Annie
I look out the airplane window. All I can see is a vast expanse of clouds, but it helps to distract me. I have so many emotions inside me. Fear, pain, sadness, joy, anxiety. And everything has been magnified since the moment I boarded this plane. I have a knot in my stomach.
I don't want to think about the faces everyone will make when they see me in this state. Although they already know, it's not the same to imagine it as it is to see it in person. I feel my stomach tighten, and that's not good, so I try to calm myself. I take a deep breath and close my eyes.
After long hours of flight, we are finally about to land. When we finally touch down, the apprehension returns.
I wait to be the last one to disembark. It gives me a few more minutes to relax. When everyone else has alread
