They sat at large table in a corner of the hotel restaurant, sharing a delicious breakfast. The kids were telling Bianca and Marissa about everything they had missed at Disneyland. Marissa and Bianca sat, amused by their children's tales of adventures in a giant treehouse… and how Reggie and Will went on the Indiana Jones ride but no one else dared… and how Francois treated then to meal inside the Pirates of the Caribbean Ride and how they could watch all the boats go past as they ate.

"It sounds like you have had a fabulous adventure." said Bianca, "The question is where do we start today if we are going to show Marissa and AJ the sights of Paris? The Eiffel Tower? The Louvre?"

"The place with the 'moaning Liza'." said Gabby, with a grin, half her face cover in chocolate from her pain au chocolat.

"The Louvre it is then." said Bianca. "And Gabby it's the 'Mona Lisa'. She isn't moaning, she is smiling."

"Sound good to me." said Marissa. "We just have to wait for our other guests to arrive."

"Other guests?" asked AJ.

Bianca gave a nervous cough.

"I have invited some old friends… Maggie; she knew you when you were a baby, Miranda. She is also the doctor who looked after me so well at the hospital. And yesterday we bumped into Mamma Reese. She was telling me how much she missed you so I thought it would be nice if she could spend the day with us."

"Momma Reese?" Miranda looked nervous about the idea, but Gabby looked very excited at the prospect of seeing her long lost momma.

…

Maggie was the first to arrive. She strode confidently towards their table and then halted in her tracks a few feet away.

"Reggie! That is never you!"

Reggie turned and found a grin for his old friend.

"I think you'll find it is." He said getting up from his chair to welcome her with a hug. "You look good."

"And look at you." said Maggie testing his biceps. "I take it your basketball dream didn't work out?"

"Too short." said Reggie. "I was in the army until last year."

Reggie then went on to introduce Camilla and Ayesha.

"You're a father now?" she asked with a smile.

"More than that." said AJ proudly, not at all nervous in the presence of new face. "He's going to be our Mr Nanny."

Marissa pulled her son into a hug,

"The handsome young man under this mop of hair is my son AJ."

"AJ." said Maggie giving the boy a nod of greeting and then her eyes froze at the eldest of the two little girls sitting beside Bianca. "And you must be Miranda." she said slowly. "I… when I saw you last you were only this big." She held her hands about a meter apart.

"And me… what about me!" protested Gabby.

"You must be Gabby. You mommy has written and told me all about you." said Maggie.

Gabby looked very happy that she wasn't forgotten.

Suddenly there was a discrete cough from behind Maggie's shoulder.

Gabby's eyes suddenly got wide with excitement.

"Momma Reese!" she cried, leaping from her chair and running to her for a hug. Reese scooped her up in her arms and kissed her lovingly.

"Look at you. You are so big!" Reese exclaimed as she struggled to stand with Gabby still in her arms.

Miranda was still fixed to her seat, looking from Bianca and Marissa to Reese.

Bianca patted her on the back.

"It's okay Angel." she said. "Go and say hello to you Momma Reese."

Miranda slid off her chair and walked forward to give Reese a brief hug.

"You are getting big too." said Reese, as she put down Gabby to hug Miranda. "You're almost all grown up!"

"Not really." said Miranda, not sure how to behave around the woman who had been her mother, but who then went on to make her mommy cry.

"I think so." said Reese, kissing Miranda's cheek.

"Well, now we are all here." said Bianca, keen to get started. "Are you all ready for the Louvre?"

"Yeah," cried Reggie, "'cause I really want to see this 'Moaning Liza'!"

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