The Short Love Between Jean and Rob

A Simple Vacation

Athena's P.O.V

I can't do all of this alone! Damn it!

Here I am, carrying my bag and luggage.
My sneakers are slowly giving me blisters, and of course, here I am, Infront of the immigration line...ugh, really?.

"Who are you with?" the lady with the sour face asked.
"My mom" and of course, I answered.

"Where is she?"
"She's there, behind you" I stated bluntly.

She turned around and walked my mom, my mom turned towards her and walked to us.

"Is there a problem?" my mom asked
"Can I look at your Passport?" the lady asked sternly, damn, chill! You might make yourself look like big foot if you don't smile!.

"Sure, here" my mom casually gave her the passport, she looked at the name and the photo, side by side.

She just gave my mom's passport back and proceeded to work on my passport.

"Fingerprint, don't remove it until It's ready" she said.

Oh no, I kinda...lost my...fingerprints a while ago?...umm..now my fingers are just as smooth as a baby's skin....um...

I still tried and pressed my thumbs EXTREMELY hard against the scanner.
Hm....it's taking long....then....1 , 2 , 3..."can you try again?" I knew it.

I tried again and this time, it worked.
Ugh...why did my fingerprints disappear..

I just proceeded to get my passport and ticket and then walked outside of the booth..ugh! Finally!

"Tsk, I hate that" I mumbled but my mom just laughed at me.
We quickly walked towards the line heading outside of the airport.

Finally, I am out of that foreign airport with sour faces.
I miss my country's airport...such happy faces to greet you, even the immigration officers are cool and sweet.

They meant business but they know how to appeal to the people.
"Hey! How is it? Immigration is still after you?" my dad greeted me while walking straight towards us.

I didn't answer, I just took my phone out and  my earphone.
I listened to Manafest - Pushover.

Through out the whole way to our 'home', I was quiet because I felt sick.

I watched Game Grumps: Breath of the Wild: Shirtless Hero - part 1, while I was riding the airplane.
And then I ate noodles, then I threw up.

So now, I'm tired and I just wanna go home.

Finally, we got there.
I took my shoes off and went to the bed...a couple of minutes later.

"Hey, get ready, we will go out to buy slippers for you" my mom stated...what? Um..can you repeat that?...

"Huh? What?" I asked again.

"You need to get up from the bed and get ready, we'll buy some slippers for you, then, we will go outside later at night for our midnight walk" she explained....um....can I just say...my head is spinning?.

I know I'm chubby, but this is too much.
I felt like tearing up, I thought that my time here will be better than the last experience I had...but I guess I'm wrong.

They don't think about how I feel, they just care about what would look good on the internet, they've done this.

They are the definition of 'Pageant parents', they will push you to your limits and work you out to the point where you get some kind of sickness or disease.

And then when you're super sick, they end up acting as if they don't know that they did to you or what happened.

Every friend of mine knows how it is with them.
Outside, they look like the perfect people to be with, but inside, they are a nightmare.

'Picture here, picture there, pose like this, pose like that, I'm going to post it on instagram for my friends to see your shoes, your outfit, you hair, your shopping bag'

This is the kind of treatment that those crazy celebrities go through, and that's how they turn crazy.

They were just there to enjoy the life and make their fans happy, but their manager and parents doesn't care about enjoyment, they only care about what would make them look good.

So eventually, the artist loses their spark and light of inspiration, they lose the thing that the fans love about them.
They lose themselves in the process.

And then they will get scolded by their manager about how 'you are making this difficult for us, just do what we tell you'.

It's bullcrap..that's how I am right now.