Chapter 2: Unusual Strangers

So apparently leaving this house without any noise isn't working at all.

'Why do our stairs always have to make such loud noises?!'

Exhausted about all the ideas of leaving this house, I looked at my parents bedroom and back, to make sure to be safe.

I'M ONLY STANDING ON THE THIRD STAIR!! THIS TRULY IS A BAD JOKE!!!!!

Urggh, this isn't working at all. If I continue to go further down, my parents would wake up. 

"I have to find a way out but how? I can't live this life like this anymore!" I mumbled devastated to myself. After a couple of minutes of thinking a way out, I decided to sit upright and find a conclusion as fast as I can. And it seems like it's going to work out. Well, I don't know if it would be a clever idea to do it, but it seeems like, there's no better chance. My eyes landed on something really useful. My Window...  The idea didn't lasted long enough, before my smart senses came back. "Oh nonono this is ridiculous!"

But worth a try right,..right? 

Sighing, I took my blanket from my bed and attached it onto one side of the window, with high hopes that this could work out...

"Arrivederci Hell" Waving to my room, I held the blanked with an extremely strong grip, as if my life depended on it. I looked for the last time down and slowly climbed out of the window. A few steps further down, happiness grew in the inside of me and my smile was getting bigger and bigger. Literally no one was able to stop me from now on.

"Quezon I'm comi-"

Crack

Oh my God nonono I have to speed up before I-

Crack

"Ahhhhh" And I directly fell on my butt.

Liars! Liars! Liars! I never watch you again you mendacious overrated movies!! 

It's pretty dark, cold and really uncomfortable here outside. I have the urge to look everywhere to be save from these demons out there... They could eat me at any second!

I swear these noises at night are real!

A few minutes passed by and the taxi driver was finally there to pick me up. Thank god. I immediately stepped in and told the driver my destination, without looking up. Even without looking up, I felt his gaze on me. Giving my best, in acting like I didn't noticed anything, I still didn't looked up, until the Taxi driver called out for me. Yes, you heard right. With the curiosity that I have, I couldn't resist to look up.

"Holly?"

Wait is that-

"Drake??-" I trailed off "Why are you a Taxi driver, I thought you were good at School?"

Ouch, I should learn to talk a bit nicer around people!

Drake was one of the only classmates who actually wanted to be my partner in every school project we had. I was kinda grateful, that I always didn't had to look for a partner. If you think that we had a friendship going on, I have to disappoint you. We never had a real friendship like hanging out or so, not even in the breaks. It was just the school projects and our grades that we had to keep up as high as we could, that's it.

"Yeah, after High School, I made a lot of dumb things so now... I'm here. What's up with you?"

"I work at a Call Center" I sighed.

"That sounds disgusting." Drake laughed and drove off. On our way to the Airport, I felt Drake's gaze on me every now or then. Somehow, I was getting a bit uncomfortable around him and was looking forward to reach the Airport as fast as we were able to. Again checking him out, my feelings were telling me the truth. He looked at me everytime he had the chance to do it.

Half an hour later we made it to the Airport. I did my farewell and so did he. Inside the Airport I took my ticket from the Service Center and made my way through all the security. Everything went by fast and an hour later, I entered the plane, searching for my seat. To be honest, I'm kinda nervous, but the excitement in me is quite bigger. I don't know what awaits me in Quezon and one thing was clear: I'm ready for it.

Bing

"Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Singapore Airlines 

We remind you that this is a non-smoking flight.  Smoking is prohibited on the entire aircraft, including the lavatories.  Tampering with, disabling or destroying the lavatory smoke detectors is  prohibited by law. If you have any questions about our flight today, please don't hesitate to ask one of our flight attendants. Thank you."

Okay, okay this is about to get real! Minutes passed by and the plane began to move. After every passing second, the plane was getting faster and faster and-

"Ohh my God this feels sooo good but creepy at the same time." I said with a trembling voice.

"Yeah, but I like that feeling, it gives me some adrenaline." A man with blonde hair and ocean blue eyes, sitting next to me, told me. He has a bit of facial hair and is somehow... g-good looking?.

I was so blinded from my escape that I didn't noticed what happened around me.

"Huh?"

"My name is Hans Gregor and I'm from Germany. I hope we have a great time as seatmates." he smiled at me.

"Yeah, me too. I'm Holly Beckett." I smiled back. Gosh, I feel so uncomfortable when I smile. Faking it is harder than I thought.

"Holly as in Holly Golightly from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?."

Breakfast of what?

"What? Äh....yeah?" I said while trying to not showing him, how confused I actually was.

"Nah, your not nearly as hot as her and your oversized clothes screams Walmart." He said quickly.

"What is your-" Problem is what I wanted to say, but he quickly pulled his headphones over and listened to...... Taylor Swift??

Bing

Suddenly the seat belt sign went off. Does that mean, I can do whatever I want right now? I mean, they said it in one of those websites-

.......

"Hmmmmm you nasty little snitch" "Don't touch me there it tickles"

What are these noises? Slowly opening my eyes, I saw exactly what was going on. Hans threw his legs over me and was snoring like a dog, with his mouth wide open. I don't want to exaggerate, but two elephants could fit easily in that mouth of his. looking at the clock on the display, I noticed, that not much time passed since. I only slept for 2 hours which is not much for the route, we all have do go through. This only means, sleeping a little more or should I say, sleep enough before this monster next to me threw's himself on me again?!

'Seems like my new life starts with unusual strangers.' Before I realized it, I fell back into a deep sleep...

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Hey Lovelies,

The second chapter is out!! I hope you liked it and had fun reading it! :-D

Have a lovely day

Hati.