“Excuse me” Pardoned Curtis as he bumped into a little child.
The child’s look was of both hurt and terror.
Curtis noticed that the child was alone and he felt sorry for him.
“My bad, sorry if I hurt you,” apologized Curtis.
The child replied with tears, showing his reticence to speak.
Curtis was about to find the airport authorities when a touch landed on his left shoulder.
He whirled around only to look into the air, until he found in front of him was a extremely short man in a coal black suit in front of him. His eyes were small like that of a mouse, his nose flat and he had a neatly trimmed beard and hair. He was also toting …show more content…
He knew he should have asked what the specifics of the cargo was before he accepted the
deal, but it was to late. Suddenly, there was a crash and a scream behind him. He turned
around but saw nothing. When he faced forward once more, the short man was gone.
The loudspeaker overhead rang out, “Flight 7569 taking off in the next 10 minutes, I repeat,
flight 7569 taking off in the next 10 minutes.”
Curtis was so alarmed that his flight was about to leave that he completely forgot about the
money owed to him. He quickly put the box onto his luggage bag, and made a mad dash for
the plane. The plane was about to leave the dock right as he made it on. With sweat on his brow
and his suit rumpled, he made his way to his seat. After he put up his luggage he sat down
heavily and sighed with stress. The person next to him, a fat man with short hair, a blue t-shirt
and shorts looked at him with disgust. Curtis heard other people around him disparage him.
“How unprofessional, I have a meeting at exactly 10:00 AM and this man
delayed the process by at least a minute,” said one