DISCLAIMER: I don't own MKR, CLAMP does. Am just one crazy fan. And all of these stuff I had written or will write is a product of my imagination and my imagination only....Yada...yada...Don't sue me.
DESTINED TO BE
Chapter 4
"Your grand-aunt you say?" Hikaru asked, placing her now empty tea cup back on the saucer in front of her.
Lantis nodded, signaled the maid to pour more tea, turned to Hikaru and said, "My guardianship over you would be less questionable if I name an elderly member of my family as a co-guardian. Aunt Felicity was very kind to agree to be that person. Of course, she is the only person I can turn to regarding this matter, being the only living close relative I have."
"No Becky, I have had enough tea already this morning. Thank you," Hikaru told the maid beside her, who was about to add more tea in her cup. After this she turned her attention back to Lantis and asked, "So, she'll be arriving this afternoon?"
"Indeed she will be. She was supposed to be here the day before your arrival but some unexpected incident had postponed her journey."
"What do you think of this Mira? Are you glad that your Aunt Felicity is going to live with us now?" Hikaru asked the child on her left, who was somewhat busy coaxing her doll to eat a small piece of toast in her hands.
"I like Aunt Felicity," Mira replied, not stopping from the task she was trying so hard to do.
"Mira, how many times do I have to tell you to stop playing with your doll in front of the dining table?" Lantis told his niece.
"But Uncle, Anastatia is hungry."
"Mira…" Lantis said, in a firm, warning tone.
"Oh alright…but it's your fault if Anastatia gets sick," the child answered, pouting.
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Mira sat silently in the parlor as she stared at Hikaru who was walking back and forth. Her poor aunt seemed to be quite nervous since she had been doing this for quite a while, sometimes stopping to sit for a few minutes and then standing up to start walking again. "Don't worry, Aunt Felicity is really nice," the child said, hoping that it would calm Hikaru somewhat.
"Thank you Mira, but I am not really worried at all."
Mira blinked and then shrugged. "If you say so…"
It did not take long when Clef entered the room, announcing that he just saw the Earl's carriage approaching Zephyr's Loft. Mira continued watching her aunt, who, after thanking the butler, had started to walk in a faster pace---wringing her fingers at the same time. Mira sighed.
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Lady Felicity May Solville Corder, younger sister of the late Earl Gordon Solville, was a plump, cheery lady in her early sixties. Her obviously once black hair, now mostly silver from aging, was tied in a tight bun on top of her head, emphasizing her round, rosy cheeks. Her green satin gown fitted her perfectly despite of her stout, round frame; one can tell that she had been quite a very handsome woman in her early years.
"Aunt Felicity!" Mira said, running towards her and then welcoming her with a warm hug and a kiss on both of her cheeks.
"Mira! My, what a beautiful little girl you are!" she said, kneeling down and trapping the child in a tight embrace.
"Mira had missed you a lot. She had been begging me to visit you for quite a while now," her nephew informed her.
"Shame on you, Lantis! You should have brought her to me more often," she replied, letting out a loud laugh afterwards. Her eyes drifted to the unusually pale young redhead who was with Mira. She released Mira and stood up. "You must be Hikaru."
"Yes I am, Lady Corder."
Again she laughed out loud, approached Hikaru, and gave her a tight hug---too tight that it was almost suffocating. "No need to be too formal, dear. I am your guardian after all. Just call me Aunt Felicity." After releasing Hikaru, Felicity turned to her nephew and said, "You did not tell me that our ward is a very handsome lady, Lantis. No wonder your father had considered an engagement between the two of you."
"I was merely fourteen years of age back then, Auntie. She was, more or less, an eight-year old girl. Father was just teasing."
"Ah, look! Hikaru is blushing! Do not fret so much, dear. Like his Father, I love to tease my nephew about those things…Ah! I smell newly baked cookies!"
"I asked Julie to bake them for you since I know they are your favorites. Let's go have our afternoon tea, shall we?"
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Hikaru found Lantis' grandaunt very amusing. Aunt Felicity's cheerful attitude brought much life to the regular afternoon tea as the old lady laughed, talked and teased her nephew about still being single at his age. "You'd better get one soon, my dear nephew, or you will end up being too desperate to have an heir that you will end up marrying Lady Primera," Aunt Felicity said with a chuckle.
"I do not think I'd end up desperate, Aunt Felicity," Lantis said, his face expressionless. "I can always declare Mira to be my heir; she is a Solville after all."
"I don't like Lady Primera. She's mean," Mira announced, a frown pasted on her face.
"Of course you don't, sweetie. But you are not the one who is going to marry her, your uncle is."
"Uncle, promise me you won't marry her…" Mira pleaded as she tugged on her uncle's arm.
"Well if you don't like her, who will you want your uncle to marry then?" Hikaru asked the child.
"I wouldn't mind if Uncle marries you, Aunt Hikaru. You're really nice."
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: So why did it take too much time to update? I apologize but I really have no excuse except that I've been too lazy and too uninspired. Hehehe. I'm trying to improve my writing style though…but then I am still not satisfied.
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