This Ain't The End [The WANTED FanFiction - Nathan Sykes]

This Ain't The End - Part 1

'Flight 18GBE1497ARL to Areciffe, Lanzarote, is now boarding. Please make your way to the boarding gates,' said the female voice on the intercom. This was it. Our flight. Dad and I picked our travel bags up and started heading to gate 26. On the way, I had to drag Nesta out of the massive toyshop, because due to her recent obsession with My Little Pony and coincidentally the toy shop had a huge My Little Pony display on, she was practically glued to that section.

We arrived at gate 26 to find a big crowd of people already boarding. We joined the back of the queue and not soon afterwards, families, friends and business people alike joined behind us. Within about 10 minutes of waiting, I took my passport and boarding pass out of my pocket and showed them the flight attendants. As they were checking them, I saw my reflection in the glass.

I was wearing my green, stripy, collar shirt and skinny jeans and my favourite "Peter Pan boots" as I liked to call them. My hair was just tied in a pony tail as it usually is and I had my usual, minimal make-up on. All in all, I wasn't ecstatic about my appearance but at the same time I didn't hate it.

After finishing my self-assessment, when the flight attendant gave me my passport and boarding pass back, I went across the connecting bridge towards the plane. Dad and Nesta followed. On the way down Nesta, or Nessy as we nicknamed her, chatted to me about what it'd be like in Lanzarote and whether she'd make any friends as this was something I always told her about when I came to Lanzarote. Of course some stories were made up – I never made proper friends.

'Well I'm sure a lovely girl like you is bound to make loads of friends that she can stay in touch with when she gets home!' I said in reply. She grinned excitedly at me and we carried on.

We walked across the bridge and finally found the plane.

'Your ticket please ma'am?' a male flight attendant asked as we stepped onto the plane. I smiled and showed him my ticket.

'Oh your seat is right this way,' he said and led me into the plane I waited for Dad and Nesta.

'Are they with you?' the man asked me. I nodded. He checked their tickets.

'I'm sorry sir but your two tickets are down there,' he said, pointing in the opposite direction of the plane he was going to take me to, 'Your daughter I presume is down the other end. I'm so sorry,' he said. Dad looked at me. I could tell we were thinking the same thing.

How the hell did that happen!? Well I guess they were last minute tickets – literally last minute, we got them last night on this weird website that lands you in the weirdest seats. Even the tickets are weird. They're valid but they just have a seat number on it and the flight attendants usually have to direct you. It's a dodgy website but it's cheap.

'You going to be okay?' he asked me. I nodded and put a brave smile on.

'Yeah. Course. I'll be fine,' I replied. I started to go with the attendant but Nesta stopped me just as I was about to let her hand go.

'Where you going L-Loa?' Nesta asked. She still stumbled on her 'L's a little, despite being 5. I turned around and bent down to her level, still holding her hand gently as the flight attendant greeted and helped two couples behind us.

'I've got to go the other way Nessy. But you stay with Daddy. You'll be okay,' I said.

Nesta had never really travelled without me or Mum before. She tended to find more support and trust in the females than the males for some reason. But Dad, Nesta and I have been on our own for a while now and so I'm the only one she fully trusts. I feel bad about it but she looked up to me. So I had to do whatever I could to make her happy.

'But I don't want you to go...' she said with a cute sad face on.

'Don't worry. You'll be fine. Because big girls can look after themselves on their own when they're on planes you know,' I said, reassuringly. Her eyes widened and danced.

'Really?' she asked. I nodded and laughed a little.

'Really! I'll be at the airport. Don't worry,' I said. Once she was happy, the man directed Dad and a grinning Nesta to their seats and took me to mine. We kept walking up to the front of the plane, passing all the economy seats, and he slowed down by a curtain. On the wall next to it, said 'Business Class'. Surely my seat wasn't in business class!? The flight attendant opened the curtain and gestured me to go first.

'Um.... Are you sure I'm here?' I asked him nervously. He nodded.

'That's what your ticket says,' he said. Wow... I shrugged my shoulders and went through the curtains to find myself in a completely different section of the plane. It was more like a little cove with about ten units, each of them had two chairs connected. The chairs were more like leather sunbeds and even though they were connected, each of them was like in an oval shape like a small room from a futuristic film. I stood there shocked. My mouth hung open a little.

'Wow....' I said quietly.

'This way Miss,' the man said and showed me to one of the seats. 'I hope your flight is pleasant,' he said and walked off.

'Oh it will be,' I said to myself as I sat down. I opened the storage box just at the side below the seat and placed my backpack in there, after taking out my phone and MP3 player. I sat in the chair and updated my Facebook status to 'Looks like getting your tickets off LastMinuteBookings.com really pays off sometimes. I'm in business class!' I typed and pressed update. Then I went onto Twitter and typed a similar thing. Not many people really cared what I was doing so I rarely updated but this seemed like something that ought to be said.

As I was doing so, I heard someone else sit next to me but I couldn't see who it was because of the plastic. I replaced my phone back to my bag, put my ear phones in and leant back on the chair and shut my eyes. Waking up at 5 o'clock in the morning with a 5 year old to entertain was tiring. 

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This has been edited as of 24/01/17.

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