To Express Happiness || Fayne ✔✔

Bon Voyage ✈

The bell rings and the exam ends.

The hall is bustling with students manifesting all kinds of emotions : frustration, pensiveness, hopefulness, happiness ; and Aaron's one tops it all. It's a mixture of everything aesthetic, like all the flowers in the garden blooming at once. He's putting more cherries on top of cherries, and it never ends. Everything he feels is fresh; coming out of the box like a Christmas present. The gang rendezvous around him, and  stay awkwardly silent for a while; when suddenly a group hug comes out of the blue. Aaron feels it; feels his cherries exploding one by one as it erupts with happiness. They depart , saying nothing to each other, and Aaron does it too.

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Two days later. The day of departure.

Aaron rides past the city lights and away from the city, away from the mess. Like a kid, he touches the car window and gazes at the open sky, as he goes with the speed of the clouds. He looks into the infinity, thinking of everything no one will ever know. To him, this infinity is serene; chaotic, yet so organized. 

He gets off the car as Mrs. Reeves calls Mr. Betton to know his whereabouts.  Aaron eyes go scampering among the crowd of passengers, when he finally notices them. The girls are wearing long sleeves blouses while the boys appeared in Hawaii shirts ; the whole gang wearing shorts. Aaron looks down to what he's wearing, and regrets it instantly. Hoodies and jeans will seriously kill the mood, and he turns back to avoid their eye contact when his eyes meet Shae's. Aaron's shock confronts the pitch-black stillness of Shae's eyes as he stands there, emotionless, scanning Aaron top-to-bottom.

''Yoooo. You better have something underneath that jeans as I am about to pull it down in five....four....'' .

Aaron's eyeballs go wild with fear but they soon settle onto someone far, far away, and Aaron looks as she enters the departure zone. 

''...three...two...''

Something suddenly gets tied around Aaron's heart and it tugs, keeps on tugging. A shrill sound passes his ears and he hears lost voices. The footsteps around him sound louder and louder until they are thunderous.

''...Oneeee...'' .

Shae reaches to grab Aaron's jeans, but Aaron pushes him past and rushes to the departure zone. He hears Shae calling him from the back, including several security staff, but the voices go shallow and then they are gone. He scoops into the crowd, pushing past everyone as he shouts her name.

''Marzia! Marziaa!!''

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The woman was looking up at the departure timings, when she heard Aaron's voice. Her head suddenly comes down, as she looks behind.

''Marzia....it's me....Aaron.''

The woman stays quiet as their eyes don't move away from each other, and the silence is  speaking a lot of words already. The blond girl with small eyes , rounded nose and chubby cheeks takes hold of her scarf as she pulls it across her face, hiding her tears. 

When Aaron is about to lose it, Mrs. Reeves calls from behind.

''Aaron!! Don't you ever disappear like that!! I've been searching you for such a long time and--''. Mrs. Reeves looks at Marzia as she narrows her eyes and speaks in a voice full of guilt. ''Marzia...why...are you...here??''. 

Aaron falls to the floor ,hands on his head, making many passengers around him stare in awe. An airport staff grabs Aaron and pulls him back. 

Marzia slowly releases the scarf and tries to grab Aaron's hand as Mrs. Reeves gets hold of it and pulls it away.