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Sorry for late!!!

Chapter 3

Catherine: What are you going to wear?

Elisabeth’s mother asked, lingering on the threshold.
Elisabeth: Mom, I hadn’t seen you. Come in and help me, please!
Catherine: Let’s see.. a dance! It’s been a while since you’ve been at a dance. Who will be your companion?
Elisabeth: None. There will be no official companion. Juliet and I will go with Leonard and William just because they’re new here. We are four friends going to a dance. No dates, no fiancés !
Catherine: Fine, as you wish! But if maybe at this party there was a nice young man noticing how splendid my daughter is it wouldn’t be bad.

Catherine almost begged in her last sentence. Elisabeth smiled, her mother made her soft. She could read inside her and maybe she knew what she felt even before Elisabeth did.
Elisabeth: No, it wouldn’t be bad.
Catherine: Good, so now let’s find the most beautiful dress and get ready for. When William sees you he will be speechless.
Elisabeth: MOM!

The two women looked at each other and burst out laughing. Elisabeth approached the door and close it, and then, coming closer to her mother, she started searching through her cupboard, making a malicious smile.
Elisabeth: Let’s hope it!

7: 30 p.m.
William and Leonard arrived to Elisabeth’s and they waited for a while.
Leonard: Let’s do things this way. I go catch Juliet, in the meantime you ring the bell and wait for Elisabeth. We’ll meet again here, ok?

He was about to leave, but William grabbed him by an arm.
William: Leonard, we are just like two brothers, aren’t we?

The young man nodded.
William: We know each other for ages, and each of us knows how the other one is. So, tell me why I have the strange feeling you are going to play a trick on me?
Leonard: Me? I could never do that, I wonder how you can think such a thing. If we weren’t friends so much I could even consider me insulted..
William: No scenes with me, Leo; I‘ve been in many more theaters than you, so I can realize easily when someone is acting.

Leonard looked at him with a sweet smile.

Leonard: William, I don’t want to fool you, I just don’t want you to lose another occasion. I’ve seen the way you look at her, and I won’t allow you to throw everything to the winds. So, as a good brother I decided to prevent you from doing that, no matter what.

He left him speechless and he went on before his friend could speak.

Leonard: And don’t tell me you don’t want to spend a little time alone with her, otherwise, you would be the liar.

William shook his head, smiling to his friend.

William: Meet us soon, you and Juliet, even if I fear that she is also plotting.
Leonard: We are doing that just for you two.

And laughing, he left.
The young man take his courage and knocked at the front door.
After a while the door opened and a man stood in front of him, staring him into the eyes.
William: Good evening, I’m William, a friend of Elisabeth’s, and I came to take her to the dance.

Without breaking eye contact, he stretched his hand to him.
Alexander: Good evening, I’m Elisabeth’s father, she ‘s getting herself ready, please, come in!

William came in and he followed Alexander to the living room.
Alexander: Would you like something to drink?
William: No, thanks. It’s too early for me, yet.
Alexander: I thought you were four, wasn’t Juliet supposed to be with you, too?
William: Yes, in fact my friend Leonard has gone catch her, they will meet us soon.
Alexander: So, you are my daughter’s companion.

Although he had promised to his wife not to do that, Alexander gave him a challenge and also disappointed look.
William didn’t know what to answer, he was embarrassed and felt awkward. He had the sensation that whatever he said it would be the wrong answer.

Catherine: Don’t make our guest embarrassed, Alexander, I’ve already told you it’s just a night between friends!

Catherine had come at the right moment, and William felt like she had saved him, and coming closer to the woman, he smiled, and with a lot of sweetness he kissed her hand.
Catherine: Such a gentleman, my daughter was right, saying that..

She was cut by Elisabeth’s voice, due to the fact that she had just come in.
Elisabeth: Good evening, William, but.. are you alone?

William turned in the direction of her voice and he became speechless. He just thought that after such a vision he could have die and that if he didn’t resume breathing soon it wouldn’t take much for him to really die.
Alexander was blinded seeing her daughter and after turning to the young man he thought that maybe now he would accept something to drink.
William: You are beautiful, Elisabeth.

He said with the few air left in his lungs.
She looked down feeling almost frightened but happy for that compliment at the same time.
Elisabeth: Thank you, you are very kind. Where are Leonard and Juliet?
William: They’re coming, they’re waiting outside for us.
Elisabeth: Fine. So, we can go!
William: Sure.

He turned to Elisabeth’s parents, greeting them, and then he came closer and liked arms with her.
They left, ignoring the look Alexander and Catherine had shared.
Alexander started pacing around the room, nervously.
Alexander: I’m not calm. Why did you make me agree? After all, we don’t even know that young man, we could have left our daughter in a delinquent’s hands.
Catherine: My dear, I’ve already told you, I’ve talked with Sophia, Leonard’s aunt, and she assured me about him and his friend, William. She told me that he’s the son of a noble Scottish family. You should be glad, maybe..
Alexander: No, no, and no. Forget about it. Just.. have you seen the way he looked at her when she came in?
Catherine: Yeah, the same way you looked at me the fist time we dated.
Alexander: That’s the point! I know what that boy is thinking!
Catherine: So, I married a delinquent!

She said that between laughter and rage.
Catherine: Alexander, I don’t understand why you’re acting like that. You have spent months introducing wealthy young men to your daughter to find a husband to her, and now that she hangs out with a gorgeous boy, you react like that?
Alexander: Well, it’s different. The others hadn’t much value, I already knew she wouldn’t ever accept, but he…
Catherine: You think she could fall in love with him!
Alexander: Yeah! I have to act as a responsible parent and look for a husband to my daughter, but she is my little girl.
Catherine: She isn’t a little girl anymore, but she will always love you although she will love someone else.
Alexander: Yeah, and if she is anything like you, she will do as she pleases!
Catherine: My father didn’t like you, too. If I hadn’t done as I pleased we wouldn’t be here talking, now!
Alexander: What it means he didn’t like me, but if..
Catherine: No, believe me. You were very similar to the boy that has just hanged out with our daughter.

Alexander smiled and kissed his wife.
Alexander; Can we have dinner, now?
Catherine: Ok, are you calmer now?
Alexander: Yes, anyway.. when I was young I was more gorgeous than him!

TBC

Ha ha ha ha, honestly, I find the last moment between Catherine and Alexander hilarious!!! LOL!! :-D





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