My identity was Aurelius Aurelia. I laid in bed.
“But why I don’t remember anything..”
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep, but I could not fall asleep as well. I got up from my bed, walked toward the balcony beside the bed..
I opened the big glass door of the balcony, the wind immediately blew my hair and made my hair waving like the wind. In front of me, a mother of Luna appeared with her full form in the sky, her appearance was so big and white. She illuminated all the places with her form. I leant in the balcony. The wind was so windy that it kept blowing my hair, it made me comfortable after the things of before. It felt like she sent this wind and made me clear my mind. I stayed on the balcony for a few minutes while looking at the garden in front of me. After my mind was clear, I went in. I closed the curtain’s balcony door, I laid on the bed and tried to sleep, and in a few minutes I fell asleep.
……..
When I was asleep, I felt something patting my body and pushing. My vision was suddenly full of red, not dark anymore. It meant there was a light illuminated to me, so I opened my eyes. The curtain’s balcony door had been drawn, making my vision blurry for a few seconds. I regained my vision, and saw it was the maid yesterday.
“My lady, Good Morning..” The maid greeted..
“Good Mooooooorning..” I yawned..
“Did you not sleep well, my lady?”
“I slept well, but from yesterday…it made me a little bit tired..”
“His grace and everyone are waiting for my lady at the table for breakfast..”
“Oh my really? I better go right now..”
I immediately got up from the bed, and walked toward the door. But the maid stopped me in front of me.
“My lady, I think you need to dress before you go there..”
“Dress? It’s just breakfast right? Why do I need to be dressed? What’s wrong with my pajamas”
“There is nothing wrong with my lady pajamas, but it is appropriate if you are well dressed at the table.”
“But…they are waiting for me..It’s not more appropriate to make them wait.”
“I believe his grace and madam will know my lady’s condition..”
“If you say like that, sure I will be dressed.”
“My lady, can follow me..”
I was led by the maid to the dressing table, I saw there was a bowl of water, small towel, and soap on the floor, and I sat at the chair in front of the dressing table. She took the soap and mixed it into the water in the bowl, after that she used the small towel, and washed it on my face.
“Excuse me, my lady..” She started to rub the towel on my face.
She finished washing my face. I saw her open the drawer of the dressing table, took out a few small jars, and put it on top of the dressing table. The maid started combing my hair with a wooden comb, it took some minutes to comb my hair. I saw she took a powder from a small jar in the dressing table, and applied it to my hair, it has a rose scent. My hair smelt like a rose. I saw she took another powder from a different small jar, and rubbed it on my face, after that she took a cream from another jar, and rubbed it too on my face.
And she took oily powder and mixed it with the rose scent, after that she rubbed it on my face. Next she applied a blush to my cheeks mixed with rose scent, and she did not forget to rub my lip with another powder mixed with honey. I thought the make up of my face was done because she walked toward the wardrobe.
She came back to me with a dress and a sort of stocking with garter belt. She started to undress me. After undressing me,she crouched down to put on the stockings for me, before she dressed me with the dress, she rubbed me some deodorant, and dressed me. I looked in the mirror, my face was so different than last night, it was more sparkling. The dress was so well made and fancy, it was a white dress.
“It’s done, my lady..”
“Is it necessary to do all of this just for breakfast?”
“Of course, it is necessary my lady, it is my job to maintain your beauty everyday.”
“Everyday? You said.”
“Yes, everyday..”
“It’s like I will go to a party if we do like this.”
“If my lady prepares to go to the party, there will be more steps to beautify my lady.”
“Really?”
“Yes, as my lady see in this dressing table, there is 2 section of drawers, what cosmetic I used to my lady is in the right section, it just a cosmetic for daily basic, and if my lady go to the party, I will use the drawer of left section too, there will be more treatment for my lady’s face.”
“All of this baffling my mind..”
“My lady doesn’t need to think of it, just let me do it for my lady..”
“Right..and I am still not catching your name..”
“My name is Adeline, my lady..”
She was a black hair maid, her appearance like in her 20s.
“I will remember it..let’s go to breakfast, can you lead me to the breakfast room?”
“Of course, my lady.”
We left the room, and walked to the breakfast room or dining room. On the way, I didn’t recognize anything from the house, and the house was huge. There were a lot of fancy ornaments, and a lot of paintings on the wall. There were a lot of fancy objects too, not just on the wall. My room was on the second floor, and it took us more time to arrive at the breakfast room.
In the room, I saw everyone was in their seats already. Adel led me to my seat; it was in between the little two Aurelio and Ophelia, she set up the chair from the table before I sat, after I sat, she set up my chair again to the table, and she left from the room. In front of us was our mother, and our father was in the middle of the table. There was still nothing on the table.
“How’s your feeling, Aurelia?” Mother said to me
“It’s getting better, sorry for making mother so worried about me.”
“It’s alright…I think your brother and your sister are the ones who worry you so much.”
I turned my face to each of them, and patted their head with my two hands..
While patting their head, I said “Forgive this big sister, that makes my little siblings so worried.”
“I will forgive sister Aurelia, if sister Aurelia play doll with me” Ophelia said to me
“Sure..I will play it with you later..”
“UNFAIR!!..You will play with me too right, Sister Aurelia?” Aurelius intervened.
“It’s alright I will play with all of you two later..”
The two were so happy, but…
“Aurelia will play with all of you tomorrow, today I want to introduce Aurelia with her tutor..” Father finally spoke a word.
“Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh..” The two whining.
“It’s okay, if your father said tomorrow it means Aurelia will be free all day tomorrow, and you two can play all day with her.” Mother calmed them.
“Really??” Aurelio was excited.
“Aurelio….Don’t get excited first..” Ophelia intervened
“Why, Ophelia?”
The two started talking to each other secretly in front of my lap, but everyone could hear their talking.
“It is father…Aurelio, do you learn something from all the things that father said to us?”
“What do you mean Ophelia..?”
“Father is a cunning person…So we are better not to trust his word…”
“But mother agrees with father, does it mean we can trust father’s word?”
The two turned their faces to their mother..
“Mother is an ally of father…maybe she schemes with father to take sister Aurelia from us..”
“It makes sense.”
Mother and father started to make small giggles from the little two’s conversation and behavior.
“See Aurelio, they are laughing at us…”
“Right, right, how about sister Aurelia, is she laughing right now?”
They looked at me, I just used poker face.
“Sister Aurelia is our only ally, Ophelia..”
“Because she is sister Aurelia..”
“Are you aware that your father and your mother can hear your conversation right?” Father intervened.
The two faces were surprised…
“We don’t try to steal your sister from you..” mother said
“We don’t believe it, right Aurelio..”
“Yes..”
“What will make you believe us that we will not steal Aurelia?” father said.
“Promise to us…that tomorrow we will get sister Aurelia all day” Ophelia said
“I promise you will get Aurelia all day..” Father promised..
“No…Father needs to raise one of father’s hands so we will trust your promise, right Ophelia.?”
“Yess, Father needs to raise hand..”
Father raised his right hand “I promise you will get Aurelia all day..”
“What will happen if father breaks the promise?” Ophelia asked
“Yess…what is the consequence?
“I will take the family to stroll in the city and take the family to shop—”
“DEALL…” Ophelia immediately agreed about the father promise.
Mother and father were giggling..
“Ehhhhhhh..” Aurelio was surprised and turned his face to Ophelia “Why are you suddenly agreeing, Ophelia?”
“Just agree with it, Aurelio..”
“Well, Ophelia is a girl too, so it will be agreeing..” mother intervened.
“Maybe it is inherited from you, my dear..”
“Oh my…Aurelio acts more like you too, dear..”
The little two were arguing for some moments in front of my lap, and mother and father made a conversation. But there was something important..
“When will we start to eat breakfast? I am so hungry right now…” my thoughts..
After a few minutes had passed, the table situation became normal again. Father clapped his hands, and immediately some maids went to the room with some plates in their hands. They served it in front of us. Finally, we were starting to eat..
The breakfast was finished, and Adel led me to my room. Arriving in my room, I wanted to lay down in bed, immediately I ran to the bed and jumped to the bed..
“MY LADY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Adel with a worried tone..
“I just want to lay down in bed.”
“You are in a dress, it is not appropriate to do that..”
“Ehhhhh…”
“How about sitting on the balcony, my lady? And enjoy the view of the garden.”
“Alright..”
I got up from the bed, and I realized there was a table and a chair on the balcony. What I remembered from last night, there was no table and chair. There was a tea set, cookies and cakes too. Adel set up the chair for me, I sat on the chair, she set up the chair to the table. She started to pour tea into the cup. I took a sip of it, and enjoyed the view and the wind. Adel kept standing beside me.
“My lady, you can eat the cookie or the cake..”
“I will try it if I want it.”
“I am already full from breakfast, I cannot eat anything for now.” My thoughts
……
There was someone knocking the door, Adel immediately went to it and checked who it was. It was a butler, and I saw the butler say something to Adel, after that he went off. Adel passed the message from the butler to me.
“My lady, his grace, wants to meet my lady in his room.”
We immediately went to my father’s room and Adel led the way. We reached in front of my father’s room, and the door was so big, I thought it must be 3 times taller than my height.
“You can enter the room, my lady, I will wait here.”
“Are you not accompanying me inside?”
“No, I think it will be better if my lady and his grace talking privately, it will not be appropriate for me to disturb it.”
“Alright then..”
I pushed the door, and saw the room was so big, with a lot of bookshelves full of books, and there was my father sitting at the working desk with a lady standing in front of me. I saw the lady didn’t wear a dress like I do, but it felt like man’s clothes and had blonde hair. I walked toward my father. father’s eyes met me.
“Aurelia, you are already here..”
“Yes, father..Is there something that you need me for?”
“I have told you in breakfast before, that I will introduce you to your tutor right..” Father’s eyes went to the lady “She will be your tutor and lady in waiting for now..”
“Greetings, my lady..” She bowed to me “My name is Octavi Claudi, I will be your tutor and your lady in waiting..”
“Greeting too Octavi..”
“She is from the academy of palace, her knowledge and her ability are so excellent…”
“If my father praised Lady Octavi so much, it must be true..”
“It’s an honor to me that Lady Aurelia and his grace praised me..”
“You two can have a tea party, so you two will know each other..”
“Like father said, I believe there are some cakes and cookies on my balcony…How about Lady Octavi accompany me on the balcony and enjoy the view of the garden.”
“I will gladly accept it..”
“I think it is better to have a tea party in the garden than enjoy it from the balcony.” Father suggested..
“It’s a great suggestion father, I ask Adel to prepare it.”
“No, father will ask a butler to prepare it..” Father clapped his hands..
Immediately a butler opened the door, I was amazed that the sound of father’s clapping could be heard from outside.
“Prepare a tea party for my daughter and Lady Octavi in the garden!”
The butler bowed and left..
“With that, the tea party is settled, you two can go to the garden to enjoy the tee and the view.”
