Chapter 12
Oscar's POV:
"I don't think she's just gonna give up like that Oscar but I have some good news for you. I managed to pickpocket this out of her bag." Ursula. The girl I hired to keep watch of Lydia. I noticed that she's starting to get her memories back. And I swear once she finds out she's actually Aura things will have to take a drastic turn. She pulled a small round music box out of her bag and I recognize it from before. Way before. And the song it plays that's the song that Aura song not too long ago. "If you let me run with the plans I'll take care of Aura and those newsies for you." she said. "I'll give you whatever you need for your plan. And I'll pay you as much as you want I just want her journey to be stopped before she finds out the truth about herself."
"Then might I suggest fake the image of Spot Conlon. You told me she doesn't believe in the stories of Spot Conlon how about we make her believe that the stories are true. That you were right all along."
"I like how this plan is sounding. Go on." I said. "My idea is we sneak this music box in with Spot and make it look like he was just being nice to her just to get her music box. Make her think that he never loved her. Make her think that he took the music box and ran off. She'll be so heartbroken she'll just come running to you in tears and filled with regret."
I like the way she's thinking. It's been so long trying to find her. Trying to get her to comply with me. To love me. Instead she goes for that street rat king Spot Conlon. What does he have that I don't? Besides her parents should've behaved at first when I told them they can repay me with their baby but no they decided to be all noble and save their lovely daughter and how did they do it. They dropped her off at the footsteps of an orphanage. You should've seen it, it was so brave of them.
But now I've got thier kid. And I have her just the way I planned to be. Well not exactly, I just need to get her to face the reality about who Spot Conlon really is. Get her to see the true him.
Lydia's POV:
"He's starting to drive me insane right now. He's telling me stories about Spot. How cruel and ruthless he is. Well I don't believe those stories. I've seen how Spot can be nice. He's just misunderstood I know it." I said.
"I told you. Should've avoided him from the beginning." said Sarah. "Gee thanks for the advice I'll keep that in mind when I walk up to the altar to be proclaimed Ms. Lydia Delancey." I decided to stay with Sarah and David for a little while to cool down from that argument I had with Oscar. Now as my journey progresses more things are starting to get more intense. Like I'm really starting to lose more and more love for Oscar, I'm starting to feel more sympathy for Spot and maybe a hint of love, and worst of all I can't find my music box. I had it in my bag when I left the theater but when I came back home it was just gone. Things are starting to get a little bit weird.
"I scheduled a little something for you and Spot. I told him to meet you here at our house because he's taking you to Brooklyn tonight for a special surprise. And I also managed to smuggle this in while I was at work. Yes I know this could get me in trouble at work but this was in the reject pile I don't think Ms. Lynch will really go crazy that it's missing."
Sarah showed me a long, flowy yellow dress. And I started to twirl around with it. It was the most flowiest and one of the most beautiful dresses I've ever seen. I swear sarah knows my taste in clothing, especially dresses. "Sarah I have something to tell you it's about my past and maybe my future. It wasn't a flashback but it was more like a vision. I saw myself hugging this lady and she mentioned something about us being together and all that stuff. I think she could be my mother."
"Well that is news but you still got more to learn but I know you. I know your fighting spirit. I know you'll get your memories back." I refused to look in the mirror so I covered up my eyes when she was finished. "You can open you eyes. You look beautiful. No you look stunning." I was still nervous. I'm always nervous of how I'll look when I put on a new dress. I slowly uncovered my eyes and what I saw before me was stunning. I started spinning around and looking all around myself. "Sarah I don't look stunning. I look like a star. Like a shining star." I said. "Not yet you do." She put my locket on me and she tied a sky blue ribbon behind me I guess for some more color and stepped back. "Now you do."
Sarah led me downstairs to meet Spot. Arm in arm we went down the stairs and when I saw the look on Spot's face I was guessing that he thought I looked beautiful. "Wow… Just wow." He kissed me on the lips and I gently returned that kiss back. We just spent some minutes with our foreheads leaned against each other and just breathing into each other. "Well I'll leave you lovebirds be. Have fun… Lovebirds." giggled Sarah.
"So you know Sarah?" I asked. "Well she helped with the newsie banners and she's Jack's goil." I swear even though it was a long walk to Brooklyn and a long way to his territory it was kind of nice. Just a peaceful walk in the night. But something about that long walk gave me strange feelings because something about this walk makes me remember something. Something that I did right before I lost my memories. Before I woke up in Oscar Delancey's home. When we arrived at Brooklyn almost every newsie there just stared and gasped at me. Others were whispering something about me and Aura. Things are getting really strange but yet exciting.
Spot put me on his shoulders and started climbing up the ladder to his throne. When we got there he covered up my eyes as he led me toward the edge. I grabbed on to the railing as I bumped into something hard. When he uncovered my eyes I saw a sight beyond any spectacle I've ever seen. "Oh my goodness! This is so beautiful! And this breeze blowing in my face and blowing my hair behind me is so amazing!" I said. "It's my throne at day. But at night it's a place I go to get away from all the business of New York." As I looked past the distance I got another flashback and I got something very interesting out of it.
"Look at this it's beautiful when it turns night. I'se always wanted to bring you'se here." I felt someone's hand slowly slide into suddenly I began to get serenaded.
"Everytime I look into your eyes
And everytime when you start to cry
When your heart is blind
I'll be by your side
Just hold tightly onto my hand
When I start to think of you
My wounded heart starts to beat
And when I see you time starts to freeze
I still think of the days
When I first just met you
It feels so brand new with you."
"I'se still need to finish the rest of the song. But that's all I got for you." I looked at the boy who just serenaded me (Keep in mind that some parts of my memories are still blurry). I felt the back of my hand stroke his cheek. I felt myself crying also.
"That's so beautiful."
As soon as I broke out of my flashback I started singing the small bit of the song that I heard in my flashback. Spot looked at me surprised. "How did you know that song?" he asked. "I just remembered it. It was from a flashback I just got. And the strange thing is that I remember going up here before. Way before. But still the boy that sung to me was blurry. I couldn't make out who it was. But right now when I'm with you up here I'm myself. I'm in a different world I never knew existed."
"All those days watching from the windows
All those years outside looking in
All that time never even knowing
Just how blind I've been
Now I'm here blinking in the starlight
Now I'm here suddenly I see
Standing here it's all so clear
I'm where I'm meant to be
And at last I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once everything looks different
Now that I see you"
Spot pulled something off to the side and it was my music box. "My boys came up to me with this. I knew you would like it so… Here you go." He found my music box. Some guy must've pickpocketed me before. I wonder how they got it back. "This is my music box. This is mine! You found it! Thank you!" I said hugging him. I looked at for some time and I thought it would be perfect for him for all the trouble he had to spend with me before. "No I want you to keep it. It was something from my past, I think. But that doesn't matter I want you to have it." I said.
"No. This means something special to you. I want you to keep it."
"All those days chasing down a daydream
All those years living in a blur
All that time never truly seeing
Things, the way they were
Now she's here shining in the starlight
Now she's here suddenly I know
If she's here it's crystal clear
I'm where I'm meant to go"
I was so starstruck by him singing to me. Him starting to sing the song I started. So the perfect way to finish it we sung together.
"And at last I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once everything is different
Now that I see you"
When we were just about to kiss Spot heard a distance noise from his territory. We went down to go check it out. And up to that point I thought I had the most beautiful and the most romantic night of my life. But I was wrong. One incident. One action will affect everything.
Song used in this chapter: I See the Light from Tangled by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi