The one that got away

Chapter 3: The party

"Hi Mag ! Do you have any plans tomorrow night?" Emma asked on the phone.
"Let's see... Hum...'
"Nothing special I think. Well actually Edgar is coming to visit. Why?" asked Maggie.
"Then both of you are coming with me ! Alexander is having a birthday party at his house."
"For who?" asked Maggie.
"Is for Rick. Alex's older brother."
"You remembered that I told you that he's being living in Seatle for many years? Well, he is in town visiting." I informed her.
"Tha'ts great Emma! Finally you will get a chance to meet your brother in law." said Maggie with exitement.
"So, we'll meet in your house or better I'll call you tomorrow after I talk to Edgar,okay." said Maggie.
"Okay,perfect !"

"It's always nice to talk with Maggie. She have a light in her soul that give me energy and willingness to do things. I know tomorrow we will be having fun and I don't doubt the possibility that she will be bringing her karaoke machine along. I'm also happy for Alexander. He talks a lot about his brother and I know that he's being wishing for a moment like this for a long time. I won't see him today. He will be spending time with his brother and family. As for me, I have many questions to be answered and I'll get to that soon. But for now, I must clean the house and do my laundry." I thought to myself.

Later, in the afternoon I heard a car coming in. I looked through the window and it was Maggie. I opened the door and walked to the porch and as soon as she saw me she screamed;
"What ! Did you thought I was going to leave alone for a whole day? Noo."
"Did Alex asked you to come here?" I asked.
"Nop. But I know he wanted to." replied Maggie.

As soon as I saw her coming through the door I knew I was going to tell her everything about what I saw the night before on the road. Maggie was my best friend but I wasn't sure how she was going to react.

We talked for a while about her and her boyfriend Edgar and others plans we had for the future after we graduate from college. Maggie and I were studying at the same university in Portland. She was exited that we were almost over and ready for graduation. Hours passed and we moved from the living room to the porch, from the porch to the kitchen and so on. Later on, while we were sitting down on the patio I got an opportunity to tell her what had happened to me the night before.

"Okay, you are scaring me Emma ! she reacted in the middle of the conversation.
"Let's go inside,lock the doors and then you can keep telling me the rest of the story." she suggested.

We went inside the house and I closed every window and door just to make her feel better. I understood her fear. I felt the same. Even though she was frightened by my story she listened carefully to everything that I said. She offered me her support in helping me finds answers.
"Whao, that's unbelieveable and scary. I don't know if we are going to find any information related to what you saw because such thing just doesn't exist in this world. We can't go to the police and asked for information. Maybe, at the library. Do you think we can find an ancient book of spooky legends from this town on the library?" Maggie asked as she tried to figured something out.

I felt so relieved that I was abled to tell her and have someone to talk about it. I'm glad I could trust her.

Soon, came the morning.

We woke up with the sound of the phone. It was Alexander that had called to see how I was doing. He also asked me to bring a backpack that he had left at my house to the party. Maggie inmediatly went to the kitchen and started to make coffee.
" Hey Mag, I have an idea ! How do you feel about going to the salon?" I asked her.
"I'll love to go and I need to go. Look at my nails !" she exclaimed showing her hands to me.

I tooked some muffins out of the pantry to eat with the coffee and then we left.

While we were in the salon we started to talked about the party. Maggie was getting her nails done while the hair stylist was putting a treatment on my hair.
"Do you think Rick is handsome?" Maggie asked me.
"Do you mean as handsome as my boyfriend? I replied.
"Are you asking her if her brother in law is handsome? Girl, what's wrong with you?" asked the hair stylist to Maggie.
"What ! Is just a question." said Maggie.
"Well, I doubt it !" I said to Maggie with a smile.
"I bet he is. To bad I already have my sweet Edgar." she joked.
"He is too old for you anyway. Alexander said that today is his thirty second birthday." I teased her.