When the leaves fall

Chapter 1

1860

I was sweaty and tired! My hands full of calluses hurt! The journey on horseback had been long and tiring, my skirts did not help much, clung to each clump that went horse. A light skirt and a white blouse for the trip, had chosen the Vesper region was very hot this time of the year, spring was at an end and soon we would be in the summer. My favorite time of the year was ending and would be sad and empty.

the day was to be declining, the sun gave a show in it's farewell. I had finally arrived at my destination.

I always tried to be positive, but the last few days it's been really hard. In a fortnight my life turned inside out.

Finally I arrived at my Aunt Mary's house, after a long day trip that started at six in the morning. The Lord Albert had been kind enough to accompany me on the trip, he was a great friend of my father and made sure to take me safely to my aunt's house. My few possessions left over he brought in a chest in his cart. He would sleep at my Aunt's house and the next day he would return to Liver.

A girl about sixteen years old welcomed us, her name was July, her welcoming smile calmed my heart a little, which was so fearful.

I do not know my know my Aunt Mary, my mother's family cut ties with her when she married my father. We never talked about her family, the only thing that she told me was that my Aunt Mary would take care of me if something happened to her and my father. My name is Aurora, I turned eighteen on the day the spring started September 22 "another reason to like spring so much".

Oh! I was also born when the sun lights were emerging at down, so Aurora. I grew up in a house full of light and joy, my mother loved to sing and spin around the house, specially when my father was around, she said he made her happy. My father despite serious always smiled when he saw her, you could see through his eyes the deep love he felt for her. It was a beautiful couple to admire...

I am the only daughter, my mother lost two babies before me! My birth was really difficult and complicated, me and my father almost lost her that night. After me, she never got pregnant again.

Upon entering the living room of that great and sumptuous home, I felt as if the walls were watching me, were covered with paintings of men and women painted in oil, one of them caught my attention in particular was a young woman with a beautiful yellow party dress, her face looked a lot like my mother's, was it my mother as a young woman?!

At that moment entered the room a young lady. When I saw her my eyes filled with tears, her face turned white like clay, it looked like she saw a ghost.

She came towards me still no expression on her face, she walked over and touched my face. Felt in your hands the same perfume as my mother's, she was so much like my mother's that I also touched to see if it was real.

When I felt her skin looked like it had back in time in a few days ago when my mother was still with me. The warmth of her hand made want more, then threw myself into her arms. My tears come out profusely and had the desire not to leave that cozy. That lady hugged me with despair, like a memory of the past who came to this charge feelings asleep. The sob burst into the room and we could not have a word for a few minutes, the embrace made us a briefly. When we finally let go, deeply looked at each other trying to recognize in one another the love we had for the same person. She was the first to speak:

— Your have the same eyes, your hair, your smile! There is a long time that I do not see them!

— You have the smell of my mother, and looks a lot like her too!

I could not stop myself and cried again! We talked for a long time, my Aunt wanted to know how was my life until that moment, it was easy to talk about my life, because I had only joy until the day that my parents were gone, it was the worst part.

My parents had dies in an accident, your carriage misruled in a rainy day on their way home and fell out of a cliff. I heard the news two days after the incident, because no one had seen the accident, a hunter had found the wreckage of the carriage and its occupants as it collected its hunting traps.

My aunt was shocked and very sad at the tragic end of her sister.

I talked a lot during dinner and she listened to me patiently, (my mother always said that I talk too much, I try to control myself, but sometimes I don't even realise it) during this short time my aunt seemed to be a kind, calm and patient person.

I was able to conduct the conversation so that I would not suffer with the last memories, led the conversation more to the side of my childhood, my studies and my interests.

I found out that we have a lot in common with regard to tastes, she likes practically everything I like poetry, musics, novels ... We are so similar!

We went to bed early, we were all exhausted, me and Lord Albert by the journey and my aunt by the whirlwind of changes in her life so sudden. The tiredness in her face was clear.

She had prepared a beautiful room for me in shades of blue tulip and light blue, everything was perfect. A few days later I found out that this room belonged to my mother, and that it' remained as she left, because my grandfather did not allow anyone to enter it.

A warm bed for a tired body, finally...

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