What If?

Chapter 4

So here's the new chapter, please enjoy. 

"Tired?" Chloe asked as they left the airport, they were going to take the train to their home town and from there they'd go their separate ways. "Yes," Amelia told her, dragging her luggage after her. Unlike most of everyone she hadn't slept on the plane, it was something she could do. But she did enjoy looking out of the window and seeing what went on on the ground.

"Maybe you should have slept then," Chloe told her as they got onto the train and she pulled her phone out. "Calling your Prince?" Chloe teased her with a whisper as she slapped her thigh.

"Hey sweetheart, I hope you had a good flight?" she heard Alex's voice say on her phone as she pulled her legs up to her chest, not caring right now if it was allowed or not. "Yea, we just got on the train heading home," she whispered, looking around to make sure that no one was looking at her.

"I miss you already," he told her as a small smile covered her lips. "I miss you too, we'll have to make do with just phone calls for now," she whispered, leaning her head against the window as she watched the scenery fly by. "I just wanted to call you before I got into the meeting and I saw your text, tomorrow morning?" he asked her as she let out a hum. "I'm expected at school though by nine," she told him as he promised to call her before that.

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"Don't tell me gran has put up a party?" she asked her mum when they finished putting her stuff in the car. "What do you think?" her mum asked her as she let out a groan. she was tired and wanted her bed after the long journey. But she should have known that her family wasn't going to let her come home just slide like that. "couldn't she have waited till Thursday, I'm officially off from school then." she asked her mother as she only let out a groan, well she shouldn't expect any help from her mother either.

Getting out of the car at her grandparents she saw the long table set outdoor, the barbecue already smoking as her stepdad got behind it. It seemed no one had arrived just yet and for now she could let out a small sigh of relief at that. She wasn't ready to face the family and close friends just yet. They were always the same people who they had over and then they'd go over to theirs during the summer. But right now despite how much she loved all of them, she just wanted her bed.

"Hey Dave." she greeted her stepdad as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on the cheek. "Happy to be home?" he asked her as she nodded her head. "Of course, although I'm looking forward to going back as well," she admitted, though it might not have to be the reasons that they all thought she was going back for. She'd told them she was going to help out at preservation camps, which wasn't a lie, but still, they didn't know who she was there to meet with.

"Hey Gran, gramps." she grinned at them as she embraced them, happy to be with them again. They could drive her up the walls at times, but she loved them dearly and looked forward to spending some time with them again.

"How was Africa?" They asked her after she'd greeted her little brother and her second youngest brother. "It was really amazing, I can't wait to go back there again. It such a wonderful place, we did see the rougher part of it all, but the nature we saw. It's incredible, I've got so many pictures." she explained as she reached for her camera and started to show them the pictures of the sunsets and sunrises. Of the children, they'd met and nature they came across on the way to the villages they'd gone to.