That was how Tesia had come to be sitting on a plane headed to God-knows-where. She just hoped God knew where she wanted to go and would send her there – oh, how she hoped!

She was now awake, as it had been announced that the plane would be landing shortly. Upon hearing that, she became even more nervous than she had already been. She was terrified this was all some sort of sick joke, and that she had been somewhere other than California. That someone other than her brother would be greeting her and taking her home with them.

She quietly got off the plane, after it having had landed, and having had shoved her Teddy Bear back into her knapsack. She followed the other passengers into the airport and down the terminal. She crossed her fingers, and prayed to God – yet again – that her brother would indeed be inside waiting for her. She took a deep breath, then exited the terminal.