Chapter 1:
"I'm so excited! Are you excited Sarah?" Felix asked Sarah on the plane while taking a video of them.
"Bloody yea, I did not pay for nothing." She replied while putting the red plane's blanket on her.
"Umm, technically Sarah, we barely paid a cent. I'm still not sure how in the end we got to do to France for a month barely paying." Cosima from the row behind Sarah barged in, sticking her head between Sarah and the already sleeping Paul.
"I bet Alison knows, she organized the whole parade with her French friendy." Felix replied to Cosima while Sarah left the talk, for sure knowing she had nothing to add.
Cosima only hummed in return, not really listening while she organized her playlist for the long flight from San Fran to France.
They were all on a vacation now and decided to take a leave, a long break from the everyday and apparently, Alison had connections in France that found them an almost ridiculous price to pay for everything.
"So if we're not using hotels or things like that, where will we sleep?" Cosima asked Alison out of the blue after thinking about all that is ahead in her head.
Alison, who was sitting next to Cosima, folded her flight magazine neatly and looked to the dreaded girl.
"We'll be splitted to two's and three's in in my friend's flat and the apartment of her friend who is out of the country for half a year." She said while feeling proud of her organization and the so far outcome of it.
"Mmmm that's good." Cosima said happily and then yawned roughly before the flight even started. Alison just rolled her eyes and quietly went to the toilet to change from her airport cloths to her long flight cloths.
"Cos was bloody smart for keeping herself awake for two days before this flight. She slept through it all!" Sarah said to the guys as they were waiting for Cosima to return from the toilet.
"Yea but are you really surprised? It's Cosima." Felix smirked but was annoyed too, they were all yawning and half falling asleep again while Cosima was chippery and living as always, but even more so because she was excited.
"Okay I'm ready. What's next? i want to go to the biology museum and also see the louvre and the Sorbonne uni-"
"Cos bloody hell we are going to the apartments now, later you can see whatever you want yea." Sarah, being grumpier than usual, stepped into Cosima's rambling quickly and made her point. The frown between her eyebrows only leaving her face when she and Paul were alone and talking about who knows what.
Alison split them into two, one coming with her friend's car and the others with a taxi to the friend's friend's flat.
On the entire ride in the taxi with Paul and Sarah, Cosima looked out the window and admired the frenchness of Paris. She was never here and was fascinated by the beautiful country already. She felt this bubbling feeling inside, it came whenever she faced something big and new that she knew would change things and teach her new things. Just like when she knew biology was her thing in the second year of high school. Ever since, all she has been doing is fulfilling the starve and bubble for more knowledge. And she had a feeling a mysterious starve is creating inside her right now.
"Alison!" Delphine yelled from the other side of the parking lot, leaning on her door waiting for the two to reach her.
Alison walked quickly to Delphine and gave her a hug, gentle and not squashy, just like the two are used to hug in their everyday life.
"Bonjour Ali, how was the flight?" Delphine smiled as she helped load Ali's suitcase to her car.
"It was fine but we all kept waking up so we're exhausted." Alison said and only now, Delphine acknowledged the small bags under her eyes, ones that usually Alison always took good care at sleeping away.
"Apart from Cos dah. She slept through it all. That little.." Felix said and ended in a little muttering to himself and a smile, he loved that monkey.
"Hello, Felix right?" Delphine smiled to him and offered her hand politely. When they parted hands, she added. "Who's Cos? Is he with Sarah and her boyfriend?"
"Oh darling, Cos is very much a girl, Cosima. You'll meet her soon enough." Felix replied and winked at the end and his voice got suspiciously low as he looked at her all the way down and up, as if he found a great tasty fish in the sea.
Delphine missed his smirk as he thought about the joy of Cosima when she'd meet the French woman because she was far too busy saying the name in her head, trying to imagine who does it belong to.
"Cosima..." Delphine tried it on her tongue, such an interesting name; she thought and could not wait to meet its owner.
And so they went to Delphine's flat that was a few streets from where the other three were sleeping. Streets that were so magnificent that Cosima was walking on sunshine the second she got out of the taxi with Paul and Sarah.