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- Author: Kit Frick
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ONE WEEK AGO
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26
Six Days Until the Engagement Party
ADDISON
The Acker-Mayweathers are accustomed to breezing through life’s annoying
little lines—at the farmers’ market, the post oce, the orist where Mom buys
fresh-cut lilies on Sundays “to brighten up the breakfast nook.” People know us
in Rhyne Ridge. People let us through. But the Cancún International Airport is
six hours and one connecting ight away from New York’s Hudson Valley, and
here, we are three cogs in an epic crush of sweaty, stinking bodies, everyone
trying to make their way from the arrival gate to the six men and women in their
little plexiglass huts checking passports and releasing exhausted travelers into the
bright Caribbean sunshine.
“This blows.” My twin brother, Mason Acker-Mayweather. For the third
time in the last ve minutes, he lets his backpack slump from one shoulder to the
oor.
“Mason, don’t say ‘blows.’” Our mom, Elizabeth Acker-Mayweather. She
twists her shiny brown hair behind her, then pats her wrist fruitlessly for a hair
tie. The air-conditioning is blasting, but it’s no match for the sheer magnitude of
body heat in here.
We landed approximately forty-ve minutes ago, an arrival time apparently
shared by every other international ight touching down in Cancún on the day
after Christmas. After half an hour inching along a corridor stretching from our
gate to a single escalator, we descended into the massive sea of travelers already
jammed into the Passport Control hall, everyone jostling to join the six long lines
snaking their way toward the agents at the front. I do a quick head count of the
travelers in my general circumference, then multiply by eighteen, the
approximate quantity of similarly sized areas in the hall. Roughly, there are nine
hundred people inside, all waiting to see six agents.
An airport ocial glances at our customs slips and ushers us toward the end
of line ve. Give or take, one hundred and fty people wait ahead of us. We’re
going to be here a while.
I click open my red roller case and pull out the novel I need to have nished
for Miss Dern’s class when I get back to school next week. Then I ip my
suitcase on its side and take a seat.
“I don’t know how you can read in here,” Mason says, squatting down next
to me. “It’s loud as hell.”
“White noise.” I shrug. I’m good with words, but lit has never been my
favorite. I’m a science and math girl. So the faster I can get through this book,
the less of the trip I’ll spend with it hanging over me.
But Mason clearly isn’t going to let me read in peace. “Have you tried the WiFi? I can’t get past terms and conditions.”
I shake my head. “Reading.”
“Can you try it, though? Or give me your phone.”
I dig it out of my pocket and hand it over. There’s nothing on my phone my
brother and cousins can’t see; I made sure of that before this trip. “Help
yourself. But there are nearly a thousand people in this room alone trying to log
on. The network is overloaded.”
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