One Family

Captain Dharma was in the main cabin, he was about to continue his steps towards the cockpit on the upper level when he remembered one thing. Since the situation outside the plane still looked calm before, the captain decided to return to his room just to check back on the condition of his wife and daughter.

In his room, the captain met one of his men. Sammy is the cute girl from the logistics section. At that time, Sammy was doing data collection on Yuan Xi and Xian.

"And, done," Sammy smiled as she stroked Xian's head. "Does it hurt?"

Xian smiled and nodded. "A little bit."

"It's okay," Sammy said, and she stood up again fiddling with the ten-inch C-Pad in her hand. "You'll be fine, little princess."

"How are things here, Sammy?" asked Captain Dharma as he approached Xian. He hugged his daughter warmly. "Is everything going well?"

"Everything's going well, Cap."

"You've given your data, honey?" Dharma approached his wife, then kissed her lips, Yuan Xi smiled sweetly and nodded.

"Yeah," said Yuan Xi. "Sammy has got everything she needs."

"All right, Cap," Sammy cradled the C-Pad with both hands to her breasts. "I've got the data of your daughter and your wife. Let me out first before you two will have fun."

Captain Dharma and Yuan Xi laughed at Sammy's joke.

"Now, excuse me."

Sammy came out of the captain's room. She continued her work to obtain data on everyone on board the SC45 aircraft. At the very least, Sammy hoped that Angela had finished half of everyone's count, or maybe more.

"How are things outside?" Yuan Xi asked the husband.

"Everything still looks quiet," Captain Dharma then hugged his wife's waist affectionately. "For now, we are still safe." And again he kissed her lips, even longer.

"Hey," Yuan Xi whispered to her husband with a smile and blushing face, she bit her lip gently because her husband's palm was crawling under her waist. "Honey!"

"What?" Captain Dharma looked at Yuan Xi's face with a big smile.

Yuan Xi moved her eyes, pointing at their daughter who was only two steps away from them.

The captain received a glare from Xian. The little girl's lips pursed, pouted, she felt neglected by her parents.

"You two are disgusting!" Xian snorted. The little princess sulked in her spoiled style.

"Oops…!" Dharma laughed softly, and so did Yuan Xi.

Xian stepped annoyed towards the big bed, then sat down with a droopy face and a sour look, her hands folded across her chest.

Captain Dharma took a deep breath, then approached his daughter.

"Come on now, sweetheart," said the captain. He knelt before his daughter, and took her hands, holding them gently. "Don't sulk like that. I just really miss your mom."

"So you don't miss me?" Xian said. "You are mean!"

"Sweetheart," Captain Dharma hugged and picked up his daughter, carrying her, kissing her cheek. "Who said I didn't miss you? I love you so much, don't you know?"

"Is that true?" Xian glared, looking into her father's eyeballs.

Captain Dharma nodded, then glanced at Yuan Xi.

"I love you too, sweetheart," said Yuan Xi as she hugged Xian and her husband at the same time. "I love you both."

Xian smiled widely, she kissed her mother's cheek, then kissed his father's cheek.

*

In another large room adjacent to the main cabin, Suzanne and Tyana were busy doing something after being left by Doctor Kamal who returned to his room.

The two girls were in a room that was a dining room and a kitchen that became one. The room itself is half the size of the main cabin. There are several tables and chairs in the room.

Suzanne and Tyana are preparing food to be served to all crew members, as well as to all passengers on board. Foods that are more dominated by potatoes, carrots, and minced meat.

Not long after, the figures of Fraya and Guntur appeared in the same room. The two were also accompanied by Wong and Nyoman. Each with both hands that look full. They carry a variety of foods. Canned food, boxed food, as well as packaged food.

"Hey," Guntur called to Suzanne and Tyana. "Where should we put all this?"

"Just put it in there!" Suzanne pointed to a medium-sized tank, thigh-high, half a meter wide, and as long as two adult arms outstretched, with no lid on top.

At that time, some other people were also present in the same room, one by one they appeared. Including, Aldi and Ely.

"Hey…!" Ely called out to Guntur and his comrades. "Isn't that my food?"

Well, that's true. Of course, Ely recognized the food in the hands of the four people. It was the food that Ely and Aldi had previously found and collected when the two of them were on a small island—when they were still on Earth, and stored in Aldi's chameleon.

Aldi chuckled by shaking his head in response to the reaction of the little girl beside him, but he just let it be. Aldi flung his hips onto a bench on the right side of the room.

"Well," Fraya smiled as she looked at Ely who was approaching them. "Perhaps this food did belong to you before, little girl. But not anymore."

"How come?"

Ely snorted, narrowing her eyes at Fraya, Guntur, Wong, and Nyoman. However, the four of them laughed in response to the behavior of the fourteen-year-old girl, as was the case with Aldi earlier.

"You stole all that food from me," said Ely. "Give it back to me! It's all mine!"

Nyoman then crouched in front of Ely, while the others continued their steps. Then put all the food into the tank that had been told by Suzanne.

"Hey, Little Miss," said Nyoman, he looked at Ely with a smile. "Now we're all one family, right?"

Although doubtful, Ely still nodded as well.

"As a family," Nyoman continued. "We should be able to share anything, food is one of them."

"We also have a lot of food here," said Tyana, waving her hands and calling for Ely to come closer. "Would you like to taste the food I made?"

Ely stared at Nyoman again for a moment. The Balinese-blooded man smiled again, he rubbed the little girl's cheek.

"Go on," Nyoman whispered to Ely. "They have grilled meat."

TO BE CONTINUED ...