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Part five-nerds and roses

She said she was just an inbox away so I jumped at the chance to speak to her. I typed a message to her saying;

Amelia; hello aunt lilly,thanks for the kind words,im not going to lie I was slightly surprised you contacted me since we haven't spoke in so long. May I ask how you knew about dads death?

I quickly got a reply.

Lilly; please darling just call me Lilly. I'm glad i contacted you too,i had been meaning to get in touch with you and your mom and dad for so long but I can't exactly say I've had the resources to do so,we've had no internet until now and I didn't know your home phone number. The hospital contacted me to tell me and I was your dads closest family member other than you.

Amelia; my mom died when I was 7

Lilly; I'm so sorry hunny,i didn't know. look I'm going to have to go but I know things are hard and if you want to your more than welcome to come out to New York and stay with me and Oscar for as long as you like. Oscar is my son by the way, he's 5. Speak soon darling.

Amelia; I might just take you up on that offer Lilly,thank you so much.

She has a son?shows how long we haven't spoke for. That idea I had in my head was starting to sound more realistic now I actually had somewhere I could stay,but where would the money come from for the flight?and the question still stood,what about chris?

Curios I decided to research how much a flight to New York would be,$190 Middle class and $200 first class. Seems pretty good.

Just as I was looking at flights chris walked in with a box of nerds in one hand and a bunch of roses in another. he came in before I could shut the tab.

I looked very anxious,he asked me what was wrong as he passed me the nerds and roses,he knows they are two of my favourite things in the world.

"Nothing,thankyou so much baby there beautiful and so thoughtful,i love you."

"What you doing?" Chris asked curiously with a genuine look of interest in his eyes.

"Nothing,just watching a funny dog video." I hate lying to him but if I didn't he would be suspicious and I didn't want him to know about my idea before I knew whether I was going to even be able to afford it let alone go through with It or not,i knew it was going to break him so I was almost putting off telling him about it.

"Cool let me see." Before I could stop him he turned my screen to face him and saw the page of results showing flights to New York.

"Amelia what's going on?" He asked with a look of fear on his face.

I couldn't keep it from him,i had to tell him about my idea.