Today is the day, today is the start of a new life; a new Catherine. I don't really know if I'm ready to do this. I mean is quite hard to start a new life in a new city and a new school.
"Miss, please, keep moving, there's people trying to get in and you're blocking the entry." A deep voice told me. Fuck I didn't even notice I was standing there. I turn around and see a lot of people standing behind me frowning at me.
"Yeah, I'm sorry." I said to the security man. When I see he's already leaving I take the bag and the suitcase and start walking towards the plane.
Just when I start walking all the people behind me start clapping and start saying things like "it was time to move!" My cheeks instantly start to get kind of pink.
"Welcome to Delta Airlines Miss." A young woman tells me with a wide smile on her face. "May you give me the ticket, please?" I take my bag, open it and take the ticket and give it to her.
"Thank you Miss. Your seat is right there." She says pointing at the seat that I'm going to be for 2 hours.
"Thank you." I say and go to the seat. I open the compartment above the seat and put my suitcase inside of it, I close it and seat down, behind the window.
I start looking through the small window and to be honest, I will miss Portland and I will miss my friends and family. Tears start falling from my eyes while memories come to my mind.
I'm really scared about this, I haven't seen my aunt since I was 7 and fuck, now I was 17. How is she going to react when she see me? Is she going to be able to recognize me? I mean, I used to have black hair and now it's red. I used to be a super bubbly person and now I'm just sad and grumpy. I understand that I have to move to LA with my aunt - a wannabe artist- so I can be safe. But I just don't want to do this. I want to stay here, in Portland with my family and my friends. I want to be the happy Catherine.
But I guess that person doesn't exist anymore. The airplane starts shaking. Meaning it's going to take off. I turn around and see nobody is seating beside me. So I take my bag, which was on my feet, and put it beside me on the free seat.
I see the flight-attendants explaining where the exits and all that shit are. I couldn't care less so I take my phone and observe it. It's a new phone my parents got me. I don't have any apps and the only numbers I have are my parents' number and my brother's number. I enter spotify and put some Frank Ocean's music.
Thinking bout you starts and I try to calm myself down and make myself comfortable in this airplane. I close the small window and take my bag –I don't want anyone stealing my bag to be honest- and try to sleep these 2 hours.
Someone starts touching my shoulder, Lost is playing on my earphones. "Liam stop let me sleep." I say in a sleepy voice. Liam doesn't stop touching my shoulder, in fact, he's being more aggressive. I open my eyes and take my earphones off then put my phone and earphones inside the bag. Why am I in a plane? Suddenly all the memories come and remember that I'm going to LA. Who the hell was touching my shoulder? I turn around and see a little kid with a grin on his face. He's definitely not my brother.
"Are you Cheryl Blossom?" He asks seating next to me. What is he talking about? This kid's crazy. I don't even look like her. My hair color isn't even like that and my eyes are green.
"Huh?" Is all I get to say. The kid looks scared right now. Okay, maybe I have a menacing face right now so I try to relax my face and say something. "Where are your parents?"
"They are sleeping. Why do you want to know that?"
"How old are you kid?" Just after asking this he looks confused at me.
"My parents say I can't talk to strangers." He says crossing his arms.
"But they are sleeping." I say kind of whispering.
"That's true. My name's Daniel and I'm 10 years old." Says putting 9 fingers up. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He's short, well he's 10 years old so he's not going to be 6 feet tall I guess.
"That's a beautiful name Daniel. I'm Catherine." I say smiling at him.
"Do you want to play four-in-a-row with me?" I look at the screen in the front of the plane and see there's half an hour left to arrive to LAX.
"Yeah." He leaves running and I take this moment to put the bag on my feet again. Then I see him coming with a little box with him.
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"Dear passengers we're arriving to our destination. Go to your seats and put your belts on." I didn't even notice that we were arriving to our destination.
"Daniel let's clean this mess and go with your parents, okey?"
"Yes Catherine." He helps me to clean all this mess. This kid was really nice. He told me he had a crush on a girl in his class and asked me to give him any advice. So I did. I hope the girl has a crush on him back. "It was so nice meeting you, Catherine."
"You can call me Kate, Daniel. Now take this and go with your parents."
He looks at me with a sad face and say "I hope I see you again Kate. Bye."
"Bye, kid." I say smiling and then he leaves.
I put my belt on and take my bag and put it in my lap. After 5 minutes the landing starts. And before I notice we are already there. People start getting up from their seats and taking their suitcases and bags and then get out of the plane.
I wait 'till there's not lot of people so I can take everything without having to rush. I take the suitcase from the compartment and put the bag on my shoulder and leave.
"Thank you for travelling with us, Miss. Hope you have a good time in Los Angeles." The flight attendant on the door tells me. The same woman that was there when I entered.
"Thank you." I say smiling and the leave. I look around me and see the airport –really big I must say.- and so I start going to that direction.
"You can do this Kate." I say to comfort myself. For sure I can do this.
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Hey! My name's Isis and this is something I've wanted to do for a long time now. I hope you like it! And sorry for my English (it's not my first language) so if you see any mistakes; tell me! I will appreciate it a lot.
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Teen FictionCatherine is a 17 year old who has to move from Portland to Los Angeles to start a new life with her aunt, her husband and his son. Problems follow her but it gets worse once she starts at the new school.
