Duality

~paris~

Hello, my name is Kaili Marie DuPont and I need a taxi please
I held my phone up to my ear

How far?
The woman on the other end of the line questioned

To Paris, so just a few towns over.

From?
She questioned again

Strasbourg, France.

You are aware that this will be roughly a 1 hour and 50 minute drive miss?

Yes ma'am.

Alright we will send a cab right over.

Merci!

I ended the call and glanced around my bedroom for the last time.

I took a deep breath and let it out.

I walk over to my closet making sure I had packed everything and taking one last glance at my mirror.

I grab a small Polaroid print out that my mother had given me.

The Eiffel Tower.

There she was standing infront of it....
With a smile...
Surrounded by stars....

I know she would be happy for me.....but it is this or the U.S.

My Grammy offered to take me in, she knew I didn't want to go to the U.S. with my father and his fiancé.

He had went on a business visit in New York and that is where he met carline.

She was a nice lady, but I was skeptical....
This was the first woman he had introduced me to since the passing of my mother when I was 5.

I am now 15, and a sophomore in high school.

Every day I think of her though... and how she used to tell me stories about being in Paris.

~FLASHBACK~

Paris is a magical place little Marie.

I wanna go to Paris momma!

And one day I will take you there, trust me. It is where you belong, I feel it.
She placed her hand on my chest

I feel it right here
She booped me on the nose

Tell me stories!! I wanna here about the...
I began to whisper

The people.

The heroes?

Yeah yeah!

Well.... there was this one hero-

~BACK TO REALITY~

She went on and on about the magic of that city.
She had told me of magic, glory and adventure.

But most of all her perusing her dreams, her dreams of being a well known photographer.