Chapter Twenty

Some_Minutes_Later

Emily

Anxiously biting my nails, I tugged on my skirt and smoothed my hair once again for the tenth time.

Then a staff came to call me.

As I got into the office, both people turned to face me, and the woman broke into a smile.

She was not so thin, and not so tall. Brown hair, like mine. Rounded eyes, and a straight nose bridge.

The man was quite tall, and his nose was more like mine, he had dark eyes too.

Humph, can't believe I'm checking for comparison, similar features.

"Uh...hello," I started, feeling awkward.

How do you meet your parents?

"Oh my baby..." the woman whispered and rushed over to me with outstretched arms, engulfing me in a tight hug that had my nose filled with nothing but her strong perfume.

But still, I hugged her back.

Maybe that would make me seem too clingy or desperate... but I don't care.

"My baby...," she whispered again, releasing me and holding my hands in hers to look at me with a teary smile.

I smiled too.

The man came too, and took me