It Happened To Me- Chapter 4

[DragonLadyKira]

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It Happened To Me- Chapter Four

The flight home was uneventful; Relena sat in the window seat and spent the flight with her forehead pressed against the glass. James sat next to her, reading a rather thick book that Relena had chosen not to look at in fear of motion sickness. Like a little child, she watched the clouds pass and form. She saw a lightning in a storm cloud shaped like a long column with an anvil head top. And she smiled with glee when they passed through them and her whole line of vision went white. But after about fifteen minutes, the fascination with clouds was over and Relena still had two hours and forty-five minutes to spare.

She tried to sleep, but the guy behind her was having a rather loud conversation on his cell phone. She tried to read, but that only proved to send her running back to the restroom to empty her stomach of all its contents. After settling her stomach, Relena decided to take out a piece of paper and pencil, lower the food tray, and sketch. She drew James, and the guy sleeping across the isle. She drew her own hand then her shoe. But eventually, drawing lost its appeal as well. After checking her watch and a bit of mental calculation, Relena found she still had an hour and fifty-six minutes to sit and twiddle her thumbs. And she did precisely that.

James watched her out of the corner of his eye with slight amusement through the whole fiasco. His book, War and Peace*, wasn?t very interesting. But a week ago when he?d bought it, the title had sounded like something a politician should read. Now, he wanted to cry he was so bored. Relena had been fun to watch as she ooh?ed and aah?ed over the clouds and when she struggled to sleep. The best part had been after she picked up her new book, Midnight Predator*, and tried to read. He?d had fun pretending to be to into the book to hear her frantic pleas for him to move his legs so she could get by. But now, she just sat, watching her thumbs circle one another over and over again**.

When the plane finally touched down, both were more than happy to get off the plane to go claim their luggage. And that was uneventful as well. Their luggage came; they took it off the carousel. Then, they went to get their car and drive home. But the trip home, now that was interesting to them, especially considering the day they?d already had.

Heero had seen the entire scene from his seat on the plane two rows back. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, except the man in front of him with the cell phone. That man?s laugh and voice had made him want to permanently staple the guy?s mouth shut as a favor to all of mankind. Their luggage came and he waited a few meters away, but not for luggage, no, all he needed fit in his carry on. He followed them on to the tram that took them to the row their (and his own) car was located. They got in their car and he got in his, and all the while Heero noted that; a) she hadn?t noticed his presence instinctively and b) she didn?t look as healthy as a woman who just spent a week in paradise with her newly wed husband should. But he shook both thoughts off and carefully tailed the couple home, as it was his job to be security detail for this honeymoon.

James turned on the radio to their car to his favorite station- 104.8 FM- the best country station in the metroplex. Relena wrinkled her nose in disgust and slowly turned to her husband. And she visibly blanched when he started to sing along to the horrid tune coming through the speakers. ?You don?t really listen to this? stuff, do you??
He turned his head slightly. ?Of course! Why, don?t you like country??
Relena replied by turning to 103.7 FM- a soft rock station- and belting out the first song that came across the radio waves. And so World War III began in the Hannish family vehicle.



*War and Peace is not mine either. I?m not sure who wrote it but I know it?s a big book that not many people like. Midnight Predator is a book by Amelia Atwater Rhodes and is a very good book (and one of my personal favorites) for anyone who likes vampires, witches, vampire hunters, and other dark but meaningful stuff. She also wrote In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, and Shattered Mirror.

**I did that the entire two and a half hour flight home from Mexico. I was *ahem* bored. ??;;;

Uh? I?m not sure if 104.8 FM really is a radio station or not or if it really plays country. I just kind of put some number together. But 103.7 FM is a soft rock station here in Dallas and it?s my mom?s favorite station. I don?t own it either, but I do listen occasionally.

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. Especially for goddesswing?s comment and Desert Bloom?s encouragement and Liz- (I know where you live too! -^-^-). I might not have written this chapter if it wasn?t for them? so thanks!


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[goddesswing]

^_^ Amelia At-water Rhodes is a good author. She's only like 14 right? I wonder why Relena didn't see Heero. I can't wait till the next chapter! And of all the fanfiction I've read, this story is extremely unique. Alot of the fanfics out there have similar storylines or ideas. But this is different, yet the same. @_@ Don't ask. And for everyone who hasn't Read this story yet, READ IT! I wanna know where you take this story to. Its really interesting, so keep on writing. *big smile*

[Desert Bloom]

Hey, I loved that! It was written so well and very sarcastically funny. Plz continue, I want to see Relena get snapped out of it!!!!!!

Preferably by one really sexy Gundam pilot...