Gabi's Walkman Monologue

Gabi and Cecilia sat together on a vinyl seat at Detroit Metro airport. Other passengers glanced at them as they leaned towards each other, bopping their heads and mouthing the words to a song they were listening to on Gabi’s Walkman.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound...
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing…
Gabi was surprised to see tears in her best friend’s eyes as she sang along to the song.
Usually Cecilia was the strong one, the funny one, the one who had all the friends. Gabi felt a pit in her stomach as she sang along with her friend. For as long as she could remember, Cecilia had been her best friend. Their families lived across the street from each other, and Gabi had known Cecilia basically since the day she was born.
Of course, each family took vacations each summer so they’d been apart for seven, even ten days at a time, but a full month apart was something they’d never experienced. Gabi looked at her suitcase and her teary-eyed friend and wondered why she had decided to spend a full four weeks in Germany, when she could have spent the summer home working at the movie theater and swimming with Cecilia.
As the Simon and Garfunkel song faded out, Gabi noticed her friend Katie walk towards the gate. Katie was in her German class, and soon a few more classmates neared the gate, all looking around for familiar faces and wondering if their teacher, Frau Meyer, had arrived yet.
Katie came and sat next to Gabi and Cecilia, and started talking about the last time she was at the airport, the flight got delayed and they almost missed their connection. Gabi had never been on an airplane before, so all this was new to her, and she would have no idea what to do if their flight was delayed or if there were any change to their itinerary, which she had printed and placed in her backpack.
Just as their flight was being called to board, Frau Meyer arrived, to everyone’s