Verse I

- “Are you ready yet, Misako?” Carla yelled at Misako who was still sleeping in her bed. Her round, gray eyes mid-opened, and she was dreaming of the day Boris will propose to her in her favorite restaurant in town. She did not know what happened because she woke up in the middle of the dream questioning what would be her reply if it ever came up for real. Surely, Boris proposed and she agreed to marry him.  

- “Misako, I have something I have to go buy at the market. I have to leave now. Will you come with Santos for me?” Carla explained to her while she brushed her long blonde hair before the mirror and daydreamed at the same time.

- “Of course, Carla. Besides Boris will accompany me to Grandma birthday. He should be on his way.” Misako mentioned to her while passing her bath towel.

Carla left ten minutes later leaving Santos of the kitchen table savouring his favorite breakfast, Pancake.

Misako, the daughter of Carla’s sister, she died twenty years ago. She left Misako in her custody hoping she would get a good education. Carla of course often watched and said over her sister grave: “I accomplish everything you wanted for your daughter.” Carla and his sister became close and more than family after their father left them to die in a fire when their childhood. Misako now reached thirty years of age and she traveled in the middle road of her life. She had a career in law, she became a renowned lawyer. she has been working for a prestigious firm in Russian City and she had been living there with Carla ever since.

Santos who still heated in the kitchen heard a knock on the door and went to see who. He recognized the face of Boris. Boris became friend with Misako at the University and he became Misako’s fiancee five years later. Young, firm white man, about 7 feet tall, weighed 190 pounds, with muscles, and a great form.

- “Hi Santos, are you ok man?” He greeted the little one who smiled by seeing him.

- “Where is your sister?”

Boris has not finished the sentence when Misako appeared, came down the stairs. She shook her hair from right to left to adjust the misplace ones. Boris watched the beauty of Misako enlightened his morning again. Long, blonde hair, a round face with  a long smile, a curve body with a pretty round buttock in a tight jean. Misako covered her sleeveless shirt with a fine and thick blouse.

- “Good Morning honey.”

Misako received him with a kiss while Santos did the little kid smile.

- “You ready, today you are going to meet Grandma.”

- “I can’t wait.” Boris mentioned with a great smile while starting to put the dish in the car.

- “Carla will join us at home. She had some courses to do before going to Grandma house.”

- “Come Santos, we will be going now.”

- “Do not forget the gifts.”

Verse II

- “Uncle, I need those tools. Can you pick them up for me?” Aria asked her uncle while decorating the cake for the party.

- “Honey, Can you take this dish to the car for me? Thanks.”

Aria, niece of uncle Abraham, had been the favorite of all who knew, know, and has known her. Since she had been able to understand, she became the most responsible for everything; Party, graduation, ceremony of all sorts. Aria joined her uncle after she escaped from her orphanage where her mother gave her in adoption. This day marked a great sadness for the orphanage because everyone knew who was Aria.

- “I am done with the cake. Be careful, Kenley.” Aria took off the kitchen robe and wiped her nose, eyes, and cleaned her hands.

- “Honey, you have to go take care of yourself.”

- “I know, give me ten minutes.”

She was not kidding when she only mentioned ten minutes. By the times the guys could finish their drink in the living room, Aria had her blue sky dress on, leaving her black hair floating, adjusting her tight red skirt, matching her long black trouse. She picked up the car key on the kitchen and checked for the bottle of wine.

- “You are as radiant as ever, my love.” Kenley commented while posing a charming kiss on her cheek.

- “Thanks. Uncle, you are ready to see Grandma again?”

- “I don’t know. She might not want to see me.”

- “Don’t worry, you will be fine.” Aria assured him with confidence with a smile of her mother as Uncle looked at her at that moment.

- “Kenley, it will be best if you drive.” Abraham suggested in looking at him suspiciously.

Kenley met Aria on the city where she has been living for the past fifteen years. They originally met on the public market of the city where Kenley father worked as Administrator Assistant and Kenley as Supervisor. Kenley was a black man with a little luck and a good brain. He knew he had to work hard, so he did what he had to survive. Slim but tall about 6.5 feet, weighed 185 pounds, and I had a degree in Management. Kenley had ambition and dream, but the closest he had, was about Aria. A surprise he prepared for Aria in her Grandma birthday.

verse III

    Misako arrived first with Boris and Santos at Grandma house. She took a good look at the house where she used to live before… the memories were cruel sometimes and terrifying for her. The accident did leave her with scars and pain in her legs and ribs. She could not shake that moment of her head most of times. The words she remembered well. “You take care of my little girl for me, sister.” Her eyes started to be red when Malus approached her slowly in front of the car.

- “Malus, where is Grandma? Is she awake yet? I want to greet her before everyone.” Misako asked Malus, the nurse lady who was taking care of Grandma for a while after her crisis.

- “She just woke up, she is preparing herself to come down.” Malus responded while showing her the stairs.

- “Malus, Help Boris please with the dish and the gifts.”

- “Of course Miss.”

Misako entered the house she grew up with her uncle when he was married to Carla. The waiting room have not changed specially with the flower decorating chair and table set. They remained like new as she touched them as a memory she could require by feeling the tissue under her fingers. The living room, and the Patio did not get much dust either. Beside there were more flowers and herbs on the patio, she thought of Grandma as she has always loved flowers and the garden.

- “Did you miss the house, my dear?” The voice said with a tendency to welcome Misako in her old mansion.

- “Grandma, oh, how I missed you.” Misako threw herself in grandma’s arm for a big hug for ages of absence.

- “Let me see you dear. You are more beautiful than I remember.”

- “I kind of grow up again, Grandma.”

- “Well, what are you doing here at this time?”

- “Nothing. Well, Carla is supposed to meet me here today. Isn't she here?” Misako asked looking at every direction hoping to see Carla. “She left early than me even though she had some courses to do.”

- “So my child, what did you do in this past twelve years?” Grandma asked while Misako was pouring some drinks to go to the living room.

Misako told her what had been and have been happening in the past twelve years. Memories, jokes, and tears came crashing down as they talked more about the past. Meanwhile malus helped Boris putting the dish in the kitchen.

- “Oh, I brought two people with me. Santos and my fiancee, Boris.”

- “Good Morning, Madam, I heard a lot about you. It is a joy to finally meet you.” Santos jumped to Grandma arms

- “You will excuse me, I just learned of your presence in my grand daughter life.”

- “I understand we will have plenty to talk about after I greet my children.” Grandma added while holding Santos in her arms for him to lie down on her.

- “Mother, are you here?” The voice was recognized by all the people in the living room starting with Santos who run into her arm to Grandma who was surprised of a visit from her own daughter, Carla.

Verse IV

    The swift sound of a car parked again in front of Grandma house with Aria, Kenley, and Uncle Abraham. Malus once again appeared to greet the most loved person by Grandma. She got down with her smile always brighter than ever. She hugged Malus with a strength of reconnaissance for everything she had done for her while she was living at this house.

- “I miss you sister, How are you doing?”

- “Same old, same old.”

- “Have you stolen the man yet?”

- “Which one?” Malus asked surprised by the question.

- “The one who will become your husband.” Aria mentioned between her smile to her. Malus gave her the eyes of what-do-you-think question. Aria smiled again. She entered the house leaving Malus helping uncle and Kenley with the rest of the dish. As Aria, she noticed the stairs mostly the third one where she sat when she first came here to live with her uncle and Carla. This moment was precious for her. This was the first time she was going to a proper family line from her ancestors. The first two years she spent in this house sure had been the best she had. After came the beginning of the battle between Carla and Uncle. She shook her head to send the memories away, which succeeded by the words of someone in the livingroom.

- “Good Morning Aria, you have grown in these past days. Becoming a woman.” Her voice sounded ironic and uncomfortable for Aria’s ears. Carla walked toward her with a glass of vodka at hand.

- “Carla…”

- “I see you are still keeping grudges.”

- “I…”

- “Ah, I know something is fishy, what are you doing here Aria?” Grandma voice interrupted her but her fixated eyes said Carla everything she had to.

- “Grandma, I am so glad to see you. Are you in good health? Did Malus take care of you as I asked her or is she giving you headache?”

- “Don’t be like that. Malus raised you like a sister, remember?”

- “Of course not.”

- “So please show some respect to your baptized sister.” Aria grinned a little as she looked at her Grandma like the first time she met her.

- “Oh, before we start, Uncle is outside the house, and he does not know if you let him in.” Grandma made her favorite face of doubt accompanied by a mean expression while Aria gave her the angel eyes.

- “Well, he can come but I won’t tolerate any mistakes.”

- “Thanks Grandma. So boys, you can come. I brought Kenley as well.”

- “Who is this, Kenley?”

- “My fiancee, Grandma.”

- “It is a pleasure to meet you Madame.” Kenley introduced himself with a bright smile and a handshake.

- “Well, I see you two finally want to give me some grandkids before I go.” Grandma smiled between her teeth.

- “But of course Grandma, we want them to enjoy your company.” Aria pointed out with a big humour to relax everyone.

Verse V

As she came down the stairs, the lights bloomed the room, and we shouted Happy Birthday. Grandma put her hand over her heart and she pretended to have a heart attack. Everyone panicked and tried to do something to prevent Grandma from falling.

- “Grandma, Are you ok? Misako, some water please.” Aria had already reached Grandma for worst case scenario and she had always been the more worried about Grandma than anyone else.

- “Sikes, Gotcha.” We exploded laughing as Misako returned with a glass of water. “You should have seen your face, Aria. Priceless. And Misako, where are you going with this water?”

She had started the party before we could and everyone was having a blast. The family and friends and fiancees united in the living room to celebrate Grandma birthday as planned days ago. Drinks, gifts, and other light dish were served to keep the party atmosphere going. Grandma was telling old stories of the family, of her past, or her former husband. The boys, uncle, Kenley, and Boris had met and was discussing the next championship of NFL teams. While Aria had decided to go for a stroll in the second floor of the house to experience the feeling she had years ago. As she took a look outside in the dark covered by the light of the house and the street leading to the house, she recalled how she broke with her first boyfriend and fell in love with this girl she knew too well. Plunged in her thoughts she did not see Misako coming with her drinks at hand. Misako approached close to Aria while her head was in the opposite direction. She tried reaching to her with her touch thinking about the best memories they made in this house. However she held herself when looking at how they got chopped away from each other. Misako resembled as a wife who had her heart broken with a hand over her heart she closed her eyes.

- “So how is it going so far?” Misako woke her up in her dreams.

- “Hein, oh, everything is fine. I wanted to live some stories again.”

- “Which one?” She asked with a hopeful air that Aria replied her something she already has known.

- “My life here. I miss it.” Aria did not turn her head to explain herself and she did not intend to as she continued to admire the beauty of the long alley of light in the street and houses.

- “So We meet again after all these past few years.”

- “Yeah, well…”

- “What Am I to you? You did not call, you did not write and you expect me to just jump off where we left of.”

- “I am sorry I did not know what to write.”

- “At least a Goodbye would have been great.”

The tension between them where intense and was getting higher as they discussed how they were separated and each other forgot even if they even knew each other. The little playmate became a real discussion for sure when the subject of divorce between Uncle and Carla entered in the conversation. They were going to explode at each other but Uncle intervened.

- “We are going to great table now for dinner. Are you two coming?”

- “Of course.” Aria answered while taking her glass and followed Uncle down the stairs leaving Misako with a headache of questions without any replies.

- “What are you two discussing.”

- “Nothing, Uncle. we better join the others at the table. Where is Malus? She is eating with us, right?”- “Of course, she is eating with us. We had already finished helping her with the table.” Uncle noted as they joined the others on the table with the bottle of wine.

    Everyone joined the table as a family. Misako was the last to appear with her red eyes, hiding her feelings through a poker face with a terribly smile of hers everyone knew well. She sat at the table, said grace as Grandma request from her and started passing the best dish on the table. Well everything was perfect for a perfect evening in family with a celebrated mother, grandma, and sister.

Verse VI

“What, What do you mean?”

“It can’t be. You are saying that…”

Aria, Misako were standing at the table with their stunning face covered of an expression of unbelievably situation they had never taught about.

“Can you please repeat for us what you just said.” Misako intently tried to understand the unexplainable reason why Uncle and Carla would do something like this.

“You two are the reason why we divorced in the first place.” Carla repeated the sentence again with confidence that they might catch up a tiny of the intention or the possible reason that they had been left in the loop.

- “You know the most amazing is that Between your Uncle and I still have love from our marriage and we keep on loving each other even a little.”

- “Kenley, Boris, Please excuse us. This is a family business, we do not want to be rude. Can you…” Aria exposed the situation to the guys, which Kenley understood right away.

- “Do not worry, we understand. Let’s go Boris.

Misako froze for a moment thinking of how the conversation came to take this turn until Carla revealed this unbelievable truth.

    Everyone sat at the table. Grandma in the principal chair at the head of the table; from right we had Boris, Misako, and Carla, from left Malus, Uncle, Kenley and Aria at the second head table. She said grace and gave the signal to start eating. Malus begun by serving Grandma and passing the plate around for everyone to take as much as they can. The ambiance at the table was either intense or calm and the words shortened the more and more.

- “Well I gotta say this is the real first fun I have in ages with my mother and Abraham.” Carla stated with loud voice and a pride.

- “Well I  am glad you feel that way since you had never made uncle happy. I can understand where our selfish feeling came from.” Aria pointed out to Carla with an irritated face.

- “Carla is not responsible for our behavior or our gene. Uncle too has to blame in this.” Misako added after Aria confirmation.

- “This time I had it with you. Who do you think you are to budge in the conversation between Carla and I? I was not pressing on the marriage matter. Carla knows well enough we do not see eye for eye.

- “Aria, my dear please.”

- “I am sorry to do this to you Grandma but this time I had it. What do you need to be the one star in everything?”

- “I have to defend aunty from your claws about this divorce issue.”

- “See you do not know anything. I have my own issue with Carla and I was not talking about the divorce they had.” Aria knocked the fork strong enough on the table to bend it. “Trust me this is the last time you did that, next you won't be so lucky.”

- “That is enough,” Carla stood up around the table with some strong reprimandations. “I am telling them.” She said as she looked at Uncle who closed his eyes and up his shoulders for a heavy burden but he did not consider it to be heavy as the time passed. Nevertheless the burden was not the problem but the person for whom they were holding the burden.   

- “Do you wanna know why Uncle and I got divorced?” Carla asked calmly with a face of serenity letting peace at last enter her soul with this burden. “Both of you are the cause Uncle and I divorced.”

MIsako returned to the reality to see Grandma with her arms crossed over her chest, Uncle did not mention a word, and Carla continued to give a simple explanation for the girls. During the conversation, Aria left the table, took a glass of wine and went outside to have some air. She collapsed at the border of the second floor as she left her  on the floor letting her tears rolled down her face without a noise.

- “I told she would not support this. You break her.”

- “Enough Uncle, he was the time. I am sorry Mom but I had no choice.”

- “Nice one my dear, you manage to crash my party and break my grandkids. Well I can’t complain you are my daughter after all.” Grandma stated in a disappointed tone. The rest that followed to the family brought them to their lowest point where even Uncle could not recover. Of course in the next birthday, the family united again for a new discover and a new road to happiness.

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 19.08.2014

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