Chapter 61 - AMELIA IV

Amelia snapped up her head from her bent posture as she heard what Emma said. Although she would love it more than anything if her sister came back, she didn't consider it wise. She actually thought it selfish of her, to let Emma leave her studies and come down to Florida, just for her sake. They weren't in highschool no longer, and she can fight her own battles herself now. Besides, she know she would move on. There were still many years up ahead for that.

"Emma, you are not coming back now. You're going stay there and finish your semester." She finally said with a tone of finality too.

"Says who? I can cook up a story for Dad, if that's what you're worried about." Emma said, already calculating how much would be required for her expenses. She mused as she remembered that she didn't have her credit card with her. Well she can ask Derek or Clem or Melvina even. She knew they would help.

"It won't be necessary, because you're not coming here now." Amelia deadpanned, cleaning off her tears with the edge of her pyjamas, her eyes shinning with determination which Emma saw and shook with suprise.

"You don't want me to come? I thought you missed me?" Emma said, switching down to a lower octave, trying to gear Amelia to change her mind.

Amelia chuckled as she beheld the look on her sister's face. She knew what Emma was trying to do. Well it wouldn't work this time.

"I miss you alot, and you know that. But you're not coming for that. You're coming to deal with your friend." She said.

"She's not my friend." Emma decreed vehemently, disgusted by the mere thinking of June. She couldn't believe that she had fallen for the stupid girl's trap of innocence.

"Well, she was. And I know you're coming for her. Remember that what you did last time landed you in England. I don't want you to land in Africa this time around." Amelia said, a smile sneaking across her lips. She felt free, as she thought she would feel when she called Emma. Her sister always had a way of making her feel at ease.

"Oh, yeah right. Although that would be nice for adventure….but I would be far away from you." She said, quickly adding the last phrase with a laugh, as she saw Amelia's shock stricken face. She knew her sister wouldn't even allow her father melt out the punishment if it came to that.

"But are you okay?" She asked, resuming the serious face again.

"Yeah, I would be fine." Amelia stated honestly. She knew she was nowhere fine now, but she believed she would be; with time.

"I have new friends though." She said.

"Nice, tell me about them." Emma said, balancing the phone on s pillow, having gotten tired of holding the phone with her hands.

"Well, there is Chang." Amelia mentioned, smiling.

"A Chinese? Ooohooo" Emma exclaimed, smiling.

"Yeah. We met in class on Monday. He offered to help me work my assignment. I hadn't understood a thing that the neurology lecturer talked about. I didn't know how he noticed that, but I'm glad he did." Amelia opined happily.

"Cool. Anyone else." Emma asked.

"Yeah, Starr. She's a black American and a breathe of fresh air. When I had told her about Blaine's actions yesterday, she had visited him with a can of cockroaches." Amelia stated, laughing as she recalled the story that Starr shared with her.

"She reminds me so much of you." She said.

"Wow." Emma exclaimed, already loving the new girl. She was happy that her sister was making new friends. When she was at home, she only got her and June. Well, June backstabbed her.

"And guess what.." Amelia mentioned, her eyes brimming with happiness.

"You know I'm not a good guesser. Out with it." Emma said, her curiosity piqued already.

"Dad got me an apartment near the college. I would be moving in by weekend. Isn't that great?!" Amelia stated enthusiastically.

"That's terrific. At least you would be free from their clutches a little bit." Emma said, throwing a wink at her sister who waved it off with her hand, laughing at the implied meaning of her words.

"Uhuh. And don't forget to call me up when you need someone to talk with." She said, perking up her eyebrows a bit.

"Aye Ma." Amelia chanted, before frowning a bit as she recalled something.

"Why didn't you return my text or call me when you arrived over there. You are really a bad sis." She stated with a pout, which Emma found funny, but wouldn't say. She had to disentangle herself from this web first.

"I'm sorry. I was so caught up in alot that I forgot." She apologized, putting up her puppy eyes which caused her sister to laugh out again. She smiled as she knew she was already forgiven.

"Alright, I forgive you. So tell me about how your stay have been over there. We've only be talking about me." Amelia stated, folding her legs beneath each other as the Chinese monks do, whilst putting her two hands on her lower jaw, in anticipation of her sister's gist. Knowing who and how sister is, she knew it wouldn't be an issue for making friends. Her sister was like a magnet, drawing both the good and bad to her.

"Well.." Emma said, biting her lips. She didn't know where and how to start. Thinking of it now, a lot had really happened in just her five days here. It wasn't even up to a week.

"I'm still waiting.." Amelia said, having sharpened her ears unconsciously to hear stories.

"Well, there's Melvina.." Emma stated.

"Melvina? Who is Melvina?" Amelia asked.

Emma smiled, as she thought best on how to describe her only female acquittance here.

"She is…." She was saying, before she got interrupted by a sound.

A car horn blew in a near range, and Emma googled at her sister, as a realization dawned on her unmistakably.

"Emma, what is that and whose car blew that horn?" Amelia inquired, trying hard not to laugh at her sister whose eyes seem to have bulged out of her sockets. Although she didn't know exactly why her sister was gawking at her, she knew that it had something to do with the car horn, and not a certain Melvina.

"Emma.." She called again, as she noticed that Emma wasn't even reacting like she had heard her question the first time.

"Yeah." Emma said, her attention already divided as she darted her eyes towards her alarm clock, muttering prayers that the time shouldn't be what the car horn was potraying. She screamed as she saw the time.

"8:05am!!" She shouted, getting off the bed. She couldn't believe that three hours had already gone since she started speaking with her sister. She looked lost as she left the room to her bathroom to pick her toothbrush. She needed to hurry.

She winced, as she heard Amelia scream out her name. She had forgotten that the video call was still running.

She ran back to the room, the toothbrush already in her mouth.

"What.." She demonstrated with her two hands, flapping them intermittently.

"What's happening, and who is that?" Amelia asked, smiling at the look on her sister's face.

"I have a class quiz by 8:30am, and that's Derek, my boyfriend.." Emma said hastily.