Attempts

Chapter 10

After a 7 hours flight and the non stop talking man as my neighbor chair I finally made it in one piece to Barcelona.

What hunted my mind is the fact that I will have to face my parents. I always know that no one can have all they want so between my parents and Michael. I think I don't have a choice.

"Emma" shouted Lauren, my cousin and the model in the family, while running towards me.

"Hey" I said hugging her. I haven't seen her for a year which has been the longest we had always been together through everything and it is somehow makes my heart break not too see her as often.

"How are you doing? God I missed you" I said with the biggest smile on my face " Wow you turned into a blondie now" This is the first time that I see Lauren dying her hair as ever. Even though she is always obsessed with it.

"Well you know I have to always do some changes for my job. Big bucks don't come easily" Even though her father uncle Mat is one of the richest people but Lauren was always the independent one. She took I upon herself to work hard and have money. plus she is so in love with modeling and all the cameras.

"As if you need them. I still don't know how you stand it with all that bossing and traveling. It seems too much"

"well as I don't know how you do it with all those sick and night shifts" she said smuggling

"Point taken" and we finished this conversation with a good laugh.

It took us less than 5 min to get a hold of each other's lives.

That's what I love most about Lauren we can spend months not talking but when we meet, it feels like we were never separated. Sadly it was a short trip from the airport to Patrick's fiancees' house.

I was in awe when we reached the 3 story house with a massive garden infront of it and a fountain in the middle. It looked more of a palace with those Palladian windows. The color of the building is yellow. It looked like an ancient house. Upon entering the house I could sense the vibe of comfort and homy.

" Welcome miss Lauren and miss Emma" said a smiling middle age lady with an accent.

"Hello miss Clary" Lauren started to introduce me to the lady who I found out is the household of the place.

"Miss Emma, you will find your room upstairs third door to the left. Your luggages are there already". I don't know how much it took me to take in the whole scene in-front of me.

"Thank you miss Clary" with that she left me and Lauren in the living room

"What do you say about hanging around the pool for a while" well I am not surprised that they have a pool.

"I would really love to but I am kind of exhausted and still need to see my parents to let them know that I am here"

"Oh! Uncle Will went golfing with dad and Bella's father"

"Then I will go see mom"

"Emma you don't know?" She looked at me hesitantly

"i don't know what"

"that your mum didn't come, Uncle Will said that she has a huge conference that she couldn't get away from" said Lauren with a pity look that made me realize that I have a shocked face.

At this moment I found out how serious they are about the separation as I am pretty sure that mum doesn't have any conference.

I think that those couple of weeks all that I wished for was to have both my parents together like the old days with happy couple picture that I know now was a fake image for me.

With a disappointed feeling I found myself in the room that Miss Clary told me about. With everything draining on me I couldn't even enjoy the room or the fact that I had always wanted to explore Barcelona bit by bit.