Pippin waked up and something laid in the air. The smell of pancakes. "Its to good to be true" he thought when Plume stepped inside whit a tray. She put it down on his bedside table and smiled.
"I have milked the cow and give the chickens food".
"Hey, you leave nothing to me".
"You must look over the shipping and ordering, and the vegetable land doesn't look so good Pip".
"I look over it, could you take out Hermes".
"Hermes?".
"The horse, he needs to get ride".
"I could do that Pip, I ride a bit in town and I got a granny who owns a old farm in Black- Heart valley a good bit from here".
"If you want to, but I must worn you, he's not the nicest horse you could deal whit".
"It will go fine, but mind to look over what you promise". He smiled.
"I will". She disappeared from the room.
Hermes was just as fast as the god he got his name from. When Plume sat up in his saddle he looked happy whit that.
"Let's go Hermes". The horse disappeared whit its owner down to the house where Ai and her sis lived. Plume stopped Hermes when she saved a little girl a bit from the house. Her hair was crimson read and her dress pink. Plume jumped of the horse and walked to the girl. She rise her head and smiled.
"Hey, who are you?" the girl asked.
"I'm Plume, Pippins sister".
"Pip never tolled me about some sis".
"It's a long story, so… who are you young lady?".
"My name is Clarie and I'm about to be six years old this winter".
"You are tall fore your age" Plume smiled "what are you doing?".
"Mom always nag at me, so I think I stay out until aunt Ai have time to go whit me to the beach and play".
"We could go to the beach if you want to Clarie". Clarie looked suspiciousness.
"Mom told me not to go whit strangers" she said "you look like a stranger to me".
"Oh.. of cores… my fault".
"But on the other side, I not listen to mom very often… she's never nice to me, never saying I'm good at anything… sometimes Ai says that…"
"Clarie, I'm ready to go to the beach now". A long and blond women were coming out from the house.
"It's aunt Ai, come on!". Clarie rune to her aunt and Plume followed her. Ai hugged Clarie.
"Oh". She looked at Plume.
"And you are?".
"My name is Plume, I'm Pippins older sister".
"But… how nice, want to come whit us to the beach, we just going to build some castles in the sand and play boll games, nothing special… but anyway".
"It sounds good to me".
Pippin raised his head from the land before him. He had done half of it, and the other half was easy. "Plume should be back now" he thought "its almost time for dinner". He heard steps and turned around. Kate were standing a bit from him.
"I just come to leave this". She gave him a little basket whit a red turn on her face.
"Its just some small things, but I wanted to help you and Plume out, I'm so sorry for my behaviour yesterday, do you think she's mad at me?"
"Want to know some thing" Pippin smiled "she asked me same thing".
"Oh… you got a nice girlfriend Pippin". He looked confused.
"Girlfriend, Plume's my sister
"Your… sister?".
"Yupp, isn't she nice?". Kate smiled gently.
"She's just like you, so she's gently". He blushed and mumbled something that she couldn't hear.
"Can I come visit you more times?" Kate asked.
"Of cores, you always welcome you know". She smiled and looked very shy.
"Do you…". She stopped.
"What Kate?".
"You know Griffin arrange a big… Spring party on his bar… I wonder if you… want to go… whit me?". He looked away a second.
"You mustn't, you got your sis to take care of… I understand if you…". He laid his finger on her lips.
"Not a word" He smiled "I want to go whit you to that party, alright".
"Really?".
"Really Really". She smiled.
"Thanks Pip, I should go home and prepare me for the dance".
"Hey, its five days to that dance".
"I must have a nice dress… its important to me". Pippin smiled.
"If you so want, well, I must go looking for Plume".
"I think I saw her down the beach whit Ai and Clarie".
"Oh, in that case… well she should be home now, its about dinnertime isn't it?".
"Dinnertime, oh… I forgot that, Lumina has ask me to dinner whit her, oh how could I forgot". Kate smiled.
"I must go now Pip, see you". She rune away. "She's a really nice girl" Pippin thought "but a little forgetful". He raised from the land. "Well, it's best if I go looking for Plume".
Plume looked at Clarie who rune over the beach, trying to catch a bird in the sky. Ai smiled and looked at Plume.
"Clarie said that you were Pippins sister, am I right?".
"Your right".
"He never talked much about his family… I understand him, I don't like to discuss my own family so I shouldn't nag at Pip". Ai sat down beside Plume whit a sigh over her lips.
"It's so nice watching Clarie when she plays" Ai smiled "reminds me of when I was young… it seems so many years ago… and I have grown up to something else than I wanted to".
"Yeah, me too, I wish I could be like her" Plume said "look at her, not a problem in the world, it seems so beautiful to be that naive". Hermes were graze on a opened place not long from the beach.
"She's not that naive, Clarie have gone trough many thinks" Ai sighed "so many terrible things that a child shouldn't go trough".
"What?". Plume looked at Ai's sad face.
"It's a deep secret that Clarie don't like to talk about… not me ether" Ai said "but… you seems to be a good girl, and Clarie likes you…". Plume looked exited.
"When we lived in town, I had a husband… I wished so for a little baby, but when we never get one, the doctor told me that I could never have a baby… my husband left me after that, and just soon after, Julie get Clarie… I was so envious, so angry… Julie didn't want a child, she was to busy whit other things… and little Clarie was sick… that stupid…". She didn't said what she thought about her own sister.
"Clarie was always sick, whit big bruises over her body all the time, first I thought that Julie's husband was hurting Clarie, but when I talked to the doctor, they couldn't even do that, he told me that Clarie got cancer… the poor child laid on the hospital for more than a year… when she was better I decide to move out here whit here… and Julie". Ai sighed again.
"She don't know anything about Clarie, how important it is fore her to come to the hospital many times a week to see a doctor, and how important it is to see doctor Hardy often whit her, it always me who goes whit her to the doctor, always me who look after her on the hospital… it wasn't fair that Julie got a child and that I couldn't". Ai got very silent.
"Don't think I'm mad, I'm just worried about Clarie, she need parents who cares, not parents like Julie who just nag at her…". Ai stopped talking when steppes were coming. Pippin showed up on the beach.
"Hey Plume, were have you been?".
"Here whit Ai and Clarie".
"Its about dinner time now, I think its best we go home". Ai smiled.
"How's you doing Pippin?" she asked.
"I'm doing just fine, are you going to the Spring Party on Griffins bar?".
"Of course, Clarie loves that, don't you Clarie". The little girl were coming right to them.
"Yeah, I love that party".
"Have you got someone to dance whit?" Pippin smiled.
"No, I'm not good at dancing.".
"You just need to practise a lot before, you got a few days to learn".
"You think I can do that?" Clarie asked.
"Of course" Ai said "I will learn you how to do".
"Yeah, come on, lets go and practise". Clarie grabbed Ai's hand and they left.
"Its really nice people" Plume said "Clarie is a very special girl".
"Yeah, she's really is" Pippin mumbled "come on, lets go home, I could cook something easy for us".
"Pippin, should it really be a dance?".
"Yes". Pippin put two plates on the table.
"It have always been a dance on Griffins bar this time at the year". Plume looked down in her soup. She looked really sad, like she was hiding something for him.
"Hey Plume, is everything alright?"
"Yeah little brother, and I know who I'm taking to the dance".
"Really, tell me".
"No, I haven't asked yet, but soon, I should go over and ask right now". She didn't stop when Pippin shout after her. She was already gone.
The air was so cold when she stopped outside the door to Vesta's farm. "Am I really shore on this thing?" she thought. After that she knocked on the door. A short brown-haired women were standing in front of her.
"Hi, how can I help you, it's a little to late to buy some seeds, if that's your business, come back tomorrow".
"No, I'm here searching for Raven, is he here?".
"Yeah, on the second floor". Plume stepped in and walked over the small room whit a little kitchen, a small table and two beds. She climbed some stairs and were standing in another small room. On a bed Raven were lain on his back. His eyes were closed and he looked really tired. Plume sat down beside him and gently she touch his face. Hi slowly opened his eyes and looked at her.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I was supposed to ask you if… you want to… go to the dance whit me".
"What?". He sat up beside her and looked into her amber eyes.
"Do you want to take me to the dance?".
"I… I wasn't shore you wanted to see me after that… in the forest".
"Oh… that… Rock's just an idiot". Ravens eyes were begin to shine.
"You really think so?" he asked very silent and his hand touch her face. She felt that her face blushed up. His lips were near her face, and she felt his silent breath against it. He kissed her. First she didn't know what to do. "Hey, we don't know each other, what is he doing".
"Let me go!". She broke free from him. He looked confused.
"But Plume…". He stepped up and tried to lay his arm around her neck.
"Stop it!".
"Plume, what are you doing?". His question made Plume look at him.
"You asked me for the dance, and I thought that… it meant that you wanted me… to do you…". He stopped talking.
"What's wrong whit you, if I ask you for a dance I don't want you to take me like that".
"But…".
"What do you think your doing, I don't want you like that… I just wanted you to take me to the dance".
"Plume". But she was already on his way out.