Darla Gets Lost in Paris

chapter 1

Darla sighed as she waited on the front porch with Amber and Maisy. This seemed to take forever, until finally, the letter carrier came by with the mail.

"Hello there, girls." the mailman greeted.

"Hey!" Darla beamed. "Any mail from Paris?!"

"This time, yes." The mailman said.

"Yay!" the girls cheered and took the letter from Paris and zipped inside the house, zipped upstairs, came into Darla's bedroom and shut the door.

"I wanna read it!" Amber begged.

"No, no, it's my mail, I'll read it!" Darla stood on top of her bed to take the letter out of Amber's reach.

"Oh, come on!" Amber complained.

Darla then opened the envelope.

"Hiyah!" Amber then tackled Darla on her bed.

Atticus and Cherry walked in as the best friends fought over the letter.

"It's mine!" Darla groaned.

"I have a right to read it as much as you do!" Amber argued.

"Why are you two arguing?" Cherry asked.

Atticus took the mail away from the little girls.

"I got a letter from Madeline in Paris and I wanna read it first." Darla said.

"I should read it first!" Amber retorted. "I knew Madeline longer than you have!"

"But she chose me as her pen pal!" Darla glared.

"I'll read it to the both of you." Atticus said.

"Okay..." the girls said.

Cherry rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I don't have time for this, I gotta pack for Paris to meet MY old friend, Charlotte." she then walked off out of the room.

Atticus took the letter out of the envelope and read it. "'Dear Darla and Amber, I have missed you both so much since our first meeting and I was saddened for you both to go back to your homes in America. You really must come back to visit sometime soon, the other girls miss you too, even Miss Clavel misses you guys and even Genevieve. I hope this letter comes to you all safely and you come to France again real soon. Yours fairly and truly, Madeline Fogg'."

"Aw!" The girls smiled.

Atticus smiled back to them. "So glad that you and Madeline are all friends."

"Yeah, we wish we could go to school with her, but she's all the way in Paris of course." Darla said.

"If only there was a way we could go to Paris..." Amber sighed.

Patch soon came in with a timer on his head and where it soon went off as soon as the girls realized they had magic to bring them there.

"Magic!" Darla and Amber then remembered.

Atticus chuckled to his little sister and her best friend. "Hey, Cherry is going to Paris herself, maybe you guys would like to join her?"

"Yeah and maybe you could come with us." Darla smiled up at her big brother.

"Oh, girls, I couldn't impose..." Atticus smiled back.

"Aw, come on, you're like a big brother to me too." Amber pried.

"Well, if you put it that way..." Atticus said before zipping and coming back with luggage packed with his passport. "I guess I could help you girls settle in and say hi to Madeline and the other little girls again."