Adjustments

FINAL CHAPTER Adjustments 22

We enter the airport and look for terminal B237. We stand there for a little while, staring at the top of the escalator where he'll come down. Ashley's phone goes off. She takes it out of her purse and reads the text message.

"Who is that? Is that Jake?" I ask with excitement.

"Yeah. Yeah it is, um. I'm going to go get his suit case, alright?" She begins to walk away but I stop her.

"Did you tell him?"

"Tell him what?"

"About Noah. Did you tell him what happened?"

"No. I was going to let you do that." She puts a hand on my shoulder and leaves.

I look around and feel like everyone's staring at me. After all, I am in a red dress in the middle of LAX. All of a sudden, I feel a tug on the back of my dress.

"Excuse me!" Says a voice. I turn around and see a little blonde girl, no older than six-years-old. She lets go of my dress and looks at me. "Why are you here?" I bend down on my knees and talk to her.

"I'm waiting for a friend. Why are you here?"

"My Mommy's coming home from work!" She says with a smile on her face. "Why aren't you in your castle?" I look at the little girl with a confused look.

"Castle?"

"You're a princess! Aren't you?" I giggle along with the little girl.

"No, I'm not a princess."

"Yes you are! Only princesses wear pretty dresses! Like Belle or Cinderella. You have to be a princess." She looks like she's heartbroken that I'm not a princess, like in Disney movies. She starts to tear up and rubs her eyes.

"What's your name?" I ask.

"Bennett." She says. I love her name!

"It's nice to meet you Bennett."

"What's your name?"

"My name is Sarah."

"Princess Sarah!" She begins to giggle. I won't deny her. Her mind must be full of fantasy and dreams, who am I to ruin it? I look at my hand and see one of my rings that Noah had given me for my birthday last year. It's a gold band, not real gold of course, with an infinity sign on it. I look at her and take off my ring.

"Now, Bennett. This ring is very important. It is a sign of absolute royalty."

"Really?" She says, smiling.

"You can be a princess forever if you have this ring." I look at the band in my hand and start to sniffle. "It's very... very important to me." I slide my thumb over it and look up at Bennett. "Do you think you can take care of it for me?"

"Me? Really!"

"Yes." I smile. "Hold out your hand." She shows me her palm. I kiss the ring and put it in her hand.

"Can you put it on me, Sarah?" She asks. I take the band and slide it onto her pointer finger on her right hand. It was a little big for her.

"It may not fit now, but it will soon."

"Does this mean I'm a princess, too?"

"Yes. But it seems to me that you always have been." I say. She begins jumping up and down, laughing. Before I know it, she hugs me.

"Thank you!" She says. I stand up and curtsy to her, acting like a royal.

"It has been an honor, your majesty!" I state. She curtsy's to me and repeats what I said. Off in the distance, I see a frantic man in his late thirties running around the terminal.