It was ten o'clock in the morning when the bell rang and I came to answer the door. Caleb was still sleeping after our not very commemorative dinner.
"Hello, French girl!", Spencer said smiling and giving me a long hug. She was holding a big glass bowl capped with a white cloth.
"Hey, girls! What a nice surprise to have you here!"
"What? Did you really think that in two months we would forget you so soon? Ha, you won't get rid of us so fast, Hanna", Aria joked, coming behind Emily and Spencer to give me another hug.
"Come inside, come inside!", I exclaimed, gesturing. "I missed you guys a lot!"
"We missed you too, Han", Emily said coming to hug me too, after passing through the doorway.
"And, as a 'welcome' gift, we brought you this", Spencer said, taking the cloth. "We made those croissants, so you can remember the time you stayed in Paris."
"We did all the flavors that you like: white and black chocolate, strawberry, lemon…", Emily completed smiling.
"Wow, thank you girls! There was no need to do it!", I thanked, taking the bowl from Spencer's hands.
"You're special for us, Han. We wanted to make you a surprise", Aria said, sitting on the couch. "So, tell us, how is Paris? Beautiful, marvelous, fantastic?"
"It's amazing guys, really. I think I'll never see something like that in my life. It's just… magnificent."
"And what about Caleb, what did he think of it?", Emily asked, sat next to Spencer.
"He was fascinated too. But he wasn't much interested in the city, if you understand what I mean…", I said smiling and blinking. "Wait a minute girls, I'll put those croissants in the kitchen and come back to talk."
I put the glass bowl on the kitchen's black stand and came back to the living room, join the girls. I sat in an armchair next to the Aria's side of the couch and held a red pillow. We talked about my trip, about husbands, the wife life, kids and other stuffs for three hours. Caleb came to join us in the middle of the conversation, after he woke up. We were about to offer to the girls a snack when Emily's phone rang. She answered it and immediately her face turned into a horror face. Everybody got up from the couch and waited for her to tell us what was happening. When she turned the cell phone off, she stood up too with a worried face.
"Hanna, I really wanted to stay to lunch with you guys but my mom have just entered in the hospital with a heart attack. I have to see her.", she told us, shaking her body.
"Em, do you want a glass of water? You're really pale.", Caleb suggested.
"No, no, I have to go right now!", she exclaimed.
"So I'm going with you.", Aria said, holding her hand.
"No, there's no need, Aria…", Emily tried to say, gesturing hard.
"You're not going alone anywhere in this state. We definitely are going with you.", Spencer completed.
"There's no…"
"We ARE going, Emily!", Aria yelled, grabbing her arm and dragging her to the door.
I ran to the door to open it and they got of my house. Aria gestured to us to come into her house and I started to go down the stairs from the balcony when I felt someone pushing my arm. I looked back and Caleb was holding me.
"We are not going, Han. You need to rest from… yesterday.", he said.
"Caleb, I'm ok now. And we don't even know if I'm really…"
"Aren't you going?", Spencer asked from the car.
"No, we can't go. Hanna is… a little sick.", Caleb answered.
"Ok, we will keep you two informed", Aria yelled.
We nod our heads and looked while they gone to the hospital.
Emily's mom passed two weeks in the hospital, doing exams and being monitored. After that, the doctor discovered that he had a very rare heart disease and she needed to do a transplant. Emily was desperate but, in the end, everything gone well and her mother got a new heart. She still had to do some treatments and took some medicine for some months.
Two months after that incident with Emily's mom, Caleb and I gone to a doctor. My period didn't come since the trip to Paris and we wanted to know if Caleb's "theory" was right. Dr. Breeland was very nice to us. He asked me to do some exams and blood tests and in two weeks he told us his "diagnosis". In the next weekend, Caleb and I invited all of our friends to a party, saying that we had to commemorate Emily's mom health. In the middle, of the party, Caleb called everybody in the backyard, where was happening the party, and told them he had to make an announcement.
"I want to thank all of you guys for being here today. It is very important to us. All of you have been part of our lives since our teenage years. We all gone through tough times, but fortunately we managed to overcome them and, fortunately, nowadays we are still together. Today we are celebrating our friendship and the health of Mrs. Fields. And this week we find another reason for this celebration.", Caleb said under the attention of our friends.
He looked at me and smiled. I walked through the people and give him a kiss. Then I stopped in front of everybody and started to smile.
"The reason is…", I started to say. "I'm pregnant."