emma's perspective
After bringing Will back to his room and making sure he's asleep, I lay in my bed thinking about the previous event.
I had a huge smile plastered about my face that would not disappear as I thought about Will. It obviously wasn't the first time we've kissed and wasn't the first time he's said those things about me. But this time was something different. I actually felt something for him this time - a feeling I was quite oblivious to since every time we have kissed we'd both been drunk. I'm not sure whether he's feeling something towards me but so far so good, I think.
My trail of thought was soon to be interrupted by Alex bursting in through the door. 'Emma!' He calls out turning on all lights making me squint. I spring up from my bed quickly to make sure he's okay. 'Everything alright Alex?' I ask rushing to his side. 'Yeah, yeah I'm not that drunk anymore don't worry. We got food, I'm okay now,' he walks to his bed and sits down yawning.
'How did it go with Lenney then aye?' He continues, nudging me playfully. 'Uhh, good. We just talked for a bit and we actually umm kissed,' I stutter. 'But he was drunk so it didn't mean anything. Well to him,' I quickly add.
I plop down on Alex's bed next to him. 'You haven't confessed yet?' He asks and I sigh, throwing my head in my hands. 'It's not so easy Alex,' I groan. He throws a comforting arm around my shoulder and laughs softly, 'I was joking, take it easy mate. But if you want me to ask him or anything, I will.'
I would be happy with this idea but I still shrugged. Will probably won't even remember in the morning any way. 'I don't know Alex. I like Will and that's the simplest way I can put it. Yeah, it would be nice to know how he feels back one hundred percent - if he's feeling anything at all- but right now I don't want to make a huge deal out of it,' I state firmly.
Alex gives me a squeeze, 'Whatever you want, your choice princess,' he says. I push him playfully and jump back into my own bed.
'Goodnight Alex.'
'Goodnight Emma.'
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It was today we'd be leaving Rome and I was really sad to be soon leaving this beautiful city, so I made a promise to myself to come back and explore some more. I'd bought and kept a lot of souvenirs so I'd be able to remember this amazing trip and I also bought presents for my mum as the next time I'd see her would be Christmas.
My mum lives in Newcastle but travels a lot also; the reason being she was diagnosed with breast cancer after she'd given birth to me and since then, she'd had this dream to view the world before she dies and I feel like that's where I get my dream of travelling from.
But to her surprise, she got the all clear two years ago and she then realised how valuable life is. She hasn't stopped travelling since and is currently about to release a book of her own. A book about how she came about travelling and how to be prepared and her different experiences abroad.
I couldn't be any more prouder of my Mum; she was a single woman at the age of twenty-five, with a me, a daughter, to tend to and unfortunately diagnosed with breast cancer but yet her dream kept her going and she became successful. Alex and Gee are the only people who know about my Mum but I'm not comfortable sharing something so personal with everybody else yet.
That night we reach city two out of four; Paris! We'd be staying here for a week, to Berlin and lastly Amsterdam. I was ecstatic - Paris being one of the most fashionable cities in the world and here, I was most definitely about to wear my most fashionable outfits and Gee and I one hundred percent are looking forward to becoming broke from shopping here.
The flight over was actually quite nice. I was sat between Alex and a hung over Will on the plane. Alex fell asleep the whole way over here but surprisingly Will hadn't. We watched 'Stranger Things' through his MacBook and it was actually really enjoyable just to relax again with him. None of last night's antics appeared in any conversation nor will I contemplate bringing it up because Will probably doesn't even remember and I'll just embarrass myself If I even speak about it.
