Loveless Ada E-Book

George Saoulidis

• Herausgeber: Mythography Studios
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

When a teenage hacker goes on a school trip, she loses her luggage and is left alone at the airport. Will she manage to enjoy her visit to Rome, when her luggage is nowhere to be found, when the help desk is not helpful at all and when she meets an Italian with a luggage that follows you around? A Loveless Ada short story.

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Title Page

Copyright

The Luggage Disaster

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The Luggage Disaster

Ada dreaded the school trip. Landing there at Rome airport, she didn't know why she'd even agreed to come here. I mean, she didn't have any friends to hang out with, she certainly didn't have a boyfriend. What did she expect to do all week?

Then again, she had earned this through her good grades. Only thirty kids or so made the cut, and she could only afford such a trip when the school was paying. Yiayia would never give her the cash to travel. She loved different cultures, she didn't want to let go of such a good opportunity to visit Italy. For what? Because nobody loved her?

Big deal.

She was used to it by now.

She waited at the end of the conveyor belt and watched as the bags rolled slowly. The boys in class were anxious to grab their own, impatient, as if if they missed their one shot at catching them they'd get eaten up by the void at the other end.

Boys were funny like that.

Ada never quite understood them.

The other kids grabbed their luggage. Boys offered to help out some of the girls. This mating ritual seemed weird to Ada. Sure, some of the girls were smaller than the guys, but you could slide the luggage off the conveyor belt by yourself if you simply placed a foot for support and pulled it to the metal side. All it took was some brains. Still, the girls let the boys help them, giving them a chance to show off their strength. It was also a complicated pecking order and pairing of sexes, who would help out which girl, who would be asked first, which girl, the boobiest one, didn't even have to ask at all.

One after another the luggage showed up and the boys grabbed them. It was something that Ada assumed every traveller had to deal with. This was her first time travelling abroad, so she wouldn't know.

Ada drank from her bottle of water and waited.

"Where's your luggage, Ada?" the girls mocked her as they wheeled theirs past. They didn't even expect a reply, they simply giggled and left.

Miss Olga waited around for the last group, checking the time on her phone. "Come on, Ada, haven't you seen your luggage?"

"No, Miss Olga, I'm still waiting."

The teacher sighed. "I have to get to the bus, they're waiting for us."

Ada felt really bad about holding everyone back, but really, what could she do? "I'm sorry..."