A/N: Random thingy I came up with last night. ENJOY!
Nina was lay in the empty light blue and cream room. She was remembering the last time anyone had been in this room. Her perfume still lingered, and so did all the marks of her makeup that had spilled all over the pale carpet. Now that this room was empty, no bed, no wardrobe, no desk or mirror or laptop, no photos, Nina felt more alone than ever.
She had moved into the old house with only Victor's raven Corbiere for company. This room was the room she had spent precious quality time with a second mother in. But now the woman she had loved as her mum had left. Nina was alone. She knew why she'd left. To get married. But with her new husband, Nina knew that she would never come home to her.
You might now be wondering who it is Nina's missing.
Nina was missing Trudy, the only one who showed her any comfort when she first arrived. But she'd left to get married and Nina felt more lost than ever. Her gran was dead, just like her parents. Trudy had been her mother in so many new ways.
Nina rolled onto her front and inhaled the scent lingering in the carpet. It was honeysuckle and lavender, Trudy's favourite scent.
Nina wondered what she'd be doing right now.
She'd probably be cuddled up to her husband, feeding a baby and watching the telly. Or she'd be cooking and holding a child to her hip while her kitchen telly had some cookery show playing. Or she'd be cleaning up, or whirling her child about happily.
But what she wouldn't be doing is remembering the young American girl she had left behind. Nina was sure Trudy hadn't meant to upset her, but that didn't mean she hadn't.
Nina got up and started out. She walked around town, when a little boy rammed into her legs. The child was mid-way between her ankle and her knee. She scooped him up.
"Hey, sweetheart. What's your name?"
"Mama say me no talk to stranger."
"What's your mama's name then, sweetheart? I'll take you to customer services and get someone to call for her."
"Mama say me go to big place and ask nice person to get her come for me."
"OK, well, we'll go there. I don't want you to get even more lost."
Nina took the small boy to the customer services.
"Excuse me, this little boy has lost his mother."
"OK. What's your mum's name, little one?"
"Mama name Trudy Choudhary."
Nina gasped in surprise. Was this her little child?
The tannoy asked her to come to customer services and get her son.
Moments later, she appeared, frantic with joy.
"Oh, darling! You're safe. Your dad and I were petrified. Thank you for finding him."
The staff member said "I didn't. This young lady brought him to me."
Trudy looked around and her eyes landed on Nina. She gasped.
"Nina? Is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me. He rammed into my ankles and I just wanted to make sure he found his mum safely. See you around."
Nina started to walk off, then Trudy followed.
"Nina, please wait. Oh, slow down, I can't keep up."
Nina stopped dead in her tracks.
"Nina, I just want to say thank you for finding him."
"It's fine. I know you must have been terrified."
"How have you been?"
"Lonely, sad. But I've been healthy and kept the house tidy and the kitchen intact."
"Oh, sweetheart. Tell you what. Come with us, we'll find Jasper and you can come to our home."
"I can't be a complete inconvenience for you yet again. I mean, you have a real family now."
"You won't be an inconvenience. You'll be a welcome member of the family. Please, Nina. We'd love to have you."
Nina was torn. She didn't want to impose on them, but she desperately wanted to live a warm, happy life with them.
"Nina, please come with us. It'd be wonderful to have you living with us. You'd love the house, a real cosy place. Please?"
"Pwease Miss Nini? Mama and Dada and Izzy and me want you."
"Izzy?"
"Isabelle. She's our baby. She's only two days old."
"You recover fast, Trudy."
"Jasper said the exact same thing when I got up and made us all a huge three pasta dish literally two minutes after she was born. I gave myself two seconds to pull myself together and then went and made the dinner, which took me all of three hours of non-stop cookery, no time for sitting down. I made Jasper keep an eye on it while I fed Izzy. Anyway, please come. You'll be able to meet her."
Nina sighed, then went with them. They eventually found Jasper, who lightly took his son from Trudy and gave him a hug, then he pulled Trudy to him and kissed her.
"Where was he? And where were you, my pretty little wife?"
"He was with Nina at the customer services when I finally found the cheeky little whatsit. And then I thought as we have an extra room, we could let Nina move in with us?"
"That sounds perfect, my little angel."
Then he faced Nina.
"Well, you've met our cheeky little monkey of a son. Did he tell you his name or not?"
"No. He had an idea of stranger danger and didn't tell me."
"OK, well. His name's Benjamin, but his nickname is Benny. Or in Trudy's case, Baby Benny. And the cutie in the pram is Isabelle. Her nicknames are Izzy, Belle, Baby Bells or Bells. She also has the nickname Loud Bells."
Trudy bent down and lifted the baby up. She looked about seven inches long stretched out. Her huge eyes were wide open and shining. Trudy held her out to Nina.
Nina gently took the tiny child and cradled her.
"She's beautiful."
Trudy smiled, knowing that the baby was adorable.
Jasper said "These two take after their mum."
Trudy said "No they don't. They're gorgeous and they actually have personality and spirit."
"And you don't?"
"No. Oh, Nina, I have to give you fair warning. Isabelle screams most of the night and Baby Benny's going through a bed wetting phase so he wakes up screaming in the night too. And that wakes Isa up in the night and then we have them both screaming. But the good thing is we have no neighbours, so we never get reported for too much noise. Though they are 100% loud."
Nina laughed and said "I understand. I'm used to loud, I used to live around Jerome and Alfie."
"No, these two are way louder, in the night or in a tantrum. Put them both in a tantrum and they sound so loud you need earplugs."
Nina giggled. That made Benjamin laugh and the baby looked at her mum and made a gurgly noise. That just made everyone else smile.
(At the cottage, just before they go in.)
Nina looked at the cottage. It was paleish brown stone out side with diamond shape pattern in the windows and dark curtains. You could see a dark brown sofa and an open fire place with wood-look linoleum on the floor. The walls were made of stone and had a picture of the sea over the fireplace. It looked hand painted.
The outside walls had ivy trailing over it and flowers wound in round the door. The door was dark brown and heavy and incredibly pretty. It had an upstairs and a massive flowery garden. The upstairs looked just as Victorian as the rest of it.
Inside, there was a huge old-fashioned kitchen, kept spotless. The stairs were high and narrow which meant that it was good that Nina wasn't scared of heights. The bedroom that the two adults shared was stone and wood, but it looked beautiful as it was painted light blue.
The bedroom that Benjamin had was very blue and white and looked beautiful. Isabelle's room was gingerbread-house with sugar pink walls and a fluffy carpet and beautiful cradle.
Nina's new room had dark purple walls and a silver carpet with a black bed frame. Trudy had been buying things she wouldn't let Nina see.
She ran in there while Nina was checking out the rest of the house. When she let Nina see it, she'd put up lilac wall decoration that lit up saying NINA in bright letters. Fairy lights hung around the bed frame. And a new desk with a laptop and desk lamp. She'd supplemented a new wardrobe and a light up vanity mirror on the desk. She'd loaded it with makeup and nail polish for Nina to use. There was a light gold rug on the silvery carpet that said "NINA'S ROOM" in lilac. The doors had all black patterns on them, very Gothic and beautiful. It had Nina speechless and she noticed the large collection of china dolls that Trudy had chosen.
"Thank you so much, Trudy! It's beautiful!"
"Well, anything for my family. You know that I'd do anything for my family."
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What do you think? Should I keep it as a one-shot or make it into a story? Review and tell me what you think. Until next update, Random Dizzy. :D