EMMA’s POV :
----- One Month Later - --- -
I woke up this morning to an alarming text from lan.
lan: Emergency.
Ally’s in the hospital.
Call me ASAP.
I jolted from the bed and quickly called his phone.It rang for a few times before he finally picked up.
"Hey? What’s going on?"I said to the phone.
"It's bad,"he sighed.
"I found her lying unconscious in her apartment last night.I had to bring her to the hospital to get her stomach pumped.She was mixing alcohol and prescription drugs,"
"Oh, no..."I breathed.
"How’s she doing now?"
"She's okay now that they've pumped her insides.But she’s not doing well at all.I'm worried about her,"
"Have you called her parents...or Richard?"
"She explicitly told me not to,"
"So, what can you do?"
"Nothing...I just have to stay with her and make sure she doesn't do anything else stupid,"he scoffed.
"Oh..."
"Yeah..."
Okay, I don’t wanna be a petty bitch, but come on! I know Ally’s going through some hard time, but does she really have to keep doing this to my fiancée? When is this gonna end? It keeps going on and on! Whoa, now.
Slow down there, Emma.
A girl was fighting for her life in the hospital and all I could think about was my relationship.
Those were some very selfish thoughts.
I ended up scolded myself internally for being such an immature brat.
"So, I guess...there’s gonna be a slight change of plans for Christmas?"
I said to him cautiously.
"Yeah, that's also what I wanna talk to you about..."his tone was cautious too.
lan and I had a special rendezvous all planned out for this Christmas.
There was this amazing Van Gogh exhibition at the Met, which was lan’s favorite artist of all time, so I got us tickets for it as his Christmas present.
This year for Christmas, we wanted to give each other the gift of ‘ experiences’ instead of material things.
The Van Gogh exhibition would have been an amazing one full day experience where we could be transported to Paris in the 1880s.
What could be more romantic than that? lan, on the other hand, had booked us the suite room at the Plaza Hotel.
He knew that I grew up watching Home Alone 2 for Christmas, so he wanted to give me the ' Kevin’ package.
We were gonna ride around in a limousine and eat pizza before spending a romantic night together at the hotel suite.
But with just one phone call, all those plans were swirling down the toilet.
"Well, I can always auction off the tickets,"
I sighed as I grabbed the tickets in my hand.
Such a sad reminder of how epic our Christmas would have been.
"Would you mind? I know I’ve done this so many times already..."
"If that’s what you wanna do, it's fine.I understand,"
I tried to sound as casual as possible, hiding away my bitter disappointment.
"But you should still come to New York.We can spend some time together? A night at the Plaza?"
"You think so?"
"Yeah, absolutely.I mean, you still wanna come see me, right?"
"Of course I do,"
"Great.I'll see you this weekend, then?"
"Yeah,"
"I love you, baby girl.Thank you for being so understanding,"
"Sure..."
As soon as I ended the call, I let out the biggest dramatic sigh ever.
threw my phone angrily on the bed and
room, Sophie was eating cereal
on
"Good morning, Emmie.Cereal?"
Sophie beamed cheerfully.
"Ugh, hmm,"
and staggered towards the
"Uh-oh.That doesn’t look good,"
Sophie said to Tristan.
laptop screen and
with you? Is it that time of the
a joke, but I wasn't
I just talked to lan on the phone," I said with
and Tristan
asked, "Wait, let me
go to a Van Gogh
I said I wanted to be like Kevin from Home
"Aw, that was sweet,"
Sophie pouted.
what happened? He has to work
Tristan asked.
got
"That girl Ally?"
Sophie narrowed her eyebrows.
"Yup,"
I don’t even like her name, Ally.Alley.Ew,
pretended to gag, causing me
told them about
always the thorn on my
she was
had the same idea, but Tristan brought up
really is sick and Ian’s just trying to be a good friend for her? She did help him start the gallery, which is Ian’s dream.He might feel indebted to her in
logical and
decided I should
being petty wasn't gonna get
my Christmas," I said, full of resolution as I sipped a gulp of
game plan?"
the supportive girlfriend that I
lan, then she’s important
care of her, I'll
Emmie.That's a
trying too hard.Okay, confession time: lan and I were eight years apart, I was secretly always
wondered if he thought I was
even though on the inside I
are you guys’ plans
couch next to them, eager to change the subject.The more I thought about it, the more frustrated I
bringing Micah to New Jersey to meet my parents," Sophie
"That's a big step,"
are dying
you?" I said
here. I got some
glued
Christmas? Really?" I
to
to get yourself a girlfriend.Your life is so sad, I'm
Sophie commented.
my life’s not that bad,"
and said, "Plus,
a
eyes at him
now.Too much drama.I'd rather focus on school, actually make
can
"Nah, I'm good,"he shrugged.
more honey more problems.I like my life
could agree
if I say I never thought about
love being in
I did think that being single has its
world without having to worry about a boyfriend at home or
focus on school and his future career
you're happy, we're happy for you too, "I said to Tristan, "And hey, if you get bored, you can always take the train to
boyfriend? No, but thanks for the
thinking? Tristan would definitely rather stay here than
the one that insisted to go
was there every day, so if I wanted more time with him, I had to be
was just
I was third-wheeling on Ian and Ally’s
was so doting
every day and feed her when she didn't feel like
always had these inside jokes that I didn’t know about, and they would laugh about things as I sat there, scratching
after three days of that,
and I stayed in
Eve and our suite reservation was for
ever, ringing in the New Year together in such a beautiful place...doing...beautiful
past three days, the romance bone in me
should be shaving my legs or picking out a
TV and eating Cheetos
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