((I guess my not being able to post makes him silent? LOL It's fine. I'll work with it.))
All right. Good. I'm glad I didn't weird her out too much with what I said when I was trying to make a point. Right after the words had came out of my mouth, I questioned whether or not I should have rephrased it or something. Oh well. Everything was all right now, wasn't it? Saray ruffled my hair as she told me she knew that I liked Ashae. That's comforting. I don't have to convince her. The ruffling made me giggle.
Suddenly, Ashae's voice rang out clear over the commotion of the airport. I love how she never cares what anyone else would think and just does as she does. This made me smile. But when I turned to face her, I got a big shock. My face went from my slight smile, to an expression of shock. I suddenly became alone with only my thoughts. I didn't notice any sounds or movements at all. That is, of course, except for hers...
Apparently I had been silently staring blankly at her for several seconds. Ashae's change of expression told me that. I snapped out of my Lolita induced trance with a couple quick blinks and a single, swift shake of my head. Now that I was more aware of everything now, not so completely captivated, my face began to display what I was feeling again. My visage was that of awe. I still, however was completely focused on her, and didn't really pay attention to the other two. Or anyone or thing else for that matter. All I could or wanted to do was look at her. She looked so incredibly different, And, so incredibly wonderful. She drew nearer. When she was only a few feet away I tried to speak. "A- sh... Ashae?" I questioned stupidly. Of course it was her. But I was so pleasantly blown away, I had to ask.
Just then, interrupting my first encounter with our newly metamorphosed drummer, a voice called out from behind. "Can I help who's nest?!" I snapped around and noticed the people that were in front of us in the line were gone, and i also located the source of the voice. A woman that was behind the desk for our airline was smiling over to the line.
Shit. I thought. I wanted to take in and embrace the new Ashae. I began to snatch up the bags. "Hey, Ruka, could you please help me with these?" I looked up after saying this. Doing a double take and then pausing, staring at Ashae for a few seconds, before continuing to gather the bags. After a few seconds, I had them all ready and was ready to move along. Now sobered by the sudden need to move along, I stood up and smiled, beaming, down at Ashae. "Bring your bags along," I said warmly. "We'll see if they can put them on the plane with these." I hefted the suitcases in my hands as I said these.
After we had made it to the desk and Ruka started taking care of everything, I started loading the bags that were to be checked one by one so that they could take them. When we were done, we were finally free of the gratuitous amount of luggage and now just had our carry on luggage.
"And now, we wait!" I said excitedly, giving a celebratory stretch, glad that I know longer had to be the band mule, even though I was happy to do so. I stepped next to Ashae, put my arm around her and looked down at her. "So," I said. "How was your little excursion while we waited through the boring part? Looks like it was successful."