Beauty Of Music

Chapter 26

Not long after dawn the next morning, Catherine was stirred from sleep by the sound of birds chirping. She slowly pushed herself up into a sitting position, rubbed her eyes and looked around the room. It was a fairly large room with light blue walls, a large window with a white frame, the furniture consists of an antique white wardrobe with mirrors on the doors, one mirror was obstructed by Catherine's dress hanging over it, an antique dressing table and chair with three mirrors, to the right of the dressing table was a doorway leading to a wash room, on the ceiling was a modest sized crystal chandelier with electric lighting, the bed itself had a white head and foot board with intricate carvings on them and the mattress was so soft it felt as though Catherine had been sleeping on a cloud all night. Catherine was confused, at first, about where she was but then she recalled the events of last night which brought a beaming smile to her face, thinking that soon she will be married to the love of her life. With that in mind, she rose from the bed with haste, made her way to the wardrobe, grabbed her dress down and made her way into the washroom to get ready for the day. A few minutes later she emerged fully dressed and her face washed, she then made her way over to the dressing table and sat down, she picked up the hair brush that was, conveniently, resting on top and started brushing her hair through until it was smooth and tangle free. She gets up from the chair and makes her way towards the door. As she goes to close the door, she hears the sound of another door opening and closing behind her and when she turned she saw it was Erik, exiting his own bedroom. He turns and sees Catherine; his face broke out into a smile as he opens his arms to her and without hesitation Catherine throws herself into his loving embrace. He picks her up and spins her around which makes them both laugh with joy at seeing each other, even though they had only parted for one night. After spinning her one more time, Erik gently lowered Catherine back to the floor, he eased his grip on her waist, the two lovers kept a hold of each other and looked at each other with loving eyes.

"Good morning my love, I trust you slept well?" asked Catherine, feeling a little concerned he would find it hard to sleep in a strange place.

She moved her arms up until her hands rested, gentle, on his neck.

Erik closed his eyes for a moment relishing in feeling Catherine's soft fingers brush against his neck a little, then he opened his eyes and looked at Catherine again.

"Yes my love. Surprisingly, I did. It'll take some getting used to waking up to the Sun beaming through a window" admitted Erik.

"You will get used to it, my love. And soon it'll be a natural thing to wake up to in the morning" said Catherine.

She then pulls herself up closer to Erik until her lips touched his, which he welcomed gladly. Their kiss soon became heated and their grips on each other tightened a little, they were so enthralled they failed to notice Monsieur Carriere leaving his room until he closed his bedroom door. The lovers pulled away and turned to face him. Catherine greeted him with a smile but when she felt Erik's body go rigid she turned to him and looked up with concern. She saw his eyes were fixed on Carriere with a piercing glare and she knew she had to encourage them to talk their problems through.

She raised her left hand to Erik's face and gentle turned him so he would look at her.

"I think its time you two had a long talk, you both have a lot to say to each other and now is the time because after today who knows when you will get another chance" she said in a gentle tone.

Erik looked at Carriere out of the corner of his eye then turned his attention back to Catherine, he nod his head 'yes' in agreement he will speak with the older gentleman. Catherine smiled up at him then turned to address Carriere.

"Let's go downstairs, the two of you can talk privately in the Parlour" she said as she lowered her arms and took Erik's hand in hers.

She led Erik towards the staircase and made their way down, Carriere followed behind them.