Timeless by Michelle Madow

Author:Michelle Madow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing
Published: 2011-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

I’d never traveled internationally before, so I didn’t know what to expect. The plane was huge—much larger than the planes I took when I visited my dad in Pennsylvania. My mom, Chelsea, Chelsea’s dad, and I had seats near each other in coach. Drew and his mom were in first class. The leather seats in first class looked big and comfortable, but I tried not to be jealous. We were all ending up in the same place. Plus, the coach seats had little touch screen televisions, so I could stay entertained through the flight.

We were supposed to sleep since we were traveling East, but I couldn’t fall asleep on planes, so I read the whole way. The lack of sleep would catch up with me tomorrow, but there was no point in uncomfortably trying (and failing) to sleep when I could read instead.

It was morning in England when we arrived. To me, it felt like night should have just started. I regretted not sleeping on the plane, since I was getting the feeling that the jet lag was going to be rough.

When we got to baggage claim at Heathrow Airport, I saw a middle-aged man in a suit holding a sign that said “Carmichael.” He waved when he spotted Drew and Drew’s mom.

“That’s my grandparents’ driver, Marshall,” Drew told me. “My grandparents are doing last minute preparations for our arrival, so they’ll be meeting us at the house.”

I looked at him in amazement. “Your grandparents have a driver?”

“Yeah.” He squeezed my hand for assurance. I guess he didn’t realize how alien the concept of having a personal driver would seem to me until he saw my reaction. Maybe drivers were commonplace in London and New York City, but in Pembrooke, everyone I knew drove themselves.

Marshall helped us with our luggage, and led us out of the airport to a huge limo.

“And they have a limo?” I asked Drew, keeping my voice quiet. I didn’t want Marshall to overhear me and think I was unsophisticated.

“Yep,” he said. “But they only use it to go to important functions, or to the airport.”

“And to go to other places they use what … their Rolls Royce?” I was only half-joking.

“Close,” Drew said. “They have a Bentley.”

I didn’t know much about Bentleys, but I guessed they were expensive.

“The drive will take about an hour and fifteen minutes,” Marshall told us once he finished loading our luggage into the limo.

The limo was huge, and the wraparound seat provided more than enough room for the six of us. Drew and his mom sat in the forward-facing seat, Chelsea and her dad took the seat facing backward, and my mom and I sat in the longest seat that faced the side. I liked that, because the window was straight ahead, giving me a good view of the scenery.

Everyone made small talk on the way there, but I spaced out of the conversation to admire the view. When we first left the airport the surroundings were urban, although the city had a historical feel to it, since the buildings had been there for centuries.

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