F*ing Airports
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Airports are such a weird place.
There is a girl sitting at the other end of the bar and she keeps looking over her shoulder... like shes waiting for someone but whoever she is waiting for… they aren't coming, its written all over her face, she looks like shes struggling to hold back tears.
You know the ones, they well up in the corner of your eye and you try and blink them away.
I've made up a story as to what happened.
It's a dude and they met on the plane.
Maybe they got seated next to each other and spent the flight finding out that they had everything in common.
When they landed she gave him her number and before she even got to her hotel he had texted.
They met up downtown, spent the night drinking, meeting new people and acting like they had never not known each other.
When it got late he called her an Uber and they exchanged those shy kisses and a peck on the cheek.
She couldn't stop thinking about him.
So when she got the reminder to check into her return flight, she did something brave and asked him to come back with her.
He didn’t say yes but he didn’t say no.
He invited her to dinner and they held hands under the table. The shyness disappeared and everything seemed desperate.
When she woke up the next morning he was not in her hotel room.
He was gone....
She sent a text and another... no response.
She cried her way to the airport... and bought herself a drink thinking that airports are romantic places, the movies always had the lead male come running just as the flight starts to board and he says "don’t leave"
She knows this isn't her movie ending.
That's all fiction in my head that I've made up about a stranger at the airport.
But she just got a text and the look on her face is pure joy.
I later found out her name was Alison and I was wrong. She’s a mother of 3, she came to visit her mother who had been sick and had just found out that her eldest just got some crazy cool science scholarship.
My story was better but like I said airports are weird places.
