Ruby repeatedly tapped at her glass half filled with whiskey and ice as she sat in the departure lounge at Heathrow Airport. She was booked on the red eye to New York for a business meeting but she detested flying.
One of her girlfriends had given her some pills that were meant to help her relax, She had popped one already but her nerves weren't calming at all hence the whiskey.
Ruby had worked her way up from an intern to a recent promotion to managing international accounts at a prominent financing company. A lot of people thought because of her blonde hair and good looks she had slept her way up the ladder, which she definitely hadn't, She got the promotion through hard work and here she was an international accounts manager at 29. Because of her hard work she was never able to hold down a serious relationship. Unfortunately for Ruby though International accounts meant more travel by plane.
The pills were still having no affect on her nerves so she ordered another whiskey.
Ding Dong "this is the final boarding call for the twenty two fifteen to JFK New York."
Ruby swallowed down the remnants of the whiskey from her glass and nervously headed to the plane, handed her boarding pass to an attractive older blonde lady who could see Ruby was nervous.
"Don't be nervous my darling we will land in New York before you know it." Ruby smiled at the lady but really she wanted to knock the false smile off her face.
Ruby sat in her seat in first class by the window and there was still an empty seat next to her. Still feeling extremely nervous she decided to pop another pill washed it down with a bottle of water she had bought on the plane with her.
"Good evening madam I think I'm sitting next to you." said a well dressed Japanese man in broken English, he sat down next to Ruby.
"My name is Yuri, my English not great and you are"
"Oh sorry Ruby nice to meet you"
"you shaking Ruby"
"Yes I'm very nervous don't like flying but have to go to New York for business"
"aahhh me too."
The man was about 50 with oriental features, Ruby could see he kept in shape but she did notice a bald patch in his greying hair.
The plane was now cruising at 50,000feet, the Japanese man was watching a film on the screen in front of him with ear pods on. Ruby thought a film might help her to relax but after 30 minutes of watching legally blonde her nerves were escalating.
"I need a drink!" she screamed looking around for a stewardess.
A couple of hours later she grabbed another gin and tonic from stewardess and knocked it straight back. She was now finally felt relaxed, a bit too relaxed, the mixture of pills and alcohol were playing with her body.