Chapter 19: In rolling in school (19)

Bella arrived at 6 and he set her up with a new card and scanned her fingers into the computer.

"No one can get in that is not scanned in here. Do not let anyone come up with out me knowing about it." Zane said to her.

"I won't be here for lunch I have a business luncheon at the club but would like to have dinner with you." He said.

"Can I leave for a few hours today? I need to go to the College today and look into some classes." She asked.

He laughed, "Yes, also could you do the shopping?"

"Yes if you need me to."he handed her a credit card.

"Keep this and from now on you do the shopping too." He then left.

She cleaned until noon then went out she stopped by the school and filled out the papers. Her classes would start next month. They were on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. A list of books would be mailed to her with a list of book stores.

She then went shopping and carried everything back to the penthouse.

She cleaned a rooms before starting dinner and waited for Zane to come home.

That night she told him all about her classes and her dream of a business. He was very impressed.

She had brains, work ethics, and she was a great cook. Now if he could only keep her and make her his.

It was late as she finished the dishes. He pulled her into the livingroom to talk some more. When it hit ten he drove her home.

That night she as she read she kept thinking of him.

◇◇◇♡♡♡◇◇◇THE LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER

Her own daughter, who was as ugly as night, and had but one eye, for which she was continually reproached, said, "The luck of being a Queen has never happened to me."

"Be quiet, now," replied the old woman, "and make yourself contented: when the time comes I will help and assist you."

As soon, then, as the time came when the Queen gave birth to a beautiful little boy, which happened when the King was out hunting, the old witch took the form of a chambermaid, and got into the room where the Queen was lying, and said to her, "The bath is ready, which will restore you and give you fresh strength; be quick before it gets cold."

Her daughter being at hand, they carried the weak Queen between them into the room, and laid her in the bath, and then, shutting the door, they ran off; but first they made up an immense fire in the stove, which must soon suffocate the poor young Queen.

When this was done, the old woman took her daughter, and, putting a cap upon her head, laid her in the bed in the Queen's place.

She gave her, too, the form and appearance of the real Queen, as far as she was able; but she could not restore the lost eye, and, so that the King might not notice it, she turned her upon that side where there was no eye.

When midnight came, and every one was asleep, the nurse, who sat by herself, wide awake, near the cradle, in the nursery, saw the door open and the true Queen come in.

She took the child in her arms, and rocked it a while, and then, shaking up its pillow, laid it down in its cradle, and covered it over again.

She did not forget the Fawn, either, but going to the corner where he was, stroked his head, and then went silently out of the door.

The nurse asked in the morning of the guards if any one had passed into the castle during the night; but they answered, "No, we have not seen anybody."

For many nights afterwards she came constantly, but never spoke a word; and the nurse saw her always, but she would not trust herself to speak about it to any one.

When some time had passed away, the Queen one night began to speak, and said--

"How fares my child! how fares my fawn? Twice more will I come, but never again."

The nurse made no reply; but, when she had disappeared, went to the King, and told him.

The King exclaimed, "Oh, mercy! what does this mean?--the next night I will watch myself by the child." So in the evening he went into the nursery, and about midnight the Queen appeared, and said--

"How fares my child! how fares my fawn? Once more will I come, but never again."

And she nursed the child, as she usually did, and then disappeared. The King dared not speak; but he watched the following night, and this time she said--

"How fares my child! how fares my fawn? This time have I come, but never again."

At these words the King could hold back no longer, but, springing up, cried, "You can be no other than my dear wife!"

Then she answered, "Yes, I am your dear wife;" and at that moment her life was restored by God's mercy, and she was again as beautiful and charming as ever.

She told the King the fraud which the witch and her daughter had practised upon him, and he had them both tried, and sentence was pronounced against them.

The little Fawn was disenchanted, and received once more his human form; and the Brother and Sister lived happily together to the end of their days.

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That night Bella dreamed of a king. When looking at his face he was the handsome Zane. Loving and kind she felt safe.

If only this dream could be a real fairy tale. However Bella knew Fairytales are only in books.

He mother and father once had a love so strong that she wanted what they had. When her mother got sick she just knew she would get better because true love always wins.

When her mother died it took over a year to pick up her books again.

She learned the hard way Fairytales are for reading, hard work way for life. She would choose hard work any day.