Chapter 2
There was maybe two or three hours of silence, with just Misha and I sitting there. She was the first one to break the silence, "I'm going to check and see if Mother is finished and let you out." she stood up and left my room. Once again I was alone in my room. I stood up and pulled out a leather case from my desk and laid it on my bed. The leather was pretty much untouched, it felt tight against my hands as I opened it. Out of the brown leather, revealed something that I had been working on during my spare time. "I'm almost finished with it." I said as I picked up the silver blade with my hands. Seeing my reflection in the blade, made me feel at peace knowing that I had created it with my own hands.
I put it back in the leather case after looking at it for awhile. Just as I slipped it back into my desk, my mother knocked on my door before entering. I felt relief rush over me, she didn't care to much for her daughters having such studies as we did. She especially hated the fact that I enjoyed to sneak down to the metal shop, and work with Charles. Though he always told me to call him Charlie. Charlie was the man that made all the weapons for Mercury Star and Mercury. I had stumbled upon his work when I was really young, hiding from Misha during hide and seek. Lets just say that I won that round, but I was fascinated by his work and what he did. That he taught me in secret how to weld and work with metal. My father and mother did not know but most of the weapons the soldiers of Mercury and Mercury Star were equipped with, were the weapons that I had made. I perfected Charlie's metal mixture, making the blades stronger. Though I made the weapons to with stand tremendous amounts of force and damage, I made the mixture even better for me in secret. I was making my own blades for my own personal use and collection.
My mother seemed happier, I couldn't see any sign of tears in her eyes this time. So hopefully that was good. "Yes, mother?" I said to her as she closed the door behind her. She walked over to me and kissed my forehead again, it was her way of saying hello and I love you. "Your cousin, Ami has just arrived, and the ceremony will begin soon. So Paul, said you could come and join us, since all is set up." I'll admit that I was happy to be able to leave my room. Yes, I like to be alone, but being stuck in my room all day when I could've been down in the metal shop working while Charlie was away, I didn't like it very much.
Mother had left my room, and I was to follow soon afterwards. I looked in my mirror first, and looked at the dress. I liked it to an extent, but what I hated was dresses period. I liked pants or skirts, not dresses or those really long skirt either. Well I walked to my door and opened it. Taking one last look at my room as a child, I closed my door. When I would return to it, I would be a young lady as my mother had put it. Walking down the halls, there were pictures of the entire family. Even of Ami's, since our mothers were sisters. I reached the staircase, and started to walk down them.
If you look hard enough you can see around the long round staircase and see what is on the ground floor before anyone else can see you. I had a habit of doing that, so I stopped and looked down. I saw loads of people, most of them I had never even seen before. Since I had only been to Mercury and back home, my acquaintances were pretty limited. But there she stood, in her long light blue dress with her Azul colored hair, and her dark blue eyes in a corner talking to a boy that looked about my age. Ami was so beautiful, and I admired her a great deal, though I did mainly in secret. She was smart, and so kind it would want you to regret everything that you ever did that was wrong. Ami would tutor me, and soon I was almost as smart as she was, but she had 2 years on me, so I knew I would never be as smart as her.
The boy that she was talking to had short black hair that was spiked, and his eyes were of the same dark sapphire color as mine were. He wore some kind of armor that was black and with a cape on the back. Being at an angle, I could see the dark blue 5-pointed star on his left chest plate. The star had a single black line flowing in the middle of the lines that made the star. I couldn't help but wonder who he was, and how he could make Ami smile, when she was normally so shy around boys. By this time, I was in a sort of squatting position on the staircase looking down at them all.
A familiar masculine voice sounded behind me, "What are you doing, Sephanie?" I stood and straightened my dress and turned around. There stood my father, in his honorary armor of Mercury Star and our planetary symbol on his left chest plate. It was just the same as Mercury's symbol was but with one slight difference. Ours held a 5-pointed star in the middle of the circle. He had short black hair that laid right on his shoulders, and his eyes a lighter shade of ruby red than Misha's eyes were. My father, Paul wasn't from Mercury Star, he actually came from another star, Mars Star. That's why his eyes are red, and after his star was destroyed by a meteor storm he had no choice but to leave it. He fell in love with my mother so he moved to our star, and married. He became a King, as my mother was the Queen. Though she rules over the star, she lets him think he has more leeway with what goes on here.
"I was trying to see who all was here, Father." I answered him. Misha and I both called them mother and father, instead of mommy and daddy. It just didn't sound right, besides we knew they deserved our respect. "You won't know who all is here, unless you go down and meet them." he said to me, he stood like a tower over me, but he would never rub it in, after all, I just turned 13. "Yes, Father. I'll go down then now." I said to him, almost disappointed that I had to go down and mingle as he would say. He smiled, which his smile would warm me inside, at almost anytime. He held out his arm to me, like a gentleman, and I wrapped my arm around his. It was so tiny compared to his arm, but I didn't mind. He walked me down the staircase and when people saw us descending everyone stopped talking and looked at us.
He reached behind himself with his other arm and tickled my side, and I couldn't help but smile. "Smile, Sephanie. You have a wonderful smile, show it." I smiled fully which rarely ever happened, and I could tell there was true happiness in his face, "There it is." I looked out at the group of people watching me come down the stairs, and my smile started to disappear. I didn't like to be watched, I would much rather be ignored. Then I saw him, the boy that Ami had been talking to earlier, looking at me with a smile on his face. I looked straight ahead with a slight pinkness to my cheeks after I saw him smiling at me. 'He smiled at me…' I thought to myself as my father and I kept walking down the stairs. We were nearing the bottom of them, when I looked back over at the boy again and his smile never faded, his eyes followed me. I looked ahead again with my cheeks pink still, 'He's cute…' I thought to myself once again.