Chapter 16
-I'm going to make dinner, honey! So if you want to read your papers, will that give you time to start them?
-It's lovely Kara, but I want to be fully with you tonight, I'm just going to make a phone call and I'm here to help.
The mere fact of cooking made Miss Luthor Weiss crazy, she was not yet ready to read the notebooks, not immediately, not too fast. Meanwhile, the vegetable curry was simmering and the spices were deliciously scented in the living room. Lena reserved another drink and asked Kara
-And if you sang me a song, you know that I love listening to you sing and Besides I think it would do me a lot of good after this day full of emotions.
-I feel like I don't have much choice... Kara teased
-Yes, I think so! smiles Lena relaxed
-After eating if it doesn't bother you because I'm going to have a hard time concentrating on an empty stomach.
-Granted, my love...
Lena remembered the first time she heard Kara sing, it was a few weeks after her brother's death and she was in a pitiful state. She pretended everything was fine, pretended at work, pretended to be happy to share a drink with her so-called friends, and the worst pretended with Kara. She did not last very long at this rate, she had made a decision to leave, to travel to regain strength when Kara called her that morning to invite her. Indeed, it was the day before Alex's birthday and she had booked for the next evening with Kelly several tables in their favorite bar to mark the occasion. Politely, however, she listened heartbroken Kara, replied that she would be there but that she probably could not stay long, and joined the gift. Feigning excitement, while it was an immense sadness inside.
She made a good illusion during the evening, she was about to leave when the group of musicians called Kara to join them on stage. Surprise, she watched with fascination Kara kissed the stage, she exuded a charisma and a breathtaking beauty on the stage, it's as if an aura emerged from her body to make everything shine all around her. His magnetic presence caught everyone's eye. She tested the microphone and stared at Alex with a broad smile to wish her a happy birthday, all echoed by the audience in the bar. The atmosphere was good and relaxed. Suddenly the light went out and Kelly came forward with the cake and those candles lit. Alex lovingly kissed Kelly and blew a treat on the candles to extinguish them all. Then the light reappeared under a shower of applause.
A little jealous, Lena contemplated what might have resembled happiness and a deaf anger in her mounted, which she had trouble channeling, an anger borrowed from their hypocrisies.
Kara spoke again and looked at the table.
-I'll try to interpret a song by Bjork, so be forgiving," she smiles
So she started "All is full of love" and Lena took this message right in the heart. Was it meant for her? A small voice inside said yes. The moment was of such grace and beauty that all his anger faded. Kara's voice was magical, absolutely perfect. She was hypnotizing the whole room. For a brief moment during this song for Lena everything was actually love.
When the title was over, a thunderous round of applause resounded throughout the bar. Kara shyly took her place with her friends, she huged Alex, Kelly, Nia. All warmly congratulated her until Lena's turn, where the embrace went on imperceptibly much longer. Brainiac was about to think when he was distracted by the huge piece of cake on his plate that Nia served him.
The following nights, in these dreams, Lena relived this moment of ecstasy. Sometimes identical, sometimes with a finale or their two bodies sang.