A new life in a better way by Soña Binzarmet.
Chapter 13: Pre-leaving and Jump.
Again I do not own all the Gwtw and Scarlett's characters that belong to Mrs Mitchell and Mrs Ripley.
I only belong the Kilevan and the Salazar.
This story is for Maitane, Andrea and Lorea.
Again thanks for your reviews and now go on with the story.
By the way, I plan to change the name of the story. Have you any idea for the title? Kiss: Soña.
Aida bayed happily seeing her 3 little masters with a ball arriving in Dora's big garden.
The chartreux black cat Combot was near Wade, Ella and Cat too.
The whole siblings played happily waiting for the snake.
The Sunday had passed so quickly between the religious service and the lunch in Wilkes's home.
We were now late May 1881 and the wedding was programmed for 1st July.
Everybody couldn't wait for it.
Ross Stephen Butler had found a place in a financial society and had often had to go on business trip.
He was actually in Atlanta and for once he had brought his spouse Margaret and his two adoptive children Bastian and Aurelia with him.
There will be in Georgia tomorrow.
Rhett and Ross, the two brothers planned after to go in Charleston to see Eleanor during one week or two.
Rhett may be able to bring his mother with him when he will come back. She was seeing often Bastian and Aurelia because they were living in the same city, she loved them very much but now she missed Wade, Ella and Cat because she loved them tenderly too, without mention Erik, Nathaniel and Isabella also. She didn't make difference between her stepchildren and the others. She couldn't wait to see Rosemary's baby excepting around Christmas.
In the garden, Wade, Ella and Cat hearing the voices of the Old Guard entering in the living room.
It had took time but now Mrs Merriweather, Mrs Elsing etc become quite friendly for want of being close.
"Alert! The female pinchers cheeks club is here!" said suddenly Cat to her older siblings, laughing at the same time. In fact she truly wanted the old women coming; indeed her older sister had indicated her, a way to escape to painful and red hot cheeks.
The very intrepid Katie Colum rushed quickly in the living.
"Mrs, I'm charmed to see you here. How are you?"
"What a charming here. I'm very fine and you young Katie?"
"Totally fine, thank you, Mrs Elsing."
"You're so adorable darling!"
Cat put in action the advice of her sister. She promptly took the hands of Mrs Elsing when she kissed the young girl. As this she was unable to pink her pink cheeks.
Scarlett and Rhett laughed understanding why their daughter doing this. Rhett must announced he have to go to the stables to take care of Arcadia, the new brown mare of Scarlett who was supposing to give birth to her first foal around two weeks. Hearing think, Katie took leave of to the guests with her father. She loved very much Arcadia. She was much sweet that Simpson (her brother's Stallions) or either Champion Sultan (her father's one.) She same has the right to ride her but only with her brother or parents near her and Ella too had right to ride her if she wanted it and she wanted it quite often for a girl scared with animals, little by little she forgotten her fear and erased on her mind Bonnie Blue's fall but of course jumping was still out of question for Ella and for Cat until her eighth birthday.
In the stable, the father and his youngest daughter had a memorable and unstoppable laugher; in more before going to see the horses, they had seen Ella doing the same than Cat.
"You're your father's daughter as clever as a monkey my dear! But imagine what could happen if they find why you do it. Don't you think we will be embarrassed; it's not a proper thing to do the man laughed."
"You may have right but it will be you the most embarrassed, Dad if you daughters finished having enormous redness on their cheeks. In more, you don't have to tell me that I'm clever because that Ella's idea and not mine."
"Yes it is, after all that my due as your big sister to protect your so nice and coloured cheeks, Cat." Said a amusing Ella arriving at his
At this word, Rhett laugh came back stronger and the man was purely unable to stop it.
He sat down on a big piece of hay, his two daughters near him laughing all the same.
"Ella Butler and Katie Butler, I declare you're just awful little devils girls but I love you still!" Rhett laughed again. Ella and Katie said they already knew it, adding they loved him too."
"Imagine if Bonnie were still her, wouldn't be a perfect trio?" asked Cat to her father.
"Yes, for sure. As much Ella and you are a great duet. But if she were here with you; with you three I think I will be oblige to engage the army to calm you down.
That was just teasing; he was enchanted by Ella becoming more audacious and vivacious everyday, taking faith in herself and Cat with her spontaneity and charm. He was so happy to see his daughters happy, smiling and laughing.
Inside Dora's home, Wade Hampton and his mother were speaking about Tara. Dominic Arstian had written to Scarlett that the crop promised to be famous this year. She was very glad to read that. In another letter she had received five days ago, Will and Suellen told her the same thing about Covington's one.
"It's great momma that everything goes allrigth in Tara's."
"Yes, of course, son, it is said Scarlett admiring again and for at least the million time the immense painting of his beloved plantation Rhett had made paint and offered to her for her birthday this spring.
Father and daughters came back from the stable. All smile, they said: "Ours guests had yet left us?"
"Yes, they had said that they were not from here and that they didn't want us to be late at dinner cause of us."
"I see." commented Rhett.
"Mom, what had you speaking about with the Ladies?" interrogated the curious Ella Lorena Kay O'Hara Butler.
"If you want to know it why you hadn't stayed with us, said Scarlett with a large smile. Don't worry my precious she added, you hadn't lose any interesting gossip. We had talk about our future but soon trip, the ceremony and then Mrs Elsing asked me what I wished for the future of my children. Just a boring talk with boring people but please promise me you won't repeat to anyone what I'm actually speaking." Mother and daughter exchanging an accomplice smile
Ella smiled and said she swore she will never repeat it to anyone.
"My favourite little hypocrite darling!" said Rhett amusedly.
"Female pinchers cheeks club" said Wade at himself him too again amused by the new nickname of the Old guard.
"And what did you say exactly about us?" answered Cat to her mother.
"I simply said how much I love you, how much I'm proud of you, how much you count for me and that I hadn't any project yet establish for my children except their happiness, that the only one I had in fact was one concerning my daughters." Scarlett smiled observing her "two beauties".
"Well that new!" said Ella, adding she would like to know what it was.
Their mother laughed seeing Ella and Cat none understanding faith.
"I had said that I would like my daughters had later three daughters each just like me, just m your grandmother and same the mother of my mother, so my grandmother. And so it seems the mother of my grandmother.
It will be nice if the tradition would be perpetuate."
Rhett and Wade Hampton smiled and the girls laughed saying to Scarlett that they will do their best but there's time before it." Scarlett laughed at her turn.
A few days after Rhett said goodbye to his family and follow his brother, his sister in law and his nephews to Charleston for the week. He will bring Eleanor with him when he'll be back.
Wade, Ella and Cat were happy to the visit of Ross and his family and so were Scarlett, proud as a peacock to show to him and Margaret her new home. Indeed they had never seen Dora before. In more Aurelia and Bastian were so cute.
Of course she had missed Rhett during his short trip and the children too missed him but they were consoled because at his return Granny will be with him without mention the fact that he will surely bring many beautiful present for everyone.
During the week Scarlett was quite busy. Indeed, she went to see Ashley and Harriett, she also written to Kathleen and Kevin O'Connor in Ireland. She also ran to the cemetery for visiting Melanie and Bonnie and to the new veterinary place because Arcadia's foal should arrive in the second. Bruno Robs delivered without difficulty the animal and Athena could receive the first stab of tongue by her mother without any problem. The man said to Scarlett how much he was founding wonderful the stable. Scarlett smiled that was not a surprise that the stable was so great because indeed it was the exact retort of Ballyhara's one.
Wade, Ella and Cat were so move and enchanted to have seen the foal girl birth.
Wade was busy between Andromeda's letters and calls, Ella and Cat went usually in the Olsen's place.
Today Cat decided to let her big sister go alone in Hadrian, Kate Mary and Lisa Ashley's home because she was suffering a of without gravity flue but Scarlett still wished her youngest child to keep the bed at least her father and granny arrived. Outside, the sun was shinning with the first colour of the summer so you can guess Cat's bad moods obliging to stay inside. Fortunately the visit of the Wilkes and especially Beau and Billy's with a succulent chocolate box one succeeded to calm it a little.
"What do want to do today?" said Hadrian to Ella.
"What d you suggest?" retorted Ella Butler.
"Do you want to riding with me; we could take some jumps together?"
"Oh!" was all she could say.
"You don't look very enthusiast!" noticed Hadrian Olsen.
"The fact is I never jumping in my life." She confessed.
"Really? That strange, normally all the girls of your age know riding and jumping."
"I know riding at a walking pace and a little trotting but I'm scared galloping and jumping is absolutely out of question."
"There's no reason for that, galloping and jumping can be fun Ella!"
Ella was content to contest weekly: "You'll be scare too if some years ago you had seen your sister dying in a horse fall trying to jump the bar.
Hadrian was shocked by this news, he didn't know that before but now he remembered the picture of a unknown little girl with a blue dress in the Butler's living room. He shyly asked:
"Is the girl in the picture in your living room?"
"Yes, she was Bonnie and my very and only playmate when younger. She died in jumping at four."
"I'm so sorry Ella, I was effectively thinking that the girl in the picture was one of your dead sibling but I purely ignoring she died that day. Please forgive me."
Ella assured to him that it was nothing and that he couldn't know.
The stayed a few moments silently sat down on the Olsen porch, reminding their respective thoughts and then Hadrian dared ask her:
"I don't want to insist but if you want I can teach you jumping and galloping. It's no good to stay with our fears."
Ella didn't contest immediately but took some minutes to think about it. During one year her life had changed so much and it was for the better. She had nothing to do with the shyly little girl of before anymore. Yes, it may be the moment to overcome the obstacle and maybe succeed in this new stapes who knows?
So she finally contested positively.
Hadrian assured again there will be no shame if she renounced or she had too much fear or pain cause of Bonnie and he assured her too she will not fall.
Light was the small but beautiful mare of Hadrian and his twin's sisters. For the occasion Hadrian lend her to Ella and him had took Majesty, the high mare of his mother.
She had a sort of knot in her stomach when Hadrian and she went in the Olsen's stable but in proportion as the feeling of freedom when she galloping in Olsen prairie, her fear went little by little away.
The teenagers were arriving now in view of the little wood gate linking the Olsen's gate to the Olsen backyard.
Near her, Hadrian told to the girl: "We have to jump now, ready?"
"Yes!" she contested with a week but determined sound of voice.
"Just take the rein and it will be ok!"
Ella noticed. The moment arriving, she closed her eyes holding stronger the rein and whispered: "For you Bonnie."
The sensation was extraordinary, felling be like one with the animal was great, the feeling of freedom amplified when the horse pawns unstuck the floor. That was really great. She understood now Bonnie's feeling.
"Bonnie, I succeed, I succeed she whispered again once on the other side of the obstacle.
Hadrian was all smile during Ella was still in a happy shock state.
"I was sure you'll succeed!" he simply said.
Before coming back home, she warmly thanked Hadrian again. He said that was nothing and that she was a good rider.
"Did you have a good time with Hadrian darling?" asked Scarlett.
"Yes I have but it happened an event you should know and I really don't know how you'll take it."
"I'm all ears Miss Butler; you know you can tell me about everything. I'm your mother."
Ella needed to share this experience and know her mother's reactions.
Scarlett listened calmly and noticed at the end of her oldest daughter speech.
"All right Ella, I'm glad you' speak to me about that. I don't have to punish you for Bonnie's fall so you can jump if you what you please. Only promise me you'll do careful and slowly I couldn't support to lose another child."
"Of course, momma. I promise you, don't worry."
"Ella, one thing again."
"Yes what?"
"I want to tell you how much I'm proud of you. I'm glad you succeed to surmount your fear. I love you and always will my precious angel."
Ella went quickly in her mother arms.
"Me too momma!"
Then, together they went in Cat's room to see if she was feeling better. She did.
Rhett came with Eleanor five days after and he said the same as his wife about Ella jumping.
Eleanor stayed two weeks in Dora and everyone was happy to have her.
Of course she found Dora superb and shinning.
The whole family went to Oakland cemetery with a feeling of appeasement in their hearts.
Eleanor's journey was great.
Now July approached and the Butler prepared their trunks and things for a trip in Charleston because that was the place the wedding of Scarlett and Rhett with their family and friends will take place.
After, they will leave America for the long trip they had planned.
END OF CHAPTER 13, I HOPE YOU HAD LIKE IT.
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