Hotel Selten

Chapter Four

It was a great day, today is the flight of Ophelia and her family. Her mom woke up her around 4 in the dawn. The teenage girl immediately and—sleepily. Gladly, the warm water in her bath woke her conscious more. She dressed up with red shirt, jeans jacket and black leggings. She tied up her lace-up white sneakers. "I'm all done!" Ophelia exclaimed to her self, just in time his father went to her room. "Good—early morning, Lia." He smiled and giggled. "Where's your luggage?" She pointed two duffel bags as his dad go near it and carried it out the room. She grabbed her black hair tie and tied her brunette hair into a ponytail, leaving her funny bangs behind. 

She followed her dad and they went downstairs. Her mom was preparing some foods for the travel, like biscuits to munch in the airplane. Her dad continued to the door which leads to their garage and pile up Lia's baggage in the baggage cart of his pick up truck, along with his and her wife's baggage. His dad peeked a bit to his wife and daughter who was talking. "Anything that we forgot?" He asked, "None. I will just carry this small bag of snacks." Helda assured to him that nothing is left behind. "And also, Ms. Jones said we should lock every room. She have spare keys anyways." Dred passed the keys for the house to his wife. "Hold this first." She said to the teenage girl, giving the small beige tote bag. 

She went to every door inside the house, even the entrance. She entered through the garage, since they will be leaving through there. Lia and Dred hopped on the pick up truck as Helda locked the last door, which is a door for garage from the house. She then board the pick up truck. She tossed the keys to her husband as she closes the door, "Can you lock the garage's sheet door when you moved the pick up truck later?" He nodded as an answer. "I remember the time I tried it, my back aches for days." Her wife told while laughing to herself. "Well, the hinges are rusty making it hard to put down."

Dred twisted the car key which was there already before they even fully board in the vehicle. The engine roars and makes continuous noises as a sign that the car can move now. He pushed and pulled the accelerator a bit as he steps on the gas, the car motioned smoothly out of the garage. He turned right, placing the car on the road side of the stroll area of the neighborhood. He stopped the truck as he pushes the door on his left, he hopped out of his truck and went to the garage to lock it up. The metallic screech of the sheet door as he pulls it down echoed through the neighborhood. Dred locked it up and went back to the car, panting a bit. He smiled to his family as he motioned the accelerator forward again and they drive out of the neighborhood into the airport.

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They arrived quickly in the airport for just minutes, there is just a light traffic that they encountered along North Pebble Beach Drive. They just encountered some man that is on fire, Ophelia interestingly watch has the man panics  and rolls on the sidewalk. The people tried to extinguished him by they just can't. Helda hold her daughter close and prevents her to watch the horrible scene when suddenly a water tank from above just explodes and rain down upon the panicking people. All of  the water falls to the poor guy and extinguishes him. It was devastating as a distance noise that is like a siren can be heard, the ambulance and even the fire truck arrived. The firemen rushingly went to the circle crowd of people, as the circle broke in half, they just new the man is okay and alive as the medics rushed in and tried to bring the poor burnt guy on the stretcher and put him inside the ambulance. There the road clears and her dad moves their car away from the scene.

Dred parks the car in the parking lot, a personnel assists them with their bags as they walk in the airport's lounge. Ophelia curiously looked around as they walk, the airport is a bit wide and there are airplanes landing and taking off the airstrips. As they enter, they are welcomed by a bit colder air in the lounge as they went to the baggage counter, checking-in their things.