„This is a really nice cafe, Josephine!" Pauline said as she looked around amazed. "But isn't this a little too expensive?" Josephine just smiled at her. "I've been working yesterday, so I have some money and of course I'll pay your bills too. I invited you so you don't have to protest." The waiter came and they both ordered a cup of tea.
The sky outside was getting dark. Big dark cloudes crossed the sky and soon raindrops fell down like waterfalls.
"You are new here, aren't you? I've never seen you before and you speak english with a little accent." Pauline drank a bit of her tea. "Yes I'm from Paris. Well, actually I'm from here, but when I was little my parents died and my new parents took me to Paris with them. But they just died and so I came back here to look for information about my family and to find a new one."
Josephine listened to her and nodded her head. "I'm really sorry about your parents' death and I hope you'll find some new informations about your real family here. Have you been at the adoption-central yet?" Pauline felt happy that she found someone who was really interested in her situation. She liked Josephine, she was a smart, nice and beautiful girl.
"Yeah, I just came from the central when you ran into me in front of the library. I talked to the man who's responsible for me and he gave me some information and he will try to find a new family for me, at least I hope so. He told me that I have an older brother here in this town. He is about 18 and he's going to the high school here." Josephine ordered some cookies for them and then turned back to Pauline.
She reminds me of someone, but of whom? The way she talks, she moves, she eats and drinks that seems so familar to me! Josephine thought and looked at Pauline closely. "And where do you live at the moment, in a hotel?" Pauline shook her head no. "No, I'm staying at the house of a really nice family. I meet them when I came here and they were very nice to me and took me in. Maybe you know them, their name is Bennett. The parents are Jack and Helen Bennett and they have four children." Josephine laughed sadly. "Yeah, I know them quiet well." Pauline was suprised. "Really? They have two adopted children and maybe that's the reason why they took me in with them." Josephine moved her spoon in her tea and her eyes got a dreamy but yet sad expression. "One of their adopted sons is my boyfriend. His name is JD."
Pauline's heart started beating fast. She was the girlfriend of his brother and she somehow felt happy that he had such a nice and beautiful girlfriend. She was fighting inside. Should she tell her about the news she just heard? She wanted to tell it someone so desperatly, but she was scared at the same time.
Josephine was sad, maybe angry at herself but angry at her friends. Why was Sarah so mean? she knew that Josephine was crazy about good grades and that she wanted to make a good project. Then she was suddenly thinking about JD and she felt sad. She wished he was here now to take her in his strong arms and kiss and love her. She wanted him to tell her that he loved her no matter how she was. That he didn't care about what other people say about her.
Wait a minute, JD? Josephine suddenly looked up directly at Pauline. Pauline was staring out the window into the rain deep in her own thoughts. Josephine's eyes wided in suprise as she compared the moves, the ways of talking and the looks.
This can't be true? But they are so similar! She thought and her mind was going crazy over that. She had to ask her.
"Pauline?" Pauline snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Josephine with her big brown eyes. "Do you know who your brother is?" Pauline sucked in the air hard and she started feeling extremly nervous. She closed her eyes. "Yes, I know who he is." She whispered and the silence seemed to push her down. Josephine was nervou too and she reached her hand over and took Pauline's. The two girls looked into each other's eyes. Josephine took a breath and whispered. "Your brother is JD!?"
Pauline's eyes got wide and this already showed Josephine that she was right. She squeezed the young girl's hand.
"You don't have to be afraid. I won't tell anybody if you don't want to." Tears formed into Pauline's eyes. "Thank you!" She said and Josephine got up and walked over to her and took her in her arms. Pauline let her tears fall and she thanked God that she met Josephine. Even if she was 5 years older than her she was so caring and concerned about her.
"Hey, here you are, Jo! We've been searching for you for over 2 houres now!" They heard a voice next to their table. Josephine turned around to look at them. Bunji, Momo, Eric, Sarah and JD were standing next to them. "Oh, hi Pauline. What are you doing here?" Pauline looked at Josephine and both girls laughed lightly. "I had a little accident with Josephine and so we went here and talked." Pauline said happily. She and Josephine had been talking for a long time and they liked each other very much. Josephine had also promised not to tell anybody about her secret. Pauline's heart was beating faster as she saw JD, her brother. He went up to Josephine and kissed her cheek lightly. She put her hands on his cheeks and moved his head so her lips touched his. She had missed him so much. As they parted she looked at the others. "So what do you want her?" She looked directly at Sarah. "We are here because Sarah wanted to apologize!" Momo said and shot Sarah and angry look.
Sarah walked up next to Josephine. "I'm sorry about the things I said to you. It was unfair and you were right that I didn't want to work today and I promise that I'll work more for our prject from now on!" Josephine smiled at her. "It's alright, Sarah, I was a little passionat too in this situation. So take a seat, guys! Let's celebrate the new member of our creek. Pauline!"