Chapter 3

Lisa looked at him amazed. Anyway she couldn't make much of other than follow him and she only wanted to do it…

Yes but, and if he still deceives me, and if all this was really only a game? Lisa, stop thinking about it, you worry for nothing. To whom did he turn to when he learned that Richard was his abominable half brother? Where did he spend the night? In your bed -- yes, all right, you were in the seesaw chair but all the same, he was well and truly with you. And with whom was he having breakfast? With you and your parents. Doesn't it mean anything? Furthermore, he told you he was feeling fine when he's with you. Then stop thinking anything and take advantage of it for once!

And it is what she would do, she would take advantage a maximum of the time which she would spend with David. Without wondering more if it was indeed or not -- Lisa Plenske was also entitled at some hours of happiness even if she had the impression that she had stolen them. We shall take charge of consequences later. For once Lisa didn't want to ask anymore questions, to be anymore rational, but she never really had been when it was about David Seidel? To be honest? No, she had never been her, despite the fact she was capable of standing up to him repeatedly. She made things above all always according to him. It was stronger than her.

Julien was right, all her life was made according to her boss, David Seidel, but that, she would never please him to say it to him, no never…

"Lisa? Lisa? The earth tries to enter communication with Lisa Plenske."

"Eh? What? Excuse me?" she made in shaking her head. David smiles by shaking too the head. "Still the head in clouds?"

"Yes, if we want, sorry."

"Come on!" He says to her by taking the hand and by going outside. Lisa Plenske had the impression to live in a dream since the moment when David Seidel had put his lips on her under the mistletoe for a second kiss. What happened? What changed? Since she had arrived at Kerima, she had only dreamed about it, that David sees her finally as the woman that he would love till the end of his days and now that he loved her, she didn't stop asking questions.

Have you not just said that we would take care of consequences later? Lisa, stops being nasty to you by asking you non-stop if it does not hide anything. I know that I should stop asking ten miles questions but it is just that it's as if the most beautiful of swans fell in love with the naughty boy small duck. It seems too beautiful to be true.

Nevertheless, she was really there and David was pulling her by the hand. Then, without knowing really why, Lisa felt taken by an irresistible envy for laughter.

"David?" She called him slowly. He stopped and turned to her, without leaving her hand. Lisa says nothing and looked at him simply in eyes. David was breathless in spite of the darkness. Lisa moved a step up to him and put her lips on his. David answered immediately to the kiss.

Everything seemed so simple suddenly. Or maybe it was simply because it was quite new for both. But there was no ambiguity between them, they felt fine with each other. She did not try to change him and he did not either try to change her.

Sometimes however Lisa would have loved that he shows itself a little more responsible and mature but for the rest, she loved him as it is, no furthermore need. All she needed was him, that's everything.

They parted again due to the lack of air. He rested the forehead against hers silently, he smiles to her simply. Some moments later, they find their way back. Lisa always wondered where he took her. She didn't wait for long before she has her answer.

David had taken her to the fountain of Neptune of Alexander Platz. Except at this hour we didn't see much anymore. Well, what mattered it is that David was here with her and that they are both alone. Lisa loved being with him so much. David was not an angel, that she had discovered, but he had so good sides when they were both alone like now. Lisa knew that she had the true David Seidel in front of her and not the one that the others saw or wanted to see.

They went up two small stairs and they decided to go sit down on the edge of the fountain. First of all, they remained some moments silently taking advantage simply of the wintry air. It could seem strange but sometimes a person could really take advantage of the coolness of the air to revive a little and it is what David and Lisa were doing.

The fate certainly reserved many surprises. This morning still, Lisa Plenske had said to herself that it would be a day like the others to fight against her feelings towards David and at the moment, they were together or at least they had exchanged several kisses.

I can't believe it, I fell in love with Lisa Plenske. Say that at the beginning when she arrived at Kerima, I treated her like an idiot when she had knocked down the coffee on me -- by inattention, I know it today but this day -- little by little things changed, Lisa knew to remain herself in this world of sharks which is the world of fashion, she never sought to change to please whoever that is, except the time where she had taken these rotten pills which had failed to kill her. Richard did not move back in front of nothing. Still not besides, he would have been ready to make a murder to replace Lisa… fortunately she got through it.

If somebody asked me when I started to have feelings for her, I would be unable to answer him. All that I know it is that today I am and happy to be. Lisa is a rare pearl, she has an immense inside beauty.

"A penny for your thoughts."

"Hmmm… I was lost in my thoughts." He lowered his eyes, shy. "You were thinking about what? Me?" she asked smiling. David again raised the eyes on her. "Yes, I thought about you…" With the words of David, the smile of Lisa increases.

David Seidel continued, "…About the fact that I fell in love with you and the fact that I failed to lose you when you had decided to make your diet…" his voice grew blurred and he lowered the eyes again. Lisa tightened the hand and caressed his left cheek. "David, look at me," asked him gently.

That's what he did slowly, and he again posed the eyes on Lisa. He could never have forgiven himself it if something had arrived to the young woman. What would it have made? Even Max had pointed out to him that without it, it was good to only be going peddler and still. David wanted to be some enormously now for all the times or it had made it suffer unnecessarily and had not trusted him.

All times where it had doubted it without really valid reason. It had shame of it now. It felt tears to prick the eyes to him. "Forgiveness, LISA, forgiveness for all that I made you endure..." made him it of a voice broken by the emotion. LISA, approached him, then it was put at knees in front of him. That it was cold him was quite equal. All that was essential now was David and the fact that it was to render comprehensible to him that in its eyes all that did not have any more importance, the past belonged to the past, and that today they were together, then why stir up the pains and the silly things?

"David…" she says by tightening the arms towards him to be able to take his face between his hands. "forget the past, my love,". she reddens slightly so that she had just said and thanked the sky already black so that David cannot see her cheeks. A small smile found the way through the flood of sad emotions which David felt. It was not the first time that a woman called him like that but coming from Lisa that meant so much more. So much more…

Lisa again cherished his cheek and she felt a shiver to go through all his body. He closed his eyes. Lisa Plenske continued to say to him... "forget the past because it cannot be changed, we can't go back, David, what happened before, the words that we said to each other in moments of storms, I forgot them, they disappeared like a bubble from soap that bursts. You, me, today and now, here what really counts and nothing else…" She smiles. And "Kerima".

"Lisa…" She did not leave him time to say a word, she was rectified on her knees and kissed once again. It was as if neither one nor the other never had enough of it. They needed contact.

David rose and tended the hand to help her to get up. He tightened her in its arms and closed the eyes. Both remained tight one against the other during several minutes before breaking the contact. They went arm above, arm below, the head of Lisa leaned against the chest of David.

Both thought of what they were going to do at the moment. It was necessary to get Mariella aware, David knew that Lisa felt unconfortable to have succumbed while he was not "free" and they would feel better and could move on once things were clarified for everybody. The lie was a sacrilege for Lisa. David Seidel knew in his circle of acquaintances nobody so straight ahead like her.

She seemed to influence him because he did not want to cheat either, except with Richard. His half brother seemed to highlight the most black side which David had in him. Every time he saw him or every time his first name was pronounced, he did not contain itself any more. He did not know why but it was like that.

Lisa wondered egoistically if they could pass time together, she also wanted to say nothing to anybody during some time, so as Mariella naturally because it was necessary to work things out with her.

"David?"

"Yes, Lisa?" He asked him while continuing to move up to her. "Don't say anything to anybody for us, all right?"

"Why?" He questioned her amazed. "Because I want to keep you for me," she answered fearlessly. In this answer, David roared.

"And indeed say to me, Lisa, we intend to hold me and to hide from the eyes of the world?"

"Yes, that's right!" She answered him with a smile behind ears.