"Barbara, get out of the damn room once and for all," he says behind the door, giving it two knocks. "The pilot has been waiting for us for over forty minutes."
I don't respond, instead, I finish adjusting my boot on my right leg to get up from the bed and walk back to the bathroom for my makeup bag and personal grooming products. I look at my eyes in the mirror, noticing how red they are, how swollen they have become from crying so much. My nose is also red, and basically my entire face, as perfectly made up as it is, looks sad and depressed. I take out the black sunglasses from the small case that I thought I wouldn't use on this trip, but I'm putting them on now so that he can't see in my eyes how much I'm suffering.
I return to the room with my things in hand, going straight to the s
