After the last chapter being really short, this one's really long! :) Anyway, how will Emma react?

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Chapter Nine: Parisian Mornings

Emma's POV

It was around nine in the morning, and I was sitting in a small, but fancy French café with Mum, Dad & Elliot.

I soaked up the smells of brewing coffee, fresh pastry and perfume, as I looked around the café.

We were currently staying in Paris, having just finished exploring the French country-sides. In our trip so far, we had visited the most of Europe along with the Pacific Islands. I had been having such a good time travelling, but I missed my friends and boyfriend back home.

For breakfast I had ordered a cappuccino and blueberry croissant, staying in my comfort zones of what foods I knew, after trying escargot -or snails- last night and going to bed hungry. They were awful! Sure they were dressed up with a few other flavours, but it was still a snail!

Anyway, we were discussing our plans for the day, when my phone started ringing, which I'm surprised that I heard, considering it was under the table, in my bag.

I reached under the table, grabbed my small cream coloured handbag and hurried trying to reach my phone, before it stopped ringing after the usual ridiculously small amount of time.

"Cleo" I said softly but slightly puzzled as I saw the caller ID, and picture of one of my best friends. "I've gotta take this but I'll be right back" I told my family as I got up from my seat at the four-seater table and put my phone to my ear.

"Hello?" I said as I walked out of the door of the café and stood out the front.

"Emma?" Cleo said, and I noticed something was different about her voice. She didn't sound like her normal self, a little bubble of happiness.

I was about to ask her whether she was okay when she said "Emma, it's Rikki."

I replied quickly with "Is she okay?" as my mind went into overdrive thinking about what could be wrong with my other best friend, when my thoughts were interrupted by Cleo. "She's been in a bad accident."

My stomach dropped.

As well as my legs.

"What happened? Is she going to be okay?" I asked Cleo, as my eyes started tearing up. I felt so guilty that I wasn't with my friends when they needed me, and I needed them.

I heard Cleo take a deep breath through the phone, before she said "She was hit by a car yesterday afternoon."

Wet tears started falling down my now pale cheeks & I wiped them off before I sniffled and Cleo asked me from the other side of the world "Are you okay Em?"

I ignored her question and asked her instead "Will Rikki be okay?" There was a long silence and I regretted asking the question, before Cleo softly said, "We don't know yet."

I felt like I was going to be sick.

Cleo continued with exactly what the doctor told her. "She has a severely broken arm & wrist, a broken ankle & leg, numerous deep cuts & wounds and broken ribs."

As she finished listing the conditions of one of my best friends, I wished I hadn't heard it in the first place.

"I'm coming home" I said matter-of-factly. I didn't care what my parents or Cleo said, my mind was made up.

"You probably don't need to do that. She might be okay." Cleo argued in Cleo's gentle way. "No Cleo, nothing you say is going to stop me. I'm catching the next flight out to Australia." Then so that Cleo couldn't argue back, I ended the call & began texting her.

"When I have details bout flight I'll call u" it read.

I sent it, and took a moment to get a hold of myself, before I entered the café again.

When I walked back into the café, I made my way to the bathroom.

As I entered the tiled room, I noticed that the room had a cold feel to it.

I looked at myself in the mirror. I had red puffy red eyes, damp cheeks, a shattered expression and I had no makeup on me. I looked shocking.

Because there was nothing else I could do about my current appearance, I decided to make my way back into the main room of the café.

Mum & Dad were drinking a coffee & Elliot was eating a fancy-looking chocolate croissant. At the table was a spare seat, a spare steaming cup of coffee and a spare blueberry croissant, all of which had my name on it.

I zigzagged between tables, till I reached my destination. "Em, what's wrong?" My mum asked when she saw me when I arrived at the table. "Cleo just called. Rikki was hit by a car & she's in a bad way" I said and fresh tears dripped down my cheeks. My mother instantly got up & put her arms around me as she said "Oh my!"

Dad then got up too and he began patting my head & Elliot came over and put his little noodle arms around mum & I. The three of them comforted me, while I cried and wished I was back in Australia.

Once I got it together, we got the food to go & left the café.

The first things I did when we arrived at our hotel room, was find my laptop and pull up an internet session to book the next flight.

The hotel internet was ridiculously slow, so I began packing my bag and gathering my things up. After 20 minutes I finally managed to book a flight for 10:40 this morning. That means I have to leave now and hope for good traffic!

I rushed my family out the door as we frantically tried to catch a taxi. When we found a taxi, we started offering the taxi driver extra money to go extra fast. The poor driver probably thought we were on the Amazing Race with the luggage, rushing and accent!

Anyway the entire drive I thought about Rikki and how the one time I might be late in my life, is the worst possible time to be late. I hadn't even thought about the fact that I would be leaving my family for who knows how long.

At the airport it was all a big rush and blur. I said goodbye to my parents & Elliot, before I made my way to the plane.

When I found my seat I discovered it was an aisle seat, great! No not really, I hate aisle seats. You get hit by people going by and squashed by people going out. I was mentally grumbling about the aisle seat as I was texting, Cleo telling her I was on the plane, when a very familiar face walked by and made me look up and gasp when the voice said "Emma! Long time no see!"

Oooooooh! Who is it? Any guesses?

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