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Sister Bonding

Emma was sitting in her bedroom on the window sill. Today was a beautiful, but also an exhausting day for Emma. All her friends, relatives and her family had been celebrating her 14th birthday. She had gotten a lot of birthday presents. Among them were some shopping vouchers for her favorite shops, new CDs from her sister Sophie and a new MacBook Air school from her mom because Emma's old notebook didn't work anymore.

And yet it seemed to her as if her parents had behaved differently today. Both of them had disappeared several times in the afternoon. Was something going on again?

She would be thrilled about it if her parents reunited. After all, they had been divorced for 12 years now.

Emma sighed as she stroked the soft fur of her cat Luna. "Oh, Luna you know sometimes I wonder what is going on with my mom lately. The last few weeks she has been acting so odd, and I don't understand why.
Do you think should I ask her what's going on or not? " Emma asked her cat while she looked at her owner with big eyes attentively.

Maybe a little distraction would help her to forget the mess in her head. So Emma decided to get one of her old photo albums from the bookshelf.

After she had taken one of the albums, she retook a seat on the window ledge and began to flick through the collection, but it didn't help Emma to settle down. So she put the photo album on the shelf again and went back to the windowsill.

"Can I come in?", she heard the voice of her elder sister. "Sure come in Soph..", Emma said as her 18-year-old sister entered the room. "Hey, little munchkin everything ok with you?" Sophie said, closing the door behind her and sat down on her sister's bed.

"I don't know Sophie; I'm just a little irritated about mom and dad. They kept disappearing this afternoon. Do you think something's going on with them, could they be reuniting?" Emma shrugged her shoulders, looking questioningly at her older sister.

"I don't think so Em. How about a long movie night? We can have a large pizza delivered and watch our favorite movies on Netflix." Sophie proposed.

"Well, I only say. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. I know the movie is 29 years old now, and I have watched it a million time but please Soph… it's a classic! Please, please, please I promise to not recite every line under my breath like last time." Emma smirked, and Sophie began to laugh.

"What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?", Sophie continued grinning with the quoting.
"A good start. My dear sister. So it's Forrest Gump and Philadelphia. I'm really in the mood for movies with Tom Hanks, but we need one or two romantic films.

How about Sleepless in Seattle and You've got Mail then it would be a perfect evening and not to forget all the sweets like Twix, gummy bears, and troppy fruits." suggest Emma with a satisfied smile on her lips and tucked a strand of blond hair behind her ear.

"That's kinda cool oh, and by the way, today I got my confirmations via mail from Princeton, Yale, and Stanford.

But please don't tell mom and dad. I'd like to surprise them after my graduation. I'm so glad that it's finally over. The last years had gone so fast." Sophie told her younger sister and grinned from one ear to another.

"What?", asked Emma and looked at her puzzled.

"This fall I'm going to attend one of the best colleges in America. The only thing that makes me sad is that I will not see you as often Emma, " she repeated one more time. "Oh, my gosh sweetie. That's great. I'm so proud of you.

It was always your dream to go to Dad's homeland and especially to one of the highest colleges in America.", Emma chattered, got up from the window sill and bounced up and down like a rubber ball.

"Whoa, missy keep calm. Come on let's go to the living room and please don't say a word to our parents ok?" Sophie begged her younger sister.

"Ok, I promise and I can't imagine that you're going to America. I'm so jealous." Emma answered her with a wide grin. "Me either, but you can visit me at Yale or come to New Haven during the holidays, besides I can always come home. Let's watch our movies. I suppose I have already decided that I'm going to choose Yale, but it is nice to keep my options open.

Afterwards, I would like to go to Harvard Medical School as dad did years ago." Sophie considered with a thoughtful expression on her face. "Dad would be thrilled about it Soph," responded Emma and hugged her elder sister briefly. Sophie had a soft smile on her lips and was so glad that she had Emma in her life. Sure there was a lot of arguing but at the end they were siblings, and she couldn't imagine a better sister than Emma.

"Yes, and don't forget that I'm very proud of you too. I love you Emma and now let's go before the night is over!" winked the dark-haired girl. "You're right, and I love you too Sophie," Em nodded and was heading into the living room with her elder sister.