Flying High

"Williams Hotel how may I help you?" I said answering the phone on yet another boring day at work.

"Brain Micheals please" The voice on the other end of the line said.

"This is Brian how my I help you" I replied very dryly.

"You can start by telling me why you haven't returned any of my calls and have been avoiding everyone like the plague recently" When the person responded I realized that it was my brother. I had been so busy working and taking care of stuff that I totally forgot to call him.

"I have just been busy Ryan, work is hell right now and I have been up here almost every day for the past month trying to get things fixed and turn the hotel around." I lied, I was getting so good at it that I was able to convince myself that is what I was doing. The truth was I was miserable at the moment.

"umm huh, you know after 23 years I thought you would have learned that I am the one person that you can't lie to B, well back to the reason I was calling. Since you have not taken any time off since you started there I think you need to take off next week and come to New York" Ryan said trying to get me to come see him.

"Why should I come to New York next week since you aren't going to be there." Every time I have planned to go to see him since he moved to New York he always got called into work and I ended up coming home early or not even going up there.

"Actually I need you to come help me move, I got transferred back to Houston and have to be down there by the end of the month."

"Oh I see, well can I call you back tonight, I need to get some stuff done so I can get out of here today" I said trying to buy me some time to think about it.

"Sure call the house I will probley be here and if I am not call my cell phone and if you don't call I will wait until four in the morning and call you and wake you up" Ryan said in his annoying chipper self.

" Ok, I will talk to you later bye"

"bye" Ryan said as I hung up

Ok so I guess I should introduce myself, my name is Brian but everyone calls me B, I am 23 just graduated college and work at a hotel as a assistant manger. Ryan is my identical twin brother, and is a flight attendant for Skyline Airlines and is based in New York but just got a transfer to Houston.

I went back to my office and closed the door to finish up some stuff and get ready to go home. As I was finishing up the schedule for the next week I realized that my brother was right and I think it would do me good to get away or a few days, god knows that I need it. The coming week was actually slow and all the other mangers where going to be there and I did have some time off so I decided that I was going to try to go but I had see if my boss would let me have the week off to go, so I dialed up her extension to see what she would say.

"This is Shelly" She said answering the phone.

" Hey boss lady is Brian, I have a question" I said trying to butter her up.

"No you are not getting a raise, if that is what you are going to ask" She said sarcastically.

"I wasn't going to ask for a raise, I was going to ask if I could have next week off since it is slow and everyone else is going to be here?" I said hoping she would say yes.

"Your going to take a week off to volunteer?" She ask somewhat stunned. I guess that is what happens when you don't take much time off work.

"Yeah, my brother got transferred to Houston and wants me to come up to New York and help him pack and move everything down here." I said

"Sure take off as long as you need, hopefully having him back in town will pull you out of this mood you have been in for the past few weeks" She said trying to get me to say something.

"I don't want to talk about it, but thanks for the time off, I will probably be back next Monday or Tuesday." I said trying to close the files I was working on.

"Ok be careful and have a safe trip and tell you brother hello for me" My boss said hanging up.

"I will bye" I hung up the phone and made sure that everything that I had to do before I left was done, which it was. The next thing I did was call and see what the earliest flight to New York was. The one good thing about having a brother that works for an airline is that he put me on his travel privileges and its a lot easier sometimes for me to go places. The lady on the phone told me that there was a flight that left at 10:30 that night. I looked at my watch and saw that It was only 4:15 I ask her to list me on that flight and then ended the call. As I was walking out to my car I called my brother back to let him know I was flying up that night and to make sure he cold pick me up.

"Hello" Ryan said on the phone sounded very agitated.

"Geez whats wrong with you, I would think that you would be happy I called back so fast" I said acting offended.

"Sorry, screw scheduling just called and I have to do a Houston turn tonight and don't get back til like midnight." He said.

"Well i was calling to tell you that I am coming to New York and that I was going to take the 10:30 flight from Houston to New York, but since you have to work I will wait and fly up tomorrow." I loved screwing with my brother the boy is a tad dense sometimes.

"B why are you gonig to wait and fly up in the morning, why don't you just fly back with me on the flight I have to work since it is the 10:30 flight to New York" Ryan said proving that he wasn't as dense as I originally thought he was.

"Ok, I will do that, I will see you at the airport bye bubba love ya' I said as I was pulling into my apartment complex.

"love ya to see you in a little bit" Ryan said as he hung up

Well by the time I took a shower and got packed it was time for me to leave for the airport. On the way to the airport I called my mother and told her that I was going to help Ryan move and that I would be back in a week or so. By the time I got off the phone with her I was at the airport and went and checked and and went and got something to eat and the proceeded to the gate. While I was walking to the gate I noticed a sign that said that Southwestern airlines was hiring flight attendants but I didn't think much of it.

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written by djaggie