Bridgette smirked widely as she saw their next akuma villian and looked at Wukong, "How do you feel about an ice power up?"
….
Emma had a therapist in New York by the name of Dr. Chadwick Smitherman, she had always called him Dr. Chad. He had been a wonderful therapist and friend.
One of his most useful tricks he ever taught was the breathing trick. Whenever she got worked up he would look at her and say "remember your breathing", "concerate of your breathing", or "Emma, your breathing." Focusing on her breathing was always what she did now when she had a panic attack or when her anxiety acted up. It helped calm her down.
Which is why she was doing it now as she laced up her ice skates and glanced across at where Louis was with Sophie on the ice trying to skate.
"We can still leave," Iris offered as she stood fully laced up and looking down at her girlfriend, "we can go watch Star Wars."
"Nay," Emma replied and stood up as well.
She smiled teasingly at Iris, "I told you, you're not getting me to watch episode 7, 8, or 9 again."
The red head smiled back and bumped her shoulder, "Come on. They're not that back."
"You read some of the Star Wars EU books and we'll talk. Darth Caedus is way better than Kylo Ren," Emma replied back as they walked to the rink, "Besides if leave now Louis will think I'm guilty of something."
"Still did you know they were coming?" Iris honestly asked they stepped carefully onto the ice hand and hand.
Emma sighed and started skirting around, "No, Sophie didn't mention it at all when we texted and Louis has gone back to not talking to me again. He understands it was a mistletoe kiss but he doesn't like it still."
Iris hummed a response to that as looked at Emma twirled around her. She paused and looked pasted Emma and muttered, "I'll be back."
Emma nodded confused as her girlfriend skated off, and glanced over to her brother as Sophie left him on the ice.
Taking a deep breath she skated over to him.
….
Tsubasa Yoshino sat there sipping with hot chocolate next to him was Zacharie Couffaine eating some candy, and next to him was Nina Lahiffe sat with her cell phone pulled out looking like she was filming something.
Tsubasa raised his eyebrow as Iris walked over to them, "Hello, Bellamy."
Zacharie smiled brightly at her and offered her some candy, "Candy, Iris?"
Iris paid them both no mind and looked at Nina, "What are you doing? Are you meddling again? Are you stalking me and Emma?"
The future report made a face and said, "Not everything is about you and Emma. I'm actually doing a job for my mom."
With that Iris raised her eyebrow and followed Nina gaze to who she was filming.
Chloé and Kagami holding hands.
….
Sophie looked confused at her mother and Ms. Kagmai Tsurugi.
She muttered to Louis she would return and skated over to where Kagami and Chloé sat on a bench sipping hot chocolate together, hands locked.
"Mom?"
Chloé jumped away from Kagami and sputtered, "Sophie?! What are you doing here?! You hate ice skating."
She motioned behind her to where Louis was trying to stand on the ice, "Louis is learning to skate. I'm on a date. What about you?"
There was a pause and Sophie saw Kagmai lean over and give her mother's hand a reassuring squeeze.
"I'm actually on a date too," Chloé explained smiling at Kagami.
There was silence.
"Oh."
Then there was a scream.
Everyone turned to see an angry Louis punch Emma in the face.
….
Louis pushed Emma away as soon as he helped her up? "I didn't need your help."
That stung Emma a lot but she simply stepped away as Louis tried to stand, "You sure?"
"All I want from you is for you to stop stealing from me," the boy told his sister angrily.
"Huh?" The girl responded confused.
"Oh come on, Emma!" Louis responded shaking on his skates, "Trying to steal Sophie is just your latest attempt at taking away everything that's mine. You took my role as favorite of our grandparents, you stole my chance at having my own room, you stole Hugo's favorite sibiking role, you seemed to have taken all of my friends!"
Emma looked shocked at Louis's accusations. She felt the guilt and anxiety start welling her in chance and she got ready to apologize and explain away what Louis thinks was happening.
"But most of all you stole away my chance away to have a sister," Louis accused, "and I don't mean you."
That ended the guilt and anxiety immediately as Emma's green eyes narrowed, "What…"
"You heard me. You're the reason Emilie's not here," The angry boy explained as he balled up his fists and glared with his blue eyes at his sister, "You think I don't remember? I do. We all we crying after it happened. Grandmere and Grandpere were crying about Mom, Gabriel and Nathalie over Dad, Hugo was crying because he didn't understand were our parents were, and me? I was crying for all three." He paused and took a breathe, "But you? You were crying because you let Emilie die. You cried over and over that you were sorry. That you got Emilie killed. That you let go of here hand. You got my sister killed."
Emma was not an angry person. She felt guilt, anxiety, sadness, alot of things before anger. But Louis had made it happen anyway.
The girl shoved her finger at her brother and told him in a deadly calm voice, "You don't get to say that, I'm guilty enough about it, that my hands couldn't hold onto Emilie's arm. But you know what, Louis. You don't get to compare your grief to mine, not about Emilie. To our parents, sure. But not to Emilie. You may have lost your sister, both your sister in a way, but I lost my twin. I lost the person that I've always been with and haunts me everytime I look in a mirror."
Louis's and Emma's face both started turning red with rage.
"So, yeah. Louis maybe you should double your priorities," Emma finished still glaring at him, "Maybe that's why your girlfriend would rather spend her time with me."
Emma regretted the words as soon as they came out of her mouth. Even more so when Louis's fist connected with her mouth and blood filled her mouth.
Emma didn't fall over luckily which was good since Louis was already swinging his right arm again, acting on instinct the black cat hero caught it with her left arm. Then Louis swung his left arm but quick Emma caught it with her right arm then still acting on instincts the girl head butted her brother sending him to the ice.
"Shit," Emma muttered rubbed her forehead as she looked at Louis as he struggled to stand but as he did Kagami Tsurugi and Chloé Bourgeois were there to hold him in place immediately scolded him asking him what he was thinking.
"Emma!"
The Agreste girl was surprised as Iris, Sophie, and Zacharie were on the ice in seconds checking on here. She soon found Sophie fussing over her forehead checking for a bruise and Iris holding a napkin to her bleeding lip. Zacharies leaned over to pick up a cheese stick that flew out of her pocket to the ice as he made a face at her.
Emma saw that Tsubasa and Nina were beside Chloé and Kagmai checking on Louis and trying to calm him down.
Too much was happening. Too much.
That's when the ice cracked and the theme to Yuri on Ice started playing loudly.
Never before had Emma been so glad for an akuma attack.
Author's Note
chapter 40! Only...60 more to go...
If you care I have a tumblr, alextsukinowriting, that has my memes but also some picrews with that OCs rough designs. I'm about to go back and add a joke extra called Tikki Facts at the end of each "episode". I think it will be fun and I need to add a little more Tikki and Plagg in honestly.
Just added covered act, that suppose to be Emma on the cover.
Anyway Next chapter- Wukong is causing trouble, Mayuri is here to chew the scenery, and Chloe and Sophie talk.
Thanks for reading and please review.
