Chapter 8: Passing Fancy (pt. 2)

Third Person POV

A lady wearing in her long sleeve white shirt with a printed words 'Smile for me' on the center of it,

a long black ankle length skirt and brown strapped sandals were sitting at the long park bench and faces the red roses at the garden.

She radiates a positive, happy and calming vibes as the sun rays light over her now light tanned skin.

She had been living in the Smith's mansion for three months now and she was the one sending the food to the young master of the mansion.

She admit it was difficult to deal with the young master of the house as he has an attitude but she never gave up as she never give up on fighting for her life.

The Smith's were so kind for they offered her their home when she got out from the hospital,

so that her mother Carmen could take care of her while she was working for the Smith for her medicines and other expenses.

She never pursued in finishing her studies for two reasons, first is to help lessen the financial burden of her mother,

and the second reason are because she has a worsening brain cancer in which she is enduring since she graduated from her secondary education.

She then looked at her wristwatch which was a present from her deceased father and saw it was almost dinner and she need to prepare the dinner of the young master.

She was never forced to work for the Smith but she wanted to, in exchange of the favor the Smith gave to her and to her mother Carmen.

She asked them if it is okay for them that she will be the one to take care of their son since she felt like she knew him somehow.

And she wanted to know what's this feeling she felt and f course she never told her real reason.

Frightened that the Smith's will look at her as a crazy woman and so she just said that their son were almost at the same age as her although he is just two years older than her,

she is twenty-three and the young master is twenty-five, as a safe reason which is the truth.

She looked at the balcony and smiled as the young master can be seen where she was,

as his room was near the garden and there she saw the young master named Azure sitting on the chair facing the sunset maybe thinking, she don't know.

She should remind him to go inside now as the cold of the night is coming and prepare his dinner.

With that thought in mind, she stands up and walked inside the mansion while she put her hands at her back.

Aurelius Azure POV

"Were very sorry Mr. Smith, we can't give you anything as the sender of the package you receive didn't input much details" said by Angel,

one of the staffs of the courier company that sent the package, answered to my queries said

"It's okay thank you" I replied and ended the call after she said her welcome. I put my phone beside me as I sat again on my bed then looked at the things on my bed.

I heave a heavy sigh as I settled my eyes on the pictures and the rectangular light blue flat box that were scattered on the bed.

And sighed again as I remembered the conversation I had with the courier on the phone.

I decided to picked up the box of the locket and put it inside the satchel that I brought in as I changed into my comfortable clothes earlier together with the the white envelope.

I am picking up the pictures and was about to put it inside the satchel when the blue butterfly appeared again with its blinding light.

But then again, the surrounding didn't turned dull black and white colors.

I accepted the fact that maybe I was just hallucinating at the Country Funeral Homes, same as goes to what happened at the music room.

I was about to went back to what I was doing and disregard it when the butterfly didn't stop flying in front me and sometimes land on my busy hands

"Go away what do you want" I said as I shooed it with my right hand and finished putting inside the pictures while my left hands hold the satchel.

I put the satchel down on my bed and tried to get up when an invincible force stops me making me rolled on the other side of my bed and made me fall on the carpeted floor.

I groaned because of the pain I felt on my back as it was the one that dealt with the impact of falling.

I saw again the blue butterfly flying on top of me in circles while I was laying on the carpeted floor still groaning and massaging my back as if it would ease the pain

"What do you really want?" I said angrily to the butterfly that is still flying on top of me and was tailed by its sparkling blue lights.

I sat up and ruffled my hair in annoyance, put my arms on my folded knees while pouting,

slouched my back and furrowing my forehead and looked at the butterfly that is now flying away at the balcony as I knew that butterfly would never answered back.

How foolish am I to talk it and heck!, where did that force came from? Am I being played by my mind?

Or did that blue butterfly has something to do with it as it has something to do with what happened at the music room and at the Country Funeral Homes.

Then suddenly I saw again the blinding blue light that I saw on the music room.

I hurriedly got up and went to the balcony, there I saw the butterfly resting on the cemented balustrades, I walked near it as disappointment washed over my body.

I thought I get to see Asha again, heck what was I thinking?

The butterfly flew and landed on my shoulders and I rest my arms and clasp my hands while I breathed in the cool wind that passes and looked down at the blue tulips and red roses on the garden.

I froze not because of the blue tulips and red roses, but by a woman whose back is facing me and was sitting on the long park bench.

Her wavy brown hair are being caressed by the wind, she was wearing a long sleeved white shirt, maybe a black ankle length skirt.

I think she was wearing a brown strapped sandals. I'm not sure but al I know is, she radiates a positive, happy and calming vibes, I thank the nice weather for that.

Oh how I wish that she would glance this way, even if she was just an illusion made by the butterfly, I still want to see her.

I saw her looked at her wristwatch and I'm not sure but I think the time spins so slow as I saw her turns on where my balcony is.

My heart pounds, my breathing becomes rapid and I am sweating bullets as I stands up straight waiting for her to fully face my way.

I cursed the time for running slowly and when I finally had the chance to see her face for long minute,

it was like, it's now my time that my world would stop and at that moment when I saw her smile, I wished that this would not end.

She got matured features than what I saw on a province illusion, those almond shape eyes were blue, she had pointed nose, pinkish thin lips and not so chubby cheeks.

I got trapped at the trance her smile gave me and I can't help but to my smile but it was faltered as soon as I saw her stands up and walked inside the mansion.

My eyes ran after her and I almost lost my balance on the balustrades when I couldn't have the sight of her and thankfully, I didn't fall and gained my balance just as the moment I almost lost it.

I saw the blue butterfly flew to where Asha walked in, thinking that I might see her again.

I ran out of my room and ran down the long stairs. I was on the last step of the stairs when I saw the sliding glass door to the garden were closed and the blue butterfly were nowhere to be seen.

I asked one of the maids that were cleaning the vase near to the door

"Excuse me, have you seen someone entered from the garden?" I asked while still standing at the stairways

"No, I didn't Sir" She replied after she bowed a little and stop from cleaning the vase when she saw me

"Should I go to the security room to ask for CCTV footage?" the maid asked but I just shake my head to disagree

"No need to, how long have you been cleaning there?" I asked instead and motioned my hand to emphasize that I was referring to what she was doing

"I have been cleaning here for about 10 minutes I think Sir, I cleaned the glass door and the vases beside it" She replied and I nodded at her

"Thank you, you can go back now to what you were doing" I said and she bowed again and goes back to cleaning the medium size vases on the side of the glass door.