Excerpt
She
was just closing her eyes when a luggage bag was placed on the seat next to
her, slightly hitting her shoulders and rocking her sensitive body to the side.
Her eyes shot open because the sudden movement made her stomach roll. She
breathed through her mouth and willed all contents of the cheeseburger she had
this morning to settle itself back down in the pit of her stomach. She slowly
turned her head to see what the disturbance was, but only saw the waist of what
looked like a very fit man. Not able to move her head much, she just turned
back around. She didn’t care who sat next to her, as long as they were gentle,
didn’t smell, and kept their mouth shut.
She
closed her eyes again, willing her body to relax, but was unable to because the
brute who just sat next to her shuffled around looking for his seatbelt and
talked very loudly on his phone.
“That’s
great, I’m happy for you,” he said in a very sarcastic tone. How odd, Piper
thought, didn’t the guy know he was in a small confined space and everyone around
him could hear his conversation?
“What
do you want me to say? I’m happy, alright.” Piper tried to ignore the way his
voice was rising, but couldn’t, especially when every word he shouted felt like
sandpaper scratching against her brain. “You want the truth? Fine, I could give
two shits about what kind of amazing opportunity you might have.” He used air
quotes when he said amazing, which was odd since he was on the phone.
He
continued, “No Brooke, you lost the chance at my approval when you decided that
I wasn’t good enough for you. I’m no longer your man. Therefore, I don’t give a
flying fuck what happens in your life.” He was now speaking in a controlled,
but very stern, voice. If Piper wasn’t so annoyed with the conversation, she
would have thought his voice was almost sexy, in a disturbing machismo sort of
way.
The
flight attendant started shutting the airplane door and the conversation that
Mr. Buff-man was having was bordering on obnoxious and extremely annoying.
“I’m
not sorry and I refuse to apologize…Oh, come on Brooke, you have got to be
kidding me. It’s shit like that, that I don’t miss. Yeah, I don’t miss…you can
be such a bitch.” He pointed to his chest when he said, “Me, I’m a bastard?
Really funny because I remember you’re the one who…”
That
was it; Piper couldn’t take it anymore. She reached over to the guy’s phone,
grabbed it out of his hand, pressed the end button, and then tossed it on his
lap. She readjusted her sunglasses and put her head back on the head rest. From
the corner of her eye, she could see the man leaning forward looking at her
with his mouth open in shock. She just shrugged. Served him right.
She
was just closing her eyes when he tapped her on the shoulder. She didn’t look
at him because that would require her to turn her head and she had used all her
energy to turn his phone off.
“What?”
she asked, while staring straight ahead.
“Who
the fuck do you think you are…?”
Piper
held up her hand to silence him. “I’m going to stop you right there, buddy. I
suggest you close that fly trap you have hanging wide open right now and
silently thank me. I did you a favor.”
“A
favor? You just made my life ten times more difficult.”
“Well,
that’s your own damn fault for getting involved with, who I can only imagine
is, a psychotic whore. So once again, you are welcome.” Piper heard the guy’s
cell phone ring, but he ignored it and turned his phone off, shoving it in his
pocket. Piper refrained from smirking, but still felt the corners of her lips
curl up.
She
closed her eyes again and tried to calm her stomach that was rolling around
from the movement of hanging up the phone for the man next to her. Over the
plane speakers, the flight attendant started informing passengers about safety
requirements, how to buckle one’s seatbelt and fasten oxygen masks in case of a
loss of cabin pressure. Piper just let the words slip out of her mind. If
things went awry, she would just play the helpless girl role and have someone
help her.
Just
when Piper felt herself starting to relax, the man next to her bumped her arm
that was resting on the armrest. The sudden movement made her fall to the side,
since all of her weight was on her one elbow and her stomach rolled forward.
She gripped the seat in front of her and glared at the man through her
sunglasses.
“Jesus,
brute. Learn to share a freaking armrest.”
“Share?
You’re hogging the whole damn thing.” He exhaled and then looked at her,
studying her carefully. “Just my luck, I get to sit next to a bitch that looks
like the Unabomber.”
“I
beg your pardon?”
She
snapped her head, a little too quickly, at the man and it was the first glimpse
she actually had of him. He was surprisingly attractive. She was expecting some
massively hairy and disgusting man to be sitting next to her, but he wasn’t…not
even close. He had a dark complexion, like he might be an Italian, he had
pretty-boy features, deep brown eyes, brown hair and a scruffy face. Lord have
mercy, he was more attractive than she wanted him to be.
He
waved up and down her body with his hand. “Why the hell are you dressed like
that? You know, when you’re inside, you’re supposed to take off your
sunglasses.”
“Well,
aren’t you charming?” she said sarcastically. Even though he was attractive,
too attractive, he was still a prick. “Why don’t you mind your own business and
I’ll mind mine. How does that sound?”
He
just shrugged and turned back around so he was facing the front. There, that
was easy enough. She started closing her eyes again when he spoke up once more.
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