Back to the Beginning.
Chapter 4
Same as usual disclaimer of mine.
Liesl looked at the man standing before her. "Rolf this is Fabian, Fabian this is Rolf. Fabian is my fiancé," she said carefully and slowly.
'What was he doing here. I'm getting married in two months, no this can't be happening he betrayed his country. Okay the was harsh he did help us escape, but what we had was gone I was a girl with a her first crush.' Liesl's mind ran at lightening speed.
"Oh I didn't know you were engaged." Rolf said courtly as he felt his awkwardness get the better of him.
"It's going to be in the paper Friday," Fabian said in a cool voice. The guy gave him the creeps, he saw how he looked at his fiancée before he knew who he was.
"Oh well congratulations then," he said after a moment of thinking. "I best get going mother is waiting." he said and turned for the door.
Rolf didn't look back as he left the villa. At least not till he reached the gate. He wanted her back for himself, and he had two months to do it.
Isobel looked down at the book. Friedrich was to quiet for her right now, as he sat across the library where she first made her appearance to the household.
"Out with it already and stop staring at me like I'm sort of freak." she said letting her temper get the better of her.
"I don't know what to say Bell, I'm still shocked your here in my home. My parents won't tell me anything about whats wrong with you!" he said in a exasperated way. As he paced part of the room.
"Friedrich please calm down I'll tell but please don't go start making everything a big deal." she said sighing a shallow voice. "So sit down."
Friedrich sat down and faced her. His hands on his lap it reminded him of the uniform days.
Isobel made sure the door was closed before starting the story. "It was shortly after you left..."
Friedrich sat there stunned. She was his sister Brigitta's age, how could this happen to her. She was 15, he wanted to hurt the bastard, who called himself a teacher.
"Anyway I fainted in class, and I brought to the hospital." she took a deep breath in order to calm herself. "He made me pregnant Friedrich, and denied it and said it was you." she said it slowly.
Friedrich starred at her. He wanted to kill the bastard now for what he done and denied it, and placed the blame on him.
"Maria your mother is going to help me give the baby up for adoption."
"Why?"
"Friedrich, I'm fifteen with no money, no place to call home. I can't keep a baby can't be a mother at least I could still dance after the baby after I get back into shape but my life is over," she said but her voice was laced with the hidden fear she faced herself.
"Well..."
"No don't ask it, don't even say it. Its not your responsibility Friedrich. I am not going to trap you into a marriage." she said forbidding him.
"Who said you would trap me?" he said quietly. "You know I love you, but in the end it's your choice." he got up and stalked out of the room to his bedroom.
Gretl skipped home from school. Her curls bouncing, she remember the days she climbed the trees down the road when her father was gone. It was long time ago she barely remember it. Except kurt always told her she almost fell from them, and teased her about all the time still.
"Hey Gretl!"
"What do you want Conrad." she said stoping, he was the boy all the girls crushed on but to her she couldn't give a rip about him.
"Well I wondering if you want to study for the history test together?" he asked.
"No thank you." she said walking foreword again.
"There right you are stuck up." he called out after them. "Just because your father escaped from nazi's you think you so above everyone, all cowards."
"My father fought for what he believed in we are not cowards, you are." she yelled back at home and ran to the gate and shut it quickly.
"Gretl whats wrong?" Maria asked her second youngest as she enter through the front door out of breath.
"Conrad a boy at school called my stuck up, and that my family was a bunch of cowards during the war." she said huffing to catch breath as tear threatened to spill. "But I told him were not and at least we fight for what we believe in."
Maria hugged Gretl. "Just ignore him sweetie, we know what we went through they don't." she told Gretl, "so don't you worry.
Georg smiled at his wife and youngest daughter. "So how was school Candy Girl." he nickname for her from the story Hansel and Gretel.
"I'm fine father." she said hugging him and ran up to her room to drop her stuff off.
Maria looked at her husband and smiled. "Boy at school gave her a bit of trouble, but I think it will be fine." she told him as he wrapped his arm around her waist and led her down the stairs.
"It's to quiet at this table whats happened?" Georg looked at his children and son to be, and Isobel.
"Brigitta stole my lipstick!" Louisa shouted.
"I did not, you lost it!" Brigitta yelled back.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Girls!" Their father interrupted them. "First no yelling, Louisa you are to young for make-up." he said looking at the two different sisters.
"I saw Rolf today, he came over." Liesl said. "He wasn't really happy about Fabian."
Maria looked at Liesl. "He'll move on dear, just give it time." she said softly.
"Anything else you want to put onto the table?" The Captain said in a loud voice.
"No." everyone answered.
"I told him Baroness." she said quietly as the older woman brushed her hair.
"I thought so." Maria said knowingly. "Mostly the looks on your two faces at dinner gave it away."
"He doesn't get it."
"You're both young. He loves you but doesn't fully understand everything." she said.
"I don't want to trap him into something that not his fault." she said.
"Ever think he just wants the best for you?" she looked at the girl. "But I understand what your feeling." she hugged her warmly. "Get to bed you two, both of you need you rest." she said laughing, and kissed the girls' heads. "Sleep tight."
Maria made the rounds on the children, who need to be up for school the next morning, before going to the her husband's study where he was smoking a pipe.
Georg smiled and put it out as he saw her.
"Fabian found a house for Liesl and him," he told her. "It's quite nice as well since they are going to be newlyweds when they move in."
"That's wonderful, makes me remember our honeymoon." she said smiling.
"That's always a good thing," he held onto her hips.
"Before you start anything go brush your teeth," she said," you know how I detest smoke." she said.
"Yes my Baroness." He bowed to her, "your wish is my command."
Scb
Another chapter done.