You Are Mine

***end of flashback***

"urhmm" i heard him clear his throat and it brought me back to the present.

"we are here", he said and he opened the door of the car and went out immediately. I was still in awe, still trying to adjust my mind back to what is going on. I breathed deeply, trying to calm myself down. We are already at the airport. Since it was already past seven in the evening, there were only few people in the departure area. I can see Joseph already passed through the inspection and was already inside.

"hahhhh", I let out a sigh, to clear my mind.

"knock, knock", I heard the knock on the car's door and it was opened for me.

"thank you", I said as I went out of the car. The person who opened the door for me was his assistant. I have seen him several times before when I was still in D City and I can remember Joseph calling him Albert but everyone in the farm call him Mr. Albert . He has been with the family since he was a teenager and he is very loyal to them. He is a few years older than Joseph. He looked casual with his white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and a black pants and black shoes as well. I smiled at him and he smiled back.

"Good evening, Miss Christine", he politely said and gestured me to go inside the departure area.

"thank you", I said and silently walked towards the entrance. He took mine and Joseph's luggage from the back of the car and I can see that he was talking to someone, giving instructions then he followed me at the entrance while the person he was talking to drove the car out of the airport.

"here you go", he said as he put our luggage in the x-ray machine.

I also put my hand carry bag on the machine and went through the inspection. After the inspection, I took my bag while Mr. Albert took my luggage and we proceeded to the departure area. We saw Joseph was already waiting for us. We walked towards our assigned gate. Mr Albert quickly caught up with Joseph and they were already talking about business while I was following them from behind. Mr Albert would regularly turn to look at me, making sure I am following them.

I silently followed them while looking at the back of Joseph. His broad shoulders was accentuated by the blue shirt he is wearing. He is a few inches talker than Mr.Albert. Althought both of them have good physique,Joseph has a very strong aura,ver manly and would turn heads wherever he goes.Blue is my favorite color and his favorite color as well as I can remember him wearing blue almost everyday.

'ahhhh, memories please stop, now is not the time', I painfully scolded my self and I think I said it aloud as Mr. Albert and Joseph stopped walking and turned to look at me with an inquiring look in their eyes.

I just shrugged my shoulder and asked: "what?"

"do you need something Miss Christine?" , Mr. Albert asked with concern in his eyes.

"what is it?", Joseph asked seriously and intently looked into my eyes as if trying to look deep into my soul.

To hide my embarrassment, I smiled at them. "I was only rehearsing a line from my commercial", I said nonchalantly and look at them specially Joseph who looked annoyed.

"You don't have to do that anymore", he said straightforwardly and with a warning in his eyes before he turned around and continued to walk.

Mr. Albert smiled at me and continued to walk as well. I let out a sigh, shrugged my shoulders and continued to follow them.

A chartered plane was already waiting for us at the assigned gate. The pilot was already waiting and there were two airport crews who checked our gate passes and luggage before we were allowed to board the chartered plane.

'so this is what money can do", I talked to myself as I boarded the plane. It was not as big as the commercial plane but it is comfortable. There was a long white couch on the right side and two single couches facing each other on the left, a center table and a mini bar at the right corner with some wines displayed. There is also a small cubicle in front of the mini bar which looks like a private room and another cubicle which would be the comfort room. The interior is mainly white with beige accents, very classy. The inside of the plane would be very comfortable for 3-5 persons.

Joseph was already sitting on the long couch and looking at his cellphone. I sit on the single couch on the opposite side. Mr Albert followed inside, holding a laptop. He went directly to Joseph and gave him the laptop before sitting down next to him.

Joseph without even looking at me,started to work on his laptop.I can hear him typing.

"hmmm'', Joseph as he was looking seriously at the screen of his laptop like he doesn't care about his surrounding. He may have forgotten that I existed which was good for me so I can finally relax and do some thinking on what to do once I get to D City.

The captain went out of the cockpit and welcomed us. He was around 40-45 years old and seemed to be smiling all the time.He introduced himself as Marlon Cuenca, has been a pilot for 20 years. He also introduced the flight stewardess Anna who politely smiled at us. She then showed us where to find the life jackets, the emergency exits and all the emergency procedures. She then proceeded to show us the mini bar, the private room and the comfort room. After the routinary procedures, Captain Cuenca went back to the cockpit while Anna went to the small kitchen at the far end which was hidden by a beige curtain. We heard the captain speaking in the speaker declaring that were are were already taking off and that it would take an hour and 15 minutes for us to get to our destination.

I was just silent the whole time, observing and from time to time steal glances at Joseph. He was so focused on his laptop and he only looked up once at the captain to acknowledge him and his attention was back to his laptop again.