TEACH ME HOW TO LOVE [RE-WRITING]

Tom

Nina, Erica and her parents, sat in the car and headed to the airport. They took a White Range Rover sport this time. Why use the same car all the time yet there was a variety of luxurious cars parked in the garage anyway!

After an hour of waiting at the airport, Tom's plane finally landed. Most of the people in the waiting area stood up to welcome their loved ones.

There was a couple that was hugging and got Erica feeling jealous. They man had held his girlfriend by the waist and swung her mid air, as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Look at them,"she whispered, with scorn in her voice.
Nina, who sat beside Erica's erect figure, just laughed at her friend. She didn't see why that had to be a reason for Erica to be mean, even to strangers.

"Oh! God. This place is flooded. Will he see us from here?" Erica complained, looking really impatient.

Unlike Nina, Erica had been unable to sit down. She had been pacing forward and backward, hoping that they would announce the arrival of the Tom's plane.

Mrs. Woods walked up to her and rested a hand on her daughter's shoulder.
"He'll be out any minute now."

Erica turned to look at her father and found him waving his hands in the air.

"Over here," he said. Mr. Woods was trying to get the attention of someone who stood a sizable distance from them.

When she looked the other side, she saw Tom pushing through the flood of people.

"There he is,"Erica shouted.

She ran to meet him. The girl threw her hands over his shoulders and jumped on him, they almost topped.

Their parents had also reached them by the time she let go of him.

"Hey! You almost tossed me to the ground," Tom said, after the ambush on his well built body.

"It's your fault," Erica said. "You made me miss you so much." She pinched his nose.

"Ouch!"

"Welcome home son," Mrs. Woods said as she opened her arms towards him.

Tom put down his back pack and gave his mom a hug.
"I missed you mother."

" I missed you too"

"Well won't you give your old man a hug?" said a smiling Mr. Woods.

"Dad," Tom said. He moved from his mother's arms and went to hug his father.

He fell in his old man's arms and got wrapped in a lovely embrace.
Mr. Woods tapped Tom's shoulder. " You're good?"

"Never been better," he said.

Nina had been watching the family exchange embraces. She stood a few steps behind them but no one seemed to notice her presence.

She felt embarrassed when other people looked at her, standing alone, looking like a lost child.

It was Tom who saw her when he hugged his father, and asked. That's when they all remembered.

"Aaah. Who is this? Is she with you guys?"

"Oh! I'm sorry I almost forgot," Erica answered immediately.
She walked over to Nina and pushed her own hand through Nina's elbow.

"Tom. Meet Nina. My best friend," she announced.

"Hi Nina," he said. Tom smiled as he held out a hand towards her.

"Hello," she replied, and met his hand. She looked up to his face, only to meet his grey eyes staring down at her hazel brown iris.