My Starseed Meets Me In A Different World

CHAPTER XII

Melinda

So far, yet so close

As expected with life, time passed. I was now at the physical age of five. Mentally, thirty-nine. My birthday went without a hitch, I was spoiled splendidly with gifts, clothing, and treats though it remained rather lackluster not having Andrew beside me.

We used to spend every birthday together.

Even in this life we were both born on the same date as was our previous lives, but alas, I had to sit in front of a window wondering if enough time would pass for him to come visit again.

The letters weren't enough in my opinion. He'd send handwritten letters to me in our language as I instructed him to and the adults all thought that it was rather cute that we sent notes back and forth to each other. But they weren't bright in that sense and had no idea what English looked like, so as far as they were concerned, we were simply sending doodles of nonsense to one another.

The letters were filled with continuous updates of what was going on around him at the time. After leaving me that final time in Winter, Andrew informed me that his younger sister was born about a day later.

Of course, I heard the announcements via my family members and the gossiping maids, but Andrew's letter was personalized and spoke in detail.

They named her Latona-Rune and she was the first princess of the Vesnesian nation in about two decades. As expected, it was a big celebration, the highest lady of the kingdom in our age group would now be the princess, followed by me, the daughter of a Grand Duke. I hadn't even known I held a title such as that until nanny had mentioned it the other day while combing my hair.

"The young miss is a very important lady in high society and still is, but now that the princess is born you will fall second. All the ladies will admire and follow the trends you set once you're old enough." I remember her saying.

Regardless, I did enjoy learning about Andrew's older brother, the first and crown prince of the kingdom, and his stern and unfazed father who he noted spent a lot more time around him now that the young princess was born. Andrew never knew his father back in our old lives, he was one of those kinds of dead beats that when the mother found out she was pregnant, dipped without another trace; Andrew never felt the need to look for him and as result didn't have much of a male figure in his life other than his uncle.

I was happy at least he was getting a chance to have a true father who wouldn't abandon him at a moment's notice, but I could tell from the tone of his letters, that he didn't really like him all that much. Perhaps he was feeling apprehension due to his past memories; I would ask him later on whenever I got the chance to physically see him again.

Whenever that may be.

Just the thought of having to wait any longer made me more frustrated and anxious than I'd like to admit.

Now it was approaching Hicops—otherwise known as the second of the four months in summer. The weather in this world was quite funny, to say the least, we would go from winter, back to fall, and then straight to summer before catapulting into springtime for the new year. The seasons definitely did not fit the standard bill of earth where it simply went Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.

There were a lot of new things I would pick up as time would cross.

"M'lady, the evening meal has been prepared, may I escort you to the dining room?" I turned from where I was gazing out in the window, watching the bustling colors of the different kinds of flowers and trees blossom in their fullest form; I had already documented the different ones I had never seen before and cross-referenced them to the botany books and found interesting medicinal purposes for them.