Chapter 1: Elsa's Return
" Mother? What's going on? Why are you packing all of your things and why is Baroness Schrader is here again? " asked Brigetta with tears in her eyes.
" Ask your father, darling. " said Maria.
" Your not leaving, are you? said Marta.
"I'm afraid so, sweetheart. " said Maria.
" But you can't. You belong here, with us. " cried Marta.
"Not according to your father. It'll be okay, darlings. I'll just be a few minutes away and you can all come and visit me anytime you want to." said Maria, as she finished packing her things.
" Please don't leaves us, mother. " cried Gretl, as she clung onto Maria, as she walked down the stairs.
" Don't leave us here with her, again. " said Kurt.
The Captain choose this moment to walk in and find his children fighting for Maria not leave and for what was happening.
" Gretl, you have to let go, darling. " said Maria with tears in her eyes.
" But I don't want to. " said Gretl.
" None of us do. " said Lisel.
" Father has become the same person he was when you were our governess. He's so distance all of a sudden and now all of sudden with the divorce..." stopped Louisa as she caught herself.
" What did you just say Louisa? " asked Brigetta.
"Louisa, I asked you not say anything about it to the younger ones until after I left. " said Maria.
" So you were just going to leave us anyway? " yelled Marta, running upstairs.
" No, Marta, that wasn't why. Lisel.I can't any longer then I have. Here, I want you to take this note and when your ready to read it, I want you to tell the others and then come and visit me. But under no circumstances are you to tell you father. Understand me? Lisel, you have to believe me when I say that I still love you children and your father very much. " said Maria as she started to walk out the door.
" Mother? " said Lisel.
"Yes, Lisel? " said Maria.
" Will father ever change? " said Lisel.
" I don't know, darling. I hope he does for the sake you dears. " said Maria, as she was soon gone.
" Lisel? " said the Captain, as he made his presence known.
" I hate you so much right father. " yelled Lisel, as she ran upstairs and slammed her bedroom door closed.
" Georg, darling what was that about? " said Elsa.