A/N Hey! Here's the new one as promised ;) have to warn you, I got a little deep with the Riley part. I'm not so proud of this chapter, it feels messy to me. And it's mainly all Zay. Sigh! I just want to get these guys on the plane!
"I'm sitting with Smackle!" Farkle exclaimed taking his girlfriends hand in his own, even though he was still sorta sweaty from the Millie incident.
"Well you should, she's your girlfriend." Zay piped up, his eyes shining with excitement from the upcoming trip. He looked around the airport, and saw Maya and Lucas out of the corner of his eye. He suddenly got an idea.
"Maya my dad says I have to sit next to you." Riley whined grabbing her best friends arm.
There goes my plan, Zay thought disappointedly, his smile fell before an evil grin reappeared on his face.
Plan B was a risk, but a risk worth taking.
"Then that leaves me with Lucas! And both my parents insisted I couldn't sit by him because we'd get into too much trouble." The dark skinned boy exclaimed happily, Zay mentally high fived himself for thinking of that so fast. "I'll sit by Riley."
The brunette smiled at Zay and hugged him rather sloppily. She squealed with joy that someone wanted to sit by her. Though all her friends claimed to love her, nobody every volunteered to take a seat by her, or be her partner in class. They all thought she was to excited or naïve. But Riley was actually scared of rejection, so she screamed Maya's name whenever they got to choose partners, or sat by Smackle in lunch, because deep down she knew she wasn't anyone's first choice.
"Ugh! Zay! You do this on purpose!" Maya huffed angrily and pulled his tight curls. It wouldn't be so bad to sit next to Lucas for ten hours on a plane, but with Zay and Riley next to them watching them, would. Actually, it'd be a nightmare, because every touch, word and every move would be remembered and knowing Zay, recorded.
"No! My mom just doesn't trust me!" He retorted back, the smile never failing to be stuck on his smug face.
"Can't say I blame her." Maya muttered and grabbed her bag. She decided just to make the best of the situation at hand and walked away to put the rest of her stuff in the plane.
"Zay? Can I sit by the window? I want to see if I can take pictures of birds!" Riley squealed, her excitement getting the best of her.
"Riley, birds don't fly that h-" Farkle started to say before being interrupted.
"Sure Riles, anything for you sugar." The boy shrugged. And he swore he saw the genius's eyes flicker with annoyance when he hand ended his sentence with "sugar".
"Yay! Thanks Zay!" And with that note Riley sped of to her blonde friend who was putting her luggage on the plane.
"I'm going to, uh, go over there now with the other girls." Smackle scratched her head uncomfortably. She looked at her boyfriend who linked his arm with her own.
"I'll go too." He said, suddenly cheerful again. They walked away in synch to where the blonde and brunette were excitedly talking to a purple haired woman.
"Zay." Lucas warned and looked at his best friend. He knew what his friend was doing.
"Come on! I'm helping you!" Zay whined, smiling at his best friend.
"Uh huh. Well I don't need your help with dating. I haven't seen a girl within five feet of you in three years." The blond sighed and wheeled his suitcase to his other friends, leaving his old one behind.
"Sure you don't. That's why Maya had a date last Tuesday." Zay sighed sarcastically under his breath. The boy was like a brother to him, but sometimes he was to stubborn for his own good. Zay grabbed his own belongings and like the others went over to board the plane.
He stopped at a vending machine on the way there, to refill his snack backpack. He was getting low on food, and there were nachos in the machine.
He didn't remember it happening, maybe he was dreaming about those nachos, but he somehow ended up on the ground on top of an olived skinned, blue eyed brown haired girl who looked like she could be a model.
"Hey! Next time you fall don't take me out with you!" She spoke with a small trace of an accent Zay couldn't identify. She smelled like violets and her long straight hair was tangled around his waist.
"Oh. Sorry." He chuckled as he got up. "I guess I was dreaming of nachos again." He smiled and extended a hand out to help the girl up. He must have been drooling at that point.
She took the hand and dusted herself of. She then looked at the boy in front of her.
The girl shook her head with amusement. "Of course. All boys dream of food. Even if nachos are gross."
"What are you talking about?! Nachos are the single best food in the world! Except for Oreos. I think they may beat nachos." Zay argued back. Just because she was the prettiest girl in the world didn't mean she got to insult the best food in the world.
"I'll have to agree with you on that. Oreos are the best." The young woman chuckled and stared and the boy in front of her again. Something about his eyes intrigued her.
"I'm Zay." He said.
"Natalia" She smiled.
"You look like a Natalia." Zay muttered hazily.
"You look like a Zay." Natalia replied back.
A few minutes passed where nobody said anything. Not an awkward silence per say, but more of a comfortable one.
"So where are you going?" Zay asked snapping out of his trance.
"Hawaii. My aunt lives there. I'm going to college next year down the road from her house so I'm bringing my stuff now while I have some time." Natalia grinned at the thought of her aunt and cousin. She hadn't seen them in so long.
"Me too! Well I mean I'm not going to your aunts house but I'm going to Hawaii, with my friends." Zay rambled on. He made a mental note to slap himself later.
Natalia laughed at something in the distance. "Your not friends with those five, are you?" She pointed over to Riley and Maya, who were currently riding the moving sidewalk backwards and high fiveing random strangers while Lucas and Farkle were posting pictures of them doing so on Instagram. Isadora was then asking the strangers how many times a day on average do they wash their hands, leaving most freaked out.
The boy took in the scene and closed his eyes in defeat. His father always told him, you are the crowd you hang around, or something like that anyways. But no doubt his newly found interest would judge him for his insane friends.
"Nope. I've never seen any of those people in my life." Zay replied back cooly.
"Zay! Come over here!" Lucas suddenly yelled for his friend, not noticing the girl next to him.
Natalia smirked. "You sure about that?"
"Well, maybe I've seen them once."
"I thought so. They seem interesting, to say the very least." She said, glancing at the group. As much as she would have loved to join in on all the fun, she didn't want to crash the party. They weren't her friends, they were Zay's. Though Natalia wished they were her friends. Her own only cared about college now. And one was a real downer, saying that they'll probably never see each other again and lose touch.
She sighed at the thought but quickly composed herself.
"It was nice meeting you Zay, but I better get going." Natalia pecked her new friend on the cheek and slipped him her number before waving goodbye.
Zay stood there, silently, not knowing what had just happened. He fell on a girl, she kissed him, and left. He repeated the scene over and over again in his head until Lucas came and dragged him over to the waiting area because they were boarding soon.
"Zay! Snap out of it!" The blond boy said as he shook the brunette one.
"Oh right." He said dreamily, his head not fully thinking.
"What happened?" Lucas asked his friend, they were now sitting in cold grey chairs waiting for their flight to be called.
"I met a girl..." The dark skinned Texan trailed off.
"Oh no." Lucas moaned. Zay's girl meeting stories were always worse than his break up ones.
"Oh yes! And she would've been mine if you hadn't ruined it by screaming my name halfway across the airport!"
"Well sorry! I didn't know that m-" Lucas never got to finish his argument before a flight announcer announced their flight.
And all that could be heard throughout the whole airport was six teenagers relieved sighs and squeals and one mans groans.
Alright I have to admit. I did the same thing Riley and Maya did on the moving sidewalk a few years ago. Don't judge me ;)