Chapter 61: Anna Hayes
Chapter 61: Anna Hayes
The lights for seatbelts were back and the flight attendants instructed everyone to put on their seat belts.
Jin hurriedly put on his seat belt when the instructions were over and took a deep breath to adjust his mindset.
The woman sitting beside him looked at him with confusion clear on her face but Jin was too occupied with adjusting his state of mind to notice her.
When the plane started descending and a random turbulence caused the plane to shake Jin gripped the seat handles and clasped the seat handles tightly.
She finally understood what was going on and commented with a chuckle when the plane stabilized, "I didn't expect you of all people to be afraid of flying,"
"Is it that strange to be afraid during your first flight?" Jin asked. He felt his ego bruised a little by her chuckle.
"This is your first flight?" She asked in surprise.
Jin nodded.
"...you sure have some great luck. It's only after sixty or so flights that I managed to experience being in a plane hijack," She said while trying to suppress herself from laughing at his rotten luck.
"Rotten luck you mean to say," Jin commented.
Seeing Jin say the exact thing she was thinking she couldn't help but laugh out loud. She was unable to hold it in anymore.
It took her a few seconds to finally recover,
"Ah...sorry I just couldn't help myself, your timing was too good," she once again started snickering at the thought when she finished.
Who likes being laughed at? Jin of course didn't. He just stared at the woman in annoyance before taking his eyes off her.
There were more important things to be concerned over right now. Like how the ground seemed to be getting closer by the seconds.
Seeing the direction of Jin's gaze the woman felt like teasing him a bit more and said, " Did you know that most flight accidents happen during take offs and landings,"
Jin's eyebrows twitched at those words. He had heard that in one of the videos he binged yesterday so he already knew that...but he didn't want to hear something like that just a few minutes before landing.
He glared at the woman in anger.
"Okay okay... I'll not say anything alright?" Seeing Jin's angry gaze she finally controlled her playful side.
Jin just snorted and closed his eyes. Seeing outside the window was too nerve-wracking for him.
The plane finally touched down and bounced a bit on the run-away. Each time Jin felt his soul escaping his body as he braced himself for whatever was to come.
Feeling the plane slowing down he finally opened his eyes only to see an amused expression on her face.
"You're one interesting guy you know that?"
Jin ignored her words and instead stared at the window behind her. Seeing that they were slowly moving on the run-away he finally felt relieved and sighed.
"So you're ignoring me now?" She asked with a grin.
"Would you associate with someone who's continuously trying to make fun of you?" Jin asked.
"I get it alright. It was just amusing to see a strong and capable man like you fearing something small like that," the woman said.
The flight was moving towards the air bridge.
Jin didn't respond to her so she changed the topic and asked, "Why did you come to Neon City btw?"
"To find a job," Jin replied.
"Ah, being unemployed sucks," the woman thought back to her times of struggle and was lost in her thoughts for a while.
When she recovered she said to Jin, " Don't worry, when the reporters approach me for an interview I'll use extra flowery words to describe your actions. Use that chance to win the public's appraisal of you later on,"
"Thanks, " Jin knew that her words were sincere and thanked her.
"Don't be, it's a small favour compared to how you saved us all...besides there's something much more important that needs to be addressed," She said.
Jin looked at her in confusion.
"Introduction! We've been sitting together for an hour and chatting yet we don't know each other's name. This cannot be done!" She exclaimed.
She brought her hand out towards Jin the next moment and said, "I'm Anna Hayes. Nice to meet you,"
"I'm Jin Blaker, it was nice knowing you," He said as he shook her hands.
"Hey it's as if you're saying that we won't be meeting again," Anna said with furrowed brows.
"We will be?" Jin asked in confusion.
"Yes, my intuition says that we will," Anna responded with a charming smile. Your journey continues at M V L
Jin wanted to question her but the air hostess called him at that moment since the exit door was all set now.
"Goodbye," Anna waved her hands towards Jin as he stood up from his seat.
Jin nodded back at her and followed after the air hostess.
The three terrorists were being dragged out by the police personnel. The police were already made aware of the whole situation by the ATC.
"Sir we heard what you did and are very thankful for your quick judgement in taking care of the situation, we would like to take you with us to the station for taking statements," One police officer approached Jin in a very professional manner.
"Alright," Jin nodded and went along with them.
Jin described how his luggage looked to one of the police personnel who was tasked with taking it back to the station when it arrived.
With everything settled Jin could accompany them in relief.
While sitting inside the police car Jin looked outside the window at the tall structures built everywhere. What amazed him even more was all the Neon billboards the buildings were covered with.
It was a pity that it was still in the daylight otherwise he would be able to see a remarkable scene.
After half an hour they arrived at the police station. The terrorists were shoved out of the car and were locked up behind bars.
Jin was brought to an inspector who would be taking his statements.