Chapter 5: So Close.

“Hey wake up” Logan said shaking my shoulder making the thoughts in my head jump around like a ping pong ball.

“Hmm, leave me alone” I said smacking away his hand. Doesn’t he know not to wake a person when their sleeping.

“Come on we have to go, the trains going to take off again.”

“You suck” I groaned and let my eyes start to flutter open adjusting to the light.

“Why?”

“Because you woke me up” I lifted my head from the window wiping the dribble from my lips, I hope no one saw that, or that could have extremely embarrassing. Getting to my feet I grabbed my bag and stumbled behind Logan.

I walked out of the train tripping on the gap between the train and the platform, Logan spun around catching me before my face hit the ground.

I now understood why there were signs saying ‘mind the gap’.

“Do you just walk with your eyes closed or just drag your feet the whole time?” Logan said setting me back on my feet.

“I have just woken up and you expect me to walk straight, are you mentally insane or just stupid?”

“Geez someone is cranky when they get woken up” I was under the impression everyone gets a little cranky when someone shakes them awake but each to their own.

“Just shut up and walk” I said waving a hand and rubbing my eyes to get the sleep out of them.

I followed him out of the train station and down the road, I could smell the ocean from here and the squawking of seagulls echoed in my ears. I looked around and saw nothing familiar, where were we? I had been to the coast heaps of times during the school holidays and for schoolies week in year twelve but this wasn’t what I was what I expected.

“Where are we?”

“The coast”

“I am going to hit you if you don’t start answering me”

“I gave you an answer, next time ask better questions”

“Logan!”

“We’re in Florida.”

“What?!” I lived in Melbourne Australia, how did I even get into America?

 “Yeah, I flew over dragging you but you got too heavy so we had to walk the rest of the way.” Oh great now we’re back to him calling me fat.

“You mean I have been in America this whole time and you didn’t think to tell me once?!” I stopped walking and suddenly realized that the cars were on the wrong side of the road. How did I not notice this before?! Idiot! Well in my defence I was more focused on escaping my kidnapper then which side of the road the cars were driving on.

“No because then you would have wanted to go sightseeing and I couldn’t be bothered fighting and… What?” he said staring at my blank faced expression.

“Nothing, I was just picturing all of the ways I could kill you right now.” At the top of my list was throwing him in front of a train or making him walk until his feet bleed and gave out on him, either one was cool with me.

I walked beside him down the road towards the docks. We stopped at a ship with a small plane on the deck of it. He stopped at the plane and leaned against it crossing his arms over his chest looking around.

“I take it this is the plane?” I questioned rising an eyebrow at him.

“Yep”

I looked it over shuttering at the thought of being in it. It looked like it had been tapped together using duct tape. Was this even safe to be this close too, let alone fly? It looked like it was going to blow any minute now.

“I am not getting on that.”

“Yes you are.”

“No I’m not”

“If you don’t I’m just going to knock you out again” Jackass, he can’t just knock me out every time I do something that he doesn’t like. “The minute we get on this plane you are no longer my problem” he said sounding a little too happy about it, I knew he was in a rush to get rid of me but he didn’t have to make it so obvious; was I really that bad?

“Yeah sure”

I came up beside him leaning against the plane watching as he looked around the dock.

“Where are we flying too anyways?”

“I thought you were done asking?”

“Well I’m done being done, now tell me please”

“To my realm.” Yeah because that tells me so much.

“And where is that off the coast of Fuji?” I said joking around.

“In the Bermuda Triangle”

“What?! We can’t go there; no one ever comes out alive!”

“True but they’re not dead, they live amongst us.”

“Good to know” I said nodding my head “Will I be able to come back?” I asked finally clicking, I never actually thought about it like that, I just assumed when Logan got bored or too annoyed with me he would take me home but this was a place that no one has ever come back from.

My heart started to swell as tears began forming in my eyes. I would never see Danni again, never see my parents even though I hadn’t talked to them in months or seen them since Christmas the thought of not being able to ever see them again didn’t appeal to me. I’m sure they were all worried about me, they had to be.

Logan was watching me closely; he must have been picking up on my emotions since he reached out and grasped my shoulder firmly. “I don’t know it’s not my decision. Sorry Britney”

“Logan!” a voice came from behind the corner. He quickly retracted his hand and looked over in the direction the voice came from.

“Kyle” Logan called out walking over and giving the man in the dark hooded coat one of those manly hugs, tapping him on the back.

“How have you been?” he asked coming closer to me.

“In hell, the chatter box over there has done nothing but complain and annoy me”

Walking over to me the man stops in front of before discarding his jacket. He was so tall, even taller than Logan. I bet he’d be giving the tallest basketballer a run for their money. His pale white skin was unlike anything I had ever seen before, his eyes were purple and his hair was a silver white. His tall lanky frame and purple eyes seemed genuine but his pointed ears told me he wasn’t human.

“Well hello there, you must be the secret package, I’m Kyle the elf.” He held out a hand to me.

I took his hand letting it’s size dwarf mine and shock it firmly “H-hi, I-I’m B-Britney” I stuttered. Damn it why do I sound like a star struck idiot!

He smiled kindly at me.

I looked over at Logan who just rolled his eyes at me before walking off.

“Where is he going?” I asked when he started to disappear out of my sight. I wasn’t a fan of staying with Logan but when there’s new people who weren’t really people looking at me I kind of didn’t want to stray too far from the only one I knew.

“Oh, Logan likes to check the engine before we take off; it’s a habit of his.”

I nodded in understanding.

“So I do hope that Logan has been kind to you, I know he can be a little… difficult sometimes”

I looked at him stunned. Difficult doesn’t even begin to describe Logan.

“Hey look who I found creeping around the side” Logan said coming back into view dragging someone covered in a cloak behind him.

“Lena I told you stay at home!” Kyle yelled walking over to the other figure who I assumed was Lena.

He uncloaked the figure revealing a girl slightly shorter than Logan, her pale skin, white hair and purple eyes were almost identical to Kyle.

“I am sick of staying at home, besides I am ten times the pilot you are!” Lena yelled.

Kyle rolled his eyes while Logan just laughed, the sound of his laughter echoed through my mind, it was good sound – when he wasn’t laughing at you that is.

“Britney, this is my little sister Lena” Kyle introduced her and walked back over to me.

“Hi” I said smiling at her.

She looked me up and down raising her eyebrows.

“Oh honey, what did he do to you, you look like you’ve been to hell and back” she said to me.

“I didn’t do anything to her!” Logan yelled coming up beside me and grabbing my bag off of my shoulder and throwing it in the plane. “Now can we go now, I don’t want any more delays”

“Fine” Kyle sighed jumping into the pilot’s seat of the plane.

We all climbed in buckling up nice and tightly. I was a little nervous about the idea of flying in this dodgy plane and the idea of being dragged into a world where I may not be able to return.

“Hey wait” Lena called turning over in her seat and looking over at Logan. “Where’s Conner?”

“I sent him underground” Logan said shrugging his shoulders.

“Alone! Are you trying to get him killed?!” Lena screamed at him making my ear drums hurt.

“Just because you have a crush on him doesn’t mean…”

“I don’t have a crush!” She yelled leaning over and hitting him repeatedly.

“Kyle control your sister!” Logan yelled in an attempt to stop her.

Kyle leaned over and grabbed his sister’s hands making her stop. I think I am beginning to like Lena.

“Do we wait for him?” Kyle asked looking deeply into his sister eyes. I wonder if they have a compulsion thing too.

“No, he’ll call if he needs any help and I want to get her back before that happens.” He said gesturing to me. Gee thanks.

The two siblings began to press numerous buttons on the dash and the plane soon took off into the air. It was silent with no one really saying anything to each other and just looking out at the disappearing land below us and the ever expanding ocean.

It was like I was watching my life and everything I knew disappear beneath me, because well it literally was. I was going to a world that I was stranger to, I knew no one but my kidnapper and his friends, and no matter how nice they seemed I was scared. I was still praying that this was all a dream that I would wake up is a cold sweat in the morning and this would all just be a bad dream.

There was a vibrating sound coming from Logan next to me making me jump slightly from surprise. He reached into his pocket pulling out a phone.

I hit his shoulder with as much force as I could manage.

“Ow, what was that for?”

“You’re supposed to turn off your phone on a plane you idiot!” Great now he was going to get us all killed.

“I thought you didn’t have too” he said looking down at his phone and answering the call.

Are you serious, you’re not supposed to have the damn thing on and yet he decides to answers a call. He is such an idiot!

He hangs up the phone and looks at me for a moment.

“Damn it, I was so close” he said shaking his head. So close to what? “Turn around; we’re going to New York”

“Why?” Kyle asked as he obediently turned the plane around making me a little dizzy.

“Conner needs help”

“I told you!” Lena yelled from the front seat.

“Yeah, yeah I know.”

“Why don’t we just take her back and then come back for Conner?” Kyle said earning a slap from his sister. She must really like this Conner guy.

“Because if he stuffs this up or gets himself killed it’s my head on the chopping block.” He said rubbing his forehead.

I looked out of the window and watched as the ground moved below me changing from water to land. This has been a long day and something tells me it wasn't going to get any better.