Chapter 22: Nerves
"Sam, Kasty is here. Let her through Porden you can wait for your dress let her sit down first. How about you go and play with Petls?" It was quarter to ten and Kasty and Petls had been late bringing the dresses. Jules had been the one to have opened the door which had been a relief for Kasty as Porden, who had been dropped of around half an hour ago to get ready, was desperate to see her dresses.
No-one had seen Sam yet everyone just thought she was relaxing but Jules was getting worried. "Hysta go see where Sam is while I help Kasty bring in the dresses and hand them out ok?"
"Yes mother." She left the rest of them to sort themselves out and was just about to go upstairs when she spotted Sam walking around the well decorated garden. She went through the kitchen and walked out in to the garden that she had helped decorate the day before with white and red streamers and roses. She walked up behind her.
"Hi Sam you ok?" she asked quietly putting a hand on Sam's shoulder.
"Yea just a bit dizzy. I think it's all of the excitement it's making me feel sick." She said sitting down on the grass looking into the pond. Hysta followed suit and sat down next to her.
"It's ok for you to be feeling nervous it's understandable."
"I know but I really want to marry him I don't understand why I'm so nervous."
"You just want everything to go well also I think the sickness is partially down to the fact that you're pregnant. It might just be morning sickness."
"I guess so, thanks" Sam hugged Hysta. "How did you get so smart?"
"Genetics." She answered simply. They sat there for a while longer before they both stood up and headed back to the house. "Oh yea I nearly forgot your dress is here."
"Excellent at least that's one less thing to worry about." She said as they entered the kitchen.
"I suggest you hold off getting into it if you're feeling sick. I remember being told once that sick is really hard to get out of silk" Both women laughed as the entered the living room.
"Hey where are Porden and Petls?" Sam asked when she walked in to see Kasty and Jules sitting chatting alone.
"I locked them in the pantry when they wouldn't stop running about." Kasty replied.
"You did what?" Hysta said shocked and turned to leave to get them out.
"Relax will you. They are in the dining room playing. I brought some toys with me to keep them occupied. So Sam nervous?"
"Yea a bit but I think it's mostly morning sickness." She said sitting down.
"Yea I know what you mean it is pretty hard to separate the two. So I take it your not going to go an get dressed yet then." Kasty asked looking slightly glum. She had been so looking forward to showing off her work.
"No, better not risk it." She answered smiling. "So how come you're late?"
"Petls decided that she would redecorate the kitchen this morning in flour so I had to clean her and get her redressed. Once I realised I was running late I just left Theodore to clean up the kitchen. It was his flour after all." She answered sounding slightly annoyed when she said Theodore's name.
"Sorry to sound selfish but…" Sam started worrying the cake was damaged in the child rampage.
"The cakes fine we had put it in the pantry when he had finished it last night, then locked the door so Petls and her brother couldn't get to it. Theodore had forgotten to put the flour away however and when I woke up I thought I was seeing ghosts." The three other women laughed, Sam out of relief, Jules and Hysta from imaging Kasty walking into her kitchen and nearly fainting thinking she was seeing the dead. Kasty started laughing after a minute finally seeing the funny side.
"So it sounds like your little terror is up to her old tricks." Jules said when she had calmed down she then turned to Sam and continued. "Last year at the solstice festival both Petls and Bendrik had thought it would be funny to trip up one of the acrobats, unfortunately the one they tripped up was supposed to be catching one that was doing a back flip of a moving cart it had not ended well."
"I can imagine where they all right?" Sam asked concerned.
"Yea but sadly they had to stop the parade as they we're sent to the hospital with concussions. They still flinch when they see the kids." She smiled. There was a knock at the door Hysta stood up and went to answer it as Sam looked up at the clock it was quarter past ten already.
"Soups here." Hysta shouted in as she showed Kilsh through to the kitchen. The rest of the women went into the kitchen to inspect the goodies.
"Hi Sam." Kilsh said when she saw her she walked up to and gave her a hug. Once they broke apart she lead Sam over to the covered bowl with soup in.
"Hi, wow this looks delicious smells it too." Sam said after looking into the bowl.
"There's more yet can someone help me bring the home made rolls and mini tray's in."
"Mini trays?" Hysta asked
"Yea I made miniatures of some food, like quiche, sandwiches, stuff like that."
"Yea sure I'll help." Jules and Kasty said at the same time.
"What do you reckon the women will be up to?" Jack asked. They hadn't moved from the kitchen but by now they had eaten breakfast.
"Well if I remember right the dresses should be there so probably making sure they fit and making final adjustments." Cris said from the sink, his dad had made him wash up. "Some of the food should be there by now as well." He added after noticing it was half ten.
"How do you know that?" Jack asked.
"Yea how do you know that?" Glen inquired.
"Hysta had been running through the schedule while I took them to Sam's." He informed them after turning around so he could see them.
"They made a schedule?" Glen asked.
"Yea so they knew everything would be there on time. I think it was smart."
"No what would have been smart telling the cooks to bring the food here so we could make sure it was safe and edible." Jack said making both the other men laugh.