You broke my heart
Now I'll break yours
You made me smart
You opened doors
Broken Rose:
By the next morning, rumor had spread that the princess had return. People had been waiting for an answer to their questions since long into the night. When the queen came out on the terrace to make an announcement people waited with baited breath. "The princess is back!" the queen yelled to her waiting people who immediately cheered and began to party. Those in the back who hadn't heard soon got the message and everyone partied for many months.
TWO YEARS LATER:
"MOMMY!" the little two-year-old cried into the dark.
"Hush, now hun," the pink haired girl whispered to her softly crying daughter. "Everything's all right now. Momma is here."
"I had a dream where someone took me away from you."
"What did they look like?"
"He had long brown hair and violet eyes and he was wearing one of those robes that Auntie Raye always wears," her daughter said sleepily.
Her mother tensed but calmly replied, "It was just a dream Serenity, go back to sleep."
"All right mommy."
"Hard night?" the white haired man asked Rini when she walked into the dining room looking extremely disheveled and toting a very wide-awake two-year-old.
"She had a bad dream," Rini said shrugging. Helios had stayed with them ever since he had brought her home almost two years ago. "It was no big deal." He pulled out her chair for her and lifted her daughter into her highchair.
"If you ever want a baby-sitter I'm always here," he said.
"I'm not a baby!" the little girl cried indignantly.
"Of course your not. I was talking about a baby-sitter for your mother," he replied making the little girl giggle.
"Well, in that case…" the little girl considered the offer.
"Get your red haired head off to class Serenity!" Raye cried at the little girl who was making a mess of her scrambled eggs.
"You mean I have to get her out of that thing?" Helios asked. "She weighs a ton!" The little girl giggled at the comment. Helios hauled her out of her chair and, spanking her lightly on the buttocks hurried her off to her class. Rini watched him all the way out of the dining room and kept staring at the space where he had been.
"You know, you shouldn't stare like that, Rini," said Mina bringing Rini out of her little delusion. "It's not polite."
"What do you know about politeness, Mina?" Rini asked crankily.
"Well…uh…um…well…"
"I thought so! So get out of my business if you don't even know what you're talking about yourself."
"Why you…"
"Mina, Mina, Mina," the queen said shaking her head slightly. "You know, my daughter has a point."
"You guys are so cruel!" says Mina while rain falls down on her head and she holds a hanky up to her mouth.
"I remember doing something similar to that once…" the queen said lost in a memory. Rini rolled her eyes and got up hoping to get a few hours of sleep before her child came back from school. She only got halfway there because all of a sudden a pair of arms engulfed her from behind and she gave a little squeak.
"Have I told you that you're beautiful today?" a voice asked, and Rini knew exactly whose voice it was.
"Flattery will get you nowhere, Helios," Rini said almost coldly.
"Eeek! Sorry, I think I knew that," he said spinning her around to face him. "See you," he said kissing her lightly on her forehead and walking away. He had already reached the corner before Rini noticed that a piece of paper had fallen out of his pocket and onto the floor. She picked it up, and read it. It only had three words on it:
Helios,
Rini
~Pluto
It was a strange note and Rini pondered over it all the way to her room and while she got into her nightgown. She was just about to lie down on her bed when she noticed that someone was already on it…
Author's note: Sorry if this sounds a little Dobby-ish. Did you like it? Love it? Hate it? Tell me. From now on there will only be one chapter a day on this story. SORRY! I'm listening to my DREAM cd right now. One reason for the one chapter a day thing is because I don't feel like writing a lot. Another reason is because this story might be drawing to a close :*( and I don't want to end it too fast ok? My other story is almost done; one or two more chapters to post. It will be my very first finished chaptered story! Yay! I made Helios really sweet in this chapter because I could.
Disclaimer: The poem at the beginning is MINE! I wrote it just for this story. I don't own any of these characters except for Galia and Rini's daughter.