Departures by Robin Jones Gunn

Author:Robin Jones Gunn [Gunn, Robin Jones]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60142-347-4
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

1

ierra Jensen stuffed the last of a granola bar in her mouth and surveyed the airport waiting area that had become way too familiar during the past hour. She brushed back her long, wild blond hair and asked her friend Jana, “When do you think the guys will be back?”

“I don’t know,” Jana said, her brown eyes looking past Sierra’s shoulder for the hundredth time. “Maybe the airline they went to check on doesn’t have any openings on its flights to Montana.”

“Then what do we do?” Sierra asked.

“Don’t ask me,” Jana said. “I’ve never been the victim of an airline strike before.”

Sierra tapped her foot in time to the song that had been stuck in her head for several hours. “Why did they have to go on strike on a holiday weekend? There should be laws against that.”

This was the first time fifteen-year-old Sierra had traveled anywhere without her parents or one of her four brothers or her sister. The plan had been a simple one. Jana’s parents were driving to their family cabin on a lake near Glacier National Park to spend some time alone. A week later Jana, her older brother, Gregg, his friend Tim, and Sierra would fly up for the Fourth of July weekend.

None of them expected the connecting flight in Seattle to be rerouted to the central terminal in Minneapolis. Now the group was on its own, trying to find a flight to Montana.

“Isn’t there a big mall in Minneapolis?” Sierra asked. “If we can’t catch a flight, we could hang out at the mall.”

Jana looked wary. Her short brown hair was tucked behind her ears and off her face, which meant her thoughts were easily read in her open expression. Jana was physically larger than Sierra and six months older. They had been friends for several years in their small northern California town of Pineville. Sierra and Jana were both top students in their class, and they both loved sports—although Jana often complained that Sierra had an unfair athletic advantage because she was thinner and faster. The friendly competition they shared was one of the foundation stones of their friendship.

Jana was the cautious one of the two, and she didn’t seem to think the mall was such a great idea. “All I know is that we’re supposed to wait here for Gregg and Tim, and when they come back, we’re supposed to call my parents to tell them what we found out.”

“Do you think it would be okay if I went to that café over there to buy something to drink?” Sierra asked. She ran her tongue over her back teeth, releasing bits of oats left over from the granola bar.

“I don’t know if you should leave,” Jana said.

“I’ll only be gone for a few minutes, and you can run over and get me if the guys come back.”

Jana looked around, as if calculating all the factors, before nodding to Sierra.

“Do you want anything?” Sierra offered.

“Lemonade, if they have it. No sugar.”

“What if the lemonade already has sugar in it?”

“That’s okay.

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