Gravity by Robert Drake

Author:Robert Drake [Drake, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

10

There was about an hour left before the plane finally landed. Surprisingly, with everything I was reminiscing about, the flight was actually the least of my worries. I had gotten used to the turbulence. I had gotten used to the idea of being 40,000 feet in the air. I had gotten used to the gentleman in front of me who kept banging his seat toward me. It wasn’t all that bad, and to be honest, the flight wasn’t as terrible as I’ve made it seem.

I mean, besides the fact that I wasn’t feeling like myself, this flight was well worth it. I had tried the airline food, which turned out not to taste as bad as it looked, I had met a guy with the same name as my ex-boyfriend, and for some odd reason I had really connected to him as well. To me, that was a lot to be proud of in five hours.

I had also done a lot of thinking. I’d thought about sleeping as soon as I got off the plane. I’d thought about the flight back, and I’d thought about why I was going to San Francisco to begin with. With so much on my mind, the fear of this plane crashing into Lake Tahoe had turned down a notch. It was all in my head—everything, the good and the bad—and during the entire flight I felt as if I were having a revelation.

Like I mentioned earlier, today out of all days felt different. Today, it was as if a miracle was bound to happen. I felt something different in the air, even all the way up here, like a dense cloud of change forming upon me. I mean, me, of all people, trying airline food? Me, of all people, opening up to a complete stranger about my past, about Harper and Owen? Those were topics I never really shared with anyone to begin with. That wasn’t like me at all. There were things I had mentioned today that my parents and others had no clue about. Since the tragic death of Harper, I had built walls around all the things that were precious to me, both old and new. But like I said, today was different. Today the sun was, indeed, a little brighter than any other day or at least from what I could remember.

The older gentleman in front of us was snoring. The crowd within the cabin was minding their own business, and the crew—well, the crew kept doing what they had been doing the entire flight. As for myself, well, I felt warm yet cold, sweet yet bitter, dead yet alive. And between all those feelings, I felt nostalgic.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Harper and Owen greeting me as they once did when we were children. I saw Four Quarters and relived memories the three of us had created together. The memories were wild, roaming freely through the banks of my memory, together like a pack of wolves looking for an easy way out.

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