Katie Miller, a surprising stranger

Katie nibbled her bottom lip. She hated flying on planes. She hated planes, boats, and trains for various reasons, but mostly because they often involved overnight stays in a ****, public position and she was scared that one of her most embarrassing secrets would be discovered. Katie was very careful about how she travelled and what she brought, but often times she was stuck in an almost exposing situation.

Katie wasn’t the biggest girl either. In fact, she was quite petite. She stood at a 4’5” height, 98 lbs and with her light curly blonde hair, she looked like a little kid despite being 21 years old. But Katie needed to travel for this occasion as she was supposed to be seeing her Aunt Nora which she was not looking forward to either.

She had everything planned to make sure that she was ready to travel. In her bag was a couple pull ups designed to be discrete although her foolishness accidentally grabbed a pair of the unicorn designs rather than the plain white ones. She approached her seat carefully, as she otherwise wore baggy pants and a loose shirt.

To her surprise, she saw a girl already sitting in the aisle seat. Katie thought she had bought the aisle seat, but apparently she looked at the airplane map wrong as she found herself stuck with the window seat. “Excuse me,” Katie blushed. “That’s my seat.”

Alexa frowned as she looked up, but almost did a double take as she observed the small girl. “Oh, hello,” Alexa said as she stood up to let Katie by.

Katie shuffled inside, face bright red as she prayed that Alexa wouldn’t find out about her secret, realizing that her plan had just gotten 10x harder to hide.

“My name’s Katie,” she said, trying to hide her red face.

“I’m Alexa,” Alexa said, equally as awkward, thinking the exact same thing Katie was.

Neither girls knew the ironic truth of their situation, but both were keen on keeping their similar secrets to themselves. As the plane started to take off, both girls tensed up as it rose into the air, no turning back now.