Back to the Beginning
Chapter 6.
I now I am really weird for writing and such ideas pop into my head so I write them figuring out the details I go. I'll mess up time to time with little detail of ages and stuff so yeah.
The villa was unusually quiet this one morning. Maria was out in the town, doing some shopping and deciding if she should cut her hair. She awoke before her husband and left him a note saying she would be back for morning tea.
It was rare that she awoke before the Captain. But the child she was carrying was restless and woke her at dawn dressing and eating quietly. She slipped out and walked to the village.
She rarely did this now. Reminders of her life in the convent came back and she smiled. Now she had children of her own. She decided to stop and see Mother Abbess, and the other sisters.
She looked down at her fine cloths, and shorter hair. Slightly curls in the fashion of pin curls that took forever to dry. Her stomach protruding slightly from the tightly fit cloths. She was sad, that they had to take out her gown for Liesl's wedding once again. The wedding was within the week.
She stopped at the gate and knocked.
"Yes my child?" Sister Margaretta came to the gate not recognizing the woman who stood before her.
"I wish to speak to Reverend Mother, Sister Margaretta." she smiled warmly.
"How?" Maria cut the woman off by sing a note... "Maria?"
"It is I," she laughed as she was let in and welcomed the hug which was waiting for her.
"We heard you came back, but that is all" she said eying the young mother. "Your?"
"Third little one. Lucas, was my first I suffered a miscarriage, two years ago." She said quietly.
"Poor dear that must have been dreadful." the nun said walking along with her hands in her habit.
"This one shall be last..." she said sadly.
"Sister Bernice!" the nun called out. "Look who's come to visit finally after all these years."
"Maria Von Trapp, my we haven't seen since, well since you left," the other sister said.
"Been busy with the family. Liesl getting married, Friedrich and Isobel, I don't even know where to start with them, Lucas demands attention like he was a navy officer like his father, the girls are boy crazy. The house is a mess and morning sickness won't go away." she smiled and laughed.
"In truth Mother, I don't know what to do with the two, I don't wish to force them into marriage, Friedrich's young, and Isobel is only 15. It was different when the child wasn't his, she could of put it up for adoption." she said.
"Since now there is a responsibility to the child you wish to do the right thing?" the older women smiled.
"Yes, but there just children, Oh how I wish I could just leave it up to them, but she's 15, she has no clue how to take care of a child."
"You when you had Lucas did you know how much work it be?" the Mother Abbess looked at Maria with a sly smile.
"I had an inkling, but no I wasn't ready, especially when my own husband sat there laughing as I was sick, then got up and said I was pregnant and went to wake the children. To this day I can't hide anything from him." she said fuming a the memory near the end of her mini rant.
The mother Abbess laughed. "Child you are like a open book most of the time with your emotions."
The door on the little sitting room was rapped on, and opened, to reveal one worried looking captain. "I believe it is past morning tea." he said looking at his guilty wife, "But I knew somehow you were here, sitting and talking and of course drinking tea. Good morning reverend mother." he semi bowed to the senior nun.
"Good morning Captain Von Trapp, I'm sorry I kept Maria, but on the bright side she can't very well run away to here anymore." Maria blushed at the comment and the Old woman and the Captain chuckled.
"She gave you trouble before you sent her to us?" He asked. "then again that would explain quite a lot."
"Georg!" Maria wanted to slap her husband but refrained from the abuse. Who just chuckled under his breath.
"Well you two best be going, the children are probably looking for you both." the older woman said.
"Yes they probably are."Maria said quietly and got up. "Its been great seeing you again I'll try and visit more often."
Liesl walked around her backyard. A basket of flowers on her arm, Fabian was at work, so she was by herself. Most of her sibling were at school. She had no idea what Isobel and Friedrich were doing and frankly didn't care at the moment.
She was getting married in few days. Her smile was always on even as she thought of her dress, which was dream, of white and lace. She would carry calla lilies, white of course. Her dark hair would be pulled back elegantly.
Liesl sighed.
"You can't marry him."
"what?" Liesl turned at the voice with turn out to be Rolfs.
"You can't marry him," Rolf said quickly.
"And why not?" She asked him, in her mind she thought this was ridiculous why would he being doing this.
"Because I still love you," he told her.
"Leave," she told him... "Now"
Rolf looked at her.
"LEAVE!" She yelled at him.
Rolf just nodded and looked away before leaving as he was told.
"How could you!" she cried. "Today before my wedding, you come here hoping I'll leave my fiancé for you a boy I haven't seen in years, a childhood crush!"
"I just thought," he started.
"Well you thought wrong." She told him.
"I'll be leaving then I guess," he walked away.
Maria found Liesl starring at the gazebo as her and Georg returned. She looked at her husband and went to her adopted daughter.
"She's finally agreed to marry me." Friedrich told his father as he walked into the study that was his fathers.
"Thats good, it better be soon then." he said not looking up at his son. He didn't want to believe it, he still couldn't look his own first born son in the eye.
He eyed the paper work on his desk and heard the footsteps that left the room. He sighed and head his head in his hands.
"Father?"
"Yes Gretl?" he asked.
"Wheres Mother?"
"With Liesl why?" he looked at his ten year old daughter, tall for her age her long curly blonde hair was all over the place as usual.
"Uh, nothing its a woman thing." she said quickly and turned red.
"Oh really?" he asked in his questioning voice that he used at the berry picking scene years earlier.
"No offense dad," she said looking at him. "But your not a woman, I doubt you would understand."
"And your ten years old." he countered his daughter.
"Eleven! I'm practically eleven!" she said frustrated.
The captain held back a laugh. "Of course I almost forget about your birthday is when? oh in 4 months."
"Don't make fun." she told him bravely as he lifted a eyebrow. "I want to go to the movies can I go, I have enough saved up."
"With who you sisters, brothers?" he asked her.
"No more like friends from school." she said.
"Hmm who?" he asked.
"Lily, Kelly and Jacob ," she said really fast.
"Jacob?" he said puzzled. "No you are to young to go on dates, you ten sorry eleven. Your to young." he told her in a matter of factly.
"I knew I should I went to mom the must popular boy in school like me and I can't even go!" she stomped her fight and ran up the stairs to her room.
Maria watched the scene and giggled from the hallway. She walked to her husband and went and sat on his lap. "We have one interesting family dear."
Sorry I know it took a long time and my beta sorta disappeared so yeah lol anyone want to be my beta?
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