Never Not Married

The Romance of the Four birds

Edward stood outside his work place,staring at the road waiting for Stephen to appear.Beside him stood Richard who awaits the arrival of the carriage driver with Edward.

“I never agreed on you coming along”Edward said without glancing at him.

“I don’t need your permission to follow you home,your home is also my home likewise”Richard beamed.

Edward had told him about his sister who had arrived earlier in the morning.Richard thought of seeing what his sister would look like so he didn’t hesitate to tag along.

Just at the moment,Stephen came riding to their front.He comes down from the carriage with a apologetic look.

“Am sorry for keeping you waiting sire”Edward only frowned at him.Richard smiles at him so he wouldn’t feel too bad.

The day was coming to an end as the moon is gradually taking over the sun.

Helena had hesitated so many times to knock on Abigail’s door.She isn’t the type to make friends with people for she had known except Alice who had kept her company all the time.Thinking of Alice,she felt the need to relate with some before she dies of loneliness.

The door opens at swift.Helena stood shocked and embarrassed to be met in a situation like that.

If only she had knocked she wouldn’t feel so ashamed.

“How may I help you Miss”Abigail said.She was surprised to meet Helena at her door.

“I..hmm..I thought you might be in need of a company perhaps to take a look around the house”Helena said.

“I was going to do that too,my pleasure”She smiles at Helena which gives her a little hope of becoming friends with Abigail.

“Don’t you feel uncomfortable in this..”Helena pointed at Abigail’s clothings.They had been walking in the distance of the wood.

Helena had kept her eyes on Abigail,studying her every move.That had made Abigail uncomfortable and she had asked.

“I guess I got used to how comforting it is for me,you can try it out some time,then you will know how comfortable it is other than the suffocating under garments”They both laugh.

“How much I hate the tying of the corset,I will love to try this out some time then”Helena said as they walked through the snowy ground.

The snow was getting even heavier this time and they both were shivering but no body suggested to go back.

When they got to the river,it had already turned ice though it’s not a thick ice yet.

The flowers boomed even though it was snowy.

The snow drops had fallen on the petals of the pink flower which attracted Abigail to it.

“I never thought this will still in place..just like I left them”Though Abigail wasn’t really a fan of flowers but had been being a symbol of comfort to her.Whenever she was down,she would sit beside the flower watching as it blooms,wishing her life could be of wonder like the flower’s.

“They had gotten into good hands”she glance at Helena and smile before facing back the icy lake.

“Edward had taken good care of them before I came here,he just left them to me though he didn’t say”At that moment,Helena wonders why Edward stopped taking care of the flowers after her arrival and why he had said nothing.

“You are quite a lucky woman to have Edward as a husband”Abigail said out of the blue.Helena who knew what she had been going through thought otherwise.

“I mean..he isn’t the best of men but he has been kind when we were a child,quiet and caring”Helena was surprised to hear those from Abigail cause her husband had never being kind to her in any way.

“Or not?”Abigail asked

“I would imagine if he were what you described him as”Helena said.They stood beside each other breathing in the cold air.

“I thought as much”Abigail without another word.

They stood in silence until Helena decides to say something but Abigail had wanted to say something too.

“You first”Abigail said

“No you should go first”Helena said hoping she wouldn’t have to say what she had wanted to say again.Abigail has no reason to keep arguing so she decides to say what she wants first.

“Can I call you by your name”Abigail said.

“Of course..I..I would really love that”Helena said between chuckling.

“What were you going to say”Abigail asked.

“Same thing”Helena had in mind that Abigail asked to be friends indirectly..she hopes that’s the case.

They were going to raise up another topic before they heard Iris’s heaves.

“Miss”Iris stops to catch up her breath.

“The Lord is awaiting your presence with a guest”Iris said.Helena and Abigail looks at each other.They find themselves smiling before they embark on walking back to the empire Edward owned.

Edward had been constantly checking on the door to the entrance of the house.He wonders what kept Iris so long to bring back his wife.He wonders why Helena had always been fond of going to the woods.Maybe it’s because he had restricted her from going else where except around the house.He kept a frown on his face as he keeps thinking.

On the other hand,Richard kept his gaze fixated on Edward.He was so sure now that his friend wasn’t only interested in f*****g his wife,he had fallen more.

Just then,three people comes in through the entrance door.The only person Richard fixated his eyes on was the brunette who stood beside Helena.He smiles mischievously as he recognized his attacker earlier in the morning.He wonders who could she be for her to be here.

“___Oh God”Richard stood up and points at Abigail.

“Is she___”Richard looks at Edward for answer.

“Are you___”He questioned Abigail who had no idea who he was.Richard had always studied women for him to remember her delicate face.

“What?”Edward simply asked ignoring his friend’s dramatic behavior.The only one he cares about too was his wife who stood with a smile plastered on her face but when theirs eyes connected,her cheeks fell in disappointment which made Edward frown even more.He wasn’t expecting that.

This time,Abigail and Helena had walked closer to them.Richard was still up with his finger still pointed at Abigail.

When he noticed how stupid he looks,he adjusted and clears his throat.

“It’s nice to see you again Miss Pollock”He said faking a smile.

“Again?”Edward repeated.Abigail didn’t think she recognized his face at first but then she remembered.

“Pervert?”Abigail said more like a question.

“Pervert”Richard said with surprise.Never had he being called a pervert.This will be his first time.Especially hearing it from his friend’s sister.

“Okay what is going on”Edward said but got no answer from anyone of them.Rather than being in the moment,Helena was far gone into the moment Edward had came into her room at night.

She yet again thinks her husband had taken a liking to her.But has she taken a liking to him?