Chapter tres~ yay~!

"Aurora's thoughts"

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No one to adopt me? Ha!

A few years have passed, I am now five years old and quite a bit has happened. When I turned two Heine decided to teach me how to read more complicated books, developing my comprehension skill and write, to do that he had me write short sentences every day on what I learned that day. By the age of three, I could read and write at a 10-year-old level which made Heine very proud. Before the age of four things happened.

I was allowed out with the other children to socialize with kids my age. I knew children could be cruel but that was a new level of cruelty towards a three-year-old. I have come to learn that I had a very serious face and it seemed to have created a problem for me. My serious face led the children to believe that I was unfriendly and left me alone. That was not the main problem, the problem came after. The result of children leaving me alone made a small group of older kids, around six years old, decided it would be a good idea to have me as their personal punching bag for whenever something went wrong in their lives, that treatment came with insults that were along the lines of me never getting adopted.

"They will regret this"

The nuns would start to wonder where was I getting my bruises, though, I have the suspicion that they told Heine or that he somehow knows. I would have told the nuns but they would just tell me god would make them pay. Well if God does not hurry, I will take care of them myself! I recognized those kids from one of Heine's classes and they seemed to hate being there. On my birthday during their daily beating, they started whining about how Heine was not qualified to be a teacher and that he should go back to school himself.

Something in me snapped, I quickly stood up and stopped the main kid's punch before it reached me

"what did you just say?" I growled surprising them "I dare you to repeat that!"

One kid got filled with courage and came up to me "he said that Professor Heine is not qualified to be a teacher"

I laughed "he is more qualified than all of you will ever be put together"

That pissed them off, the main kid was the first to react violently and went to punch me, I sidestepped and guided his punch past me quickly using his own momentum I flipped him. With their leader on the floor, the rest surrounded me in an attempt to avenge his fallen comrade.

"insult me all you want, I don't care" I glared fiercely at them "but never insult someone I care about, especially Professor Heine!"

Then Heine came out from behind a nearby tree. To me, he seemed a bit out of breath yet his eyes held controlled rage

"why does he look so freaking pissed?!"

"violence does not solve problems" Heine scolded then looked at the group of kids "if you had problems with the subject in class you should have come to me"

The kids looked down, even their leader who stood up when Heine came out from behind the tree looked as if he was the one who took the beating.

"when you have problems with something you should discuss it with someone to come to a solution" Heine advised then glared at them "taking it out on someone who is not at fault, especially my child, is not a solution"

My eyes widen

"He called me his child!"

"I will suspend you five for a week due to misconduct, use this time to rethink your way of confronting problems," he says as he got closer and picked me up.

The group of kids just stood there watching as we left. When Heine and I reached the infirmary, he sat me on the counter like that time with the roses incident and flicked my forehead

"Ow!" I yelped rubbing my forehead

"why didn't you tell me?" He asked, concern and worry with a hint of rage still left in his eyes

"I didn't want to bother you" I mumbled while rubbing my forehead

"Aurora, you would never be a bother to me" Heine looked straight into my eyes

Tears started clouding my vision

"also" he took out a folded piece of paper and gave it to me" this is for you"

I took it and looked at him, he looked a bit nervous yet excited

"what did he do?"

I read through a boatload of complicated words when it hit me

"these are adoption papers!"

I reached the end of the paper and I could not believe it

"I thought earlier was an accident but no he is serious! I am his child now!"

Tears were rolling down my cheeks as I looked at him then despite my body being in pain from the beating, I launch myself off the counter wrapping my arms around his neck in a tight hug

"best birthday present ever!" I cheered tearfully

He returned the hug just as tight

That was an interesting fourth birthday. My name is now Aurora Wittgenstein! My bed would have been moved into Heine's room but due to his room being messy and small, it did not fit so we reached the conclusion that I could just sleep in his bed with him. It's nice waking up next to someone who you know cares about you.

Instead of standing by the door of his class every day, I would help him and by the week of me knowing that I became his kid most of the church knew since on the first day of me actively helping he proudly introduced me as his daughter to his class and announced that I would be helping him. Some kids recognized me from when he picked me up and did his lecture with me sleeping on his shoulder. During his lecture, I would sit at his desk with blank papers and pencils in an attempt to learn more and be able to help the students along with him.

Heine noticed and subtly left the worksheets that the class would work on for the day on for me to do as well along with the class. Math or as they call it Arithmancy was by far the most difficult subject for me. I still tried but damn it was difficult. Heine would have to explain the same thing in multiple ways multiple times before I got it. He still has not figured out how to teach me more efficiently but props to him for still trying and not getting massively annoyed with my constant asking.

Took me two years to reach the level Heine teaches after he realized that I should start from the beginning despite my whining to not start from the beginning but as he kept going, I found myself understanding things way better and with that, he found a way to teach me efficiently. He used candy to motivate me to keep improving. It worked well; I would do almost anything in exchange for candy! By age seven I was officially Heine's little apprentice and he had a box full of my academic achievements with him.

For my eighth birthday, he took me to a little café in the city. It was warm and cosy. The staff was kind and quick. When we came in, Heine whispered something to one of the servers, who smiled and nodded.

"dad, what are you planning?" I asked curiously

"you'll see" he gave me a small smile

We sat across from each other; I kicked my feet since I could not reach the floor yet. We talked about random things, asked if I was still doing the 'one thing I learned that day' writing.

"yes, I am" I smile fondly "even though I know how to write now, I will continue doing since it was the first assignment you gave me dad" a blush adorned my cheeks "and it became a habit after doing it for so long"

He chuckled" I'm glad you enjoyed your first homework"

Then a group of servers came over to our table, including the one Heine whispered to, with a slice of chocolate cake with a small candle on top. The server placed it in front of me, the slice had a small card that read

To My Little Princess

Happy Birthday Aurora

A huge smile formed on my face as I reread the nickname he gave me

"don't cry now"

The servers started singing and the whole café joined, hell even Heine was singing. I blew off the candles with a giggle while the whole café clapped then they dispersed.

"Happy birthday my little princess" dad whispered smiling softly

"thank you, papa," my smile would have gotten wider if it were possible

That was the best birthday right after the day he adopted me! Yeah, I ended up tearing up a bit anyway.


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