Chapter 197
Much worse than two years ago, when Mommy had gone up to Sandbridge for Uncle Scooter’s wedding. Then, Billie had stayed with Aunt Dani and gone to school and everything had been normal. Mostly. She’d still missed Mommy, but Mommy had called her every night before bed, except once.
Then the plane was moving. Billie couldn’t help looking out the window as the pavement and trees outside slid by. It was a little like being on the school bus at first, that big rumbling movement. Unlike the bus that bumbled along slowly, stopping another five times between Billie’s stop and the school, the plane just kept going faster. And faster. It felt weird, pushing her back against the seat and then everything—tipped back, and they were going up
Billie leaned closer to the window. The runway was getting farther away, and now she could see the trees on the edge of the airport and they were tiny, like trees for a dollhouse. And they were stillgoing up!