"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Anderson
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'I'm on to you Cullen!" Jasper narrowed his eyes at Sophie who looked up at me and giggled.
'Just play your move Hale." I winked at Sophie and as I spoke to Jasper.
It was the weekend after I came back from New York and I was spending it at the Cullen mansion at Carlisle's request…not that I needed to be persuaded much. We were all playing monopoly together, sitting on the floor of the living room around a low table. Sophie was on my lap, giggling away and maneuvering the moves on my part. Carlisle gave the two of us content smiles once in a while.
"So besides the horrible end of the trip, how were your interviews, Isabella?" Carlisle asked as he arranged his money on the side of the board.
"They were alright, I guess. They said they have had many applicants and would let me know in a few weeks or so."
"Did you tell your parents about the mishap?" Carlisle put down his money and gave me a serious look.
I shook my head. "No, they'd just freak out for no good reason. Besides, when I think about it now I realize that I got off quite lucky. It could have been much worse if Mr. Cullen wasn't there."
I had already gone through the whole thing at least five times with Alice and explained to Jasper and Carlisle repeatedly how everything was alright. Also, I had made it a point to make sure they all realized just how much Edward had helped me. Alice was a little suspicious at first but Jasper and Carlisle seemed quite relieved and somewhat proud of Edward. They had every right to be.
"Sophie, you can't switch your shoe with my iron in the middle of the game, honey." Alice switched the things back and I gave Sophie a wink since our shoe was currently sitting in jail. She didn't really have any idea what she was doing, but I loved her for instinctively knowing what's best for our team.
At that moment Edward walked into the living room in a suit, his tie loosened at the neck, his sleeves folded up to his elbow, blazer in hand, a briefcase in the other.
Sophie jumped out of my lap in a second and made a run for Edward.
"Jesus, everyone's gathered here? I've been looking all over the house for a sign of some human inhabitation…" Then he groaned. "Oh c'mon! Not that godawful game again…don't you people have better things to do with your lives?"
By now Sophie had reached Edward and he picked her up. She kissed him on the cheek once then patted his hair. He whispered something to her then set her down and she ran back to me and jumped into my lap again.
"Edward hates monopoly," Sophie announced as she took the dice from my waiting hands and rolled them.
"Ok, we will alert the press." Alice said in a mock serious tone then turned her face to him. "Edward, leave us alone."
He turned and left the room immediately and I felt kind of bad for him. He was obviously looking for some company.
We kept playing the game and Alice and Jasper were in the middle of a heated argument about Jasper allegedly stealing money out of the bank when my jaw practically hit the floor. Edward came back into the living room a few minutes after he had left. He had changed into his grey t-shirt and flannels and had a plate of food in his hand as he sat down on the couch above all of us and turned on the TV.
It was the first time I was meeting Edward after Alice and Jasper had picked me up from the gates of their private jet at LA. Before we went to New York, Edward would never come down to sit with his family when I was at his place, and when he did he would normally be in his work clothes and then leave as soon as he could. He never let himself to be comfortable around the house when I was here, and right now, he was sitting on the couch with his legs folded beneath him, his plate of Chinese takeout resting on his lap as he flipped through the channels and sipped his coke. Edward hadn't spoken a word to me this evening, but in his backwards fire breathing dragon way he was telling me that he did not mind me sitting here in his living room playing monopoly with his family.
I looked around the rest of the faces around me to see if they had also noticed this change but if they did, no one showed any signs of it.
"So, Isabella, I remember you spoke about seeing around California when you first arrived. Have you been able to see anything besides LA?" Carlisle started making small talk while we waited for Alice to decide whether or not she wanted to buy Trafalgar Square. We were playing a British version of the game that Carlisle had apparently picked up during one of his trips to London. This family had a thing for Monopoly and Carlisle made it a point to pick up local versions during his trips abroad. I had picked out the British one today.
"No, not really. I haven't really had too much time off work anyways." The truth was that any time I got off I spent with Alice and Jasper or here at the mansion. Honestly, why would I want to travel around on my own when I could be with friends?
"That's a shame. We have occupied far too much of your time I'm afraid. Alice, darling, you must make sure Isabella gets a chance to look around this part of the country while she's here." Carlisle said.
Suddenly Alice's attention was totally gone from Monopoly and I saw the wheels begin to turn in her head. Oh, no.
"That's an excellent idea! Let's go on a road-trip around Cali!" Her voice was really excited and her eyes were risking popping out of their sockets.
"That sounds fun Alice but I don't have that much time off." I tried to rein her in a little.
"We could go on a short day trip or something." Jasper said with a shrug.
"That's right! We can go tomorrow. We were all going to sit around and be boring all day anyways. Isabella, where do you want to go?"
I took a look at the excitement on her face and realized this could actually be quite fun. "Um…I don't really have a preference..."
Alice rolled her eyes. "C'mon…you can do better than that."
"How long does it take to drive to San Diego?" I asked.
"Oooh San Diego will be perfect! We can leave in the morning and have lunch there. Then we can hit the town and go around a little and drive back later in the afternoon. Yay, this is going to be so much fun!"
"Can I come too?" Sophie asked eagerly, looking up at me from my lap. I looked at Carlisle to see what he thought of that.
"But darling, I thought we were going to the zoo tomorrow. Would you rather go on a drive with them?" He pouted a little at Sophie.
"No! No! The zoo! I want to go to the zoo!" Sophie corrected herself quickly and Carlisle gave her an indulgent smile.
"Edward, you want to come with us?" Jasper asked from his side and Alice and I turned our heads in Edward's direction.
"No I'm busy." He said as he took a bite of his chicken and kept his eyes on the TV.
"C'mon man. It's a Saturday. How busy can you be? The pictures can wait a day to develop you know." Jasper smirked a little at the end and I gave Alice a quizzical look. She just shook her head a little, indicating I didn't want to know. Edward gave Jasper a quick glare then went back to his TV.
Carlisle and I looked at each other once and shared a polite smile. He and I both knew that I was the reason Edward didn't want to go.
"Oh, hey! I know. We can take the Vanquish. Ed man, you can drive it all the way there and back. How often does it get the chance to spread its wings for that long, dude?"
Edward's eyes flickered away from the TV for a moment but then went back to it. I smiled a little inwardly. His resolve was breaking. That's all it took to get over being irritated over my presence? A car? Jeez, his hatred for me must not be as bad as I thought it was. Then I slapped myself inwardly. I had admitted just a few minutes ago that he was indeed more tolerant of me now. God, I was just as bad as him sometimes.
Alice chimed in then. "C'mon you big baby. Come with us. We won't bite."
Edward groaned then and got up from the couch and left the room. We resumed the game while Alice started coming up with things we could do in San Diego. After a few minutes I got a little thirsty and ran to the kitchen to get a drink before it was my turn to play again.
I stopped in the kitchen doorway a little when I saw Edward there, putting his plate and glass into the dishwasher. As relaxed as he had been in the living room, I didn't know if that meant he thought it would be alright for me to greet him now and I didn't want to take the risk. So I quietly walked on the opposite side of the counter from him and went to the fridge to retrieve the drink I had come there to get.
It took me a few moments to try to decide which drink to pick out of all the different kinds they had in the fridge and finally I decided on a Sprite and almost jumped when I heard his voice.
"Did you get all your stuff replaced? Your ID and bank cards and stuff?" He asked without looking up from the dishwasher where he was arranging the plates in a neat row.
"Yeah, most of it." I answered.
He nodded and turned to leave.
"Sorry I didn't get to say goodbye to you before I left at the airport." I added quickly before he was gone.
"That's difficult to do when you are being physically hauled by the devil herself." He looked at me over his shoulder.
"Thank you for everything. I owe you a big one." I told him sincerely.
The next morning I woke up early as usual. I picked out a sleeveless black top, faded dark jeans and black flip flops for the trip to San Diego and went to take a shower. After the shower I curled my hair a little so that it fell in loose waves all over my shoulders. When I came down to the kitchen Jasper and Alice were ready to go. Jasper wore a tan shirt and khakis, while Alice had on a baby pink sundress. We all grabbed a quick cup of coffee before leaving. Carlisle came down and joined us for coffee, then followed us to say bye as we made our way out of the house. All four of us stopped our chatter when we stepped out the main door and saw Edward standing in the driveway.
He was standing next to his black Aston Martin Vanquish with its roof down, fiddling with a large camera in his hands. It looked like one of those cameras that professional photographers go around with, and from the way he was handling the thing it looked like he knew what he was doing. He was wearing a white v-neck t-shirt, dark jeans and sunglasses, which made it pretty obvious that he was coming with us to San Diego.
He noticed his audience after a few moments and looked up. He rolled his eyes when he saw the shocked looks on our faces.
"Spare me all the drama and just get the hell in." He grumbled as he got into the driver's seat.
"Shotgun!" Jasper called and ran to the passenger side.
"Well, I'll be damned. I guess he doesn't go up in flames in the sunlight after all." Alice murmured as she walked towards the car and got into the backseat.
"I heard that." Edward warned.
Carlisle turned to me and put his arm around my shoulder and gave me a squeeze. "Have a nice day, Isabella."
"Thanks, you too. Tell the animals I said hello." I smiled at him and then got into the back with Alice.
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We were waiting in the gas station. I was in the car playing with the focus of my Nikon, hoping for queen Alice's safe return after her trip to the rest room. Of course she had to gulp down all that water and now she had to pee every fucking 15 minutes and of course a normal rest room won't do so she has to go into the employee bathrooms and make them clean it for her every fucking time. Jasper was pumping gas into the car while Dr. Swan stood beside him and stretched her legs.
She was taking lazy sips from her own water bottle and looking around herself languidly. Her eyes suddenly focused on the back of Jasper's head and lit up with a hint of mischief. Before I knew it, she sprinkled a little water from her bottle on Jasper and hid the bottle behind herself immediately. I raised my eyebrows at her behavior, but was intrigued to see how far she'd go so I kept my mouth shut.
Jasper's hand shot to the back of his neck where the water had landed and he turned to look behind him. He gave Dr. Swan a suspicious look but since there was no evidence of her holding any water he kept looking behind him then threw a glance above him to see where the water came from. She did that one more time and this time Jasper looked at her with conviction.
"Really Swan? You wanna start a water fight?"
"What! Get over yourself Jasper. Like I have nothing better to do." Her eyes were wide and innocent but there was a hint of a smile threatening to break out on her face.
"It WAS you, wasn't it? Oh, you are in so much trouble…" He grabbed the water bottle from her, that she had now revealed, and sprinkled a little water at her.
"Hey! That's not very nice you know. I did that because I was bored. You have no good reason and you are totally messing up my make up." She said in a serious voice. He gave her a moment then sprinkled some more water on her. She first gave out a squeak then grabbed the bottle from his hand. Before any of us knew it, she actually held the bottle over his head and poured down a bunch of water and drenched his face and shoulders.
Jasper looked at her in shock and she broke out in laughter.
He turned to look at me, the shock still frozen on his face. I shrugged and gave him a look that said, "I told you not to become friends with her", and returned my attention to my camera.
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The sun was shining and I was driving just above the speed limit. We had the roof of the Vanquish down and the wind whipped my hair as I adjusted my sunglasses. I was trying hard to focus on enjoying the gorgeous drive and drown out Alice's relentless blabbering. Currently she was going on about her yoga classes and how they improved her coordination.
Dr. Swan was sitting right behind me. I looked at her through the rear-view mirror and noticed that she had this happy smirk plastered to her face as she listened to Alice. I knew that victorious smirk; she had it when she had done something mischievous and gotten away with it. She had given it to me a few times in the past.
"Hey Alice, you know you can always ask Dr. Swan to give you some pointers. Her coordination is great." I said to Alice while I kept my eyes on Dr. Swan.
Her eyes widened and her face turned red as she gave me a glare through the rear-view mirror. I smirked, satisfied with the reaction.
"What are you talking about?" Alice whined.
"In New York…she fell on her ass in the ice ring trying to be all cocky about her skating skills."
Dr. Swan groaned and looked out the window.
"You fell on your ass?" Jasper roared out in laughter. He turned and bumped his fist with mine, silently thanking me for getting back at her on his behalf.
"Wait, when the hell did you two go skating? And…" Smack! I felt a strong punch on my shoulder and winced in pain before I had a chance to react. "You made her fall on the ice?"
Dr. Swan leaned forward and pulled Alice back into the seat. "No one made me fall. I fell on my own. Stop getting violent with the driver or you'll kill us all."
I looked in the rearview mirror again and smiled when I noticed the previously satisfied expression on her face was now transformed into a scowl.
My phone started ringing some time later with Sophie's ringtone. I smiled as I looked at the time. She had probably just woken up and ran to the phone to talk to me.
"Bonjour chérie."
"HiEdwardWhere'sBella?" She said in one breath.
My face fell immediately as I realized I wasn't the one she wanted to talk to.
"She's right here. Hold on." I held the phone behind my head and waggled it in the air. "It's for you." I grumbled. Dr. Swan gave me a look over the rear-view mirror then reached for the phone. The damn smirk was back on her face.
"Hi sweetie!" She said cheerily as she pressed the phone to her ear. "We're fine…just driving." She paused for a few seconds then gave out a chuckle. "No Sophie, I promise you we are not fighting." Pause. "Yes, I'll tell you if he's mean before I put a magic curse on him."
I rolled my eyes and Jasper waggled his eyebrows at me. "Magic curse, watch out for those man."
"Yeah, like you watched out for that little shower you got earlier?" I shot back.
That shut him right up.
"Sophie, I'm telling you sweetie, we won't. You don't need to worry…." She paused for a few seconds listening then sighed. "Ok." Then she leaned forward so her face was just beside mine. "Sophie needs us to promise her that we won't fight on his trip."
Then she held the phone in front of my face, waiting for me to say something. I gave her a look that said, "What the hell?"
She just held it there so finally I gave her an eye roll and murmured an "I promise" into the phone. She put it to her ear and said the same thing. Sophie seemed to be satisfied with that and hung up afterwards.
When we arrived at San Diego, Alice gave me directions for the restaurant she wanted us to eat at. After we stuffed ourselves full with seafood at a place called Truluck's, we went around the city a little and then we went down to the waterfront. The view of the city from this angle was amazing and I pulled out my camera. Alice made some jokes about the size of my humongous lens and how I was some wannabe photographer, but I ignored her easily as I lost myself in the process of capturing the beauty of the afternoon.
The sun was sending slanted rays over the horizon now and it cast amazing lights on each surface. I kept falling behind the rest of them as I got captivated by something through the lens and snapped away from different angles.
"Well if you are going to be pointing that thing at absolutely everything, the least you could do is capture the most beautiful part of the view." Alice said in a sing-song voice, and I looked up from the camera to see what she was referring to.
She had her arm wrapped around Dr. Swan's shoulder and smiled at me expectantly as she posed next to her. Dr. Swan, however, looked quite uncomfortable and squirmed to get herself free from Alice's clutches.
"Where's the most beautiful part?" I asked, even though I already knew what she was going to say.
"You're looking at it, moron. We are! Now take the damn picture." Alice squeezed Dr. Swan closer to herself who gave Alice a disgusted look and tried to get away.
"Man Alice, you are so strong! Let me go." Dr. Swan struggled away.
"Edward, take the damn picture before she breaks my arm." Alice still had a smile plastered to her face as she posed for the picture.
"I don't want to take pictures! Let me go, damn it." Dr. Swan said in an irritated voice.
"Isabella, stop fidgeting and stand still for the picture."
"Take it yourself! Why do I need to be in it?" Dr. Swan almost shrieked as she tried to yank herself away from Alice's grip.
"What is your problem?" Alice let her go and asked.
"I don't like taking pictures of myself. I am not photogenic. I look horrible them." Dr. Swan said with a frown.
Alice rolled her eyes. "No wonder you have a picture from college as your Facebook profile picture. We are going to change that Isabella. Edward, quick, take one of her on her own."
Dr. Swan gave me a horrified look then turned around and quickly walked over to Jasper. She grabbed his elbow and pulled him along with her as she briskly walked away from us.
"That girl has some serious issues." I told Alice.
She sighed exasperatedly then suddenly yelled out. "Isabella! Come back here and don't try to run away from me." Then she took off after Jasper and Dr. Swan.
I shook my head for a few seconds then resumed photographing the beautiful afternoon.
I felt a little hungry after some time and suggested we buy hot dogs. Alice and Jasper declined, saying they were still too full from lunch, while Dr. Swan and I each bought a hotdog with mustard only. We shared a curious look when we ordered the same thing, but it's not like I copied her order or anything. I don't care if she went first and I can't fucking help it if she orders hers in the same way I do.
Dr. Swan and Alice walked a little ahead of us while Jasper and I walked behind them, browsing through some of the pictures of my camera.
Dr. Swan went into a store and came back after a few minutes holding two bottles of water in her hands. She walked to me and Jasper instead of towards Alice and handed me one of the bottles. I gave her a quizzical look to which she answered, "I was thirsty after the hot dog. Figured you might be too.", then walked back to Alice.
I frowned a little as I took a big gulp of water from the bottle when she wasn't watching. I wasn't just thirsty, I was the fucking Sahara.
Jasper kept glancing through some of the pictures and smirked. I glared at him as I asked, "What the hell is your problem?"
"Nothing," he said and shook his head but kept his eyes on the camera the whole time.
When we were walking down a street with some stores, Alice caught sight of a designer store and saw a pair of shoes in the window that she had apparently been dying to get her hands on. She pulled Jasper and Dr. Swan each by one arm to go inside but Dr. Swan wriggled herself free saying she wanted to buy something for Sophie from a handmade jewelry store down the street. I walked down the street aimlessly as each of them disappeared into stores. When I came to the end of the street, looked at the harbor in front of me through the lens and was trying to decide on a frame. Right then, Dr. Swan came back out from the jewelry store and walked right into the frame of the picture I was about to snap. The wind was blowing from behind her and messing up her hair, which she repeatedly kept pushing out of her face. The sun had by now settled down further in the horizon and it was sending lights from the harbor behind her. It was lighting her up from behind and I was quite startled to realize how beautiful the frame looked. I snapped a few pictures then walked closer to her. She still hadn't noticed me and I bent my knees a little so I could angle the camera from a little under her face and called her name. She looked up and her eyes fell straight on the lens. Almost half of her face was covered behind her hair and I snapped a picture like that before she had a chance to react.
"What are you doing!" she asked in an incredulous voice.
"Really, Dr. Swan. A picture from college as your profile picture?" Then I gave her my evil smirk and walked back to the store where Alice and Jasper were at. After they were done we got back into the car and started the drive back home.
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I was holding Sophie's hand and we were walking up the stairs to go to her room so I could tuck her into bed at her request. We had come back from our trip a few hours ago and after she told us all about her day at the zoo and asked us a million questions about our trip she had gotten sleepy.
Carlisle was coming out of a room of the second floor just when we arrived at the landing and I noticed a grand piano behind him in the room. My eyes widened at the sight of it and Carlisle turned around to see what I was looking at.
"Everything ok Isabella?"
I nodded then quickly looked at him. "You have a grand piano." I stated.
He looked at the piano once then back at me. "Well, yes. Haven't you seen it before? I thought Alice showed you the music room when she gave you a tour of the house."
I shook my head. I guess Alice didn't think the room was important enough to be shown. Besides, I hadn't actually gone inside most of the rooms when she had given me the grand tour of the mansion one of the first times I came here. She had just pointed out various rooms and I had nodded along.
"Do you play?" Carlisle asked.
I shrugged a shoulder. "I learned when I was a teenager. But I've never played on anything like that." I gestured towards the magnificent piano behind him.
"Well you are of course welcome to put that thing to use whenever you like. It might be a little out of tune though. It's been sitting around for years without anyone really using it."
I looked at him with eager eyes. "Are you sure? You don't mind?"
Carlisle was now smiling at me expression. "Of course not."
Sophie and I continued up to her room and after she had brushed her teeth I ran a brush through her long brown hair before tucking her into bed. I sat down next to her on the bed as I tucked the blanket around her tightly, like she had asked me to do the first time I had tucked her in weeks ago.
"Is there anything else you need, Princess?" I asked.
She nodded and nodded towards the doll of Tinker Bell that lay on her nightstand. I picked it up and tucked it into her arms under the blanket.
"So you really like the zoo, huh?" I asked her.
She nodded again. "Grandpa takes me there whenever he is home in the weekends." Then her eyes lit up as she thought of something. "Will you come with me some time? I don't think my friends have ever met a fairy before." I had heard her refer to the animals as her "friends" earlier when she was telling us about her day and I smiled.
"Of course. I would love to meet them. We will go some time." I promised.
"They were very happy when I told them today that I have a fairy now."
I smiled. "Yes you do." Then I added as an afterthought. " And they can have me too you know. I can be all of their fairy too."
Her eyes lit up again. "Yeah?"
I poked her nose lightly. "Yeah. I'll be a fairy for all your friends."
Suddenly she sat right up and the covers fell down on her lap. She still clutched Tinker to herself as she asked me with a very serious look. "Bella, will you be Edward's too?"
I looked at her for a few seconds before I realized what she was asking. "Oh, sweetie…Edward doesn't need a fairy. He's a grown up, he can take care of himself."
She shook her head quickly, making her hair fly all around herself. "No, no, he can't. He is sad all the time. You can put a happy spell on him."
I made her lie back down and tucked the covers around her again. "Ok you know what, you go to sleep now and I will think about it."
"No, Bella. You promised you'd be a fairy to all my friends. He is my Edward. Please, please, turn him happy."
She looked at me with big eyes and I saw tears behind her lids that threatened to drop any moment now. My heart broke for this little girl who apparently worried so much for her uncle. I quickly said what she wanted to hear to make her happy again.
"Ok Sophie. Don't be sad sweetie. I will be Edward's fairy too."
Her face relaxed a little. "Thank you Bella."
I kissed her on the forehead and stayed with her until she fell asleep.
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Later that night, after having been assured by Carlisle that the music room was soundproofed and I wouldn't disturb anyone, I went downstairs and turned on the lights to illuminate the beautifully decorated room. There were shelves filled with hundreds of books on one wall while another one was filled with music. I ran my fingers through rows of vinyl records, LPs, and CDs that filled the shelves with music of all genres and times. I thought I had a pretty good idea about who was responsible for filling the shelves and smiled.
Finally, I turned to the enormous black piano sitting in the middle of the room and ran my fingers on the shiny surface. I sat down on the black leather bench and softly started pressing random keys to test out the sounds. After I had played around for a while I started playing one of the tunes that I knew by heart. Pretty soon, I lost myself in the music, as I always did and closed my eyes while my fingers ran through the keys on their own accord.
When I finished the piece I just sat there with my fingers still touching the keys for some time.
"Liebestraume."
I turned my head to see Edward leaning with his shoulder on the doorway. I nodded at him. I was playing Liebestraume.
"You're not half bad."
I raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, but I'm better than half bad."
He just stood there and I got uncomfortable with the silence so spoke first. "You like Liszt?"
"No, but I'm familiar with that piece. Where'd you learn it?" He said as he pushed himself off the frame and walked into the room.
"It's the first real piece I learned." I told him.
"Your teacher had good taste."
I nodded my head in agreement. He had no idea.
He walked over to the wall filled with music and started pulling out CDs. "You can keep playing. I just wanted to get some music. I'll be out of your way in a sec."
I shrugged even though he couldn't see. I didn't mind having an audience. I started playing the piece again.
"Do you play?" I asked him over the sound of the piano.
He just shook his head. After a while he turned his head slightly to me.
"You play that part too fast. It needs to be slower."
I laughed genuinely with all my heart. "My teacher used to say the exact same thing. But I like this part to go a little faster." Then to demonstrate my point I went back and played the part again, just a little faster than the last time.
"Showoff," he muttered and shook his head but kept his back to me. I smirked but kept playing. He walked to the door with a bunch of CDs in hand then turned towards me just before he turned the knob.
"Um…do you mind terribly if I listen?"
"No," I replied, then added as an afterthought. "As long as you keep your mouth shut about my pace. Or about any other critique you may have on my wonderful piano playing skills."
"I cannot promise you that, Dr. Swan." He told me honestly.
I smirked at him and kept playing. Edward put his CDs down on a side table and picked out a book from the other wall. Then he walked across the room to a large easy chair that was placed at a sitting area adjacent to the bookshelves. He leaned back on it with his feet up on the table in front of it and read his book.
We sat like that for a couple of hours. He read through almost half of his book and was so still that I didn't even notice him there after a while and was totally lost in my music. I played all the pieces by Liszt that I knew one after another that evening.
A/N: Whadya kids think? Are they going forward in their twisted way or is it all just in my head? Should they keep fighting a bit longer? Or is it about time sweet music starts to flow?