It's the next day
Cosima is woken up by her mother.
"Darling, come on. Breakfast is ready" Her mother said, softly
"But.." Cosima stopped what she was saying as she could smell the food that was lingering around the house. Her mother was the best cook ever. No one. No one could beat her cooking at all.
Cosima practically sprinted to the dining room where her father and her brother was sitting all dressed nicely, while Cosima was still in her nightgown.
Cosima sits opposite her brother. There were four plates in the middle of the long table. One filled with bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding and there were a couple of stands full of toast.
After Cosima finished with breakfast. She decided to speak to her brother until he had to leave as her father and brother got invited to go over to Marcus' house, lucky for Cosima she had no plans and she knew what she was going to do with her free time. Cosima says goodbye to her brother and her father before she rushes to her room.
She looks through all her dresses deciding what to wear today. After an hour, she finally picks the dress that looks prefect to wear in this weather. It was sort of yellow, just over her knees and it had a matching hat but it wasn't sunny to wear the hat. She walked to the window, smiling but she frowned slightly when the clouds started going grey. Cosima loves the rain when she isn't in a dress but it didn't bother her that much today. She walks away from the window and heads towards the front door "Goodbye, Mother. I'm going out with Sarah" Cosima was always a good liar but she didn't try and lie all the time.
Cosima steps out and closes the door behind her. She breaths in the cool air, smiling. She heads to the main street and starts walking along the main road, looking around. Cosima knew where she was heading, she couldn't get the blonde out of her head. She sees the shop in view. Cosima gives a small smile, not trying to give anything away to the people walking around in the street. Her family isn't well known but is known for a few things especially as the wedding is coming up only because Marcus is very well known.
Cosima walked a few minutes and stopped in front of the shop, smiling. She looked through the window, noticing Delphine was talking with a woman at the till. Cosima was looking through the window at some of the displays that was on shown for people while walking by. She was waiting for the woman to leave the shop after about 10 minutes she left and Cosima walked in.
The bell rings from the door being open
"Welcome to Madame Cormier-"Delphine stops once she turned around to see who it was "Bonjour, Cosima" Delphine smiles at her "What brings you here?"
"Bonjour, Erm..Can I say that I just wanted to see you?" Cosima was going red as she really didn't have a reason.
"You wanted to see me?" Delphine gives Cosima a small smile and points to herself.
"Well you and your dresses of course" Cosima tries to save herself the embarrassment but making matters worse
Delphine laughs "You are welcome here anytime" She walks to her desk
"When do you go for lunch? Cosima starts with a light conversation to get to know her.
"I get off for lunch in an hour for an hour, If you would like to join me upstairs" She smiles at Cosima
"I would love to join you for lunch" Cosima smiles widely.
In the next hour, Delphine had a lot of customers in asking about different types of dresses. Cosima was either looking through the dresses hundreds of times or were trying different ones on. Cosima noticed that Delphine would look over at her. She didn't know how she felt about this but she knew it was a great feeling.
Delphine closed the door and placed a sign up saying lunch time 1 hour. Cosima was in the changing room, getting back into her clothes. Delphine was waiting outside of the changing room, waiting for her
"Found anything you like?" Delphine asked her, smiling.
"Yes, I most definitely have" Cosima smiles. She blushes slightly, looking at Delphine.
Delphine smirks "Come on, upstairs. We can have some lunch. I only have an hour" She starts walking through the back door. Cosima follows her, she had never been through this part of the shop before. She was walking between boxes on either side of the back entrance, this was obvious that it contains dresses that gets shipped over. Cosima looks up as see a spiral of steps heading upstairs. She walks up the stairs and it leads to a different part of Delphine's place. She looked around.
This must be Delphine's room. Cosima thought as she saw a bed in the far left. Cosima smiles and looks through an open door to see the kitchen. She walks over and stands between the kitchen and the dining room.
"What do you want to eat?" Delphine looked over at Cosima, smiling
"Er, Surprise me" Cosima smiles and takes a sit at the table
Delphine nods and starts getting food out of cupboards.
Delphine started placing the food on plates. She walks over to Cosima, with two plates in her hands and she places one plate in front of Cosima and the other in the seat next to Cosima.
"You are welcome to start eating" Delphine smiles, while she starts cleaning up in the kitchen
"I can do that" Cosima said, sweetly. "Just come sit down and eat" She smiles at Delphine.
Delphine looks over at Cosima giving a little smirk then decides to go eat with Cosima.
The plates were both empty, Cosima was smiling. "That was delicious, what was it?"
Delphine picked the plates up which then got taken from her quickly by Cosima who was already in the Kitchen before she could say anything.
"Well Its quite popular in France" Delphine smiles. "It's called Chicken Cordon bleu"
"Well, it was amazingly tasty and I would always come around if you were cooking that" Cosima turns around slightly to look at Delphine, gave her a quick smile and then turned to carry on cleaning.
"Would you like some wine?" Delphine starts getting to glasses out from the bottom cupboard
"That would be lovely, thank you" Cosima never turned around as she was still cleaning up.
Delphine started pouring the wine into the glasses. Cosima started drying her hands while leaving the dishes and pots to dry.
Cosima sits on top of a cupboard. "I've had a good time today, Delphine" Cosima smiles
"De rien" Delphine smiles "I've had a good time with you as well" She walks over to Cosima handing her a glass which is half full
Cosima didn't care what she said in French, she just carried on smiling. Their hands touch over while giving and taking the glass of wine from each other. Cosima was going red and so was Delphine but only very slightly.
Cosima takes a sip of the wine. "This wine is stronger than other wines I've tasted, where is it from?" Cosima asks very interested in the location of where it was from.
"Well, It was transported over here when I came over, maybe a couple of years ago-"
"Wait, you've been here for a couple of years?...Why haven't I seen you before until yesterday?" Cosima questions started coming out
"Well, I came over when the World War 1 begun, but also my older brother makes some locally around which is quite handy and to your other question was me and my brother take turns in running this shop, so we both get some income to our households"
"That explains a lot but why doesn't he live here with you? actually don't answer that, I'm being very nosey and It's very rude of me to ask so many personal questions" Cosima sips the wine
"Non, non" She smiles, shaking her head in misunderstanding. "I don't mind answering your questions if I get to ask some as well" Delphine chuckles
"Maybe we should get to know each other after you've finished work? We could go out or something, I know some pretty beautiful places, if you'd like to join me?" Cosima chuckles after realising she asked her the same question in two different ways "I'm sorry, I literally just-"
Delphine stopped her "I would love to" She smiles and drinks the last drop of her wine and settles it to the side
"Okay, I'll come over about 8? gives you plenty of time to get ready and that" Cosima smiles. "I should actually get home now, thank you for the amazing food and I'll see you tonight" Cosima waves to Delphine and lets herself out.
Delphine just smiled. She just nodded to what Cosima was saying while her eyes were following her to leaving the room.
Its 8pm
Cosima headed over to Delphine's. She walked up the stairs to the back door and knocked. Cosima was wearing jeans and one of her brother's colourful shirts as she didn't own any for herself. She left a few buttons open, the shirt was a dark red colour. Her mother and father never really let Cosima wear clothes like this as she is a lady but she got herself a few pair of jeans and hides them from her mother.
Delphine rushes over to the door, she wasn't finished getting ready as she was still in her work clothes "Cosima, come in" Then rushes back to her room.
"Am I early?" Cosima walked over to her bedroom door
"Non, non. Some customers came in looking and trying on dresses not long ago and I've only just got up here"
"I can come back later, if it's easier for you"
"Don't be silly, I won't be long. Why don't you sit down and read while I get ready"
Cosima sat at in the armchair and picked up a book that seemed to be half read with a bookmark sticking out of it. The book looked old and it was in French. Cosima placed it back and got up looking for a book. She picked up a book from the biology pile and started reading into immunology. Cosima could hear doors closing and opening. In a minute, she saw Delphine running to the bathroom in nothing but a towel. Cosima stopped reading and decided to sit on the armchair and continued to read.
Delphine walked out of the shower and walked over to her room and looked over at Cosima, she was reading and it was a book on immunology which made her smile go even bigger. She stood there admiring Cosima then after a minute she quickly went into her room and got dressed.
Cosima lost herself in the book, she was always reading about this sort of science but she never had the change to read up on immunology.
"Cosima?" Delphine walks over to her
Cosima looked up, smiling "This is so interesting"
"Now you understand why I love it so much, are we ready to go?" Delphine asks, leaning on one of the dining chairs.
"Er, Yes..Yes" Cosima puts the book back to where she found it.
Delphine chuckles a little "Let's go" Delphine smiles and walks outside
Cosima followed her out
Cosima leads Delphine to a field with a little park in the middle of it. From where they were standing you could just see swings. Cosima looks up and its was very starry. The moon was a quarter but it reminds Cosima of a toenail.
"Where in France are you from?" Cosima looks at her, while walking
"Lille, it's such a beaux place to grown up in. It's in the northern of France, not far from the border line" She smiles, thinking about the beautiful scenery that she remembers of the area.
"You'll have to take me there when you are able to go back" Cosima mentions, smiling "I think I'd like it there"
"You would, are you from here or from somewhere else?" Delphine looks down at her.
"I was born in San Francisco but I've technically lived here nearly all my life" She chuckles "It's a nice place, busy but there are some amazing quiet places there" Cosima nods
"I would love to travel around America, you must take me to San Francisco one time, Oui?"
"Yeah, of course, Delphine" She smiles. Cosima walks into the park and sits on one of the swings, she looks around admiring the nature even looking up at the sky
"It really is beautiful here" Delphine looks around and sits on the swing next to Cosima.
"That's why I took you here" Cosima laughs
"Brat" Delphine mutters then laughs along with Cosima
Cosima looks at Delphine and smiles at her.
Delphine looks at Cosima and smiles back at her.
They stare into each other's eyes.
Cosima looks down at her lips then looks away quickly "Bet I can reach the top before you?" Cosima starts swinging
"That's cheating" Delphine laughs and trying to swing higher than Cosima.
Cosima and Delphine were trying to reach the top before the other but somehow Delphine wins
"How did you get to the top before me?" Cosima laughs
"Because I'm good at this sort of thing" Delphine smirks at Cosima
"What else are you good at?" Cosima looks over at Delphine
"A lot that you don't know" She laughs
Cosima laughs with her. Cosima was still swinging while Delphine stopped. It jolted slightly out of the ground which caused Cosima to slips off the chair to the floor.
"Oh mon Dieu, Are you okay?" Delphine gets off the swing and knees next to Cosima
"Yeah, I'm fine..I might of just sprained my ankle a little bit" She stays lying on the ground, looking at the sky.
Delphine smiles at Cosima and strokes her hair "Are you always clumsy?" She chuckles
"I am not clumsy" Cosima laughs "I just…Maybe a little" Cosima looks up at her
Delphine laughs with Cosima "Brat" Delphine lies next to Cosima
Cosima looks at her then back at the sky "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
"Indeed, it is" Delphine smiles, gazing at the sky
Their hands were just touching by the back of each other's hands. Cosima takes the risk and moves her hand to hold Delphine's hand. Delphine smiles a little and gives Cosima's hand a little squeeze.
Cosima closed her eyes just thinking about this and savouring the moment.
"I've really enjoyed today, Cosima" Delphine says, looking at Cosima. Delphine turns to face Cosima.
"It's nice to have someone in a new place" Delphine continue speaking.
"Yeah it is" Cosima smiles as her eyes open slowly then looks at Delphine.
After a while, Cosima gets up, limping slightly. "Let's head back" She smiles and hands out her hand for Delphine to take. Delphine takes her hand and gets up. They link arms with each other and start walking back to where Delphine lives.
They got back to Delphine's back door
"Do you want to come in more tea or coffee?" Delphine smiled, unlocking the door
"Yes, that would be lovely. Thank you" Delphine walks into her place and Cosima follows her inside. Cosima sits on the armchair, looking over at Delphine.
Delphine was making them both a cup of tea. She walked over to Cosima and handed it to her
"Thank you" She smiles and blows on the tea and sips it.
Delphine stayed standing as there was only one armchair in her living space. So, she was leaning on one of the walls. Cosima noticed this after a few sips of her tea and got up and stood near her.
"You can sit in the armchair if you like?" Cosima smiles behind her cup
"Non, non, it's fine, you should have stayed sitting there" Delphine gives Cosima a light smile.
Cosima leans on the same wall, looking at Delphine.
"Hey, you" Cosima gives Delphine a cheeky smile
"Hey" Delphine went red a little
"Are you going to tell me what this is really all about?" Cosima was slowly getting closer to Delphine
"Hein?" Delphine was slightly confused
Cosima placed her tea down. She placed her hands on either side of Delphine's face and kissed her softly.
Delphine kissed back then after realising that Cosima was engaged. She moved her hand to Cosima's shoulder and pushed her away slightly, looking at Cosima
"Shit, Shit, I'm sorry, Delphine. I just thought- I'm just going to head back home"
In a few seconds, she was out of the door.
In minutes she was in her room, getting into her nightgown.