YOU'RE THE RICHEST WOMAN ON THE PLANET

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"Hey...little one...I can't...breathe" Emily said as Maggie gave her a bear hug. What a bear hug it was, Emily was left gasping for air. Maggie had pushed her neck back to look at the woman she was holding for dear life dead in the face and smile. Then she put her head against her chest and loosened her grip. She missed being called little one, by Emily. Though she would never tell her that though. The two just stood there, Maggie still holding on to her 'sister' tight, but not so tight that she couldn't breathe.

"Em...I...what are you doing here? I was just...."

Thinking of me? Yeah I figured....you haven't called in a long time, I was thinking about you too. So I thought that if you weren't going to call I would just come and see you. After all it has been what...almost five years! Well that we have seen each other. So what happened?" Emily asked as she pulled away to look at Maggie in the eyes, just to see that she was crying.

"Nothing..." Maggie tried to convince her old friend that there was nothing wrong when she knew that there were about ten things wrong.

"Hey, I didn't come here for you to lie to me. You got into a fight with your boyfriend, and with Bianca."

"..." Maggie was looking at her in bewilderment. 'How does she know that?' Maggie thought as she went to say something but was stopped by a finger in front of her moth.

"I heard you. You were talking to yourself about it. Don't worry Maggie I am not able to read minds. I can understand English though." Emily said that with a large smirk on her face.

Maggie was looking to the floor boards of the boat house. She couldn't get herself to look up at her friend. She always seemed to drag her into her dramas. She swore that when she saw her again she wouldn't do that to her friend, not again.

"Maggie, hey...you are aloud to tell me what is happening in your life. Hell I live for the dramas of your life, it is like my own little soap opera that I seem to be hooked to. Come on look at me...am I that ugly that you cant stand the sight of me?" Emily said as she took her finger to try and pick up her friends head to look at her.

"Yeah that's it you're too ugly..." Maggie said as she tried to look at her friend with a straight face but couldn't.

"Oh..." Emily and gave her a look of sadness and frustration. The sadness was from her, she knew that but where did the frustration come from.

"it had nothing to do with the fact that I always seem to be in trouble when you come to help. You always seem to get caught up in my dramas." Maggie went to finish what she wanted to say as she looked up at her friend's eyes one last time. She saw a smile come up on her face and the sadness turn to amusement, but the frustration was still there. More then evident in those big blue beautiful eyes of hers.

"So why are you really here? You had no idea that I was still here. So why?" Maggie said as she wanted to try and change the subject from her to her friend's problems, or businesses.

"Well, yes I had no idea you were here until I was called about a meeting for the Miranda Montgomery Center. I am a generous donor, as my father calls it. I...I saw Bian..."

"Great! So you are coming to be on my case too! If that is true then why don't you just walk away. I am not going to be...." Maggie said trying to say it all with one breath. She knew once she took a sip of air there was going to be another voice spreading through the air. She was right.

"Maggie! Hey, breathe...it is called oxygen. You need it to live." Emily said as she smiled demonstrating how to breathe for Maggie. "Look, I didn't come all this way and stay here if I didn't think that it would be worth the time." Maggie was just looking at her friend, tears getting themselves to fall. "C'mere, God mags you and I really have to get back into sync. You think that I wouldn't find out?"

"Why would you want to?" Maggie said as she started to cry into her friend's chest. "I mean....c'mon I...I'm not worth...the time...you..." Maggie was cut off by the chest she was leaning on pushing away.

"Maggie my God, you still think like this! I thought that you would have realized that there are so many things that are....there is never going to be anything about you that is not worth the time to hear, see, or talk about. You are worth the time, and if you still don't see that then may be you are right. I can't get you to believe you are worth the time only you can. And I'll stay as long as I have to, till you see that!!" Emily tried her hardest not to yell it at her friend. She hated it when her friend would think about herself like that. Then when Maggie started to laugh at her words she got pissed.

"What are you laughing at! I am not joking Maggie, everything I am..." She was cut off by Maggie's words.

"You...we.... (laugh) ....we had this same kind week that I left....(laugh)" Maggie said as she could not stop her laughing. As fast as they started, they stopped and were replaced by tears. "I can't do it Em....I can't do it!" Maggie went to fall on her knees her face held in her hands, but she was stopped by Emily holding her and slowly bringing her to the floor. Maggie didn't move her hands, she just leaned up against Emily's chest and faced the trees. Emily had tears threatening to fall as well, but she held them back. Emily and Maggie spent an hour just as they were. Not saying a word to each other. Emily just let Maggie cry and she did what she could to try and help her feel better. But she in fact just let her fried cry, she needed to obviously. Then Maggie seemed to pass out. She had cried herself into a deep sleep. So Emily picked her friend up and brought her to what she knew to be Maggie's apartment, and leaving her a note.

The truth was she had, had a PI find Maggie for her. So she knew where she lived, what classes she took and how her boyfriend was. She had done a scan on him. He had been in about three relationships that had gotten him put up on charges for abuse. When Emily heard that from her PI she took into account what she could do. Then when she got the letter for the M.M.C. (Miranda Montgomery Center) meeting she took it as her chance to make sure that she got her friend out of that relationship, and fast.