It was strange, despite the food fight being only a dream, Cyan's clothes was filthy. Cyan knew it didn't make much sense, since what happened in dreams don't normally come true. If that'd be the case, Grandpa Apple would already be retired; he would tell them having drempt of gold and a fancy old castle in the Highlands of Scotland. She remembered stories of characters dreaming of their deaths and later in life, the characters faced the same demise as they did in their dreams. Other stories explain the dreams were visions of the future or wishes the heart makes like in Cinderella and the Chinese's version where the slippers were in the appearance of golden fish, instead of glass. Cyan never had these kinds of dreams until Agatha gave her those candies and she began to wonder if Agatha had anything to do with it. However, she realized she was fortunate that her dream was about the hot-tempered prince and the ball. It would have been a nightmare if she drempt of being married to Gaston.
"Are you coming to breakfast or not?! Everyone else is still asleep so we can a larger portion before the others are awake!" Cole snapped her out of her thoughts. He was still waiting below in his room and he was getting impatient waiting for her to climb down.
"I'm coming!" Cyan yelled back at him before walking toward the attic door.
She slowly climbed down the ladder, followed Cole out of his room and into the small kitchen. They were following the smell of bacon and the sound of pancakes being flipped onto a plate. Their mouths watered from the intoxicating aroma of the sizzling bacon, hearing it crackle and popping in a pan, and they were imagining tasting the fluffy pancakes along with sweet fruits as a side. They were relieved that they couldn't smell heavy whiskey or any alcohol which meant Satin Sally was cooking. The circus members had members who could cook and who was banned from the kitchen. Satin Sally and Grandpa Apple is two of the best cooks in the circus, but no one wants to ask them to cook together because of their bad temper. Valjean made it mandatory that the knives would be removed if the two started arguing in the kitchen. Satin Sally and Grandpa Apple are good cooks; however, they had different ways of cooking. Grandpa Apple would always include alcohol into the food even if it was pancakes or just fruit. It tastes good on bananas with caramel, but Cyan didn't want a boozy breakfast. He also would use pig fat if he didn't have alcohol and it didn't taste good on anything except meat.
Satin Sally takes her time making breakfast because it was her only chance to have time for herself. She knew that hardly any of the members want to wake up at the ungodly early hours and so it gave her some space to breathe as she cooked up delicious foods for her circus family. Cyan and Cole remembered Satin Sally telling them her mother used to make the best pancakes and how she used to walk to the chicken's pen to get the eggs to make it. It took at least six or seven eggs to make it extra fluffy and sometimes, she would add vanilla syrup into the wet mix to make it taste sweet. Satin Sally made sure they had fruits to go with breakfast and would add blueberries or strawberries into the pancakes.
"Mornin, mama." Cole called out from the doorway. His mother was finishing up a pancake in the pan when Cole scared her and she thrusts the pan up and the pancake flew on Cyan's face. The pancake itself was fully cooked, but it was burning hot.
"Hot!" Cyan screamed and threw the pancake across the room.
"Oh, mijo! Don't scare me like that!" Satin Sally breathed and clenched the fabric around her chest.
"Sorry mama. But you told me to wake up Cyan for breakfast." Cole explained.
"And I get a hot pancake on my face. It will scar me for the rest of my life. I am officially scared of breakfast." Cyan said in a mocking tone. She stared at the pancake that was now stuck on the wall and began to wonder if it was tasty enough to eat off the wall or if she should leave it alone when a fly landed on the center of the pancake.
"You can eat that pancake if you want to keep teasing me, Cyan." Satin Sally pointed her spatula at her adopted daughter. She smirked as Cyan quickly shook her head at the comment. Cyan loved her adopted mother's breakfast and she didn't want to try and find an alternative breakfast if Satin Sally banned her from her food for that morning only.
"Please, don't do that!" Cyan almost begged.
"I'm kidding you. Get a plate and eat before you starve until lunch." Her adopted mother laughed to herself. Her children quickly made their way to the plates on the table though the siblings fought over who should get the first plate and be the first one to eat Satin Sally's delicious food. It warmed her heart to see them wanting to eat her food. They were lucky to be able to eat delicious food because Satin Sally wasn't that fortunate as a child.
When Satin Sally was a young girl, her family lived in a poor village in Spain and sometimes they had to go to bed hungry if her father couldn't bring in money. As a result, it was very important for the little girls to learn how to be a perfect wife. It was a dream among them to find a rich man and marry him so they didn't have to worry about paying taxes or doing chores because they were servants to do their bidding. The man can be of royal blood or just be a merchant with wealthy connections and the wife will have an easy life. However, Satin Sally didn't have that kind of a dream; her parents dreampt of her future for her. Her mother taught her how to cook, how to clean the house, and how to take care of her husband. Her father had the most important job of the family: putting a price on his daughter's hand in marriage. Satin Sally's father wanted to see if any of his daughters suitors would be willing to pay for her hand without trying to hassling a bargain for his precious little girl. However, Satin Sally knew there was going to be men with darken hearts because they would either want a pretty wife to show off his status or a concubine on the side if his real wife isn't on his mind. She didn't want to be that kind of a wife nor did she wanted to be worth the price of two donkeys and a bag of thirty-two silver pieces.
Satin Sally had five suitors come to her door every three days to see if she was worth the price and one of them would try and lower the pieces of silver to make her be his wife. Her father wouldn't allow it so the price remained thirty-two. The disheartened suitor would leave, but he would come back to see if her father will change his mind later. It was fortunate when Valjean came into her small village one day and offered to pay her father the donkeys and forty silver pieces. Back then, Valjean was a strapping young man though his clothes were full of holes and he looked more like a beggar than a ringleader of a circus. Satin Sally remembered how two of her suitors would try to reason with her father to make him think Valjean couldn't take care of his daughter. However, these were the same men who tried to make him lower the price and her father wondered if these suitors should stay here. He wanted to make sure his daughter was well cared for and cherished like a woman should be. If these men kept harping to lower the price of silver on her, they were not the right husband for her. He gave Valjean his blessings to take Satin Sally and so, she was allowed to travel with him. It was bittersweet for her; she was going to miss her parents, but now she was able to travel outside her small village and see the world. Unfortunately, she realized Valjean thought he purchased a member for his circus when she tried to climb into his bed that night. She had to explain to him that he bought her as a wife. The poor ringleader fainted and slept on the floor while Satin Sally slept warmly in his makeshift bed.
Satin Sally wanted her children to have a comfortable life instead of a monotone life she had before Valjean bought her. She wanted them to marry a person who would cherish them despite their personalities and appearance. Cole was still too young to be thinking about girls; at his age, he preferred pranks and the circus' baby elephant. Cyan was old enough to be married, but unlike Satin Sally, Cyan didn't have a lot of suitors. The only suitor that stood out was Gaston and he was nothing but trouble to the circus. None of the members wanted the hunter to be near Cyan, but they won't speak out unless she needed help. Cyan's personality should eventually be enough to drive the big-headed Gaston away.
"Cyan, what in God's name have you done to your night dress?!" Satin Sally screeched when she noticed the red and brown stains on Cyan. The red-head was in mid-chew on her pancakes when her adopted mother called her out. She looked down at herself and saw the stains then realized she forgotten about them. Cyan was too focused on her breakfast that she forgotten about the stains.
"Hm? What stains?" Cyan asked, tucking her night gown between her legs.
"Cyan, I can still see the stains."
"No, you can't. You must be getting older fast because your eyesight is lying to you."
"Cadence Elizabeth Regina Antebellum!" Satin Sally shouts at her. Cyan could tell she was getting annoyed and reminding the Spanish dancer was getting old made her angry.
"Oh God, my full name." Cyan muttered under her breath.
"I maybe getting old, but I know a dirty nightdress when I see it. Did you have a couple drinks with the old burro and Jacque?" Satin Sally narrowed her eyes at Cyan and folded her arms.
"No, ma'am." Cyan shook her head fast. Meanwhile, Cole stole one of Cyan's pancakes and two pieces of sliced apples.
"Are you sure?" Her adopted mother raised her left eyebrow suspiciously.
"I wouldn't touch that foul liquid."
"You could be right. This looks like fancy red wine and we only carry cheap wine. Neither Jacque or the old burro have went into town to get more wine. Where in God's name did you even find pudding?!" Satin Sally asked while kneeling down to examine the stains. It was rare for the circus to even get pudding because it was a luxury food to them. They would only get pudding when it was the Christmas season because it went well as dessert after they eaten their small roast goose and potatoes.
"M-Maybe the pudding came from the vendor you bought the nightdress from?" Cyan nervously suggested. She didn't want to tell her about her dream and the possible reason why her outfit was stained. She was afraid of the dancer not believing her. Cyan already had Gaston criticizing on how she acted and she didn't want to lose the support of her adopted mother. Satin Sally would probably believe her because she knew Cyan wouldn't tell lies about this. Nevertheless, the young lady wanted to be cautious before she tells anyone her assumptions.
"You could be right. The vendor was a hard one to haggle. The bruja of a woman had a lot of pretty colorful dresses, but she wanted twenty pounds per dress and she wanted to to sell the accessories and jewels for half a crown! I bet she keeps underpaid workers to sew her dresses or she bought them from Paris and altered them! How can women be so vain about pricing dresses by their design?!" Satin Sally ranted.
It didn't surprise Cyan and Cole if their mother became distracted with her rants and if they were lucky, she would forget what they were talking about and continue to talk about what was bugging her that day. It was a miracle Satin Sally wasn't thrown out of town if she had to argue with the vendor just for Cyan's present. She was almost thrown in jail for trying to argue with a toy shop owner when she tried to get Cole a birthday present. He wanted a new toy soldier for his sixth birthday and Satin Sally wanted to make sure he got what he wanted. It took Valjean and Phillip an hour to drag her away from the shop before the owner could call the guards on her. Cole did get a toy soldier, but it was handmade by one of the knife throwers and crudely painted by Grandpa Apple. He loved the toy and he still has the toy in his room.
"Let's get this cleaned before the stains set in." Satin Sally told Cyan and quickly made her stand up from her chair.
"I can take this off myself!" Cyan insisted.
"Listen to your mother and take off your dress before I hogtie your hands again." Satin Sally sternly said.
It scared Cyan and the members if they saw Satin Sally tie up one of the members if they were being stubborn. They would often forget she grew up in a small village and she had to learn how to keep a pig from running away when it was going to be either moved into another pen or killed for dinner. The woman had muscles hidden under her delicate, blue dancing dress and Grandpa Apple was always a victim because he was the most stubborn member in the circus. Cyan had no choice but to submit to her. Satin Sally untied the dark blue sarong and the teal sash from Cyan's waist and grabbed the end of her nightdress. She carefully pulled the dress up toward Cyan's head which made her show her white, fluffy bloomers and a gray undershirt. Cyan had to borrow one of the male member's spare shirt until she can wash her clothes. Cole was used to his mother's antics so he ignored the women and continued eating his breakfast. All three heard the kitchen door close and turned their attention to their visitor only to see it was LeFou. His face was slowly turned red from the sight of Cyan stripped to her unmentionables.
"U-Um..." LeFou stuttered.
To my readers and followers, I am terribly sorry for making you all wait almost four months to read another chapter. When I was working on this chapter, my laptop lost it a couple times, I had to restart my laptop after my sister's boyfriend used it, and also the hurricane that hit Florida and Georgia. I also choose to get Spring classes instead of Fall and I had a big trip to Arkansas a couple weeks ago and I didn't bring my laptop with me.
It made me happy to see people are still reading and watching my story despite the long gap and grapejuice101, thank you for encouraging me to finish the chapter. I hope this made your day and I'm sorry for your weekend. My beta reader RabbitonSteriods cannot reach wifi so I had my friend Lucariofreak55 proof read this before I posted this chapter. If there are any mistakes, please PM me and I will fix em!
So we have an awkward moment for LeFou. I wonder what happens next.
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