Back to the Beginning.

Chapter 5

I'm sitting here listening Season of Love from the soundtrack Rent...and it got me a bit of in a writing mode...who knows what well come from it. And I just realised the Friedrich who's 20 is in love with a 15 year old.

Marta braided her hair, sighed, and then took the braid out. She couldn't make up her mind how she wanted to do her hair for school that morning.

"Marta hurry up!" Louisa rushed and grabbed her books. She took the younger children to school in the morning with Friedrich.

"But!"

"Just wear it down for goodness sake. He won't care about your hair," Louisa told her sister in a rushed moment.

"How do you know?"

"He's 12, that's why. Boy's don't pay attention to girls' hair at 12 Marty." She told her younger sister.

"Oh and Peter does?" Marta countered back.

"Look, it doesn't matter your going to be late. So come on!" she rushed her sister out the bedroom door into the hall. "Brigitta, Gretl, Kurt!" she called out.

"Father?" he asked as he walked in his father study.

"What is it Friedrich?" George looked up at his oldest son from the paper work he was doing.

"Never mind, it's nothing important." he said and walked out. He unfolded the piece of paper in his hand and sighed and crumbled it and threw it in the trash.

Georg shook his head and smiled at his son. No one could be more amusing then his son at this moment. When Isobel and Friedrich first met she was an 11 year old dancer, she was almost 15 now. Five years younger then his son, at the beginning they didn't know what to think about the two being friends.

Georg knew far too well that Isobel father didn't like the relationship the two had and often tried to sabotage it with his wicked thoughts. But it never worked, and as they both grew up the love started to grow. In many ways Friedrich fell in love with a child and watched her grow and change to who she was at this moment and possibly to the woman she would become.

Georg kept pondering at his desk till the doctor came to him.

"Madame Von Trapp is perfectly healthy, and Fraulein Isobel is also well." he said briefly. "But I suggest the Fraulein gains a bit of weight."

"We will make sure of that." he said. "Thank you for coming to see my wife and Isobel."

"But there is one thing, Fraulein Isobel is three months not two." he said.

Georg looked at the doctor. Her story didn't add up unless she mixed up the dates. But women don't mix up dates with those sort of matters. Maria, and his late wife Agatha, was always on top of those matters, that went their female body

"Thank you doctor, Brigitta will see you out." he said as his daughter walked past the study.

Brigitta stopped and waited for the doctor.

Georg went straight to his son's rooms.

"Answers now!" he raised voice but it was still rather low and quiet.

"Father what are you talking about?" Friedrich said as he set down his knife that he was polishing. You never very well what I mean. Isobel's story. The doctor just denied it. She's three months gone which means she had month left with you before her story took place."

"What are you talking about father," Friedrich looked at him. "Did you think I would harm that girl who I love more then anything in the world?"

"Whether you would or not is not the question did you have relations with this girl... the truth Friedrich?"

Friedrich looked away and gulped for air.

"Did you!" the captain yelled.

"It was an accident, we didn't mean for it to happen. But she wasn't lying about her instructor, that really did happen, and it wasn't just to her."

"Things like that aren't accidents, breaking a plate is an accident. Ruining a young girl's life is not!"

"I'm sorry okay! I didn't mean for it to happen, but it did! I was stupid I couldn't control my feelings, but I didn't force her, it just happened!" Friedrich said starting out angry by the end he was sitting down and crying.

Georg softened at his son's tears.

"You need to marry her and make the child legitimate. There's no doubt you love her." he said.

"She won't marry me. She thinks she's trapping me into a marriage I don't want, but I do want it, more than anything!" he said confusing himself.

"Go talk to her. I need to talk to you mother." he said. Maria was never going to believe this one.

"Tell me you fibbing Georg, Friedrich and Isobel! No! He has too much respect for women; he's marring her no matter what." She came to the conclusion.

Georg could only laugh at his wife. She was talking more to herself, then him.

SCB...

Short I know but it's another chapter