The Chronicle of Aurelia Aurelius

Chapter 11

After I finished trying all the dresses they brought, I sat at the chair where mother sat with father in front of me. Mother was still busy shopping, now it was the little two turns to try on the dresses. But they did that not in the same place as me, they did it at the other corner of the store, where it was close to the children section. We still could see them from a distance.

The clerks brought a new tea set for me, and new snacks for me, the tea set that mother used, they took it from the table. Immediately, Adel poured some tea in it, because of all the commotion of trying on dresses, I felt a little bit thirsty and hungry.

"Can you two let my hands go? I want to drink that tea.." I asked Lady Octavi and Adel who were beside me, still holding my hands.

Adel said "No, we can't do that, my lady...But I can bring the cup to you, so you can take a sip of it..." she brought the cup in front of my mouth with her right hand.

I felt so thirsty, so I took a sip of the cup...

Lady Octavi said "How about some snacks, my lady?"

After I took a sip from the cup, Lady Octavi brought the cookie in front of my mouth with her left hand. I took a bite of it, because I was hungry, I was munching it while frowning my cheeks...

Lady Octavi said "How about another one, my lady?"

She kept bringing the cookies in front of my mouth, I kept taking a bite of it, and munching it with frowning cheeks. While munching it, I took a glance at father, and saw him smiling big at me..

I asked with munching "*munch* Why are *munch* you smiling like that *munch*, father?"

"It's just cute to see you being spoiled by them..."

"*gulp* How about my dear father, tell them to let go of their hands??" I changed my face to smile more at him.

"Me?? Tell them to do that? No way!!"

"Why??"

"Because your mother, who ordered them, not me.."

Lady Octavi kept putting cookies in front of my mouth..

"But *munch* you are my father *munch*..."

"But...I cannot do that, Aurelia...Because your mother..."

"How about her *munch* *munch*?"

We looked at mother from a distance...

"She will be angry at me, If I order them to let go of their hands from you."

"But this cute daughter *munch* is so helpless with *munch* *munch* this holding hands, *munch* *munch* Am I better than the mother angry *munch*?"

"Oh my daughter, you don't know how scary your mother i—" Suddenly Mother took a glance fiercely at us...

"*gulp* *gulp*"

I took my face near to father..

I whispered "What was that, father? Did she hear it?"

"That is your mother, Aurelia.." He whispered back "It's better not to talk about her now.."

"Right..."

There was no conversation between us, it was just me eating the snacks with help from Lady Octavi, and taking a sip of tea with help from Adel, and Father just smiling at me, enjoying my condition. At some moment, I caught mother talking with the little two, and they suddenly went off like they were finding something..