Chapter Three
And if I could hold on
Through the tears and the laughter
Would it be beautiful?
Or just a beautiful disaster
Kelly Clarkson
Ever since the party a couple of days ago Ariel had been feeling under the weather. Everything she used to love doing walking along the shore by the castle, going to the town, she even spent a day back home with her family. But nothing would shake this feeling. At least Eric would be home tonight and she was planning a special dinner for him. She missed her husband and maybe just maybe that's all they needed a night to reconnect. Maybe this feeling of unhappiness with her life and with him would just go away like that.
Later that Day
Ariel patiently waited for her husband to come home, he was half an hour late already. He probably just misses calculated how long it would take him. She watched as the romantic candle she set out started to die and the food was starting to get cold. An hour past and the phone rang she went running towards the phone as fast as she could.
"Eric where are you?" she asked as she answered the phone
"No mom it's me," laughed Melody
"Oh hi sweetie, how are you doing?" asked Ariel who was disappointed it wasn't her husband but at the same time happy to hear her daughter's voice.
"Is everything alright, where is dad?"
"Oh he is just late getting home from a trip," said Ariel trying to hide that she was concerned," You know your father always away and then misjudging how long it will take him to get home.
"Are you lonely mom?"
"Yeah I miss you but I went to go visit your grandfather the other day and met with some of our friends at the ball the other day."
"That's good," replied Melody who was a bit skeptical that everything was as good as her mother said," well I can get off in case dad is trying to call."
"Don't be silly, I want to hear about your trip!"
"I love it here in Paris, it's so romantic!" sighed Melody. Ariel knew that voice her daughter had always met someone.
"I thought you were supposed to be in Italy?"
"Yeah it was just so nice here we couldn't leave," said Melody
"Melody out with it I know there is something else you want to say," laughed Melody
"Mom he is so wonderful I never met anyone like him!"
"But what about the rest of your trip and your friends?"
"We are leaving for Italy on Monday was just going with Jack and his friends."
"That sounds like fun!"
"Mom how you know when you have met the one?" asked Melody
"You just know," said Ariel thinking back to that time when she lay on the beach singing to Eric," You want to know everything about them and you would do anything to be with them. The thought of spending a day without them makes you feel sad."
"I only hope I can meet someone who loves me as much as dad loves you," sighed Melody
"You will honey," said Ariel who was trying not to cry in front of her daughter. Just then Eric walked in the door," Oh your father just walked in want to say hello?" She mouthed Melody and handed the phone to Eric and he just took the phone and walked into his office without even saying hello to her.
After she heard Eric hang up the phone she walked into his office ," I made your favorite dinner ."
"I ate on my way here," he said absently
"I thought we could talk," said Ariel
"Ariel I am really tired and I am leaving again tomorrow."
"But you just got back!" said Ariel
"I can't control my work ," he said sharply
"At least have some dessert," she smiled
"No I am really tired ," he said and walked by without even giving her a peck on the cheak
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
Shakespear sonnet 116