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6. The Happy Family
"Lizzie?"Lizzie didn't
answer.
"Lizzie!"
"What?" she impatiently asked.
"It's
mum," Jane answered. Lizzie sighed and walked with her sister to
their parent's room.
"Mum?" she asked, carefully knocking on
the wooden door.
"Please, leave me alone," their
mother's voice sadly said.
Lizzie tried to open the door, but it
was locked.
"Why did you think I called you?" Jane
whispered.
"I dunno, maybe you wanted to convince me Lydia can't
keep the baby?" Lizzie whispered back.
"Open the
door, we'll talk about that later."
"Mum?" Lizzie asked
again, "could you please open the door?"
"No, I
can't."
"Mum, you gotta unlock the door, you're not the only
one who's shocked."
She heard some noice and then the door
opened. She saw her mother, who sat down on her bed again.
"I'm a bad
mother," she said in a low voice.
"No, you're not," Jane
said, and she hugged her mother.
"Absolutely not, it was Lydia
who was a little... soon, not you," Lizzie beamed.
"Soon!
Soon! My little girl slept with someone, while she is fifteen
years old! Fifteen!" her mother yelled.
"And she is
pregnant! At her fifteenth!" She started to cry
again, "what do I have to do? Mr Bennet doesn't want to talk
and I can't handle this on my own!"
"Mum, what's your
opinion?" Lizzie asked. Her mother looked at her.
"I 've got
no idea, I need Mr Bennet," she softly answered. Lizzie saw the
tears running down her cheeks and she stood up.
"Jane?"
Jane
looked at her in a way of 'I can't leave mum like that!', but when
she saw Lizzie's face, she also stood up.
"I'll be right back,
mum," she said. Their mother didn't even hear her, she was too busy
with crying and being sad.
"What?" Jane asked, when they stood
in the small hall and Lizzie closed the of their mother's
bedroom.
"What do you think?" she whispered angry, "from the
moment Lydia told us she's pregnant, yesterday, you're being
negative!
That doesn't really help matters!"
"What has to be helped?
It's crystal clear Lydia can't take care of herself, don't even think
about a baby!"
"Give her a chance! Don't you see the changes?
She's acting like a real grown up!"
"Yeah, the last
twenty-four hours. On which side are you, actually?"
"Im on
Lydia's," Lizzie firmly said. Jane frowned and looked at her like
she was dissapointed.
"Don't look like that," Lizzie snapped.
Since Jane had met Charles Bingley, she had become more confident, in
a good way.
But this was the first time in their lives the two eldest
Bennet sister stood on very different sides.
"Did Charles
tell you you've gotta have an own opinion?" she asked in a sweet
voice. Jane froze and then started to cry.
"I can't believe you
said that about Charlie! This is not his point of view, but mine!" she
ran into their bedroom and slammed the door.
"Great," Lizzie
mumbled. Now she could not only hear her mother cry, but also Jane.
She felt terrible and walked downstairs,
where Mary was playing a
song on the piano, that Lizzie made feel even more sad, althought it
was a beautiful piece.
As like she could hear Lizzie's thoughts,
Mary turned around when she finished it.
"'Fast zu ernst' from
Robert Schumann," she said. Lizzie nodded and wanted to leave the
room. When she had reached the door,
she turned
around.
"Mares?"
"Yes?"
"What do you think about
the whole situation?"
Mary didn't answer, but started to play
'Fast zu ernst' again. The music almost made Lizzie cry, and she
quickly left. She
looked for her dad and found him in the barn.
"Dad?" she softly asked. He looked up.
"Lizzie!"
he smiled.
"Mum has freaked out."
His smile dissapeared
and he frowned.
"Lizzie-"
"Dad, what's gonna happen? What
do you think?" Lizzie asked. She was desperate and needed someone
to talk to.
"I think the weather's great and that I need to walk for a while," her father simply said, and he stepped out of the
barn.
"Dad!" Lizzie exclaimed, but he was already gone. She
felt angry and walked mad into the garden. Lydia and Kitty were
sitting under the tree.
"Right, now I've seen the whole crazy
Bennet family," Lizzie mumbled and she snapped at Lydia: "Was it
that difficult to keep
you're hands of and just wait?"
Lydia
stood up, with a confident look on her face.
"Like I said
yesterday, Liz, I don't really know what to do – but it
would be great to get some support. Mum, dad and Jane
seem to hate
me."
"They don't hate you. Look, you'll get my support..."
Lizzie searched for the right words, "I think you should keep the
baby,
if you're sure you want that. You made a mistake and you can't
let them kill your kid, only because you were the one that did
something stupid... but you have to be
really sure about it."
Lydia looked at her, and Lizzie didn't
knew what the look did mean. Kitty stood up and walked away.
"Kit?"
Lydia asked, but the youngest girl didn't aswer.
"Well, I guess
I also go," Lydia said, frowning. "And thanks, Liz."
Lizzie
saw the weird look on her sister's face, and she realized they never
really talked. Talked, like she and Jane did. Jane...
While
Lydia opened the door of the house to go inside, the sound of
Schumann's music reached Lizzie's ears.
