Emma was upset the next morning. The pain was gone, but she still felt hurt by Ben. They had left by the time she got up. "When will they be back?"
"When they decide paleontology is boring." Rachel teased.
Emma sat in the house doing nothing until they came home. To mad to speak with him, Emma ate her dinner without a word coming out of her mouth.
We used to be so close. She thought to herself. She watched as the grown-ups laughed and talked away. Eryn sat at the other end of the table speechless as well. She was never fond of Ben since he did have a drinking problem in the past, and had gone through the same thing Emma was going through.
The next day Emma again said nothing to Ben. She hoped they would spend time together, but he "had to work." Libby said. It was always something. It was getting close to Christmas, and Emma was more upset being in London then she was being in New York.
"Hi is Alexa there please? Thank you." Emma had called Alexa later that night.
"Emma! Miss you so much come home! Drinking isn't the same without you here. Cameron sure misses you."
"Thanks… I want to come home to. This whole London thing was a stupid idea and I wish I never came." Emma vented.
"Why?" Alexa asked.
"Because I haven't even spent one minute with Ben by myself." Emma explained.
"Well… I'll be sure to give you a warm welcome when you do come home." Alexa reassured.
"Thanks… I got to go though." Emma said.
"Ok… Cameron said on Christmas he'll be able to welcome you properly." Alexa hung up the phone saying no more. Emma knew exactly what Alexa meant and happily fell asleep.
When the day did come for Emma to leave, she was happier then when she first arrived. "Bye…" Emma mumbled from the car. On the plane Eryn got the window seat. Emma watched the t.v the whole way back to New York.
"Home at last!" Emma fell onto the couch.
"You were desperate just to get to London and then you couldn't wait to leave." Eryn said.
"I know…" Emma answered. She lay on the couch for a few minutes until she had to put her bags away. In her room, she picked up the phone and dialed Cameron's number.
"Hey lover I'm home!" She said as Cameron's voice came on the phone.
"Finally! It's been so long. I'm heading over there now. Buzz we into the building at meet me in the game room." He said.
"Ok… bye." Emma waited in the living room for the door to buzz. When it did she jumped up and pressed the button. "Coming." She said.
"I'm going out with Cameron!" Emma closed the door shut and raced down to the elevator. It opened up into the game room where Cameron sat with a bottle and a plastic bag.
Emma sat on his lap and gave him a kiss. "Hey!" She said.
Cameron kissed her back and she grabbed the bottle of beer. She took a huge sip. Cameron opened the bag, and Emma's heart raced.
As she felt it pump through her system, she had no distinction of colors or distances. As she pushed Cameron down onto he table, she knocked the bottle on the ground and it shattered to a hundred pieces.
She felt his hands moving up her back, and she felt hers undoing her shirt. A warm welcome indeed, but something shortly interrupted.
"Did you hear that?" Cameron asked. They looked over to where Eryn, Erica and Sophia sat last time. It was empty, but someone was coming.
"Oh shit let's go!" Emma said. She jumped off the table grabbing her shirt. Cameron grabbed the bag and they ran into the closet. They squished in there trying not to move. Emma's shirt still in her hand.
"I don't think anyone is down here. But they may have just left Paul. Those damn teenagers again." They heard two men cleaning up the bottle.
When they thought it was all clear, they left the closet. "Two close calls. We're good." Emma laughed as she kissed Cameron one last time.
"I probably have to go." Cameron sighed. He kissed Emma and they both walked up to the lobby. They said good-bye and Emma headed back up to her place.
"Emma! The janitor said there was beer in the game room! Was that you?" Rachel yelled.
"I told you no! Come on mom give me a break!" Emma yelled back.
"Don't you walk away from me! I'm not finished!" Rachel grabbed her arm but Emma pulled it away.
"Well I'm done with you! I don't need you stressing on me!" Emma locked herself in the bathroom. She pulled out her piece of glass. As the blood rushed out of her wrist she cried until she fell asleep on the bathroom floor.