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“Piece of cake. Piece of cake! Like I don’t have enough bad luck in a plane, and then you have to go say that and ruin everything!”
“I—”
“I,” he said in a whiny voice. “Yes, you! Why the fuck did you come up here? I was doing good! I took Dramamine and actually felt really great about this trip. Even when the storm clouds rolled in, I knew everything would be fine! Now, you’ve ruined everything!”
“You can’t possibly blame this on me!”
“If we go down, I’m telling Cash you’re never flying with me again!”
“If we go down, we’ll all be dead!”
Lightning flashed outside and I gripped the seats, preparing for the plane to go down. The turbulence was crazy, and over all that, I could hear Sarah in the back, screaming for dear life.
“Aren’t you going to go check on her?”
“Are you crazy?” I shouted. “I’d rather die up here with you than in the back with a screaming woman who beat me up!”
“She beat you up?” he asked, glancing at me out of the corner of his eye.
“Is that really the most important thing right now?” I yelled.
He frowned, then leaned forward and tapped the flight deck. “Hmm.”
“Hmm? What does that mean?”
“It means hmm,” he said, flipping switches and tapping it some more.
“Yes, but why did you say it?” I asked, a hint of panic in my voice.
“Um…it’s not a big deal. The radar went out.”
My eyes widened in fear. “What do you mean? Of course, it’s a big deal! Don’t most pilots need that to fly the plane?”
The plastic jerked back and IKE stood there, staring at us angrily. “I was trying to get some sleep. What the fuck is going on?”
“The radar went out,” I snapped.
“Just watch the horizon,” he said, rolling his eyes.
“Just watch the horizon,” Scottie said mockingly. “Thanks for that. Like I hadn’t already thought of that!”
“How does the horizon help you know where we are?” Was I the only one who saw the major problem with this? “Without radar, aren’t we flying blind?”
Scottie’s jaw clenched as he kept a tight grip on the yoke. “It’s not a big deal. It’s happened before and it all worked out fine. Of course, it was night then and I had the moonlight to help.”
“It’s not night,” I pointed out.
“Really?” he said sarcastically. “Everyone’s full of brilliant things to add today!”
The plane jerked harder as the turbulence increased. I strapped in and held on for dear life as IKE stood beside me, his arms crossed over his chest as if we weren’t about to crash.
“Will you go sit down?” I yelled at him. “Scottie’s trying to concentrate, and he can’t do that with you lording over him.”
His eyebrows twitched as he stared at me. “Are you intimidated by me?”
I laughed at that. “Sure, I’m really scared of your fancy suits and metal bracelet.”
“Hey, that bracelet is killer,” Scottie argued. “And it’s more distracting that you’re yelling at him than it is for him to stand there.”
