The Flight English short story

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“This is gonna be so cool” Ryan said, staring at the 12inch model aircraft his twin sister, Beth got him for his Christmas.

“Come on Ryan, you’ve never stopped staring at that since I got you it and you still haven’t even said thank you” Beth said.

“Oh yeah,” he grinned “thanks.”

Ryan was 17, well built and his jet-black hair was nearly always spiked up with gel. Beth was 17 and looked exactly like Ryan apart from the obvious fact that he was a boy, probably what you would expect if you had a twin.

“When’s Jack coming?” Beth asked. Jack Forrest was Ryan and Beth’s best friend from school and they had been friends ever since they had started school.

“He said he’d b here at 10pm, Ryan said, looking at his watch. “its ten-to ten now sp we better put these suitcases in the car, that way we can head to the airport as soon as Jack comes.”

They wheeled the cases out the door and put them into the boot of the car.

“I still can’t believe we won those tickets to Canada on the new 5 star luxury plane.” Ryan said as he lifted his suitcase and positioned it on top of Beth’s massive holdall, “it’s always been a dream on mine to fly in one of those planes, and it even has a restaurant!”

Just as Ryan said that, Jacks taxi pulled up and he got out of the back with a giant suitcase and a rucksack.

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“Hey Ryan,” he grinned, “Hey Beth!”

“The flight’s gonna leave with out us if we don’t get to the airport by eleven so we better get a move on, its already five past ten,” Beth said, pointing to the car.

They all piled into the car and Ryan pulled out of the driveway. It took about half an hour to get to the airport and about an hour to go through the check-in and passport control, so when they got to the welcome lounge they all headed straight to the gate.

“Here we go” Beth smiled as they reached gate ...

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