So, it's that awkward moment when you have almost the ENTIRE STORY finished but you don't back it up, and then your computer gets a virus and wipes out all your documents -.-
It's not going to be easy, and updates probably won't be as frequent as I would like them to be but I'm going to try as hard as I can to write!
Here's the next chapter everybody!
We wandered around for a bit until I saw the back of my mom's curly hair. I ran towards her.
"Mom!" She turned around and smiled at me.
"Find anything interesting in the exhibits?" She asked me turning to check something written underneath a really old looking book.
"Not really in the exhibit itself, more around the exhibit area…I made my first British friend!" I exclaimed happy and my mom smiled. Me making a new friend so quickly was a rarity.
"That's great, now you'll have someone to hang out with hopefully for the next few weeks," She replied "Of course, when we're not spending time together. What's her name? Where is she?"
"Her names Suzy, and she's, Umm…" I looked around before spotting Suzy and her family staring at one of the Egyptian artifact walls "She's right over there. Her parents invited us out for breakfast too,"
"I don't know about that, Mel. Let me meet them first."
We walked toward the Lewis family and I saw my mom try to relax.
"Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, This is my mom, Nina Martin," I smiled expecting the normal type of meeting between adults.
That's not really what I saw.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis stiffened and turned around slowly, their faces in an obvious state of shock. My mom looked like she was about to run away, and not come back.
"A-Alfie? Amber?" My mom questioned. Funny, I don't remember ever hearing or mentioning Mr. and Mrs. Lewis' first name.
"Nina?" Mr. Lewis took a step forward, but Mrs. Lewis was still in shock. I looked over at Suzy and gave her a questioning look, but she looked just as confused as I was.
Suddenly Mrs. Lewis jumped at my mom and threw her arms around her shrieking, "NINA MARTIN, WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?"
"Mom? What's going on?" I spoke up as I noticed people were starting to stare.
"Yea, Mum, Dad, what the hell is going on?" Suzy sounded annoyed as she came up behind me.
"Susan Nina Lewis, Watch that tongue!" Mrs. Lewis stopped suffocating my mother and turned on her eldest child.
"Says he woman who just used the same word," Suzy scoffed rolling her eyes.
"I can put that bank account of yours on hold missy," Mr. Lewis threatened and Suzy fell on her knees in a rush.
"I'm sorry Mummy and Daddy I will never use that kind of language ever EVER again! I love you," She batted her eyelashes at them. She had been talking so fast I had barely heard a word she had said with the British accent of hers.
"Mom, I'm still kind of waiting here. Do you three know each other?" I stared at all the adults, waiting for an explanation.
"Know each other? Sweetheart, your mother and I are Best Friends! In fact, why don't you just call me Auntie Amber!" Mrs. Lewis was smiling and squealing like a teenage girl. My mother was ghost white and looked extremely uncomfortable.
"Amber, maybe we should rewind and tell them a little bit first," My mom said.
"Great Idea Neens, we were actually just about to head out for breakfast, would you like to join us?" 'Auntie Amber' asked my mom, who while still looking uncomfortable sighed and nodded.
"Sure Amber sounds great. I just have to check out. I'm helping run the exhibition going on for the next three weeks, and today I had to come in to meet the owner. Could you just keep an eye on Melanie for a second?" She asked and Mrs. Lewis nodded. I turned to Suzy and Charlie.
"How strange is it that I ran into you two? The odds of something like this little reunion are one in a million," I said shocked. I reached for a hair tie on my wrist and pulled my black wavy hair into a high ponytail.
"I know right? It must be fate!" Suzy squealed and clapped her hands. I rolled my eyes and laughed. Charlie walked over to his dad, who was heading toward the front doors.
"Has your mom ever mentioned my mom? Or anything about, say, High school?" I questioned Suzy curiously. She shook her head.
"Nothing I can remember, the only thing we ever hear about high school is it was how Mum and Dad met…" She trailed off "I've never heard of a Martin, or anything about her other friends from school really. Well actually that's a lie too…"
"What's a lie?" I walked toward the closed exhibit doors where my mom would be moving shipments in and out of the next few days.
"My mum and dad have kept in touch with a lot of their old friends. Actually, all of them. If what my mum said was true, and your mum was her best friend, then I wonder why they didn't keep in touch."
Once Suzy explained this to me, I found it to be completely strange. I knew my mom hid things from me. No doubt about that. She told me almost nothing from her past, but something like this?
"Anyways, we should get going, look there's your mum and my mum at the front door," Suzy linked her arm through mine and dragged me out of the museum.
After walking about 20 minutes ( Mrs. Lewis insisted that we walked being that the day was lovely and it'd be more open for chatting) we arrived at a Bakery-Café called 'C'est Unne Bonne'.
"That's French, right?" I asked openly staring at the sign in the store window "For 'It's Good?"
"Oui Oui," My mother replied, "I see you've been studying,"
"Well, if I want to pass at least one of my classes…" My mother stared crossly at me before lightening her facial expression and smiling. She knew I was doing fine in my classes. I was just glad to see her smile; she had been mentally freaking out the whole walk over while talking with "Auntie Amber"
"So Neens, where should we start?" Mrs. Lewis asked once we had been seated at a table outside. My mother looked slightly uncomfortable and I couldn't blame her. I would be nervous about telling my daughter a secret of everything I had been keeping from her for 13 years. I crossed my arms over my chest, waiting patiently.
My mother closed her eyes and inhaled "How about, just me coming to the school?"
"Ok great!" Mrs. Lewis countered "So, back in our tenth year, we were all boarded in the Anubis house at that boarding school you're going to be attending this fall, Suzy,"
"Oh I am SO excited! All of my friends are going there; it's going to be a blast!" Suzy exclaimed happily, I rolled my eyes and smiled. She would get over-excited about boarding school.
"Yes, so anyways, Nina here was a new student and it was actually really strange because your Aunt Patricia dared her to go to the attic and then this weird old lady showed up and Fa-OUCH!" A kick was heard under the table and I knew my mom had sent it. She looked at Mrs. Lewis sending a warning message and Mrs. Lewis closed her eyes and nodded in pain, "So we all became friends, The End!"
"So then, why did my mom move back to America without keeping in contact with any of her 'friends'?" I was still curious, and I still wanted answers. What if my dad was one of these 'friends' from her boarding school?
"Oh, look, Food's here!" My mom smiled and avoided the question. I glared at her, and she knew that I was going to ask about it later.
"Well anyways Neens, it's great that you're here! We should get everybody together!" Mrs. Lewis exclaimed and Mr. Lewis started shaking his head.
"Everybody?" My mom turned pale again but Mr. Lewis attempted to save the day…for my mom at least.
"Sweetheart, maybe that's not such a good idea, I mean Nina and Melanie are probably going to be very busy on their vacat-," Mrs. Lewis cut him off.
"Oh nonsense! Nina, this Saturday is going to be Suzy's 14th birthday party, and she probably doesn't want us there anyway, so a bunch of us were going to go out to eat. Melanie can come to the party for Suzy and you can come out to dinner with us!"
"Oh mum your right! Come on Mel, it'll be so much fun! You can meet all my friends! Oh and we HAVE to go shopping to get out a nice outfit!" Suzy was practically bouncing out of her seat with excitement.
"Sure, sounds fun," I smiled at her and then looked at my mom "Please Mom?"
"Yea, Please Neens? Everybody's going to be there! Jerome and Mara, Patricia and Eddie, Mick and Joy just got engaged last week so we'll be congratulating them! I invited Fa- I mean 'You know who' but they always decline. I haven't seen him in ages, Neens." I wasn't sure which name it was that set my mother off, but I'm pretty sure it was either Mick or Joy and whoever 'You know who' was, was also sending out a red light.
"Sure…Amber…Sounds Great," My mother sounded distant and pushed her plate back "You know, I'm not really hungry anymore, and Mel we should get going. Places to be, people to see," She stood up.
"Aw come on mom," I pushed back my plate too and looked over at Suzy.
"Melanie Elizabeth Sarah, NOW" I scurried after my mother and turned around.
"It was great meeting you all!" I smiled and even my mom, out of respect, turned around and waved smiling. They all waved back.
"I put my number in your phone Mel! Text Me!" I heard Suzy cry and I nodded turning back around.
Before completely turning on the street corner, I heard Suzy shriek, "Ew Charlie! Who puts chocolate syrup on their eggs?"
"What it tastes better this way!"
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my mom crack a smile.
So when I originally wrote this chapter *Starts crying* (I seriously can't believe the whole story got erased…
But anyways when this chapter was originally written it was very different! Not as good, not as long, so I really hope you enjoyed it!
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Oh and one more thing, I'm completely obsessed with this website called Polyvore, if you haven't heard of it, it's a website where you can put together outfits, so I'm going to be using it for this story, I'm probably not going to do EVERY outfit I describe in this story (Unless you guys want me too) but I'll be putting links up on my profile (You can see a few sneak previews on some upcoming characters and upcoming outfits (: So if you want, check me out on polyvore, my username is guitarchick27
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