Chapter 81
Chapter 81
Chapter 81 They all walked into the Plane’s cabin which had four seats, Oliver went in further to see the interiors, after which he returned to them. “Alright, so the Aircraft has just two interior bedrooms, how are we going to share?” Oliver asked. “Oh, well Rosie and I would make use of one, we really need a good rest and sitting for six hours isn’t good rest,” Sammy said and chuckled. “Alright then, you can take the one that way,” Oliver said, pointing in the right direction. Sammy nodded. “Come on honey; let’s go get some sleep,” he said and took Rosie’s hand. “Oh, my soon-to-be husband is quite romantic,” Rosie muttered and they chuckled. They both walked away, leaving just Aria, Oliver and Princess Lena in the passenger’s cabin. “Um… I will take the other room with Princess, we both need a good rest,” Aria said without looking up at his eyes. “Oh, I was already thinking of using that bedroom because I am very tired. This week has been hectic and I barely got any sleep last night,” Oliver replied to her disappointment. “So, you want us to leave the bedroom for you?” Aria asked with a crumpled face. “No, not at all… how about we share?” Oliver replied. “Share?” Aria muttered. “Yes, that sounds awesome,” Princess chirped in. “No it doesn’t, I am not sharing the same room or the same bed with you, so don’t even think about it,” Aria fired. “But what is wrong with that mom?” Lena asked, while watching her mom in scrutiny. She couldn’t understand what was so bad about sleeping together. “You are still a kid, Lena… look, just stay out of it, you are still young to understand,” Aria replied to her. “The kid is right, what is so wrong in sharing the same room, it’s wide enough to contain both of us and it’s just for the flight time, not like some permanent resident,” Oliver said to her, while his eyes hovered over her.
He wanted to play stubborn this time; he was not going to give in to Aria’s request so easily this time. If he could get her to stay in the same room with him, he could convince her to talk to him and they might sort things out on this flight. “All passengers should fasten their seatbelts, we are about to take off,” the pilot’s voice came, sounding from the transmitters. They all looked at each other silently, and then quickly they went to grab a seat. The plane was already rolling on its tires and would go up soon. The last time they had disobeyed a pilot’s orders, Aria ended up throwing up on a plane; that was on their way to France and they didn’t want such an incident to repeat itself. Oliver helped Lena fasten her seat belt but just as he stood to go back to the seat behind, the airplane took a head turn up for the sky and he lost his balance. He fell backwards right into Aria’s arms. She was seated on one of the back seats and he collided into her, with his face not so far from her. He held onto the back of her seat for balance until the plane was steady, he was just an inch away from kissing her, but he had his eyes locked on hers. If there was anyone with the intent to kiss, it was Aria; she had her eyes on his lips the whole time, wishing that the aircraft would make him fall a bit more into her so that she could have a taste of those lips again. However the plane went up in the sky and stabilized so Oliver had to let go and stand up. He took a deep breath and straightened his cloth. Aria, who felt embarrassed, kept her eyes down, away from him. “Alright, we should go to the room now,” Oliver said. “Yes Dad, I would need some sleep as well. The ladies were up all night, chit chatting on what they plan to do at Hawaii,” Lena said and sighed, then stretched her arms backwards. “No one forced you to stay awake, you made that choice on your own… in fact I remember asking you to go and sleep but you wouldn’t listen,” Aria said. “That is true, and I never said that you two stopped me from sleeping, I was simply explaining to Dad why I was up late in case he would care to know,” Lena replied while removing her seat belt.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
“You hate explaining yourself to me, so why are you doing that with your Dad now?” Aria asked with a frown. She was starting to think that Lena loved Oliver more than her and if that was the case, she stands a greater chance at losing to him. The last thing she wanted was to lose custody of her child, she would rather not lose him to Oliver. She knew if Oliver decided to take the matter to court, they would ask the little girl who she wished to stay with and that would affect the Judge’s final decisions. If Lena even considers choosing Oliver, then she is done for, or so she thinks. She believes she would not be able to live without Lena and the prospects of losing her to Oliver scared her. “Aria, why do you find fault with what the little girl says or does? You are just dragging an unnecessary issue,” Oliver argued. “Mr. Gomez, this is between me and my daughter. By the way, if you are so tired then you can go ahead and stay in your bedroom, you booked the flight after all. I will just stay here with my daughter,” Aria retorted. Oliver sighed, he was tired of arguing already. Maybe he should not just let her win all the time, maybe he should be strict with her at times. If she wants to stay here, then perhaps he should let her be. “Fine, then… you can stay here if you wish, I tried my best to convince you,” Oliver said, giving up on her. “Wait Dad, I am coming with you,” Lena said immediately. “What?” Aria muttered in surprise, she could not believe Lena was ditching her once again. She had only known her father for like a week and a few days yet she always chose him over her, so what if she lets her stay with him for months? Then she might lose her daughter forever. “Yes Mom, I also need some rest, I wasn’t playing around when I said that earlier,” she reminded. “You can’t just leave me here,” Aria said while looking around the cabin. Oliver chuckled and she shot him a stern glare, he swallowed hard immediately. Well Aria was becoming more aggressive like Rosie by the day. I guess the ‘birds of the same feathers’ talk was real after all, even though it took years.
“Well why don’t you just stop fighting with Dad and come with us to the inner room, what is so bad with that?” Lena queried and made a pout. Aria looked around one more time, and then she sighed. “Alright then, you two can go wherever you want, I will just stay here,” she said adamantly and sat back down on one of the seats. She went ahead to fasten her seat belt, without caring to know if they were still there or not. Oliver sighed and took Lena’s little hand in his, “Come on Lena, lets go and get some rest,” he said and drew her along with him. They got to the middle door and Oliver stopped, he turned back to stare at Aria and caught her staring back in their direction. She looked away the moment she saw him, he shook his head in disappointment and walked in with Lena. Aria turned around again and noticed that they were gone; she sighed and relaxed her head on the seat head pad. She reasoned that she had to be done with this wedding as soon as possible and get her daughter away from Oliver, she knew how addicting it can be around him, she had experienced it and she didn’t want either her or her daughter to go back there.