<div style="text-align: justify;">That plane trip to Hawaii was giving Melissa time to think, and it wasn’t a very good thing. Thinking meant she had time to overthink. And overthinking meant she had time to feel guilty. Guilty about all that trip meant. <br/><br/>For Melissa, it meant many things. She looked at the man by her side and touched his hand softly for a moment. Yes, that trip meant a lot of things. For one, she was reconnecting with her former lover. That wasn’t a bad thing, if considered without all the other factors.<br/><br/>She was reconnecting with a <span style="font-style: italic">married</span> lover, after all. And one that really didn’t bring out the best in her. She had made the worst decisions in her life in her time with him. And yet, here they were. Trying to work things out once more. Maybe - and at this thought, Melissa rested her head on the man’s shoulder - they would make it work and he would leave his wife. She could only hope that things would happen this way.<br/><br/>Melissa was about to say something - what it was, she would completely forget in the next few moments. It could have been a stupid question, like ‘are you really leaving your wife if this works out?’. Or ‘how long do we still have?’. Or maybe the comment that she was feeling a little queasy right now and could use some ice water.<br/><br/>Before she could say anything, Melissa could hear the flight attendant’s voice. Great, turbulence. That was really all she needed for her first experience inside a plane. Why couldn’t the have a peaceful trip, and then everything just work out, and all the problems would be gone?<br/><br/>Melissa's daydreaming, done while she fastened her seatbelt, was cut short when that blast sounded, causing her to scream out of reflex. She wanted to tell Jace to fasten his seatbelt, and get a hold of his mask, but her voice just didn’t come out. She tried to stop trembling enough to adjust her own mask, but she would never know whether or not it had been good for anything, since she closed her eyes tightly and braced herself for whatever would happen, holding her breath as she always did when scared.<br/><br/>The plane was going down. And all she could hope was that this was not the way she was going out of this world, before her own went completely dark and silent.</div>