Lili Rochefort- Living Rich and Poor
Lili sighed as she looked out the foggy window and at the clouds. It had rained earlier; it left the sky still with the gray and boring feeling that Lili had been feeling the whole summer. Unable to go to any street fighting tournaments after her father grounded her, Lili stayed at home sighing and longing for the exhiliration and thrill that came to her in combat.
Lili thought about her summer as the long drive continued on, she continuing to look out the window with a sad face that would bring any rich Monacan woman to tears screaming, "You poor child! You must be so alone without a mother to comfort you! Oh Goodness!"
In truth, Lili never felt for her dead mother because she died at childbirth. She in turn was never able to get to know the woman that was in many of the pictures in her father's room. Lili only kept one picture of her mother, which hung around her neck in a tiny heart-shaped golden locket. Her father's picture was opposite her mother's.
Still, when she was young girl, Lili now remembered, that she would ask how her mother was.
"Oh she was the fairest woman any person would ever set their eyes upon. When she walked in the room, she tempted the most holy of all men to take the gaze off their own wives and on to mine to look at her beauty. Much like you will, dearest Emily."
"What color were her eyes?"
"They were the most magnificent color in there world: They were a pair of perfect sapphires drowned beneath that ocean, making oysters cry in shame at their pointless looking pearls."
"And what about her hair?"
"Her hair? Well, each strand was a brilliant priceless gold."
"And what about-"
"Lili. I think it is enough for one night. Now please go to bed, honey."
"Alright then, father."
Lili would ask these questions almost every night she got the chance to speak with her father, and then he would leave the pink room that was littered with fur and giant bears and striped frilly pillows. She eventually stopped asking her father these questions, as she would only have to look in the mirror to find the answers.
Lili shifted in her car seat and turned her attention away from the window to Sebastian.
"When shall we be arriving at our destination later than expected?"
"Unfortunately, Miss Lili," he replied. "There is a lot of traffic on the highway this night."
"Alright then. Please just don't let the car hit many bumps; I think I shall take a small nap before we get to the airport."
"As you wish, Miss Lili."
Lili woke up after a sudden bump forced her to bang her head onto the window.
"Sebastian! What was that about! I hit my poor head onto the window. Sebastian! Please answer me!"
"Miss Lili, please forgive my driving, but I am trying to loose a car who has been following us for quite some time now. Please sit back tightly and I shall see what I can do to get us out of this situation safely."
Lili looked out the back of the limo after hearing this from Sebastian.
"My goodness!" she exclaimed. She saw a man driving another limosiune in back of hers. She looked closer. What she saw-no, who-made her speechless. She remembered the face of the man who tried to kidnap her years earlier.