Jitters before the journey...

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This is the fifth chapter...

Oh, if it could only become tomorrow. Connie had been restless the whole day. Now it was almost 17:30 and they were going to have dinner at home around 18:30.

Connie had checked her bags at least twenty times. The tickets were there, the passport were there and the money for the hostel were there. She had finally been OK taking a room in a hostel outside Monaco in France. The price was better there but she planned to stay with Peter anyway, that detail her parents still had no idea about...

She could not think well, she walked around, around and she had switched on and off the TV hundreds of times. She had logged in and out on Internet to see if Peter had showed up or whatever, just to still her anxiosity. She had been drinking a lot of water and been to the toilet so many times two rolls of paper had been used. She was having the worst Jitters before the Journey ever in her life, now before her Spring Break Trip.

Now if she took the bicycle to the grocery she could get something again, she had already been there three times before today. She had bought a Snickers and a Mountain Dew at 11:37, at least that is what the ticket said. Then she had gone again after lunch for som sunscreen. And in the last hour she had gone again and bought a bag of "sugar babies". Actually she could need some chewing gum for the flight. She had heard or read on internet that when one fly in an aeroplane it is good to chew so that the clicks in the ears go away easier and one don't have to think of the pressure in the ears.

She took the bike again and felt how her legs were almost sored from earlier trips during the day. After all it took her about fifteen to twenty minutes to the grocery.

When she finally came home her parents were still not home and she found a note that they would be back soon. If she wanted to she could rest. They were out getting some Pizza for tonight.

She went to her room and opened up her laptop to see if the last hour had done any change to her Internet sites. Facebook and twitter. There yes, Peter. What did he say?

  "Connie, I have some bad really bad last minute news for you." Connie got cold and stiff , she got dry in her mouth, she didn't breath she looked at the words on the sceen as if they were written in blood on the screen it self. No, no, no. It can not be that bad, tell me what. She kept reading:

"Connie, I am sorry but I will not be able to come and get you at the airport. I wanted to come but I can not, I have missed the Helicopter licence and I need to take some more classes before I can land on an Airport."

Connie took a huge breath, she woundered if he had any worse things coming up? She could live with taking a taxi or that he could come to get her with his car or whatever. She didn't expect to be picked up from the airport with a helicopter. So that was not really that bad news. Phuuuu, that was close.

Connie felt that she had to write something, she wrote: "Please Peter, don't worry about that, I just want to see you, be with you and feel you close to me. I don't need a helicopter pick up, even if that hade been different." She finished with: Love /CON.

The door went up and her parents hollered "Hello". Connie could notice that they were a little bit drunk. They had a couple of Pizzas and a cage of beers. Half of the bottles in the beer cage were already missing.

  'So lets see what we have here, we have one cheese lovers and one meat lovers.'

  'Who of you two have been driving in your condition?' Connie sounded like a mother, she know it but she got really pissed off, here she relied on them to bring her tomorrow to the airport, and they had been getting drunk and got home driving?

  'What do you care? Aren't you going to Monaco? You will leave us here all alone? You don't give a shit about us anyway!'

Connies mother was really drunk and she seamed to have been drinking since long time and Connie knew that is was not the few beer missing, she could have been drinking a lot more and maybe stronger stuff as well.

Connies mom opened another beer, took a glass and aimed to pour the beer into a glass, she then searched for a pocket bottle and found it in her underwear. She opened it and poured the last drops into the glass. She left the empty pocket bottle fallen on the sink and emptied the glass in one mouth. When it was empty she screemed out loud: "Cheers" .

Connie got scared, she had seen her mom drunk some times before, but never this bad. She didn't want to make things worse so she just kept calm and took out some plates for the pizza. She gave herself two slices of each and grabbed a beer. Her mom said: 'Yes get your self drunk so you feel a little bit more like us regular folks. Not so fancy Monaco Princess.'

Connie bit her self in the lip not to open her mouth saying stupid things now. Now when her new future were so close and within reach. She wouldn't loose this possibility for nothing. She were going to Monaco even if she had to run to the airport or swim crossing the ocean.

The mom went to the bathroom.

The father told Connie that mom had been to the hospital, taken away an unwanted baby. And that it would all be good again tomorrow. He said: 'Let her be tonight, don't worry it will all be fine. It always gets like this after her abortions... She gets drunk and then she is fine. Are you ready to travel tomorrow?'

  'well I was, right now I am in a chock, how many abortions has she done?'

  'Phu, If I could count that well, but well after giving birth to you she said that was the last time, so every time she got pregnant she took it away.'

  'Father, do you know how much I wanted to have a sister or even a brother?'

  'Well we all do when we don't have it. But then with all fights all the time, it is not worth it, so actually trust me it is better without, I know the difference, my brothers and sisters live in other states and I am better off like that, I have more time for my self that way. But now we are going to sleep no? Tomorrow we are having a big trip in front of us!''

  'OK, will you take mom to the bed? I think she have slept on the toilet. She is so disgusting you know.'

  'No worries I'll take care of her. Good Night.'

Connie double checked all the alarm clocks, they were all on 07:30. They had about two hours drive and she wanted to have at least two hours to make her self ready and the plane would leave at 14.45. So that would give them time to park and check in and everything. Connie went to bed staring in the ceiling, thinking of: how the whole day could take so long to finnish when four hours of parenting could go so fast... before she slept she was sure to check the Internet again and went one more time to the bathroom.
Here I will publish chapter by chapter but If you want the complete book, in KINDLE or Pocket write "Martin Liss" in http://Amazon.com