The Secret

Ch.11 | Sarai the Cupid

•Sarai Shinoda-LeUllu•

It was only day two of our Vegas trip. I couldn't really comprehend he chain of events happening, but there I was just going along and making sure things happened in Travis's favor. Fabian can be pretty bossy when it comes to the trips we're on but something told me this trip belongs to my cousin. He needed one last turn up before he really has to settle himself for Sophia.
The wait at SFO airport with everyone was fun, up until the moment we got settled onto the airplane.
I sat isle side of the end of our seats, Brianne next to the window, and Travis in the middle, since Ryan traded seats with him due to Bri nervously digging his hand to the flesh and bone. Two rows in front of us, Fabian, Mason, and Skyelar.
The mood between Travis and Brianne shifted once we started to ride around the runway before takeoff. It took everything in me to control my impulses for Travis and my best friend Brianne's sake, not to text Jenn and tell her what the fuck was happening literally in the two seats next to me. I thought about waiting until she flies in separately due to her work conference to tell her, but no.. I can't. I'm usually quick to light gossip and make fun of my friends and people, but what was going on next to me, I knew meant more to the both of them than me opening my big obnoxious mouth.
I noticed Brianne's breathing becoming more nervous and Travis grabbed her hand tight like a reflex. I leaned over Travis to talk to Bri, "You alright, Bri?" I asked.
She took a deep breath and nodded at me with her eyes closed tight.
Travis turned his head to me, "She's scared to fly." He mouthed as if I didn't already know.
"Ahh" I mouth back. Ignoring me and deciding there's no one else in world that exists while comforting Bri, he put up the armrest between them and put his free hand on her thigh resting his fingers between her knees and leaned into her. "It's okay. Banī. I'm right here." He whispered to her.
Travis loves her so much. More than anything he will ever admit to anyone and maybe even himself.
I never told anyone this, not even Travis about his own drunken night one night when he came over to my apartment late. He drove straight from Bri's house after drinking with everyone. I remember staying home that night because I was sick with a heavy cold. Travis knocked on my door even though I gave him a key for emergency purposes. He never used it. He came stumbling in across my little living room and threw himself on my couch. I didn't care what he was doing at the time. I was sick with a cold and I hoped he was just going to pass out on my couch as soon as his body hit contact with it, so I can go to the hell to sleep myself. Little did I know that my own cousin who I was never close with most of our lives due to our mothers being angry with eachother for some family drama, would sit on my couch and pour his heart out with every confession of his soul about Brianne. I didn't know what to do with him sobbing and heartbroken about how he will never be the guy of Brianne's dreams because of his lifestyle, and the fact that she asked him this big wild favor from him to help her out of her prudish shell and thinking he would be used by her. He also went on about his fostering situation. He told me about this tiny little angel coming into his life named Sophia. I don't think I've ever seen Travis Shinoda, hate being Travis Shinoda so much, or even at all. Brianne might be a big influence on him because she's fostered before. I know Brianne, along with most of us, is so accustomed to Travis's lifestyle, that she wants to have faith that he can do it, but she can't.

During the flight, their hands stayed in an intertwined lock the entire 45 min flight. Her head rested into his chest under his arm and his chin rested against the top of her hair. There was a moment when Travis snapped back into reality for just a second and remembered that I was sitting with them. He turned his head to me and nudged me lightly on my arm. I turned my head to him with my headphones on and he lifted his head to me in a 'what's up' manner. I think he was worried that I was going to judge him and scold him like the way I did at the club when he almost kissed her the night of the Masquerade. I smiled and shifted my eyebrows along with my little head nod and flashed my eyes at Bri and then back at him with a soft smile gesturing and letting him know that I was happy that he had Brianne in his arms. He smiled back at me discreetly excited and rested his chin back to Brianne's hair. Normally when she's in his arms, it's platonic and no one thinks anything of it, not even Travis. It's just the way they are. But this time is different. If you didn't know any better, you would think that these two are more than in love, and that are not just platonic friends. There's a little more happening next to me than platonic chemistry with what I even already know is going on in front of my very eyes. I knew just better, and nothing else in the world could place these two's souls elsewhere, than right where they belong.