A Heart's Thoughts

Day 23 - Part 2

Jack's excitement faltered when he recognized Emma, staring at them with a baffled face. He backed away from the door with his hands raised slightly as he saw Emma's eyes follow his every move.

"Look, Emma, we can explain."

"I know, that's why I asked about it before jumping to conclusions."

Jack sighed, his expression a bit saddened, "your face tells me you've already drawn your conclusion."

Emma stared at him firmly for a few seconds before nodding slightly, "I probably have, so why don't you try to prove me otherwise?"

Jack bit his lip, turning slightly to look at Francis who was standing behind him and slightly shook his head. Jack looked down at the ground before drawing a deep breath, "I can't. Not now, at least. Our friends are joining us soon. We have to talk to them first."

Emma continued staring wordlessly at him, before letting out a soft, shaky breath and nodding lightly, "okay."

Jack ran a hand through his hair as he fully turned around and took a step closer to Francis so he could whisper, "Cecilia isn't going to like this."

Francis shook is head, "she isn't the only one you should be worried about. None of our friends are going to like this, and I don't blame them. We should've paid more attention to our surroundings before opening that door."

Jack touched his earpiece and said, "guys, please come. We've opened the door."

As he finished speaking, he started impatiently tapping his feet on the floor with his hands in his sides, waiting for his friends to arrive.

Francis watched his friend's impatience and whispered, "Jack, calm down."

"I am calm."

"No, you're not."

"I am."

"No, your neck is red, your sweating, and tapping your foot like a madman. Stop it, you're not making it seem any better."

Francis glanced up behind Jack and smiled a little before grabbing his friend by both shoulders and turning him around, "look at that, the first ones are coming already."

Eden, Jude and Alec were walking towards them and Alec already had his hand raised in a wave when he noticed Emma and stopped in his tracks. He looked at Emma, turned to Jude and Eden and then finally gave Jack and Francis a confused look. Jack just gave a hopeless look in return and Francis shrugged, making Alec roll is eyes before putting on a friendly smile and approaching Emma.

"Hey, can I help you with anything?"

Emma gave him a friendly smile in returned and replied, "these two kind men were going to explain to me how they opened the door to a house that isn't theirs."

Alec's smile instantly disappeared and he gave Francis and Jack a bewildered look before quickly walking past Emma towards them, Eden and Jude closely following behind.

He stopped close to Jack and whispered furiously, "what did you do?"

Jack whispered back, "we opened the door and then she suddenly appeared behind us asking us how we opened that door!"

Alec put two fingers between his eyebrows as he put his other hand in his side and turned to Eden and Jude, "Cecilia isn't going to like this."

The two men nodded wordlessly, both looking agitated. Meanwhile Emma continued to watch the men from a small distance, making sure not to lose sight of them.

Jude sighed and touched his earpiece before speaking, "Cecilia, I think you should come now, we've got a bit of a situation."

Cecilia replied almost immediately, "what did you guys do?"