Once in a Blue Moon

Chapter 11.

Isabelle.
Red roses are my favorite flowers, who doesn't like them? Their fragrance just enhances my soul.

Ella walks in, bows her head and says, "Princess Isabelle, Princess Rossana wants to meet you." . Ella is my room's gate keeper.
"Then you should send her in." I say.

Rossana comes in. She is wearing a blue jeans and a floral shirt. Though we are not exactly humans because we have powers but we wear clothes just like humans, we can also wear normal casual clothes like all common people. Only on special occasions we wear gowns and all other accessories.

Anyways she is smiling a lot and seems happier, and that tells me something. Oh! two days are over, good news for Rossana, her brother David is coming back only after two days. Why is she soo excited?

"Hello, don't tell me two days are already gone." I say.
"You guessed it right, David is coming tomorrow." Rossana says with lot of excitement on her face.
Sister feelings.

Rossana is my good friend, I mean very good friend, and she loves her brother too much. Rossana is two years older than me, she have a younger brother David, who is one year older than me.
Rossana's father and my father are brothers, her father is the elder one and is currently the king of the Grandelle, our kingdom.
Actually my father and her father are the only two brothers, no sister, and they both have a very strong bonding. My mother tells me that actually my father was the crown prince, but because he was younger he gave his crown to his elder brother. It is kind of a long story.

Anyhow coming back where we stopped.
"Just informing, David is coming today not tomorrow." I say.
"If he is going to start sailing today, approximately by tomorrow early morning he is going to be here." She replies.
" And you really think Lucifer is going to sail him that many hours?" I ask.
Of Course not. Lucifer never sails more than three hours and David knows it.
"You have a point. But he did not informed." She says.
"Because he wants to give you a surprise, he knows you'll be surprised again without realizing that he always comes one day before the day he informs. And one more very big point, he will surely come before 12:00 am or midnight, he will come before 'The Crazy Day' starts."
I reply.
"How do you know him so much? I am his sister and even I don't know him that much. Anyways, thanks for reminding about the Crazy Day, I almost forgot about it." she says. I don't know him much but she haven't yet noticed his tricks and ways of surprising people, I suppose.

Reminding. How can anyone forget about the Crazy Day?

The Crazy Day is celebrated in Grandelle to make people happy, to make people forget their pains and sorrows for at least one day and stay happy.

This day has a beautiful story behind it. We are humans born with some powers. There must be a time when this power was discovered.
When this power got discovered on earth, it was realized that these people should have their own kingdom hidden from the world or else other humans can take advantage of them. Their hidden kingdom was named as Grandelle. At that time, this kingdom had nothing but land. People didn't knew how to use their powers and there was no one to teach them as all were new. People started to starve to death, people experienced the peak of famines.
Their leader was King Charles Smith, the first ruler of Grandelle. At that time, he was also new to this power.
One day, on 14 June, King Charles was trying to perform a spell but it went wrong. Due to the effect of the wrong spell, everything started to go crazy, different, unimaginable, the flowers started talking, non-living things became alive, the paintings started to move, moreover it effected the seasons also, seasons started to change with intervals as short as some hours. Everything just became crazier but the situation somehow started to change. At some point King Charles noticed that though this spell went wrong it some how made people smile. There was something funny about this crazy thing which happened. The chit-chats of tables, the talking paintings, there was noise even in the silence. People heard their talks and laughed.
King Charles noticed that this became a kind of distraction for people, people got distracted from their difficult situations. This thing made King Charles realize that sometimes when things go a bit crazier in your very life, life becomes fun. Sometimes you need a distraction from your everyday problems, you need to give your brains a tiny rest, you need to laugh, stay happy to manage your very hard problems.
After this spell became un effective which was after twenty four hours, people were not as tensed as they were and were a bit relaxed than before. People slowly tried to train themselves on how to use magic and gradually, two weeks after that day, the kingdom started to develop. People made their homes by using their magic and the worse situation started to settle down.
After long trials when King Charles Smith was declared as the original king of Grandelle, the first thing he did was, he declared, 14 June as an official celebration day and named it as, 'The Crazy Day'.
Since then, on every 14 June, at midnight, the same spell which was a wrong one, is performed by the king, and people celebrate it. For celebration, royal ball is also kept every year, and all people of Grandelle are invited to join.

The place where David has gone is also a part of Grandelle. People didn't wanted to destroy that beautiful place, so they left it as it is, as a visiting place or picnic place or a hiking place or a mining place, as different types of gems are found there or anything people would like to call it. It is called by many names, but there is a special mountain like hill in there, called 'Gemtain', it is the place where gems are hidden in its every step, lucky ones can find it.

Anyhow, tomorrow is 14 June, The Crazy Day.

"Isabelle, at what time do you think David will reach here?" Rossana asks.
"I don't know, maybe he is right behind you." I reply. Why did I said that? Maybe because I felt like I just saw him, but Ella didn't informed me. Am I dreaming?
"What!" she exclaims and turns back.
Maybe I wasn't dreaming. He is actually here, how?
"How did you entered my room?" I ask to David.
"Magic, I hope you are aware of 'magic' word." he replies.
"Why did you broke the rule? No one is allowed to enter anyone's room without their permission and are not allowed to use magic for entering the room." I say.
"I am sorry for that, I just came to surprise Rossana and she was not in her room, so I thought that she must be in your room and I was right." he replies.
"Well, I was already knowing about you coming today," Rossana says, "But I was not aware that you will just pop up."
"How did you know that I was coming today? I informed that I will be coming tomorrow." he asks.
"Isabelle, informed me." Rossana replies.
"Isabelle!" he exclaims and turns his face towards me,"Why did you informed her? This was supposed to be a surprise."
"Rossana came to my room to..." I was completing my sentence but David interrupted, "Wait, How did you know that I was coming today? I never informed you." he says.
This is a logical and a hard question.
I take a breath and tilt my head towards my left shoulder.
"At least I know you that well." I say.
He tilts his head towards his left shoulder, smiles and says, "Sure you do."
"Okay now, stop making this an issue." Rossana says in a bit loud voice.
"You are right." David says turning his head towards Rossana.
"Anyways David, did you manage to collect any sort gem?" Rossana asks.
"Actually, I did collected some, I'll gift them to people I want to." he replies.
"First time you are going to give a gift some one ." Rossana says and laughs a little.
"Not one, but some." he says.

I just can't wait for midnight. I move towards the right side where on the wall is the window while they keep talking. Through the window I stare at clouds. The calmness of the clouds makes me lost in them. I wonder how amazing it would be if our life would be as calm as the clouds, as pure as clouds, as beautiful as the sky.

"Waiting for midnight, Isabelle?" I hear a voice near me, I turn around, it is David.
"Yes, I just love crazy day, though it may sound strange to you but I think it adds colors to life, when everything goes different, it just seems..." I say and take a deep breath.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" he completes my leftover sentence.
"Right."
"And it does not sound strange to me because I like it too." he says and smiles a little.
"Really, I thought you loved nothing apart from gems." I say.
"Well, I love a lot of things and people you are unaware of." he says.
"Good to know."