Bloom's Lesson
Chapter 4
Bloom woke when the curtains were pulled back to let the light in, she jumped up, surprised and looked around for Sky, but he was not there.
"He left early" said a woman's voice from the other side of the room, Bloom looked over to see Kimmy, walking around the room opening all the curtains "he said to send you his deepest apologies, but he simply could not get out of his meeting, he wishes for you to meet him for lunch in the dining hall at twelve o'clock, but until then, you have your first lesson, with Princess Christina, is that okay?" she asked opening the last curtain.
Bloom thought there was no fighting these lessons, so she might as well just get them over with, and it was only eight o'clock, she would see Sky for lunch in four hours so that was going to be something to look forward to. "Yes, that's okay" she nodded.
"It won't be that bad Princess, Jennifer is a really nice woman and also you will be getting to know one of Sky's Cousin, so you will have little Christina to keep you company, she is a very sweet young girl, and it's okay going to be a few lesson, I'm sure Jennifer, will explain everything when you get there, now hurry up, we can't have you late for your first day now can we?"
"Guess not" Bloom said struggling to get up from the comfortable bed.
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Less than ten minutes later they were walking down the hall towards the hall, that they had brought Bloom too, the night before.
"Don't worry about this, before you know it all your lessons will be over" Kimmy smiled at her as they walked, bloom was only half awake, still dozy in the early morning.
"I guess I should give it a shot, what harm can come from it?" Bloom asked as Kimmy opened the door to the hall where she was going to be spending the next four hours learning what she should have been taught when she was a young girl, but I guess you can't have many advertisements for lessons for behaving like a princess on earth.
Bloom thought she was dressed very properly for the lessons; she was wearing a floor length light blue dress that came to her shoulders, Kimmy said you need to wear a dress that would resemble a formal ball gown, and this was close enough right?
Inside the hall were two woman, a young girl and a woman who bloom recognised from the night before, Jennifer.
The young girl was sitting in the corner playing with a plastic doll and brushing its black messy hair, the young girl must have been Christina, she sure looked a lot like Sky, she had soft wavy blond hair that went to just under her shoulders, along with the sparkling Blue eyes to multiply her beauty, she was small, but then again Brandon said she was eight so she was young, she had a Pink fluffy dress that any child at that age would want to wear, Bloom sure did when she was eight.
"Christina, I have someone for you to meet here, come over here." Jennifer said suddenly, grabbing the girl's attention as her head lifted from her plastic doll.
Christina rose to her feet and walked gracefully across the room towards the three women.
"Christina, this is Princess Bloom of Sparks, she is Sky's close friend and she will be having classes with us for a couple of lessons, is that okay" Jennifer said to the little girl.
Christina stared at bloom for a few long seconds before she cracked an ear to ear smile "Hello Princess, it a pleasure to meet you, my cousin, the king of Eraklyon has informed me about your arrival, and I must say I am very excited to get to know you in the near future." The little girl said in a high voice and also curtsied.
Bloom stared at the little girl in utter shock, in no part of her mind did she think an eight year old would come up with a sentence life that, punctuation perfect, and her ability to use big words that Bloom wouldn't have thought twice about saying when she was eight, and the curtsy? She has never met a more mannerly eight year old.
"It's nice to meet you too Christina, it's a pure pleasure." Bloom said annoyed at her own lack of punctuation and ability to use big and professional words, she also tried her hand at a curtsy, but not a very gracefully one that could compare to Christina's.
However the little girl was still there smiling at her "what age are you?" she asked stepping closer to Bloom.
"I am twenty" Bloom said smiling at the girl as she pushed a stray blond hair out of her eyes.
"you look very pretty Bloom, I'm sure we will get along very well, anyway, now that you are here I think we should get started" Christina said smiling at Jennifer who walked over to the two girls.
"okay, Bloom since you are here we are going to start out a new table of what to do" Jennifer said walking over to the white board positioned on a stand on the far side of the room, the two girls were forced to follow her as she walked "we are going to have five Lessons in total on this table for Bloom to learn, and I trust that you will help me teach her the basics Christina, won't you?" Jennifer said smiling at the young girl.
"it will be fun" Christina said simply in reply.
"Okay, this is your table bloom, Lesson 1, poise, you will learn how to sit and stand with perfect poise and grace, Lesson 2, walk. We will teach you how to walk gracefully and elegantly, Lesson 3, Table Behaviour, we will teach you how to use certain utensils when dining with company." Jennifer stopped and to finish writing all that down on the white board.
"Lesson 4, dance, we will teach you how to dace like a person of you role should dance, with elegance and grace, and finally Lesson 5, Appearance, we will teach you how to do your make=up and hair an dress yourself as a princess should." Jennifer finished and smiled at Bloom and Christina "any Questions?" she asked.
"No, I think I understand completely." Bloom said turning around to see if Kimmy was there, and she wasn't she must have left when Bloom was being introduced to Christina.
"Okay, I will give you two a minute while I set up the equipment" Jennifer said walking off towards another door out of the room.
"Let's go sit down, she normally takes a lot longer to set up than two minute" Christina said grabbing Bloom's hand in her little palm and started walking towards a row of benches on the other side of the room.
When they were seated across from each other Christina smiled and said "so why have you never had any lessons before, I asked Cousin Sky and Uncle Brandon but they said it was better to ask you myself." She asked
"Well when I was a little girl on Sparks, there was a big fight and I got send to earth and I was adopted by two lovely people, on earth back then there was no magic back then, Earth was a magic less planet and I was so young when I was send there that I didn't even know I had powers until I was sixteen, so I had no lessons when I was a kid because I didn't think I needed them." Bloom said.
"How did you find out you had powers?" she asked looking very interested in Blooms story.
"well I was at the park with my pet Kiko, and then I found myself watching a fight between a Monster and a fairy, she was getting hurt so I jumped in without even knowing what I was going and used my powers and I fought the monster off, then I brought the fairy home and she told me all about Alfea and how I could be a fairy and find out my destiny if I attended, she is now one of my best friend, Princess Stella of Solaria, do you know her?" Bloom asked wondering if she would know Brandon's Girlfriend.
Her face lit up "yes I do know her, I have met her once she is really sweet, she is Uncle Brandon's Girlfriend isn't she?" she asked and bloom could not help but laugh.
"Is that what you call Brandon, Uncle? That's sweet, you must really be close to him and Sky" Bloom asked and Christina looked down to the ground looking very sad. "Are you okay Christina?" Bloom asked.
"I am very close to Sky and Brandon, they have been like my two big brother all my life, until last year" she said looking up to bloom.
Bloom gasped when she saw that Christina was crying "what's wrong Christina" she asked again franticly.
She took a few minutes before she finally spoke "Last year My mother Died, she is Sky's fathers sister, that's how me and sky are related, she died in a horrible accident that everyone covered up on my behalf, but I went and found out for myself." She stopped talking chocking on sobs, Bloom reached across and grabbed her hand in hers and gave her a reassuring smile.
"my Father, he was a broken man after that, he resented me in all ways, he didn't want to look at me, I tried very hard to make him not get to me but It's kind of hard to do that when he hates me and it was just the two of us, later My cousin Sky came to my house a few months ago and asked me to come and stay with him, I was happy because I get along with Sky and I knew I would get to see Brandon again" she stopped again and whipped her eyes with her sleeve.
"when he brought me here, for the first time in months I began to smile again, I love it here, being surrounded by people I love and everything, I forgot all about my father, I truly was grateful for Sky, I mean I know we never saw each other but the little bit of time we saw each other when I was young was the best moments, he would play with me, watch movies with me, I am truly happy for him to be there for me, as I'm sure you are too" she smiled through her tears "that's why I want us to be friends and get along together" she continued, stood up came across the little space and wrapped her arms around Bloom.
Bloom stunned wrapped her arms around the little girl, until she heard Jennifer come back into the room, they both looked up at her.
"it's time for lesson 1" Jennifer said simply and Christina whipped her tears quickly smiled at Bloom, grabbed her hand and rushed her in the direction of Jennifer so they could start lesson 1.
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Continues in Chapter 5
