Revival

three / airline food

Song for this chapter is Stormy Weather by The Kooks

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"Miss. Miss?" I heard the muffled voice of someone unknown as I struggled to pry my eyes open. Sleep was still trying to pull me back under.

I looked up to see a flight attendant standing over me, a cart of food and drinks in front of her. "I'm sorry to wake you but we are serving dinner now." She explained while handing me a tiny plastic bowl with plastic wrap tightly wound around it.

"Oh it's okay, thank you." I said as she wheeled ahead to the next row of seats.

I observed "dinner" I was now holding and cringed. It was a brownish, moldy color and I had no intention of eating it, despite my rumbling stomach, so I just placed it on the tray in front of me and laid my head back again, hoping to regain my deep sleep.

Obviously I wasn't that fortunate. Just as I was closing my eyes again, I couldn't help but notice a girl a couple of rows ahead of me peeking over her seat, staring straight at me. I tried to ignore it, assuming she was looking at someone else, but my curiousity got the best of me.

"Faith?" I whispered to Faith who was sitting next to me, and was also staring at her repulsive dinner, debating on actually eating it or not.

"Are you gonna eat this?" She asked me, not bothering to find out my original reason for saying her name.

I scrunched my nose at just the thought. "You couldn't pay me to." I responded.

"I figured." She said while pushing it away from her. "Were you going to ask me something?"

 "Yeah, do you see that girl two rows ahead of us? The one who keeps peering over here, is she looking at me?" I asked.

She looked up over the rows in front of us, in search of the girl I was referring to.

"Yeah I see her. The one with the dark hair?"

I nodded in response. "Why is she looking over at me? I've never seen her before now."

Faith just shrugged. "Maybe she knows you."

Before I could respond the mysterious girl stood up and was now walking in our direction. I could't even gather my own thoughts and memories to try and piece together her face but I was fairly positive that I had no idea who she was.

Within moments she was leaning over my seat, her hands holding onto my armrest.

"Hey." She said. "Was that you talking to Ethan Cartello earlier? In the airport?"

I peeked over her shoulder to where Ethan's seat was. He wasn't there, probably in the bathroom.

"Um, yes?" I answered, almost as a question. "Do you know him?"

She straightened up and looked in the direction of the lavatory, where Ethan was now emerging from.

"Kind of." She answered. "My names Jade by the way- Jade Holmes. But I came here just to let you know that if Ethan asks you if you want him to 'show you around', don't."

With that she turned around just as Ethan came back up to his seat.

The two exchanged awkward glances at each other. Not so much a friendly look but also not one that gave off a feeling of hatred. Just by seeing them brush past one another you could sense a form of history- it was more a look of regret, or bitterness. And it made a pang go off inside of me. What had the two of them had? Obviously you could tell Ethan was a kind of player just by having one conversation with him. It was something in the way he talked or held himself that gave off that impression, but why should that bother me? Like I said before, I'm here for the trip, not a relationship.

Ethan sat back down in his seat, staring straight ahead of him, as if he was lost in space, his mind somewhere unattainable.

I was about to ask him if he was okay, and if he knew that Jade girl, just as the speaker came back on.

*Hello everyone this is your Captain again. We should be landing in Paris in about twenty minutes. And if you look out your window now you can see the beautiful terrain of the outkirts of Paris*

I looked over at Faith who was next to the window and she was already flying open the shade.

"Ohh, Nicole look!" She exclaimed while moving out of the way so I could see.

From the tiny airplane window I could see the connected streets of Paris intertwining with each other, winding into a complex system of roads and alleyways. I couldn't wait to lose myself in them. And while gazing out at what awaited me, I completely forgot about the boy sitting across from me, and all the otherworldly drama that he carried with him. 

A/N

This chapter was kind of a small and uneventful little filler, but it's just introducing Jade (a new character who obviously has history with Ethan) and now they're all about to land in Paris which is the first stop on the trip. Sorry this is so short xx