are what some best friends might call 'each other's bitches'. She still wondered what interested them into taking this educational trip to the place where Shakespeare grew up and became a well known author throughout the world? The last thing Monica ever thought she'd see: Chandler Bing standing next to Joey Tribbiani holding a historical landmark guidebook while touring London's most magnificent museums. She needs to get her camera...