Chương 4: Fly me out of here

The car screeched on the road. He got out and opened the door for Lilith, lowering his neck down to peek through the open passenger seat where she sat.

“Take a flight instead” he advised Lilith.

Lilith met his eyes but looked passed through it, she tamped her feet on the cement and went for the driver’s seat. She slammed the car door and revved the car on Mr. Green’s way.

“Quite a temper she has” narrowing his eyes facing the sun where Lilith’s car headed.

Lilith was dismayed, dissatisfied. Her lips curved into a frown as she drive back to her house. The car keys clinked as soon as she stopped the car. She removed and held the key.

Once again, in their house there was emptiness, she stood by the doorway and felt the passing wind caress her back and played her hair, it was as if Gerald swift past her through the touch of wind.

She closed her eyes tightly and sighed, entering their house, it was lonely and sad. Though the house was painted in calm colors of grey and white, it looked rather plain to her eyes.

It used to be a home for Lilith, now it is just a house.

Slumping in the living room, she calculated where it will land before she rolled the key in the air and dropped on the table. She opened her phone to book a flight.

“I need to get there as soon as I can.”

After browsing through, she was exhilarated upon landing her sight on this cheapest flight ticket fare on the site.

It does not seem to have any reviews nor any records of passengers in the plane leaving their opinions on the site.

“A con?” narrowing her eyes,

Though suspicious of the ticket price but as she research thoroughly, it seems to be that it is newly made, and Lilith thought that she will be the first one to warm up the seat if she booked her flight there.

With glow of determination in her eyes, she quickly sprint her fingers across the screen and booked her flight for the first Wednesday of upcoming October after sending her information. She got up from the sofa,

*ping*

Her phone lit up and the e-ticket confirmation was sent directly to her email.

“Huh, that’s pretty fast.” She was perplexed and amused at the same time. She lightly dropped her phone on the glass table, beside the keys, and continued to do her business.

Lilith swung open her wide closet, she tip-toed to reach the suitcase that laid dusted on the top of their clothes. Her arms openly grasp the hanged clothes and out of the closet, dumped it on the bed and undressed from the hangers.

Lilith folded the clothes and some essentials, jamming them in the case.

After the hour-long packing, she rested her back on the bed, feeling how the bed slowly eat up half her weight and its comfortable softness, Lilith fell asleep.

2nd of October, Wednesday. She arrived in the said plane from the site. The plane was huge, new if seen from a distance but if few meters closer, the texture was rather rough and the paint were almost painted, she doubted stepping foot inside. In her surprise, there was less to almost no one in there.

She walked in the narrow space, searching for other heads that might be present with her in the plane, but there was only hers.

No one but hers.

“Maybe I’m the first here then” shrugging it off.

There was not a single flight attendant that served her nor gave instructions for seatbelt and what nots in the plane. It is a self-service.

“Wow, no wonder there were no people that reviewed this” plunging her bags up in the compartment.

Upon seating near the window, the door closed and there was a voice from the speaker.

The phrase said was minimal, but it made her felt uneasy, uncomfortable, and nauseated.

“Thank you for choosing Flytophet” perhaps it came from a speaker, but it sounded deep and dual, hoarse, and wicked.

She searched for her phone and visited their site once again, but the site is gone. Not even in her history.

Checking the email she got for the E-ticket, it was also gone. As if nothing of this ever happened.

“I don’t remember removing anything” her brows almost collide. She searched the name of the plane instead.

“hmm let’s see flytofet?” she tapped her thumbs on the screen.

[Do you mean Tophet?]

She clicked and gave her a definition. She suddenly felt ill, Lilith rose from her seat; she looked around for the other seats.

Empty.

The door closed already. Am I the only one in here? Her frantic eyes steadied as the plane started moving, forcing the motion to make her sit.

Her stomach was playing in circles, she was sweating. Motion sickness? Nothing of that sort.

The nothingness that covered the plane magnified her panic, she unconsciously tormented her mind with unfathomable situations, crashing, falling, and death. Her mind was unease, soon it will exert heat steam. But before it happened, her head against the window, she fell into the abyss of slumber.

Her bare feet walked on the dried dark leaves that covered the path. Her sight was filled with the darkness of the night, the trees beside were watching her walk down this unknown path. The luminous moon were her only guide. She walked following this enormous round dim light was covered by the coned roof as she made her last step before a black metal gate. Perhaps this is the destination the moon has led her to go to. The house standing before her was gigantic, she felt small.

It was cold, the night howled to her, as if whispering to her, ‘go in’. A command, temptation, but the gate was locked with rusted chain. Shaking vehemently the chain, the lock fell silently on the thick piled up leaves on the ground. The gate open widely on its own, she walked in and gazed upon one of the fifty windows in the house, a bright two glimmering eyes faded as a human figure shifted to the corner.

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