[.Chapter 1.]

Off to London

Emily's Point of View

It was a trip we've all been waiting for, and it was finally here. A summer vacation no one was going to forget. "London, England, here I come!" said my sister while passing my room with five suitcases in hand. "Hey Em, do you think there are any good shopping places down there? Like, any malls?" She asked. "I guess, I don't know Liz, and you know I don't exactly care!" I answered her. I was only seven minutes older than she was but to me it seemed like a good seven years. Elizabeth was into malls, make-up, gossip, designer clothes, and boys. Those were things, I had no passion for. My big hobbies were music, reading good books and writing. "Em, you really should do something fun instead of sitting here and reading Shakespeare all day! I mean common you're sixteen not sixty!" Liz said when she came back into my room after bringing her luggage into the car. Despite our differences, my sister was my best friend. "Common honey, let me do your make-up so you knock those English boys out! Who knows, maybe you'll become a princess by the end of this trip!" She offered. "All right as long I get to do yours!" I smiled. Moments later my make-up-loving sister was at work on my face. "Well because you have blonde hair and blue eyes, you need pink hues on your lips and earthy shades on your lids." She said while applying the different gook on my face with different shaped brushes. "You know, you really ought to write for some teen-trend magazine Liz!" I playfully suggested but my "smart" sister took it the wrong way and decided to really give that a whirl. In a couple of minutes we were both prettied up and ready to bring my suitcases downstairs.

An hour later we were finally at the airport. "Does everyone have their tickets?" Mom asked. I pulled mine out and waved in the air. Elizabeth followed my lead. "Flight 621 to London England will start boarding at gate four in five minutes. Please have all your information ready at hand." A woman's voice said over the loudspeaker. "Common Emmy! Let's go!" Before I can put one foot in front of the other, my beloved sister was already dragging me to the boarding gate. "Girls! Don't get lost! Be careful!" My dad screamed our way. "Oh Ted, don't be ridiculous, they are hardly teenagers! Let them be!" I overheard mom say. "You hear Liz, we're hardly teenagers anymore." I noted to my sister in between giggles. "Yea which brings me to a point what are we going to do for our quote unquote sweet seventeenth?" Once again, my sister took something funny seriously. Why did she always have to do that? "We'll come up with something, we are going into a pretty big country, maybe we can go on a shopping spree or whatever you call it." I winked. "Yea, if I had any real dough to spend." I heard Liz murmur under her breath.

"Ah, time for some relaxation and meditation!" Elizabeth said with a smirk on her face. She was up to something, and I was about to find out what it was. "Liz, how are you going to meditate or relax in the plain while we are in the air and there is a whole lot of turbulence?" I looked at her weird. "Easy! It's called listening to music on your CD player!" With that Liz grabbed the player out of my hands and pulled the headphones off my neck and onto her ears. Immediately after she heard the music, Liz made a face and took off the headset. "What is this stuff?" She said while wrinkling her nose. "It's Phil Collins dummy!" I snickered! "Collins Shmollins, I don't care, got any REAL music?" "That's what you call N'sync?" I asked annoyed. "Yea, Nsync's cool!" She grabbed the CD and went back to her own little world. I hated all those boybands and the teen heart throbs! To me, they all seemed so fake! But Liz was obsessed. After a few minutes of different thoughts, I drifted off to sleep.

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