The Paris Trip

It was about an hour into the flight and I was laughing like crazy. Liam was telling me a story about his experience on tour.
“So, the tour bus started to drive away. Obviously, I was panicking and I started running after it with my hands in the air waving for it to stop. I almost tripped… twice!” He chuckled.
“Awww… poor Liam.” I petted his arm, still giggling.
“Alright, alright. Enough about me, tell me about you. I don’t even know your full name or where you’re from.” He rested his head on the cushion on the top of the seat as his eyes stared dreamily into mine. I blushed and managed to sit up straight.
“There, is nothing super extraordinary about me.” I looked back him.
His brows were furrowed; he wore a serious look on his face. “I don’t believe that. Everyone is extraordinary in their own way.” He answered.
“Well, my full name is Casey Lucinda Wilmington. I was born in Chicago, Illinois and my family moved around a lot. I have a younger sister and an older brother, better?” I raised an eyebrow at him.
“Yes, much! Tell me more.” He grinned.
“I am a neat freak, and I am definitely a nerd!” I paused to think and then continued, “My dad is a dentist and my mom works as a teacher. My brother’s name is Calvin, he’s 19 and my sister’s name is Aria, she’s 14. Ummm….” I tapped my chin trying to think of something else that was important.
“What’s your favorite movie?” Liam suggested.
“Um, that’s hard. I don’t have favorite movies because I have so many that I like and I couldn’t possibly choose. Oh, did I mention I’m pretty indecisive at times?” I smiled. Liam laughed and nodded.
“True, I do know what you mean. My favorite other than Toy Story would be…. The Batman Movies.”
“Oh my god! I love the Batman movies! I love Batman in general. Definitely one of my favorite superheroes of all time!” I said excitedly.
“No way, really?” He sat up straight.
“Yeah, you kidding? I love the Batman Trilogy! I actually-” I was interrupted by Leah who had made her way over. Apparently, Ms. Fleur had to use the bathroom and she saw this as an opportunity to say “hi”. I was so glad she decided to sneak over.
“Hey Casey… Um… Hi…” She waved at Liam. She glanced behind us where Niall was.
“Leah! Oh, Liam this is my best friend, Leah. Leah this is Liam and I think you know the rest of the boys?” I winked at her.
“Nice to meet you Leah.” Liam shook her hand. Her hand was shaking and she couldn’t speak.
“Niall,” I whispered through the gap in between Liam’s seat and mine.
“Yeah?” He answered.
“I wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine if you don’t mind. Her name is Leah and she is a huge fan of the band and she was really looking forward to meeting you.” I look over at Leah who looks like she’s on the brink of tears. She smiled meekly and shook his hand.
“Hi, Leah you’re very beautiful, nice to meet ya!” Niall winked at her.
“Hi.” She said as she started to blush. Leah turned around to make sure Ms. Fleur had not returned. Ms. Fleur would be back anytime soon. No one wanted to see Ms. Fleur scold Leah in French; Leah even said that one time she had a nightmare about it.
“I’ve got to uhh… go… nice to meet all of you. Liam, Louis, Niall, Zayn, and Harry…” She waved as she headed back to her seat. The rest of the boys watched her make her way back.
“Wow. Are you guys really close?” Liam turned back around to face me.
“Oh yeah. We’re really good friends. We’ve been best friends since 4th grade.” I searched for the airplane’s complimentary blanket under my seat. Grabbing it, I unfolded it and laid it across my lap.
“She seems very nice.” Liam smiled.
“She is… at times…” I quickly added. “There should be a whole new adjective to describe her!” I chuckled.
After another hour or so, dinner was being passed out. The airhostess’ bulky cart stopped in our aisle.
“I’ll have the chicken.” I say as she passed the meal over to me.
“I’ll have the same.” Liam smiled and took his meal from her. “Thanks.” He added.
“So I think we should do this right.” I say as I cover myself in my blanket.
“Do what, exactly?” Liam was ripping the cover of his meal open and licking the sauce off his fingers.
“Eat dinner and watch a movie?!” I said as if it were obvious. The planes had tv screens on the back of the seats so I quickly turned mine on and flipped through the movies that we could watch. Liam leaned over and grinned. I eventually found a movie that we both agreed to (The Avengers) and pressed play. I gave one headphone to Liam and used the other one for myself. After we both managed to eat our Chicken Parmesans, we covered ourselves with our blankets and continued watching. We commented on funny parts of the movie and both laughed aloud. At a few points during the movie, Liam tried to do his best impression of Loki and I nearly lost it. I was laughing so hard I had to stop myself from cackling too loud. It was already late in the night and some of the other passengers were asleep. I laughed silently as he continued to whisper his impressions in my ear. I continued to laugh when all of a sudden, I felt him looking at me. My laughing subsided into short giggles when I looked back at him. His eyes were focused on mine and then narrowed as it slowly traced down my face to my lips.
“Liam, you okay?” I asked, unsure of what happened.
“Um, yeah. Sorry.” He snapped out of the trance he was in. “It’s just when you laugh, you look very beautiful. Like more than usual…” He looked down at the ground. His hand brushed mine and I shivered. I looked at my blanket that was still covering me; for some reason I was still cold.
“Oh, you’re cold. Here, take this.” Liam wrapped the blanket that was around him and laid it out on me.
“Liam, I really-“ I protested.
“It’s okay, I’m fine, I have a sweater on. I’ll be fine.” He cut me off as his muscular arms wrapped the blanket around me.
“Liam…” I started to blush.
“Casey, I’ll be fine, okay?” He smiled. I nodded and we continued to watch the movie in silence.
It was getting really late by now and I knew that I should get some sleep so that I wouldn’t be jetlagged when I got to Paris. I slowly felt my eyes getting heavy, my vision got blurry, and my head was starting to find it’s own position as it pulled it’s way down the side of the seat. Finally, I couldn’t fight it any longer and I let my eyes drop completely, letting the darkness consume me.

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