10 days of Unwrapped – Day 9!

It’s
December 24th and I’m running late. Way late. So late, I don’t even stop to
retrieve the bag of Skittles that tumbles out of my purse as I bounce through
the Departures terminal at LAX, trying to hang on to my coat and magazines and
my stupid wheel-on overnight luggage that’s picked today of all days to bust a
wheel.

            “Sorry, buddies,” I huff under my
breathe, looking back to see the bag of candy trampled under the feet of five
hundred other last-minute holiday travelers. “Can’t stop! It’s every sucker for
himself.”

            I slow to a jog as I reach the
board. Atlanta… Atlanta…
I let out a groan as I see the gate flash up. Forty-two. As in, forty-two ways
for me to miss my flight as I get all the way across the building in the next
ten minutes flat.

            My phone buzzes as I take off down
the hallway. I shift my purse to my other ear and pick up in time to hear my
best friend, Juliet, wail, “Where are you? You said you’d be here already, and the yard is a mess, and Brit
hasn’t finished my dress, and everything’s a disaster!”………

   
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xo
Melody