Note: Freya and Elda are not persocoms in this yet, okay?
Beautiful
By: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)
Chapter Four:
"What!" Elda could help the wide smile that crossed her face as she grinned and gripped the phone pressed against her ear tightly. "Oh…!" She already felt giddy with anticipation, "I can't wait, Freya!"
"Neither can I." The voice sounded odd, but Elda could harbor no ill feelings against her sister no matter what. Not only was Freya coming to visit her, against Mama's orders, not only that but Papa was staying in a town nearby, working on his prototype machines again.
Papa traveled a lot, so Mama was always sad that she never got to see him much but each time he came home, there were always smiles and some happy tears. It was a like a festival when their father came back from his work, but one day he would complete his life's goal and finish making something that he called a 'persocom'.
Mama was also a scientist like Papa, having met him in the field of work, but she stayed home doing research there for Papa. She was happy with her work, happy that one day they would create something the world would love. A fully functioning robot almost exactly like a human, computer mind and so many features.
"I love you, Freya." Elda whispered into the phone, happy that she would get to see her sister again. Despite the fact that she had already been here for a month…she had only made one friend and her snobbish room mate hated her, always "borrowing" the stuff that Freya sent to her or having strict rules for each of them that she never followed herself.
There was a pause on the other side of the room, as if her sister was contemplating something. Elda snorted at her stupidity inwardly, thinking it foolish that her sister couldn't love her or even have to think about it. They had been raised together…since, well since they were born!
She heard and sigh and frowned with concern, "…Freya?"
"I'm here," the voice said and she smiled in relief, glad that the line didn't die. "I love you too Elda." If she loved her, then why did the voice sound so cold and not meaningful?
Elda smiled despite herself and laughed softly, "It's going to be so much fun whenever you come out here!"
"Yeah," Freya commented on the other line with a devious smirk on her face, "I can't wait to meet all of your friends!"
Elda was quiet for the moment, "Yeah." Her voice was small and insignificant but Freya didn't seem, or chose not to notice it.
"There's a ski lodge, you're having a ski trip up there, right?" Elda nodded and forgot that Freya wasn't by her side like she always had been. This last month had been the loneliest time she had ever had, that much was for certain. If it weren't for Yumi, Elda wasn't sure how she would have survived.
"Uh huh, we're all going to go and you can come along!" She smiled and Freya laughed on the other line. Elda looked up into the mirror and stared at her reflection with a smile, listening to Freya talk about how it was back home. A twinge of pain tugged in her chest at the thought of home, but her eyes never left the mirror.
All she had to do was pretend it was Freya sitting across from her, using her reflection and listening to her voice made it so real. She smiled and nodded, giving her cents worth in the conversation here and there.
It was going to be just like it was before all this madness happened. Freya was coming to visit her!
"What about Hideki?" Freya was silent about that part, saying that he was fine and changing the subject. Her sister wouldn't go after the boy she had liked, right? This was Freya they were talking about, right?
"Well, I have to go. Times up." Mama made it so that they had a limited time on the phone, and visits were certainly not allowed. Mama said that she had to be more… independent of herself and break away from thinking that Freya and her were one.
But Mama and Papa always treated her and Freya as one, so it was sudden and somehow hurtful to be shunned by her own family and shipped away like some second hand box of clothing or something.
"Bye Freya… I miss you."
"Uh huh, can't wait 'til I see you!" The line was silent for a moment, most likely going to be disconnected, until Freya's voice came back on only it was much colder, "And don't tell mom about this."
Elda nodded, "I won't tell Mama." The line was disconnected and Elda looked at the dead phone hanging loosely in her grip and sighed.
Only one more week, she could survive that. She leaned against the headboard of her simple bed and looked over at the other side of her room, the side belonging to her roommate.
She bit her lip and frowned with determination and decided that she would try to be more independent if that's what it took to come home to Mama and the house, to Freya and Hideki. But seeing Freya this once wouldn't hurt her, right?
She smiled and answered her own question with a nod and got out a brush to comb her ivory tresses, 'Right!'
TBC
Author's note: Wow, that came out pretty nicely I must say so my self. No pauses or nothing when writing this chapter!
Note how hurt was bolded near the end
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Note: Freya and Elda are not persocoms…yet!
