Chapter 17: Chapter 17

Olivia's pov:

I snapped my fingers in front of Nikita who was lost in her own thoughts.

"Nikita, um... are you ok? what are you lost in?" I asked curiously.

"Nothing, I'm fine.... I'll just go fetch some water from the restaurant and come back as soon as possible, ok?' she responded with some sort of a nervous laugh before marching away from the lobby.

I gave Nikita a slight smile before walking away myself to a corner of the lobby. I rested my back onto a nearby pillar of the lobby and was scrolling through my photos in my phone as we waited for the bus to arrive to take us to the airport.

My phone was filled with an abundance of photos as being a YouTuber, I was constantly meeting a few people and fans so taking photos were kind of my daily thing.

After a few seconds of scrolling, I suddenly came across a photo of my family. The photo looked like it was taken during a Christmas party! The area was decorated with green and red balloons, a bright star and a Christmas tree in the background. We were all dressed up in formal clothing and were having a blast! It was such a good time.

I smiled feeling happy that I got to see their faces again but at the same time, I felt the emptiness of not having them anymore as I realized that they were no longer in the world.

A tear formed at the corner of my eye, but I immediately wiped it out, not wanting to cause a scene in front of all the creators. I did not want to deal with another situation.

I felt scared and alone, but I was glad to have a true friend like Nikita sticking by my side no matter what! I trusted her a lot as she consoled me and listened to my feelings the previous day. I think my sanity is because of her! I did not know what I would do without her by my side.

As I was in my thoughts, I did not realize that the bus had arrived at the entrance of the lobby. Nikita tapped my shoulder, snapping me out of my thoughts. I, then, looked around and saw everyone leaving the lobby and stepping onto the bus.

"Come on! We are going to miss the bus! Hurry up! " I heard her saying with a concerned look on her face. Not wanting to worry her, I pulled myself together and immediately forced myself to start walking and entered the bus.

The ride to the airport was not that interesting, many just talked while some who packed their suitcases the last minute, slept through the journey. I was thankful that everything was peaceful in the bus. My head felt heavy so any noise would have made me super uncomfortable!

Nikita sat next to me, but she fell asleep and I was just looking out the window the entire time, trying to make myself a bit happy and lighten up my mood. But anyone could tell that I was sad just by looking at my depressed face. But what could I do to fix it? I just needed some time to find some peace and I think once we get to the resort, I would feel just that!

I had never been to Australia before, but it looked beautiful in the pictures I saw online! I honestly needed to go there and had to enjoy what it had to offer. My excitement level luckily went up a bit after thinking how much relaxing this trip would be.

After a boring long hour ride, we finally reached the international airport. I was relieved that we had finally reached.

We got off the bus near the parking lot and grabbed our respective suitcases from the back compartment of the bus. After that we extended the suitcase handle while walking towards the entrance of the airport.

As I entered the airport, I noticed Sam, Jessica and Jack arriving at the entrance in their own car through the glass walls of the airport.

My mind immediately flashed the images of yesterday's horrible scene. Seeing them happy with each other made me wonder what happened. Why did they hate me so much? Was I really that bad?

I tried my best to just ignore them and carry on with my life. I definitely did NOT need fake people especially during this troublesome time. Sam made so many big talks about me and how much I helped him. But without even thinking for one second, he kicked me out of his life with no explanation whatsoever.

I looked away as they entered the airport and continued talking to Nikita while occasionally eyeing them through the corner of my eye. I did not know why but the way they acted with me felt.......wrong like something was off about it. It felt genuine but not genuine at the same time. I was so confused about it!

While trying to think of what might have happened, an announcement started playing on the speaker attached to the ceiling of the airport above us.

"Passengers travelling in Air Australia, Flight 9874 from Los Angeles to Sydney at 8:30am are kindly requested to begin boarding the flight at gate 17"

With my boarding pass and flight ticket at hand, I started walking at a fast pace so that I could catch up with our group who were much ahead of Nikita and me. The race to get to the group felt like an extreme sport. How much were we left behind?

After a half an hour of walking, we finally made it to the gate! This airport was so huge and the gate of our flight was at the opposite side of the main entrance so you could imagine how much my feet were killing me.

After catching my breath and passing through security swiftly, I was finally walking inside the plane. Though I was calm and collected, Nikita was not having it. I guess running in high heels wasn't the best idea.........

As Nikita and I entered the plane, we saw the rest of our group already seated and looking at us as we were a few minutes late. I guess we were not fast enough either. I did not even know if it was my fault or Nikita's fault. But I did not want to point fingers at anyone.

I started walking down the aisle of the plane while constantly checking my seat number against my ticket. Nikita had her seat at 29B while I had mine at 29C.

"29C, 29C where could it be?" I was constantly replaying this line in my head like a broken record.

A moment later, Nikita and I still could not find our seats when I just stopped all of a sudden as I saw Sam, Jessica and Jack sitting together in the middle row with one seat to spare. I saw them and wanted to sit down and ask them a bunch of questions like why they did what they did to me. I wanted to be with them, but they did not want me. I felt sad and unwanted. What were things coming to?

I gulped after looking at them for a few seconds. I snapped myself out of my thoughts and continued to look for my seat.

After taking a good look at the numbers of the seats of Jessica and the rest, to my horror, I noticed that my seat was the spare one next to Sam! As if this day could not get any worse! Yes, I knew wanted to get the chance to talk with them but not in a flight where things could get awkward instantly.

I rolled my eyes subtly as I was getting very annoyed right now. Why was I so unlucky?! What did I do to deserve this?

I took my seat while Nikita sat in the aisle seat in the left row next to me, so we were pretty close. At least one good thing happened to me after crossing a sea of misery.

While I settled myself in the seat next to Sam and the rest, I felt a very awkward vibe amongst us all. I tried my best to ignore it, but it continued to affect me.

I become attentive suddenly as I heard the air hostess announcing that our departure would commence soon! I realized that I had not secured my bag in the storage space and so I had to unbuckle my seatbelt and get up from my seat.

I kept my bag pack in the compartment over us and sat down immediately, fastening my seat belt as instructed by the air hostess.

I turned towards Nikita to try and talk to her to avoid any confrontations with Sam and the rest even though Jack did not do anything to me, I still felt weird to talk to him next to Sam and Jessica. I wonder if he knows what they did to me.

Things started to get a lot more horrible and I got a bit frustrated when I saw Nikita with earphones locked in her ears. She was dozing away while her earphones were playing some pop music which she told me was the most found music she had on her phone.

I was a little annoyed at that point. I was not mad at Nikita as she could do whatever she wanted. I did not want to be a burden for her at all. But I was stuck at this point, alone with the three people who hated me the most. What was I going to do at that point? I was so nervous.

I swear nothing was going right at all and it was still noon! I hope the whole vacation would not end up terribly. I actually wanted to enjoy it as much as I could.

To try and fend for myself and not rely on Nikita, I drowned my head into my phone trying to pass my time while I saw the trio too just scrolling away on their phones.

I felt a bit relieved but one thing for sure is that I was not going to enjoy this awkward flight at all!