Sunday, lovely Sunday
By Pat-chan
Chapter 5: Triumph of strawberries with white chocolate's
mousse
The Douglas' had been
open since few, the waiters were busy to sweep the floor and to set the tables,
a noise of pots and water came from the kitchen with Miss Leann's sensual
voice, she was singing a sad Italian song.
A girl with light
chestnut hair greeted Ferio.
" Hi Ambrosia!
Does Miss Leann be in a bad mood?"
" No, today is
the anniversary and she is a little bit sad. To tell the truth today there are
many events to remember - even, to forget - so the Mistress has come here to
make sure that everything goes well."
" But... I know
this song."
Fuu
exclaimed.
(...) di quei violini suonati dal vento
l'ultimo bacio mia dolce bambina
brucia sul viso come gocce di limone
l'eroico coraggio di un feroce addio
(...)
Fuu remembered where
she had heard that song. Aunt Yuriko had given Kuu a CD of an Italian singer
with whom she had played: she needed the arcs for her concert and her was been
found among the 5- three violinists and two cellists - who they had been
chosen. She liked so much her song that Yuriko had decided to buy some to hand
out in family. Fuu loved that marvelously sad song even if she didn't
understand the meaning of the words.
Ferio made sit his
beloved on a stool and he wondered if was possible order something to take
away. Ambrosia answered that shortly the cakes would have been ready, just the
last retouches: in fact, Miss Leann had found an old recipe give her by a hers
old friend, something really special.
" Well, we could
be the first to taste this new specialty!"
Fuu teased. Ferio
looked at her with a mischievous glance.
" And suffer the
same effects of the last time? I would not dislike it..."
" Ferio...!"
She scolded him
snickering; she then blushed. She also would not have disliked it.
Both turned toward the
stair that carried to the superior floor: somebody was descending.
" Mistress!"
All the waiters
exclaimed at the unison when the woman appeared in the door surrounded by other
five persons, among whom Mr. Cloud and M.lle Boadicea, who was pale. The "Mistress"
was not very older than Fuu and she was the more beautiful girl that both has
never seen, more beautiful even than Emeraude: her blonde hair had braided and
picked up in a knot and despite the summer heat her arms had covered by the
white lace's dress's sleeves and by the gloves and her legs by light stockings
of cotton, in a hand she held a hat of straw and tied up at the other wrist a
fan, she seemed gotten out of a book of tales. Fuu gathered her jade' eyes and
recognized her.
" Ah-a... the
world is really small:" the girl exclaimed " what does have carried
you here, Houojii-san?"
" Therefore I am
not wrong! I am surprise to see you in this place, Djashem-san"
Fuu answered
embarrassed: Djashem-san was the most popular girl of the whole school, she was
even known by the students of the other schools, even if this annoyed her not
little. Since the first day of high school Eirihin - this was her name - had
drawn the attention of everybody not only for her ethereal and diaphanous look
or for her results gained in the study or for her great talent for the cello,
but above all for something which was her own and which was emanated from all
her person for then spread out all around.
" Why do you have
stayed been struck dumb Houojii-san? You should know that I don't devour the
people."
" Here, I... I...
I hope that you won't me to become the joke of the day tomorrow at
school!"
She exclaimed trying
to defend from any probable joke of bad taste.
" How dare you
address in this way..."
" Lets stay Ret,
she has not done anything of bad."
With a quick gesture
she made calm down the man and she returned to Fuu.
" Do you believe
me able of such actions? You disappoint me Houojii Fuu, I thought that you are
more reasonable. But don't fear: only if somebody else beyond me has see you
that will be known; for what concern me, it don't have any importance with whom
you spend your free time: you can throw yourself to sea, it doesn't touch
me."
Ferio and Fuu stayed
astonished by so much indifference, she was so distant and didn't show any
emotion, as if she doesn't belong to that world.
" Miss Mistress!
" Miss Leann stormed into room and embraced the girl " Finally you have
decided to come here! Bad, you must come before."
" LEANN!!!"
Everybody exclaimed in
chorus, but the cook didn't give them attention and addressed to the couple:
" I have listened
that you have known about my last newness: it is the triumph of strawberries
with mousse of white chocolate, a true deliciousness. If you wish, I could
carry you two portions to take away. But how I am foolish, I have not done the
introductions: Miss these are Ferio and F..."
" So you would be
Ferio. You don't resemble much to your older sister: Emeraude had an
exceptional sense of duty."
The girl said lifting
the boy's chin with her fan's tip slightly and scrutinizing him with her eyes,
which didn't show any emotion. Ferio and Fuu froze: how was possible that
Djashem-san knew Princess Emeraude?
" Why do you be
amazed by this? After all if you are here, it is me whom you must thank, even
if it is Anahii who..."
" Thanny! "
Miss Leann corrected from kitchen" Mistress, you know very well that my
Madame want to be called Thanny!"
" … if she hasn't
insisted so much, you would have stayed in Sephiro racking your brain for find
a way to join the Earth and you would have continued to destroy yourself in
crying."
Both wide their eyes
staying been struck dumb for some minutes, then one same thought crossed their
minds and before they could ask something, the girl answered:
" It is not hard
understand why Anahii..."
" THANNY!!"
" ... had done
such a thing: she has a visceral passion for this kind of stories, when she has
some the free time..."
"THE RARE TIMES
SHE HAD SOME."
" ... she spends
it watching soap-opera, telenovelas, film about love of the kind of 'Gone with the wind' and 'Pretty Woman' and
reading the most mawkish romances that have never been written by the human
kind" Here her voice became flushed with an imperceptible hue of disgust
" when she has known about your situation, she has so much whipped her
brother...."
" You would mean
' frustrate,' " Fuu corrected, " nobody is so perverted to whip the
own brother!"
" No, whip:
Phabien hanged up by his feet and struck with the whips and the scourge and
with salt put on the wounds. However he is the pervert, not Anahii."
"
T-H-A-N-N-Y!!!!!"
Miss Leann thundered
from kitchen, everybody sweat dropped.
" The juice of
the story is that at the end we have decided to satisfy her and to allow you to
leave Sephiro."
Eirihin finished
purring a cup of tea of Ceylon. Few after Miss Leann got out of kitchen with a
box and handed it at the two lovers:
" This is for
you, the house offers. Aha, Ferio: for the next week I want the answer for that
business we have proposed you; I ask it because I am the most impudent of
everybody. One last thing guys: I recommend to find a fine calm spot for eat
this cake."
Miss Leann concluded
with her grin.
At 4:10 PM the couple
got out of the place a bit amazed from what they had listened, but above all
they wondered why and how Djashem-san has known Princess Emeraude.
" Well, if we
want to know the answer at this question tomorrow I could ask to her, ok?"
concluded Fuu, but she then exclaimed " Oh My! The other day I have
forgotten at your home a CD that Seiji-san had lent me! I must give it back yesterday."
Ferio smiled and
suggested:
" We go to take
it and we take advantage to eat the cake with calm and then we do the famous
walk in Center. Do you want?"
Upon each slice of
cake there was a decoration, which remembered a flower made by small slices of
strawberries as petals, and in the center a shiny entire strawberry: it made
come hunger only looking at it.
Ferio set the two
dishes and the glasses of ice tea on the low table in the living room and both
sat on the carpet. Fuu had lit the CD reader and the room became full of the
sound of a piano.
" In this
collection there is too the piece that I will play at the scholastic festival.
Tell me what you think about it."
" Tell me when we
are listening it."
He answered stealing
Fuu's strawberry. She widened her eyes and shouted:
" Give me back
that strawberry! N-no!!"
Fuu had an impulse of
terror when Ferio pretended to eat the strawberry, but he quickly made her eat
it: they looked an instant and they then broke out to laugh.
Finished the cake, the
air was full with the notes of the passage that Fuu would have played at the
festival. Ferio embraced the young girl and whispered in her ear.
" This music is
beautiful, but played by you it will become stupendous. My love…"
Fuu was surprised to
don't blush: usually in that situation her cheeks became flushed of red, why
then it didn't happen?
Fuu decided to abandon
at Ferio's hold and she raised the look to the ceiling: she had not ever
noticed the frescos that decorated it; Miss Leann had really a good taste.
" I love
you."
" I know it. I
love you too."
" Hug me strong,
hold me tight to you."
" Why this
outburst of affection? Fuu, you haven't ever asked me that."
" I don't know
it. I want it and that's enough, I don't know why. And I don't want go
out."
" Do you want to
stay here?"
" Yes."
Ferio pulled closer
Fuu and began to kiss her. The melody was repeated gently as if an elf has
charmed the CD reader.
Fuu felt her heart
gain an advantage on her conscience while her beloved's kisses became deeper
and for an instant she was afraid. Then a thought, a revelation: she realized
that this was what she really wanted, it was her hidden desire that came
floating, which was what was missing. She let that his touch becomes more
intrusive, his caresses challenge the intimate jealousy of her own skin and she
exchanged loaded of the same feelings.
Fuu looked the door
without breath and opened it.
" Fuu, why you
are so la... eh... ethciù... late? You must be home more than half an hour
ago!" Kuu scolded from the living room, then added, " It is the
moment to keep the promise that you have done me this morning."
" Which
promise?"
She wondered smiling.
Her sister noticed her smile: that smile was familiar, but it was not the usual
smile of her little sister.
" You have
promised me that you would have told me everything."
" Everything
what?"
" Don't do the naïve:
everything what you have done today at the Fairy Park with your boyfriend!
C'mon sis, I won't tell it to mama and papa."
Fuu froze: everything?
Even what have happened at Ferio's house? No, that was a thing too private and
personal to talk about with anybody. Must she lie to her sister? She didn't
like the idea at all, but what could she do?
" Oh... we was
been at the Fairy Park: we have seen the concerto of beginning month, have gone
for a walk in the botanical garden, then the merry-go-rounds and we have
left."
" Where do you
have gone?"
Kuu asked malicious.
" We have eaten a
cake to the Douglas' and then... "
And then she couldn't
tell what had happened.
" And
then...?"
" And then
nothing, only a walk in the Center: I am late because we have not been able to
catch the train of the 6:10 PM and I have gone back walking."
Fuu laid going up the
staircases. A revelation thundered the mind of Kuu: that smile... it was the
same that their mother often had when she looked at their father. But why did
her sister smile in that way?
Fuu stretched upon her
bed embracing the pillow and she stared the ceiling and the walls of her room:
a printing of ' The Dame of the ermine ', the playbill of ' Romeo& Juliet
', a poster of R.E.M., some photo by her sister during their last holydays in
USA and on her desk a photo of her Hikaru and Umi at Tokyo Tower. She turned
around on her stomach and tightening the pillow, she thought to what had
happened and she wondered where she has taken all that passion: her mother had
the warm blood, it is true, but she had the Houojii's cold temper and therefore
she didn't understand.
Fuu remembered what
once Miss Leann had said about her secret ingredients:
" My secret
ingredients are used only to wake up a sleeping side of the people: if inside
of himself a man is possessive, they help him to do come out this possessiveness.
I put the hand on the fire that you are passionate as your mother, but it is
hidden and you must wake up it if you want live happy."
Miss Leann was right:
now she was very happier.
And continuing to
think about what had been and at what could be her life, Fuu fell asleep.
The next morning Fuu
came radiant at school. All her classmates were astonished to see her of
excellent mood. Nevertheless the test of contemporary Japanese was not easy.
Before the beginning
of the lessons, Umi joined Hikaru and Fuu in their classroom, and when she
asked at her friend what had happened Sunday, she obtained as answer a smile.
" Don't worry
Umi-chan: it is since this morning that Fuu-chan smiles and doesn't want to
explain me why."
" Fuu... it is
not that you two..." Umi whispered slyly "… you have understood what
I mean..."
" It isn't what
you are thinking, Umi-san."
" What?! But are you stupid? The first time
that you could spend some time alone and you do nothing?!"
" Don't shout so
loud! And then since when do you try to imitate my mother?"
" Since when she
is my English Literature's teacher, her lessons are so amusing: I often wonder
how it is possible that Betsy is your mother."
" Umi-chan why do
you call Houojii-sensei by name? She your teacher, isn't she?"
" She prefers to
be called Betsy."
Umi and Fuu said
together. The bell rang the first lesson and Umi went back in her classroom.
The computer's club members
were busy in the realization of the scholastic festival's pamphlets and
depliants and Fuu, being the president, was busy in the scanning and in the
lettering of both: even the club mates had noticed the strange change of their
president.
" Non, Haruko:
what do you thing has happened to Houojii-senpai? I don't have sight her ever
so radiant."
" I have heard
tell that yesterday have sight her with Kisaragi-senpai at the kiosk of the
Fairy Park."
" Non sense:
Kisaragi-senpai's new girlfriend is Oota-kun of 2-H! I have sight them kissing
few far from the field of athletics."
" Yesterday I
have seen at Fairy Park that strange-but-so-cool waiter and, for your joy and
of the other members of the DSBCW fan club, he was alone!"
" Really?!"
" Ah-a, a little
bit bruised but alone."
" Awww... I have
wanted to be there for take care of his wound."
" However he
could be with..."
" Hey
Fuu-san!"
Seiji entered the room
carrying a pile of turquoise sheets. All the present girls became salt at the
sight of so much beauty. Fuu smiled at her childhood's old friend and did to
take the sheets but Seiji set them on the table and he grabbed her by the
waist.
" Why you
yesterday have escaped?"
" They were
waiting me. Please, let me go: we have much job to develop in these days and I
don't want to waste time."
Fuu tried to wriggle
but he tightened her stronger. She looked at him surprised: Ferio would have
become furious as possessive as he was, he would have been able also to do him
in pieces; but the thing which amazed her more was the way Seiji looked at her,
he had the same look of Ferio when they were alone.
" You and your
friends could join us: we would have enjoyed much."
" Ahem... we
wanted to be alone."
She was able to free
herself from his vice and she went back to her job.
" You know, you
yesterday seemed different, you were much... beautiful."
' And say beautiful is
few.' Seiji thought between himself. Everybody were struck dumb listening that phrase:
Kisaragi-senpai, the most wanted boy of the school, had told to Houojii-senpai,
the most antisocial girl of St. Anne's history, that she was very beautiful?
Did the World have begun to turn at the contrary?!
" And even today
you are more beautiful than the usual, you seem different..."
Fuu didn't move her
eyes from her pc's monitor, neither she blushed but she just say:
" Oota-san could
become jealous."
Seiji froze at those
words and without tell one word he got out of the room.
The members of the
club commented with low voice what was happened, anybody had gone to Oota-kun
for tell her everything.
Fuu carried on with
her job thinking about the preceding day, she had not surprised that Seiji had
noticed that she had changed, because it was the truth: just Sunday she had
waked up again a sleeping part of herself; not the Knight who fought for a
distant world, but the sweet and tender lover who with overwhelming passion was
able to give at her beloved all herself.
After all, was she or
not Betsy's daughter?
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THE END ==========================
And so ends my first
faaAAARGH!!!
Insipid end, true? Certainly that Pat-chan (who is a discreet
writer) could undertake more. And if she has given more space to me, the super
sexy Miss Leann, it would have been better; even, if I had stayed the
protagonist, this story would have been a true bomb ;) After all if those two
has arrived where they have arrived (I have insisted to add that part, but the
crazy one has not wanted to listen me) it is all my deserve and of my secret
ingredients.
The title of the chapter is the name of the cake, which I have
used for the purpose, the song that I sang to the Douglas' is " L'ultimo
bacio " (the last kiss) by Carmen Consoli, one of the few Italian singer
whom worth something, while the passage of Chopin that does as background at
the chapter is " Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 no. 2 " and if you
have the possibility to listen to them, do it!
Don't worry for Pat-chan, she at the moment is closed in the
bathroom^ _^
And would whoever be
closed in the bathroom?! Leann, this is my space! How do you have dared steal
it?! I remember you that I am your creator and that you owe me respect!
Apologize her, I
should give her some sedatives but I am not still going to do the recipe. And
now thing could tell? She has told all!
Well, my second fan
fic " My daughter etc..." is still it stops to the second chapter, I
suggest to read it if you want to know better Betsy, co-protagonist with Fuu
and Ferio.
I thank those - well,
really few - whom have supported me in this project,
References to facts or
real people are purely casual and for whoever wants to write me, my email is: patachan83@hotmail.com
Pat-chan
And Miss Leann!
Guys, how will you do without me? T_T
Shut up!! Apologize
her, she is too much exhibitionist...
NO! I REBEL AT THIS INAUSPICIOUS DESTINY! IT COULDN'T PUT AWAY A
REFINED, MARVELOUS AND TO TELL THE TRUTH SO MUCH BEAUTIFULL WOMAN AS ME!
WHY, WHY DON'T I APPEAR ALSO IN "MY DAUGHTER IS MARRYING A
PRINCE FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD"?! THIS IS CALLED DISCRIMINATION... SES...
RAC... WELL, I DON'T KNOW OF WHICH KIND, BUT IT IS DISCRIMINATION!!!
I, FOUNDER OF...MMHPFH...!
Forgive her T_T
Good-bye and thanks!
Pat-chan
(This time IT is really the end)
