UMAREKAWARI

CHAPTER 2

Chapter 2: Blooming Flower

Seraphim,

I stretched my hands above my head and yawned as loud as I could. After that, my body shrunk as my body muscles relaxed. I felt my fuzzy hair and reached out to my ankle to scratch it.

I dead ass stared to my room's window while sitting at the side of my bed. As the sun rises on the horizon, my soul awakens so I stood up on the wooden floor and took a deep breath.

"Today is the day!"

I ran towards my bathroom and took off my sleeping cloths. Soaked my body with a warm water and cleaned my body with a soap that has a very fragrant smell. I scoot some hair shampoo and spread it on the roots of my hair.

I'm not excited about my seventeenth birthday but I am looking forward for the ghetto of my birthday party tonight.

While washing my body clean, I hummed a very cheerful tune of happy birthday song. It's still feels surreal that after my whole existence, I have yet to experience the feeling of having someone to celebrate my birthday with.

Back when I was in a body of man, I never experienced of such thing. I left my parents and treated them as if they're not in existence.

It's true that I have the money and harem but I still felt sad that it came to the point that I'll just celebrate my birthday with a drink of the most expensive champagne in the region.

"Lady Seraphim, Lord Katz wishes your presence at the front yard!" A young voice of a lady was heard echoing on my whole room. Luckily it's loud enough to surpass the noise of crackling water running down from the faucet.

After a while, three knocks were heard.

"I heard you!" I screamed, she might be thinking that I'm still asleep. "Okay!"

After finally satisfying my body with a bath and wearing a not so comfortable outfit. I wondered trough through the corridors. Every person that I came across that are serving for our family greeted me with a smile and the words, happy birthday.

I ignored them and just went straight to the front yard of our house Where every flower box is filled with blossoms of tulips in every kind. Bees and birds flying around, spreading pollens.

A very splendid view, indeed.

As the wind blows my hair that's just partly braided because I was in a rush. My father, the lord of this house, is standing on the sight of a nearby carriage.

"Father." I cleared my throat and was loud enough to get his attention. I fixed some folds on my skirt as I wait for his words.

"Just in time." He said, I looked up to him a saw a pint of a grin on his not so red yet not so black lips that are almost covered with his grayish beard.

"What is it that you need me for that you let me wear this dress?" I asked him and looked upon my sleeves and my skirt and the bumps on my chest.

"We're expecting early visitors today my sweet girl." She said happily as he straightened the collar of his blazing red coat.

I squinted, analyzing what he means by the time I got a hint a carriage stopped a meter away from where we're standing. Two men land their feet on the dirt first and opened the doors of this carriage made out of the finest wood.

Along the two block of wooden stairs, a foot emerged and followed by another. He stood by the door and beamed to the surroundings before landing his eyes on me.

He jumped on the ground and made a bit of a fog out of dusts and dirt.

Followed behind him is another man, precisely the same age as my father. Wearing a white long sleeves that is topped with a khaki knitted vest. A eye glass is attached on his right eye and a silver chain on his pockets. Presumably, a watch.

"Lord Maxine." My father said and shook hands with the man he just called "lord." Surprisingly, in this world, land owners or a person who owns hectares of land are called lord.

"A pleasure to see you again old friend." The latter said and they both smiled at one another and tapped each other’s shoulders.

"It's nice seeing old hags greet each other doesn't it?"

I almost punched him on the face when I heard his voice on my left ear. He looked at me with confusion then a lightning hit his brain.

"Oh, right. we haven't met yet." He said touching the tip of his chin and so with confusion, I asked. "What's your name?"

After looking up to the sky, he returned his eyes on me and smiled. "Sigmund Maxine, a pleasure to meet you." He winked and asked for my hand. I was hesitant but when I gazed to my father he seems to be pushing me.

"Seraphim Kratz, the pleasure is mine." I said, not with all my heart but it's good enough to make a guy's heart panic.

Or so I thought.

He lowered his upper body as he hold my left hand as gently as he could. His lips touched the back of my palm so I felt a bit of electric shock on my bones.

"Why don't we continue our conversation inside?" I asked, my heartbeats are too fast to overcome after pulling my hand off of him. He winked again at me and for a minute, I forgot that I was a guy on my past life.

This almost felt weird so I oath not to involve myself with love relationships because I can't handle the thought of kissing a man when I was one before.

I think this is my punishment, with all of the girls I've slept with before.

Oh Almighty, why got to be this harsh?!

Both of our parents laughed as I stand here panicking, thinking on what should I do. Then there's Sigmund, grinning and showing a face of satisfaction as if his plan just got its reality.

"Very well then." My father said. Finally!

They walked past us and now I am walking alongside with this bastard.

After a while, I was just listening to the conversation of our fathers. At least it entertains me. They're mostly talking about the lands they bought recently and how they plan to expand their lands more.

They are gamblers, not the likes of mine, but we play the same game. Intimidate and concur.

I hated seating beside this grinning, ugly, musty guy as much as I hated being reincarnated as a girl.

He won't stop looking at me so I just keep on giving him awkward smiles and sometimes eye rolls.

"Why won't you two take a walk outside?"

My world doomed when I heard the suggestion of my father, agreed by the father of this ugly bastard.

"Shall we?" I looked at Sigmund's right hand with horror as he asks for my hand. I dodged his eyes and looked at my father. He gave me a thumbs up as if he's selling me up to this person I just met.

Hesitantly, I placed my hand on top of his and our hands gently closed to one another. He might be seeing me as a beautiful girl, beaming with wonderful fragrance. I maybe fulfilling his lewd thoughts but I admire to show a different vibe.

As far as I could, I shall show him no mercy nor the soft side of me. I don't like being around men, except my father of course.

I aggressively stood from my sit. Sigmund's smile became wider so I almost displayed a disgust expression on my face.

"We're off then." He said as we walk away from our fathers. "Take your time!" his father shouted so I almost stabbed my foot on the doorway. I shook my head as I follow this person down the stairs.

He haven't released my hand yet so it's a bit awkward walking to this hallways where our house maids are looking at us. Giving me a thumbs up and looks of admiration as if their sending me away after my marriage.

"Wait a second." He said and released my hand. I held it on my chest as I felt the air touch my palms.

"He has a sweaty hand."

"Here, wear this, I think it suits you." He said and showed my face a flower from a plumeria tree. It's a white flower with a bit of yellow color on its edges, giving it a gradient color.

"As I thought!" he said after placing the flower on my left ear. I let him do it because I was too overwhelmed to do anything.

Somehow I managed to deduce that he has a cocky yet gentle attitude.

This feels weird.