| Only In Past Memories Chapter 3 Phoebus Sr. was awakened by a constant pounding coming from the front door. He opened his eyes and saw two other sets of eyes looking down at him. He shook his head. �Where�s your mother, boy?� �Sleeping� �And your brothers and sisters?� �Sleeping too.� Phoebus Sr. groaned and got out of bed. �I�m coming! Hold on!� Phoebus Sr. opened the door and his mouth dropped with surprise. Standing at his door was a group of three gypsy women and five gypsy children. Phoebus Sr. shook his head and greeted the band. �Can I help, ladies?� he asked. �Perhaps. Where is Esmeralda?� the taller of the women asked. �She is here, safe and sound.� The women looked at each other and looked back at Phoebus Sr. with wide eyes. The taller women spoke again. �We need her now, she needs to come home.� �That�s fine and all, but she hasn�t had any breakfast. She will need breakfast.� �General, we can take care of her ourselves. Esmeralda needs to come home with us now.� �Fine, come in then and I�ll go get her.� He showed the group into the drawing room and went back upstairs. When he got to Phoebus's room, he saw something that made his heart ache. Esmeralda had her hands on Phoebus� face and was massaging the bruises he had gotten yesterday. Phoebus was sitting still with a look of pure serenity upon his face. Never had he seen his son let anyone but his mother and father touch him like that. Phoebus Sr. sighed: he hated to break up this heartwarming scene. �Esmeralda, some gypsies are here to take you home now.� Esmeralda stopped what she was doing and got up from the floor. �But daddy, does she have to go? I want her to stay!� Phoebus whined. �I am sorry son, but I can�t make her stay. It�s in my power to do so and she has her own home to go to.� The three of them went down the stairs and into the drawing room. �You�re in a lot of Essie!� Clopin teased �Weve me alone Clopen� �You just wanted to make them feel sorry for you!� �Nh uh! Shut up Clopen!� �Yes huh!� �Enough Clopin!� the shorter of the women shouted. Esmeralda hung her head and looked at the women from under her eyelashes, knowing she was about to be scolded. The taller of the women spoke to Esmeralda. �You have been a very bad girl Esmeralda. Taking advantage of people is wrong. Just because your parents are gone doesn�t mean that gives you the right to make others feel sorry for you.� �But I didn�t do that, I didn�t do anything wrong!� Esmeralda pleaded �Don�t talk back to me young lady. We get home your in for a punishment.� Phoebus Sr. had heard quite enough. �All right, that�s enough!� He yelled. That got everyone�s attention. �First off, Esmeralda did not take advantage of us! In fact ladies, it is the opposite.� �What do you mean by opposite?� the smaller one asked. Phoebus peeked out from behind his dad�s legs and shyly walked in front off his dad. �What I mean is that we took advantage of her. When I found her yesterday, she had helped my son from a group of bullies and�� �Get to the point General!� the taller one interrupted. Both Phoebus� shot her a look. �I was getting there, keep your skirt on. Anyway, I saw how well the got along and took her home with me. My son insisted that she spend the night and my wife and me did not object. It was for my son�s sake ladies.� �Why your son? He seems just fine to me. Why would he need a gypsy girl as a friend?� �That�s just the point: he doesn�t have any friends. I thought if he had just one friend, that he wouldn�t always be so sad or distant.� The women looked at each other with wide eyes. They couldn�t believe what they were hearing! �Please ladies, I�ll do anything if you�ll just let Esmeralda be my son�s friend. Please I beg of you.� The women looked at each other again and the middle of the women stood and walked over to the general. She took his hand and said, in a soft voice, �General, I understand how you feel about your son. Esmeralda also does not have many friends and I have seen how your son has suffered. I think it would be wonderful if the two were friends.� Phoebus Sr. was close to tears; his son would finally have a friend. � The only thing I ask of you is to have your men leave us alone once in while. We get very tired of the obscene remarks made by the guards.� �I will do what I can do. And I plan on having as little talk about the remarks being made.� �Good, thank you. Now then we really must be going and we need to take Essie with us. Say goodbye, Esmeralda� Esmeralda ran over to Phoebus and gave him a giant hug. �I hope we can be fwreinds forever Mars!� �Me too Essie!� They hugged one more time and then the General showed them to the door. Once outside, the taller woman pulled the middle aside. �You are making a big mistake Athena! This is going to become a huge disaster!� �Don�t worry so much Michelle. I know what I am doing. I had watched little Phoebus the whole time and I can tell he really needs Esmeralda. Besides I forsee a positive future in store for the both of them.� Michelle gave her a dirty and walked ahead of Athena. �What�s worong with Shell?� Esmeralda asked. �Oh she�s grumpy. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Come on lets go get some breakfast� �Otay!� Copyright Sailor Esmeralda Go to Chapter 4 Back to Fanfic Back to Index |