Chapter 2
The next morning she woke up after a long night of tears, tossing and turning and disturbing dreams of her father in Meadowbrook Farms interrupted any rest. The only peace she got was when she dreamt of her dreamy bloodsucker. Unfortunately, she awoke at dawn before she and her vampire could get to the "dissolute deed" but he did bite her and that part still wondered and confused Elizabeth.
She brushed her long red hair and began to whistle a song, which her mother sang when she was a little girl. It was a song that went,
Darkness is dreary
Darkness is bleak
But still things come out
Of the shadows and creep
They are sometimes angry
They are sometimes mean
They're just like people
But they are not seen
She played it many times in her head. All of a sudden, Rosemary rushed in carrying a blue dress with a matching corset, surprising Elizabeth.
Rosemary was the lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth's and Sara's wing. She was also her mother's closest friend. Rosemary and her mother, Allison, went to grade school together and became instantly the best of friends. Rosemary was a plump woman with short brown hair and rich green eyes she was in her mid-40's, and never married. Rosemary has been a lady-in-waiting since she was 17 but she moved into the Wheaton Manor when Elizabeth's mother disappeared 10 years ago and she has been like a mother figure to the girls.
Once Elizabeth retained her breath she said, "Rosemary you startled me, what do you want?" Rosemary shot Elizabeth a sarcastic look, which said, how dare you speak to me like that, because despite the fact that Rosemary was her lady-in-waiting Rosemary was still treated with respect in Elizabeth's book. Elizabeth gave apologetic glance.
"Now, Lizzie..." Rosemary said in an unrefined voice, she was the only one allowed to call Elizabeth, Lizzie, "...it's already quarter past 10 and your due in the park in 30 minutes." She opened the drapes; Elizabeth shuddered at the pouring sunlight.
"It's awfully bright out today..." Elizabeth exclaimed, "...can't I wear a hat, a big floppy one! Rosemary giggled quietly as she was sorting throughout Elizabeth's closet. She placed the biggest hat she could find on the bed and sighed at Elizabeth. It was green, which didn't match the dress she was going to wear, it had yellow flowers on it and it was 10 sizes too big for her petite cranium.
"That's too small, it's bloody blazing out there!" shouted Elizabeth. She found herself very amusing during the morning madness and to her delight everyone else did too. Before she could recover from her laughter Sara had entered the room, fully dressed.
"Would you look-ee here, already 10:20 in morning and Princess Punctual is not even dressed." She was referring to when she was 10 minutes late to her piano lesson and Elizabeth responded by punishing her for 2 whole days.
"Get..go...leave..wha..." Elizabeth stammers being fairly surprised by Sara's entrance. "Go away, you make me absolutely bonkers!" Elizabeth said being very annoyed by her sister's presence.
"Oh?" Sara asked Elizabeth just to annoy her. She walked over to the bed a positioned the big, floppy green hat on her head. The hat made her look the size of a pea, you could barely see her under the enormous rim. "I make you crazy, oh really, I think you drive yourself mad. Yes, I think you were nutty long before I came along."
"Unlike your father before your mother." Whispered Rosemary. With all of their batter they hardly noticed that Rosemary was still in the room and even if they were conscious of her company the sentence she spoke still shocked them both. To say such a thing about their mother, her oldest friend, was a horrible thing to do.
The next morning she woke up after a long night of tears, tossing and turning and disturbing dreams of her father in Meadowbrook Farms interrupted any rest. The only peace she got was when she dreamt of her dreamy bloodsucker. Unfortunately, she awoke at dawn before she and her vampire could get to the "dissolute deed" but he did bite her and that part still wondered and confused Elizabeth.
She brushed her long red hair and began to whistle a song, which her mother sang when she was a little girl. It was a song that went,
Darkness is dreary
Darkness is bleak
But still things come out
Of the shadows and creep
They are sometimes angry
They are sometimes mean
They're just like people
But they are not seen
She played it many times in her head. All of a sudden, Rosemary rushed in carrying a blue dress with a matching corset, surprising Elizabeth.
Rosemary was the lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth's and Sara's wing. She was also her mother's closest friend. Rosemary and her mother, Allison, went to grade school together and became instantly the best of friends. Rosemary was a plump woman with short brown hair and rich green eyes she was in her mid-40's, and never married. Rosemary has been a lady-in-waiting since she was 17 but she moved into the Wheaton Manor when Elizabeth's mother disappeared 10 years ago and she has been like a mother figure to the girls.
Once Elizabeth retained her breath she said, "Rosemary you startled me, what do you want?" Rosemary shot Elizabeth a sarcastic look, which said, how dare you speak to me like that, because despite the fact that Rosemary was her lady-in-waiting Rosemary was still treated with respect in Elizabeth's book. Elizabeth gave apologetic glance.
"Now, Lizzie..." Rosemary said in an unrefined voice, she was the only one allowed to call Elizabeth, Lizzie, "...it's already quarter past 10 and your due in the park in 30 minutes." She opened the drapes; Elizabeth shuddered at the pouring sunlight.
"It's awfully bright out today..." Elizabeth exclaimed, "...can't I wear a hat, a big floppy one! Rosemary giggled quietly as she was sorting throughout Elizabeth's closet. She placed the biggest hat she could find on the bed and sighed at Elizabeth. It was green, which didn't match the dress she was going to wear, it had yellow flowers on it and it was 10 sizes too big for her petite cranium.
"That's too small, it's bloody blazing out there!" shouted Elizabeth. She found herself very amusing during the morning madness and to her delight everyone else did too. Before she could recover from her laughter Sara had entered the room, fully dressed.
"Would you look-ee here, already 10:20 in morning and Princess Punctual is not even dressed." She was referring to when she was 10 minutes late to her piano lesson and Elizabeth responded by punishing her for 2 whole days.
"Get..go...leave..wha..." Elizabeth stammers being fairly surprised by Sara's entrance. "Go away, you make me absolutely bonkers!" Elizabeth said being very annoyed by her sister's presence.
"Oh?" Sara asked Elizabeth just to annoy her. She walked over to the bed a positioned the big, floppy green hat on her head. The hat made her look the size of a pea, you could barely see her under the enormous rim. "I make you crazy, oh really, I think you drive yourself mad. Yes, I think you were nutty long before I came along."
"Unlike your father before your mother." Whispered Rosemary. With all of their batter they hardly noticed that Rosemary was still in the room and even if they were conscious of her company the sentence she spoke still shocked them both. To say such a thing about their mother, her oldest friend, was a horrible thing to do.