Mysteriously Beautiful

Chapter 6: Thank You

Sam would want to say Thank You because Aleca had given her a gift , but even before she could open her mouth to say a word, Aleca started walking away.

Aleca do really have a unique personality.

Sam did not have a chance to say it so she just  whisper the word "Thank You" she looks at the Prussian blue box. She held with her hands. Aleca disappeared among the busy street accros the road. The lights seems to sink her image and Sam was confused where Aleca goes. Busy people walked across the pedestrian lines as the traffic lights turned red and the vihicles stop. Sam was tired but she can't hide the smile drawn on her face. She stayed there for another couple of minutes before she decided to go home where her mother would be waiting.

Cringgggggggg!!!! Cringggggggg!!!!!
Cringgggggggg!!!! Cringggggggg!!!!!

Sam reach out for the alarm clock standing on her table beside her bed. She couldn't turn it off. She tried to hammer it on the table with one strong punch downward but it won't stop.

The alarm clock went out of her reach as it was moved when she hammered it. She reach out and stretch out her arm effortly until her fingernails touch it. Unfortunately , it fell down the floor as it was drawn into the edge of the table. Sam was still laying on her bed like an emperor. Her eyes were closed and there was lines on her forehead as she frowned of annoyance because the alarm won't stop although it fell to the floor. She took one of her pillows and thrown it side way to the direction of the sound of the alarm. She knew pillow won't help, she just had nothing to grab to be thrown to the clock. She was frustrated. She supposed to have a wonderful morning but her day started out with a frown. She opened her eyes. The alarm clock was still on. It sounds like a busy office of police men during 18th century when the first ever telephone had ever created by Alexander Graham Bell where dozens of reports calls to the office. She looks at the Alarm clock stirnly like how evil villains look at the protagonist. That's the kind of look she would tell an auditionee.

She grab the porcelain flower vase on her table beside her queen size bed and target the Alarm clock.

Wshhhhhh...
Cracks ....

The clock stop.

"Yes!" She exclaimed with a smile of victory and drop down to go back to sleep and hug her huge stuff toys stitch. She was a stitch lover and a regular collector of stitch items.
She had dozens of items on her drawer but she just display one and she placed it on her bed. She's a grown-up woman but who cares? She love stitch. A huge size stitch stuff toys she caddle and rest as if she hadn't sleep for decades.

An image of a girl wearing black fashion huge hat whose eyes where covered because she was looking downward wearing a Prussian blue descent fashion tight dress with a thin leather black belt around the waistline. The woman wore Pearl necklace but her her earings were sapphire . Sam saw it when the woman looks side way. It does not much the pearl necklace.

Fashion trend in this modern era is influenced by mix culture and style. She begun to wonder who this girl was.

Have she meet her before?

She seems different and yet familiar. She had a strong Aura as if she was a dangerous woman. A tough girl who'll never say "No" to a fight , a mischievous fight played commonly by wealthy people. The flash from the cameras goes randomly as the paparazzi took best shots as many as they can. They never waste time because this girl is known by everyone. "Who is she?" Sam whispered to a friend standing beside her.
"She's the woman behind..."

Then she woke up as she felt someone wipe her face with slimes. It was Aleca's pet, "Tayk" who lingered its tongue on her face to wake her up.

"Gosh! Taykie! How come? What are you doing here?" She hold him and tried to move him away from her face. Tayk was really a playful dog.

"I brought him here." Gellen was leaning from the door and begun to roam around at Sam's room looking at every figurine,portrait ,paintings and window view.

"And why?" Sam ask her.
"I like your room. It was a nice taste. I might as well contact the interior designer. Give me his number." Gellen tried to avoid her question.
"His? Who cares about numbers? And you'll never will. So tell me what brought you here Gellen." Sam was serious. She knew Gellen was not interested for the design , she was here for reason. Gellen did not reply for a moment then she notice the ruined Alarm clock and the broken porcelain of a flower base on the floor.

"Oh! And what happened to that?" Gellen went near the broken porcelain.

"I said what is it you want with me?" Sam was really serious.

"Nothing, don't worry about this, I think it just need a replacement." Gellen uttered as she took the alarm clock , stood up and drop it on a trash bin which was almost full from crample papers.

Gellen was living besides Aleca's apartment. She was just next door.

Sam was on her parent's house , she had her own little house she bought when she had her salary and savings.  She just happened to visit them often because they were all alone except family gatherings and occasions where their house got noisy because of her nieces, nephews and cousins.

"I think you knew why I'm here." Gellen seems to insult Sam by tricking her. Gellen look at the window and view the garden outside. It was a refreshing site because of the fountain and landscape. It was a mini-garden and yet could change your mood into better.

Gellen untie the curtain and let the sunlight hides and avoid it to enter the room. The room was painted in white. The curtains where Deep Blue.

"I refuse to come. Its no big deal. I have my own reason so please let me take a rest."
Sam covered herself with thick blanket. Tayk barked at her as if he was telling her to stand up. Tayk tried to scratch the blanket.

Sam ignored him for the first time. Sam hated arguments. She don't want to explain herself to anybody. Tayk started getting tired of scratching the blanket.
So he lay besides his master's friend and whipped like a puppy begging Sam to pay attention and notice him. Sam remained silent under her blanket. Tayk started biting and tearing the stuff toy, the huge size stitch.

"No one cares if you did not come last night." Gellen was now at the corner of the room. The only place where the wall was painted black and an aquarium was costumized place on it. Gellen begun to touch the glass of the aquarium and was trying to scare the jellyfish.

The jelly fish ignored her as well. There was three glowing jelly fish inside the aquarium. No goldfish or clownfish. Sam love jelly fish and it was her favourite aquatic organism.

"So why are you here then?" Sam's voice became bigger , deeper and more serious.

"You did it on purpose , didn't you?" Gellen ask her in an accusing tone as if she was interrogating and threatening her  to confess that she was the suspect of a crime.

"Did what?!" Sam exclaimed without knowing that Tayk enjoyed destroying her most precious possession of stitch.

"The dress of Monica." Gellen was still enjoying herself watching the jelly fish which slowly moves from different directions.

"I did not!" Sam shouted as she lifted her back and unveil the blanket and sit on her bed. She looks defensive and defeated. Its true that she did not do it on purpose. She just stumbled for no reason and accidentally rolled with the maniquen.

"You did it so Monica couldn't perform on stage and be replaced by someone you collaborate with to take Monica down and destroy her career." Gellen sounds like Cinderella's stepmother.

"You knew it wasn't Monica?" Sam's voice was worried.

"But the staff thought it was Monica. She also confirmed she was the one who performed on the stage because she never complained that she's not her. Who could have ever thought that? The staff thought that she just did not play the piece she's been practicing during final rehearsal , the whole staff thought Monica just wanted to surprise everybody by playing the secret piece she prepared and made by herself. That sounds reasonable." Gellen left the aquarium.

"Everyone knows how playful Monica is." Gellen added.

Sam was speechless. Gellen was right. It wasn't Monica but Gellen was wrong for accusing her that she knew the mysterious violinist.

"I don't even know her." She muttered like a child.