Short Story: My Precious Dream [England]

 One day at Chamberlain Manor, Andriana and his butler, Altair Alvarion, are sitting on the mattress swing in the back yard of the Manor while feel the air. They are reading a story book. The book is about a young Princess who always had a nightmare about her past every night, but one day when she gets a new kinder butler than before, for the first time she has a happy dream. Exactly, they have read that book two times, now the three times. Andriana is the only heir of Chamberlain family. She hasn’t a brother or sister, but she had an older brother five years ago, but he died in a plane accident. Her parents always go traveling around the world and leave her alone with her butler. And about the story, it happened to her. She always had a nightmare and hasn’t got a happy dream. She only tells about this to her butler. No one knows about this except him.

“Altair, in the story, the princess has a happy dream in the end, right?” She asked.

“Yes, young lady Andriana,” He answered while smiling.

“Honestly, Altair… I have said it before! Call me Ana! Not Andriana, not young lady, just Ana,” Andriana said while her face become sullen.

“E-Eh… I can’t do that… young lady…,” Altair said while tried to calm her down.

“Then, I won’t talk to you for a week,” Andriana said while lying back of him.

“A-Ah… Please don’t do that, young- I mean… Ana,” Altair said.

“It’s just right, calls me Ana, okay?” Andriana said while laughing.

“Okay,” He answered while smiling.

The book is so thick, like a novel. They just read the book until the middle of it. It’s about four p. m. Altair asked to his young lady that does she want a glass of cold water or tea.

“Young- I mean… Ana, do you want a glass of cold water or cold tea?” He asked.

“Hm… I’ll take it! Nope! You stay here, I’ll get it, okay?” Andriana said while stopped Altair when he wants to stand up from the mattress swing.

“But…,” He said but it stopped because Andriana cuts him.

“I said you stay here, I’ll get it, don’t worry, just stay here okay, I won’t be long,” She said while running into the Manor.

Altair just sighs to see his young lady. Then he lays staring at the sky. It’s still blue, he thinks. He has work in Chamberlain family for about fourteen years. He got Andriana’s parents confidence to protect their child. He thinks about the past, remembers it, but remembers it make him sleepy. He can’t hold his drowsiness anymore and he decides to sleep.

In the kitchen, when Andriana wants to go back to the back yard, the telephone is ringing. She puts two glasses of cold water and pick up the telephone.

“Hello, with Andriana Chamberlain here, who is this?” She said.

“Hello Ana, here’s your mother, how are you, sweetheart?” Her Mother said on the telephone.

“I’m fine, Mom, from where are you two for two weeks?” She asked.

 “We just have from Holland, what do you want, sweetheart?” Her mother said.

“Honestly, Mom, the distance between England to Holland isn’t far, you can go there by our helicopter, Um… I want two chocolate, the black one and the white one,” She said.

“We want to feel the ordinary road, sweetheart, you want two? You eat them alone?” Her mother said while surprised.

“Of course I don’t eat them alone, Mom… The white one is for Altair,” She said while holds her head.

“Oh, I see, anyway, where is he? He doesn’t with you?” Her mother asked.

“He’s in the back yard, I go to the kitchen to take the drinks, anyway, when you to go back here?” She said and asked back.

“Oh, I see, you such a good girl, Ana, we are on the way  to home, we just arrived on the airport, we meet in home, we love you, sweetheart,” Her mother said while close the conversation.

Ana puts the phone back to its place, then takes the glasses and goes back to the back yard. When she gets there, she sees that Altair is sleeping. She’s smiling while puts the glasses on the table beside Altair, Maybe he’s to tired, she thinks. Then she sits beside him and tells him something, even maybe he doesn’t hear that.

“… I saw a dream of you, yesterday. I was about nineteen and you were few years older, about twenty five. You stand beside me in the ceremony of handover the throne to me…,”

“That was all… I’ve been always, always, seeing dreams about the past, the time when Albert, my brother died. It was the first time I saw a dream about the future and a happy dream. Thank you for substituted my brother all this time… Have a nice dream, Altair…,” She said and falls asleep beside him while smiling.

Altair accidentally hears about Ana’s story and he suddenly cries. You very know how to make me cry, my young Lady, He said to himself. Then he corrects his seat position and clears his tears. He kissed Andriana’s forehead while says something.

“…Have a nice dream to, my young Lady,” He said while fall asleep again.

The flowers in that yard fly blown by the wind beautifully. The flowers look like glow attached by the lamp’s lights. Then, there’s someone who open the back door. They’re Andirana’s parents. When Andriana’s mother wants to shout to her little daughter, her husband stops her.

“Don’t disturb them, Margaret, they’re sleeping now” Her husband said.

Then, Andriana’s mother takes a large blanket and covers up them gently. Andriana’s mother is smiling when looks at them.

“Honey, it seems Ana has found the substituted of her brother,” She said.

“You’re right, they look like siblings,” Her husband said.

“Let’s make chocolate milk for them” She said while goes in to the house with her husband.

In the end of the story book is the Princess marriages with the next country’s prince, which is her butler’s brother. The Princess never gets a nightmare again and the story becomes real to Andriana, who never gets a nightmare again about her past and she gets the substituted of her older brother.

  

The End

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