Chapter 3

That girl who was sitting beside me was Jane and was from a nearby school. She said that her full name was Janet. Emm was way too hungry that is why he almost emptied that bag full of backup snacks that he had. I helped myself on them too.

It was really dark outside and believe me the scenery of the lighted uptown from the sky was AMAZING. I took several pics. I took out my phone after the hostess informed us that it was safe for us to use our devices. I was feeling very sleepy as the previous night I wasn’t able to get proper sleep. I opened Spotify and started listening to my soft music collection. I drifted off soon after.

I had slept for almost one and a half hours. When I woke up, all that was visible from the window was the night sky. I texted my parents that the take-off was safe and successful, so did Emm.

I could see in Jane’s handbag that she had at least 5 fat books which she started reading one by one. By now I was starting to feel bored. So, I took out my sketchbook and started drawing random things. It was around seven by now. Although the students were from different schools, they had already made good friends out of each other. There was nothing much to do in an aeroplane so we started playing UNO with the cards that Jane offered us. Well, I don’t know how, but Emm ended up winning all of the matches, except for the last one, which was won by Jane. It was fun either ways.

The dinner arrived a few minutes past nine. The school was in charge of selecting the dinner dishes but we could choose between veg and non-veg. I chose non-veg. The food had a burger. It had a pack of French fries and a soda with it. For the desert, we got a pastry. Although I had eaten a lot earlier, I was still feeling hungry.

While Emm had eaten too much before, so he could not finish it all, so he packed the soda and the pastry into his backpack and saved it for later.  Emm had brought many storybooks, so after the dinner, he started reading the books, although I warned him it was not a good idea to read books with extremely small print as it could cause him

air-sickness. But I also wanted to read books, but I had a better idea – audio books. I had brought the new bass headphones that I had received from a scholarship I got previous years, so I made some use out of them.

I had drifted off again. When I woke up, it was 5 a.m. The outside of the aeroplane was extremely cloudy. Jane and Emm both were asleep. I guess it was another mistake of mine to take a lot of naps the previous

evening. I tried to sleep again. Although I was feeling extremely cosy, I just couldn’t go back to sleep. Jane was shivering a little, that’s when I noticed that the blanket had fallen off her. I pulled it up, but I guess it was too late. She had already woken up from the cold. On the other hand, Emm was still sleeping peacefully.

Well, breakfast was going to be served at eight, so that was three hours from then. In that dark, we couldn’t read something or even draw. I figured we could just chat with each other.

There was one big problem. After we had properly introduced each other, there was nothing to talk about. Emm would not wake up earlier than half-past seven, so that was more than two hours from now, and we couldn’t possibly spend all this time talking.

I had another idea. Before I went off to sleep, I had charged my phone. I was pretty lucky to have the row that had the plug point. So, I took my phone out I didn’t switch on the data because I thought I wouldn’t be so good for our health since two of my friends were almost sleeping beside me.

I had downloaded a full playlist of soft songs that would help you sleep, and then I took out my earphones and gave one of them to Jane and the other one to myself and then started playing the songs one by one. She said that she liked them very much and would like to transfer them once we get off the plane. She went asleep about half an hour later, and so did a few minutes after her.

At 8 o'clock… 

The breakfast had arrived. We all had two chicken sandwiches with fruit juice while some others could also choose milk and cornflakes, but I didn’t go for that as it had a risk of throwing out everything. I also ate the pastry and the soda that I had packed last night.

Most of the seats were empty, so I told Emm and Jane to talk to each other for a while, as I wanted to pay a small visit to the other rows also.

I first went to the row where Eric and Chris were seated. In this row, I found another girl, which turned out to be Alice. Jane had told me that she had a bestie, Alice.

Eric also wanted to talk to Emm, after all, they are cousins, so I exchanged seats with him.

Alice told me that she had transferred to her current school about a year back. She had received the seat beside Jane. Jane had been very kind to her to introduce her to the new things as it was tough for Alice to have transferred

in the middle term.

Chris had also brought a pack of UNO and this time I nailed it. We had to pack our things up as we would land in about less than an hour.

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