Chapter 2

Sky

"Take care of yourself," her mother kissed her on the forehead.

"Yeah, don't get too scared being by yourself little sis." Her older brother patted her head.

"Hey, I'm not little anymore! I'm grown up and very mature." She stuttered while she tried to pronounce mature correctly. Her brother snickered and her mother elbowed him lightly to stop.

"Just be careful and keep yourself entertained; two hours can be very long, but once you land you'll be with your father." Her mother frowned, "Now, you better start heading down the tunnel onto your plane. If you can't figure out where you sit ask one of the nice ladies to show you." Her mother kissed her again and watched as her little girl ran down the tunnel. Turning around only once to wave goodbye.

"She'll be fine mom, you know how she's always trying to be old and tough." He reassured his mother, "She doesn't even panic when we leave her alone at home."

"I know and I she probably does miss her father. She might not show it all too much, but the divorce really did affect her too." She wrapped an arm around her son and walked over to the window to watch as the plane took off.

"I've never been on an airplane before!" The little girl announced to the pregnant lady sitting next to her. "I'm going to go visit my daddy because I haven't seen him since he moved. I hope this doesn't take too long, I really want to see my daddy again."

"Don't worry, I'm sure the flight will end quickly and then you'll have a fun time with you dad." The lady smiled as she fastened her seatbelt. The little girl followed her example and clicked her own seatbelt. The little girl turned back to the lady and looked at her stomach in awe.

"Are you going to have a baby?" She asked in an excited voice. The lady nodded her head yes and laid a hand over her stomach.

"Do you want to feel it?" the lady asked. The little girl nodded and placed her hand on the lady's stomach. She laughed as she felt a kick from the child inside. "It's going to be a little girl, just like you."

"I'm not so little though." The little girl folded her arms and sat back down in her seat.

"Oh I'm sorry, I guess you're not. You are very mature and responsible; to be flying by yourself you'd have to be." The lady laughed as she helped adjust the seatbelt's strap just as the seatbelt sign turned on.

"Yes I am," the girl dangled her feet over the chair, "I always wanted to have a little sister though. I know that I look up to my brother so I wanted a little sister so she could look up to me. Do you think if I did have a little sister, she would have looked up to me?"

"Of course she would have. You're a very good girl and I bet your little sister would want to be just like you. But little sisters are very hard on families, it takes time and money to have a little sister. You shouldn't worry about that though, for now just think about all the fun times you're going to have with your daddy and before you know it we'll be landing." The lady closed the blind by the girl.

The little girl braced herself as the plane began to take off. She grabbed her arm rests and sat against the back of her chair. Squeezing her eyes shut and opening her mouth to try and get rid of the funny feeling in her ears.

"Don't worry, I always hate this part too. But it'll end and soon enough and then we'll be up in the sky. You can look out of the window after that." The lady offered as she placed her hand on top of the little girl's in a comforting fashion.

The plane started to shake and the little girl held tightly onto the lady's hand. After a while the plane stopped shaking and the little girl smiled at the lady as she opened her eyes, thinking that it was over. "Folks, this is your captain speaking," a loud voice rang over the plane. The plane started to shake again but this time it seemed worse and the little girl squeezes the lady's hand even tighter in her fear. "It seems like we had some trouble taking off so I'm going to have to-" A loud explosion cut him off as the engine combusted. A loud ringing over came everything and the little girl screamed as she flew out of her seat.

The mother and brother watched in horror as the plane got in the air and immediately caught on fire. The mother shouted but the brother couldn't hear anything, he couldn't even move. The world had become still for him as his mother fell to the floor next to him in hysterical tears and sobs.

The little girl couldn't hear anything but the ringing, even though the lady's mouth was moving. They started flying but she only seemed to be going down. The little girl tried reaching out for the lady but she wasn't there any more. The little girl started to panic as she watched pieces of the plane fly by her; some of the pieces almost hit here and some were on fire.

She didn't like this feeling; she wanted to be back with her brother and mother; she wanted to hurry up and see her father again for the first time in a year. She wanted to be safe and happy with all of her family and have a little sister in her mommy's tummy. She just wanted this bad experience to be over and in a few moments it would be.