GWB19E

64. Chapter 19. New house and first surprises of Amethyst.

Leval returned from his swimming championship, he had  won in all the races, in sports of course he was a real phenomenon. He was even offered to participate in professional tests but he did not want to focus on just one modality. As always, he responded to those persistent recruiters who only practiced sports to keep fit and because he liked them. And after the swim the karate was waiting for him where he was also the best. The most important teams were raffled him and even the universities were interested in him. But, for Leval, who never got tired of repeating it again and again, the main thing was the studies. He knew that he should strive hard to reach the goal he had set and that his academic level was magnificent. His parents, on his return from the tour, told him that lifelong friends would go to live there and that they had a daughter about his sister's age. Leval just shrugged his shoulders and said he thought it was fine. On the way back from her camp, Kerria was also informed and it seemed great to her to have a friend of her age nearby and more when she learned that she was the daughter of the famous model and designer Emerald Deveraux.

-Wow! she will be a celebrity. And I may even get some models of hers at a reasonable price. - She smiled, commenting with her brother when they returned from classes.-

- Models? You? - The boy laughed.- Come on!

-Well, if I play my card smartly. I like dresses, I am a girl.- It was claimed by her.-

-Ha, ha! ... Well, your taste is not too successful in a matter of fashion.- Her interlocutor mocked.- Let's see if that designer's daughter advises you.

Kerria  show him her tongue, yes, with humor.

-Look who is talking. You only wear the swimsuit or the kimono. - She replied in turn.-

Leval shrugged his shoulders and when his sister did not expect it he grabbed her by the braid pulling like a bell, she immediately tried to catch him.

-Now you'll see! - She exclaimed while chasing him towards the garden of the house.-

The aforementioned laughed running at a good speed. It was impossible for Kerria to reach him. At last they came home. After catching his breath, the boy opened the door. His sister tried to jump on him while insuring.

-You're going to find out about pulling my braid, fool.

-Ha, ha ... you're a dwarf, Ky! ... - Laughed the young man riding her without the slightest problem - You know you cannot beat me ...

-But papa can and he will scold you for this! – She threatened him funny as she settled comfortably on the back of her interlocutor passing both arms around his neck to avoid falling. - You'll see, he will give you a good scold!

-Shut up, do not even think about it.- He said pretending, (or maybe not so much) something of fear.- Dad is very busy planning the new season.

-It's true.- Kerria commented while her brother went into their house.- Let's see if this year we get to the play offs.

-In your dreams! This last year we were the last of the division.- The boy answered.- Dad was really angry. We finished the regular season with only seventeen wins. The worst record in history! Well, at least we'll be among the first to choose in the draft.

-He cannot play anymore.- Said the resigned girl.- If he had been on the court that would not have happened.

They were in that conversation when Bertie saw them enter the room. She smiled shaking her head and immediately caught the attention of both.

-Leval, your sister is old enough for you to enter her a horse at home. Please leave her on the ground.

-Yes, mom, I'm sorry.- The boy could say.-

The young woman got out immediately and said good afternoon. Her mother then commented to them.

-As you already know, dear friends of ours will come to live near us. I hope you will behave properly.

-Of course mom.- They both replied in chorus.-

Bertie smiled, deep down she knew how good her children were. However, she must be strict at times to guide them on the right path. That's how she thought when Kerria wanted to know.

-And when will they arrive?

-Possibly at the end of September. I'm not very sure. "Her mother replied, and then added," Now go and wash yourself a little and change.

The two nodded, going respectively to their rooms. Beruche herself thought that her friends would not be long in coming to the United States. But these took a few weeks to prepare the paperwork and things for the transfer. They went on vacation with the girl to the Island of their friend Ian Masters. He had a daughter somewhat older, than Amethyst loved as a sister. In fact Ian was the godfather of the only child of Diamond and Emerald. They in turn were of Satory, the heiress of the millionaire. Both girls knew each other from being so little and once again they had a great time together. Satory even encouraged her friend to finish overcoming her disappointment. Amethyst, pure energy and vitality, in turn contagious optimism to the other girl who was very shy and reserved with other people. So, as usual, the two made many plans and enjoyed the time together. The afternoon before the Lassart left, to her friend's questions about what she thought of her change of residence, the magnate's daughter commented to her as she put on her round glasses and pulled her hair.

-I don’t know! I cannot tell you. I'm not in your case, but if I was I would like it. I think living in New York would be great.

- Why do not you come with us for a while? We could consult your father.- Her friend suggested.

-Good. -Her interlocutor said in low voice .- The truth is that I like to be here. On my father's island, I have everything I need.

-But Satory.- Amethyst objected observing her now with some concern.- People hardly live here. Are there girls your own age? Or guys, that's the important part.

Her friend smiled slightly. She replied after a few moments of reflection.

-I'm not too good at interacting with people. You already know that my father has always been very concerned about me. He does not want any soulless to try to take advantage. At least that what he says.

-But not everyone is going to go after you for the money.- Her friend objected.- And I do not think so much security is necessary either. You have more bodyguards than the president of the United States!

-Yes, you know that my father has always protected me a lot. Especially since my mother died. -The young woman was able to respond with regret.-

-Excuse me, I did not want to make you sad.- Her hurried friend apologized.- I am so sorry.

-Never mind. - Her interlocutor smiled faintly. - I've been used to this since I was born. Do you remember when we were small and we did shopping in Paris? An army of bodyguards was following us then.

-It's true.- Amethyst agreed trying to encourage her.- We had a great time anyway. And that's why I insist. A trip with me to the United States would be good for you. And we could even flirt with a lot of handsome boys!

Her friend reddened. Of course, Satory was too shy. That would largely obey to the isolation in which she had grown up. Her father barely allowed anyone to visit her that was not her absolute trust. It was true that, since her mother died, Masters did not want to leave her side. Maybe because she was the only thing left of his wife's memory. Emerald herself had declared on occasion that Satory looked more and more like the deceased Jenny. Added to this was the misfortune that the girl's grandparents, both paternal and maternal, died at a relatively early age. The Lassart had been the closest thing to a family for her. She also got on well with Keiko Tomoe, the youngest daughter of the doctor and Kaori. Although it was not the same. With Amethyst, she was the one with the most honest and the only one perhaps who dared to tell her true feelings. And although Satory was the oldest, the roles between them were often reversed and it was almost always the daughter of Diamond and Emerald who assumed that roll. The only child of the tycoon had traveled a lot, but always surrounded by escorts and her father's security team that only allowed her to go less guarded precisely when she once visited Lassart in France. And even then, it had been as Amethyst referred, with such a security measures that would envy even the US president himself. Satory thought about that, until at last she said in a sad tone.

-You are my best friend. I will miss you so much. But I do not want to leave my father alone. He is always with his business and his secret documents. If I left her side, he would not do anything other than that. At least he has time for us to spend together and he likes to talk to me, and I also love to spend whole afternoons with him. Seeing the sea or talking about mom ...

Amethyst listened to her in silence and reflected a little sympathetic to her interlocutor. Her soul mate really seemed to feel miserable. And there was nothing in the world that she could not buy. Well yes, maybe that mother who lost. Although she did not know that the godfather Ian had had any adventures with women or much less plans to remarry after the death of his wife.

-I'll miss you too much. - The French girl admitted, laying her hands on her friend's, to smile immediately and add in a more jovial way. - But as soon as we have a vacation, we'll see each other. And you can visit us sometime. Or I´ll come to see you.

-Of course! - Agreed Satory nodding with more enthusiasm now to rivet. - I wish you a very good trip and that you are very happy in the new house.

So the two friends said goodbye. Finally at the end of the vacation the Lassart family traveled to the United States to settle. It was something hurried. As soon as they arrived, the course began, they sent their daughter to the institute and they stayed in a hotel until their house was ready. They did not want to compromise their friends, and in fact they wanted to surprise them, so they were not warned them. At the beginning of the Amethyst institute, the classes began in a different classroom than Kerria's, who could not help noticing that a new student had arrived. Both she and her friend Debbie commented on it. The truth is that the newcomer had not really tuned her English, she had talked  it since she was a child and she even gave some of her classes in it, but she tended to forget about practicing the language. Even with Masters and his daughter, she spoke almost always in French when she visited them, since they were delighted to be able to practice. So, although she understood almost everything and could communicate with relative ease, she sometimes got stuck with words and when she became angry or nervous, she tended to use her mother language, which produced not few hurried situations. One of them happened two days short of starting at her new institute. As expected, the girl had already signed up to various sports and after practicing karate she entered the dressing room and prepared to shower before returning home. What she did not count on the young woman was with her arrival time. She had been too punctual in using the showers and these still had no active the water boiler. Ignorant of it and without thinking twice, she turned on the tap and ...

-Sacre Bleu !, Qu'est -ce that l, eau est très Froid!

She rushed out of the shower, knocking the bulkhead out of the way, her heart beating a hundred times an hour. Hardly recovered from the extreme exercise she received a shower of icicles. The girl was agitated and somewhat disoriented. She had to hold on to the wall until she recovered and then a voice, (obviously feminine) between astonished and worried, asked.

-Are you okay?

Kerria was stunned, she had entered the bathroom for a moment and was about to leave when she heard that cry in French and the rumble of the screen. She observed astonished that girl, tall, blonde, really big breasts, tight athlete's waist in which the abdominals were marked superficially and very long and well-formed legs now trembling, like the rest of her statuesque figure, who had goosebumps. That stranger was panting with her hair crushed by moisture and returning the look with those deep violet eyes almost coming out of the orbits. It must have been that French student who had just arrived. Kerria did not know her name, but in view of that picture, all other considerations were left aside and she repeated visibly disturbed.

-Can I help you?

-Pourrais - your m'aider? S'il vous plait.- The stranger replied in turn. -

Kerria's gesture went from worry to bewilderment, when she replied in a surprised tone.

-What?

-Help me, yes. Excuse moi. Je ne parle pas très bien l'anglais. - Amethyst could answer still quite stunned. -

Kerria helped her sit on one of the benches, she had understood some of those words, although by the accent and the rapidity in being pronounced it was difficult for her to assimilate their meaning. And on top of it being French, a subject that she especially detested. But what a remedy! If that gabacha (qualifier of Hispanic origin relative to the French, who had ever heard his father), did not know how to express herself well in English.

-Je ...- So she began to say, trying to remember the verb to form the sentence and fortunately she got it. - m'appelle .... Kerria ... et vous.-

She finally declared, after having taken the palm of one hand to her own breasts of good bearing but, of course, smaller than those of that gifted European.

-Améthyste Lassart. Je suis très heureuse faire ta connaissance. - Declared that foreigner with a slight smile. –

Kerria bewilder face speech for her. Maybe this girl would have nothing to do with her parent´s friends. Her last name wasn´t the same as the famous designer. Amethyst in turn realized that the American could barely understand her and luckily she was more serene, recovered from the shock by the impression of water. So she was able to add in her partner's language.

-Thanks for helping me, the water was freezing, that is all. If my name is difficult for you, pronounce it Amethyst. - She proposed to then try to say well yours. -And you said you're Kegia?

-Kerria.- She repeated trying to make her intone well the pronunciation, it is not that it was a very strong, but neither was that sound of chewing eggs made by the French. -

-Kerria, trés bien. Merci Beaucoup. There is no hot water? - She asked then directing her gaze towards the shower. -

- Yes, but it is still early, the heater would have not started to work yet. – The girl smiled quickly. -

And in order to prove it, she got up by turning on the hot water tap and waited until a few minutes passed, then the temperature started to rise and she told her companion as soon as she saw little clouds of vapor escape.

-You can get in.

Amethyst got rid of her towel without shame, she was more than accustomed to doing it in the changing rooms of the Lyceum, along with the other girls. However, she noticed that girl's face when she did and was entering the shower. It reminded her of Michelle´s. No! It would be the last straw to become paranoid now. It was normal for that poor girl to watch her like that after the show she had set up. Also, not everyone was going to be like ...

-If you would excuse me, I'm late for my class, see you later.- Kerria said goodbye with a smile of circumstances. -

- A tout á l'heure. Mercie beaucoup. See you later and thanks. – She translated from the French closing immediately behind the screen. -

Almost without enduring laughter Kerria left. Amethyst sighed relieved and continued to shower, quietly at last ...

Although these types of mishaps were not going to be the only ones, with their extroverted vocation and leader, Amethyst did not take long to become quite friends and some other enemy as well. Especially one, a girl called Molly Simps. She was a corpulent and very bellicose girl who also had a lot of personality and was the boss of the place until she arrived. In addition, almost all the boys, from the first year to the last, wanted to go out with Amethyst as soon as they knew her. But she showed no special interest in them. What's more, to get rid of many prowlers, she pretended not to dominate the English language and did not understand their attempts for having a date, but when she spoke in French she could almost swear that the morbid interest in those idiots was growing as big as his ... Better not think about it !. In this way she spent a couple of weeks and curiously she did not run into too much Kerria and did not know her brother. Even though Leval was the most requested guy in the school and that Amethyst liked boys like almost nothing else. But at the moment she still remembered her bad experience with François and wanted to focus on her studies and her adaptation to the new environment. She wanted to make a good impression and not disappoint her parents. She would have time to devote herself to looking for boyfriends later and candidates would not lack for her. Although that was no reason to omit all kinds of comments about any handsome boy she saw. Of that  She spoke with the others, with a better English of the habitual one. (Logical to understand that what she had first learned were the most vulgar expressions). And one day Amethyst was again in the girls' changing rooms. On this occasion with a group of friends who did almost nothing else to start. These, like the girl herself, were swimming. After training the women's team had left its position to the boys who trained at that time. Between them and while they changed and showered they talked about the boys who were part of the men's team. One girl, Lana, with whom Amethyst had made good friends at once, commented.

- Well, the men's team is not bad. The truth is that everyone is very good. And they are hot.

- Especially that Leval guy in the last year. - Karen pointed, another of her new friends.- I would give anything to see him now in the locker room!

- Yes, it must be very interesting. – Lana declared. – Ha, ha, but we've already seen him in a swimsuit, and he's ...

- Yes, but I mean to see him whole ...-

There were murmurs and smiles of all for this comment of Karen, until Amethyst intervened leaving them stunned.

- Why not? ... I have a punch here and the wall is very thin, now that the guys are not there we could make a hole. -

And to endorse her words, she exhibited the tool in front of the girls.

-Are you crazy? - Exclaimed Tina, a teammate more demure than the others, warning her with fear. - If they catch us, we will be severely lectured.

- Nobody needs to know. – Her interlocutor replied in a mischievous way with that French accent of hers that made her really persuasive. - Because nobody here is going to say anything, right?

They all nodded assuring their silence. They were amazed and quite afraid, but even more anxious to satisfy their curiosity and were encouraged as soon as their companion began to drill, after a few minutes the hole was made.

-We only have to wait for them to arrive. - Amethyst declared that she wanted to reassure the most fearful of all. - Do not worry, we did this in my boarding school and they never discovered us. And in the worst case they will probably think that it was the boys' thing, not the other way around.

- Machismo had to do something good at last! - Lana joked tearing the general laugh although it was tinged with nervous anticipation. -

And after showering and changing the girls waited until one of them, posted on the outside door, saw their companions arrive and reported it to the others. The boys started to enter. Lana, who was the first to look, began to snort while waving one of her hands.

-Oh my goodness! How tight they are! How can they swim with that little swimsuit?

-Look, see! - Karen asked her pushing her aside - let me look. Wow, how hot they are! As I caught some of them taking off their swimsuit, - Then she suddenly stifled an exclamation when she said. - There's Leval and he's going to take it off!

 -Apart! - Amethyst intervened, taking her out of the way with a big shove that sent her companion two meters back. - I won´t miss that!

It took her a while until she saw him, she did not know him even by sight, but she supposed it would be that boy with light brown hair and blue eyes who was in front of her. Certainly he was quite handsome and with an air that was familiar to her. Besides, his name rings some bells to her, something, logical, he was one of the most popular guys. Probably she had heard it so many times in high school that she had remember him. Luckily he had his locker there, right in front of the hole and from it he took out a towel and shampoo.

- How good! - The girl thought licking - I'll be able to see him very closely.

Oblivious to all this espionage, the young man emptied his swimsuit without ceremony, but was covered by the towel. Amethyst stifled an exclamation, as her friend had done. The boy had remained only in the locker room, since he was the last to enter. She could see his athletic body, it was compact and muscled in almost perfect proportions. His abs looked like a washboard, his legs had two impressive twins, two strong femoral and no less powerful quadriceps and his arms marked biceps and triceps really big and defined. Topped all by pectorals and large and marked ridges, strong neck and two prominent deltoids. All of course not as developed as a bodybuilder, but it was clear that he had an impressive physique. Trying to sharpen the eye, Amethyst literally stuck to the wall. The other girls tried to look in turn, but she did not let them get close.

-What is c'est? I've never seen anything like it! .Je crois that je suis tombée amoureuse. - She declared in jest with voice too loud, to immediately lower the tone. -

-What did she say? – Karen wanted to know. -

- She thinks she has fallen in love. - Translated Tina, who dominated better the native language of Amethyst than her other companions. -

-Look at the franchise !, and me too! What a girl is not in love with Leval! - Rhonda seconded, another member of the team, with scorn. -

-I have to tie him up as he is, this guy I´ll eat him ... - Amethyst jokingly commented that, led by the joke, broke unintentionally a rack that was held to observe. -

Leval thought he heard a noise, he thought he heard someone speaking and then a sound of something falling, he did not give it more importance, it would be the girls in the locker room next door. He hung the towel near the shower and went into. Then Amethyst could see his thing in all its dimension. She did not think that the boys could have something so big and she remembered that besides, it should not be at its maximum size, what would it be like then! She gasped with excitement and then felt the contact of the cold water, her friends splashed her without respite making her move away from there.

- Hey, what's that vous faite?

- Anyone would think that you are burning! - Lana said amused. -

-Yeah, and I think you need a cold shower. - Karen affirmed.

- It is true. - Tina agreed adding jocular. - A peu de l'eau froide pour la chaude Améthyste!

-But what are you plotting? - She inquired observing her friends in distrustfulness -

Of course, with her friend's unreliable pronunciation, she had barely heard what she had said in her own language, but she soon discovered it. Before she could react her companions had held her and they put her under the shower between laughter, so if she showed off her best English to exclaim.

- Leave me! You bitches!

And after the sports day and having to change clothes, Amethyst, even thinking about that boy, came back home. Her new home was still partly unknown to her, so she would have to get used to it. Emerald, who had recently arrived from her job at the Deveraux House in New York, met her almost at the same door and they went in together.

- Cherie, how about your day? - She asked jovially and always using English to get used to it. -

-Eh? - The girl replied with her head somewhere else, but quickly absorbed the question by commenting. - Ah! Very good, mom.

- Great, I hope you are not too tired, we have to visit our friends, - Emerald informed her. - I'm sure their children are already at home. Your father will come right away and pick us up.

- Alright. - Agreed Amethyst without putting a single "but", because she was really curious. - I also want to meet them, I have not seen them in high school.

- You already know them, although I suppose that after so many years it will be as if today you saw each other for the first time. Very good. - Her mother smiled pleased. - I hope you become good friends.

In that moment Diamond arrived, he opened the door greeting his wife and daughter, to which Emerald replied.

- Honey, we can go now.

- Let's go then, I've talked to Bertie on the phone and they're waiting for us.- He told his wife. -

So they left in the direction of their friends' house. They still remembered the address by heart, it was only five minutes away by car. They arrived at the doors of the white and rectangular house with a gabled roof. The environment was very beautiful, with well-kept garden areas and the same house had a large plot of green, like that of the Amethyst family. The two had fond memories of the festivities that were thrown there after their victories against the forces of evil. They had done so much already! They chose to park those memories for later. Without missing a moment they knocked on the door and Beruche opened them.

- How glad I am to see you! - She exclaimed with a radiant face. -

After effusive kisses and hugs between the three before the surprised look of the girl. Emerald immediately presented her to her friend.

- This is my daughter, Amethyst. You will not remember her. Last time you saw her, she was that little. - She pointed with one hand at waist height. -

- Yes I remember her – Bertie smiled observing the girl with approval. - A lovely little girl with blond curly hair. It Is incredible how you have grown and how beautiful you have become, you are a beautiful woman! How are you, darling?

- Very well, thank you, ma'am, and you? - The young girl answered very politely. -

-Ji, ji! Do not treat me with such politeness, you're going to make me feel like an old woman! - Bertie laughed, then she looked at Diamond and Emerald, who smiled too, adding in a low voice and full of nostalgia. -Time waits for nobody, right?

Her interlocutors agreed on this by nodding. It was true, they almost thought that they had just defeated some enemy and they were going to all meet to celebrate it. But it had been quite a few years since they last had to fight.

-We were very eager to see you. - Emerald affirmed, remembering in turn. - I wish we could meet as before.

- Yes, Bertie agreed. – It has been a long time for us without seeing others too. - She added addressing the girl who was watching her with curiosity, as if she had seen her somewhere before -Come on, sweetheart, you are in your house.

- Thank Mrs. - The girl could reply with a hesitant tone. -

Bertie moved her head amused to insist jovially.

- Do not call me ma'am!

For his part Diamond commented, almost as if he wanted to justify Amethyst who had barely linked two words.

- My daughter speaks English correctly, but some phrases and idioms still are difficult to her. She stays a little stuck, especially when she is somewhat nervous, you will have to excuse her.

- Excuse moi - Amethyst added hurriedly thinking that perhaps, she had offended Mrs. Malden in some way. -

- What nonsense !, poor girl, you speak our language very well and do not worry, it has not bothered me. Also, you've said it very well, it's the right treatment for someone older than you. It was just a joke. Do not be nervous, consider yourself at home. Pas de manières, you are chez toi. – Beruche hurried to answer in both languages because she also knew some French and added funny to the relieved smile of the girl and the grateful of her parents. - But, come in!

The truth is that, with some curiosity, Emerald told her friend.

-You said our language referring to English.

-Yes.- The interpellated sighed, taking apart her interlocutor and commenting in low voice.- Our language of Nemesis has almost been forgotten, although it was very similar. Maybe because I think that many of our ancestors came from here. And as for the Japanese. As Roy never learned it, I left it aside, only when Ami visits me did I practice something. Or maybe when talking to Petz. With Cooan I use English. A custom that we acquired since we arrived here to study ...

-I understand you very well.- Her interlocutor replied.- Since we settled in Paris I learned French and it is the language that we have always used at home. Our daughter learned English at her boarding school and practiced it a lot with our goddaughter Satory, the daughter of Ian Masters. Although lately they prefer to speak French with her. But we never taught her Japanese.

-Oh! - Bertie lamented.- Maybe I did wrong. Although Leval did catch something when Ami came, at first we tried to teach some Japanese to our kids. Then we leave it. My sister Cooan did teach her children, and they also traveled a lot to Tokyo to see Rei and Petz.

- On the other hand, with the brother of my husband and with your sister, we always spoke in English. - Emerald said.- ...

For his part Diamond and his daughter briefly waited for the hostess and Emerald.

-Cette Maison est très grande.- She could say looking around.-

-Remember chérie that here we have to speak in English.- Her father indicated.-

-Oui, excusez ... sorry dad. Yes ... I forgot it. - The girl rectified.-

She did not have time to say much more, the mother of the girl returned along with Bertie who led them through the spacious hall and made them go to the living room. It was a fairly large and spacious room, with a large oak table with photographs that presided over the center. There was something more in the bottom, two armchairs that were next to a greenish-colored sofa, located east at the bottom of one of the white walls, flat screen TV on the opposite wall and a long glass table flanked by some chairs of colored upholstery pale blue. All illuminated by the rays of the red sunset sun that penetrated through large windows, bordered by cream and gold curtains. Altogether a pleasant and functional place not exempt of beauty. That was the impression of the Lassart family. Amethyst, too busy showing good manners, ignored the photos and sat immediately at Beruche's request. She did it as instructed by her mother, with her legs together so that the skirt she was wearing properly covered her. Her parents seconded her moments later, one on each side of her. The hostess took a somewhat separate place and told them.

- Get comfortable please, make yourself at home. My daughter is up, right now I call her and I bring you something. What do you want to have?

- Nothing thanks. - Diamond replied. -

- Are you sure you do not want to drink anything? - Bertie insisted. –

- Maybe later. - Emerald thanked, adding with visible impatience. - First, call your daughter. Please, I'm looking forward to seeing her again after so many years.

Her hostess nodded complacently and went up to call the girl. Kerria came down immediately. She wore two braids falling on one on each shoulder and a white turtleneck, blue jeans and sneakers.

- This is Kerria Lorein, my daughter, the youngest of the family. – Beruche introduced her in order to honor the formality. -

The newcomer was stunned, the same as Amethyst as soon as they met. Both smiled knowingly, however, they said nothing of their meeting and greeted each other politely.

- Wow, it's the new girl, - Kerria thought amused. – Who could have said it! Good thing I did not tell Debbie anything. When she finds out, she'll die to meet her. I do not know if I should introduce her. - She smiled to herself. -

Beruche intervened then, taking her daughter out of her thoughts to offer the girls a light-hearted approach.

-Why do not you go up? You'll talk about your school stuff. Also, if I'm not mistaken, you're going to the same course, I think.

-Yes, it's true mom. Although not in the same class.- Kerria replied. -

-Well, go then! - Beruche encouraged her. - Take some drinks, something to eat and show Amethyst the house.

-With pleasure. - Her daughter accepted willing to do it and adding with a lot of kindness. - Nice to meet you. Mr. and Mrs. Lassart– she greeted Diamond and Emerald and told the girl. - Come on, Amethyst. -

She looked in consultation at her parents who gave her permission with a slight nod, so the French girl went and followed Kerria upstairs.

- Your daughter looks a lot like you. - Diamond commented - and  she has Roy's eyes.

- It's a doll. - Affirmed his wife with almost professional approval. - Lovely.

- Thank you, your daughter is also so beautiful. - Bertie corresponded that she immediately noticed. - Hey Emerald, considering how tall she's sure she'll want to be a model like you.

-Oh, do not believe it! - She replied with a disenchanted gesture. – Look, I told her so many times, but she does not like that kind of life.

- Surely your husband would make a better career of her in basketball! - Diamond laughed. -

Beruche was surprised  and shrugging. Although from experience she knew that children did not have to follow the hobbies of their parents. she know it by experience! Judging by the number of times she wanted to promote chess without success. Especially with Kerria.

- And it seems that both have get on very well. - Emerald smiled to settle this issue. -

- It's true, if they even gave the impression that they already knew each other. - Bertie sharply guessed. -

Her friends nodded amused and the three of them changed gears , chatting about the old days.

- What news do you have of Nephrite and Amanda? – Beruche wanted to know. –

- We cannot tell you much. We hardly know about them. He continues with his antique business and his wife is a journalist but she really works in the British secret service. That, if I remember correctly. - Diamond replied -

- And your brother and my sister? We have not seen them for a long time. – His interlocutor asked now -

-All right. Their sons Coraíon and Granate have grown. - The Prince of Nemesis replied with a smile. -

- What do you know about Tommy and Cooan? - Emerald inquired. -

-Well, life it's going very well for them. Their children Alan, Lance and Idina are great, although ... - Bertie sighed now with a more sad tone -

- Something is not going well? – Diamond was interested. -

- Tom's mother is sick, the poor woman forgets things and sometimes does not recognize them. Both he and Cooan, like Daniel and Mimet, suffer a lot when they see her like that. But there is nothing that can be done. Although my sister told me that whenever the children are with their grandmother that makes her improve a lot.

-I am sorry. – Diamond declared, wanting to change the subject and cheer the conversation up, by asking more jovially. - What about Roy and your son?

-They will arrive at once. My husband will be finishing training his players and my son, well, he does not stop practicing almost everything. – Bertie smiled more relaxed. -

-But he does not train ..., you know.- Emerald intervened with confidential tint. -

-No, not like your husband, mine and others did. - Bertie assured them. -

Their friends nodded, more clarifications remained. Meanwhile, on the floor above, both girls were talking. Kerria showed her the top floor, letting her guest into a small living room with just a two-seater sofa and a wooden table facing a twenty-inch TV with hard drive and blue-ray DVD, as she asked her funny .

- How was your shower?

- All right, sorry if I spoke in French, but I was very stunned and when I get nervous I turn to my native language.

- Don´t worry. The bad thing is that I'm not good at languages! - Kerria laughed adding with jovial gesture. – However, my mother does understand it and she speaks it well.

Amethyst nodded, she had checked before, the mother of her new friend had a pretty good pronunciation, and she barely noticed the accent. She was in those disquisitions when her interlocutor added.

- And my brother could also talk to you in French and I even think that even in Japanese. That guy does well everything! - She sighed with a certain ironic touch that escaped to her interlocutor. -

- I am very glad that you are the daughter of my parents' friends. - Amethyst commented. -

- And I am glad too that you are the French girl who was going to come here to live near us! - Kerria laughed making her new friend to do the same. - I could not imagine when I saw you again and again at recess and much less when we met in the locker room. – She admitted with visible rejoicing. -

- Well, I had never seen you before that. - Amethyst replied surprised that this girl already had her so observed. -

- Oh, the thing is that a new girl like you, does not go unnoticed. – Kerria was justified explaining something rushed. - You call a lot of attention.

-What does that mean? – Amethyst asked cautiously without knowing how to take it or how to interpret that phrase -

-You are amazing! - Kerria praised her quite sincerely now. - All the boys comment and many girls also, the most die of envy. I also heard that you do not get along too well with Molly, the second C.

- The big morse! She is a stupid! - Amethyst spit with contempt. - She has believed that everyone has to do what she says, I pity her If she thinks that I am going to bend the knee for her!

-That's the way I like it! – Kerria exclaimed enthusiastically and she also realizing that this girl spoke better English than she seemed. For that she added with admiration. - You are a determined and very pretty girl, what a luck! and also smart. You are not so bad at expressing yourself in our language, far from it!

So she righted herself later, not wanting to give that girl another impression for her enlightened compliment.

- You are also, trés Jolie, very pretty. - Amethyst said in return to the compliment to assert. - I'm sure that with the boys you will be very successful.

- Well, I still have not found any that interest me here. - Her interlocutor replied somewhat uncomfortable about the issue, but without wanting to make it notice. -

- I understand. - Amethyst smiled - I have not met anyone that interests me either. What's more, lately the boys do not call me too much attention.

Kerria was amazed, as she made her get up to show her a little about what was left of the house, she thought. Could it be that Amethyst was in her same situation? If that were so ... of course she would make it clear to her, but it was still too early to know. Besides, she had just met her and was the daughter of her parents' friends. Although the Frenchwoman immediately added something that took that idea away from her head.

- Wait, how can I be so silly! I saw a boy today!

-Oh really? -her interlocutor inquired while showing her now the room of her parents and then she opened the door of another room indicating. - This is my brother's room.

Amethyst looked carefully inside, though not wanting to invade the intimacy of her hostess's brother. At first glance it was a very neat room with a tidy bed, many books, a mobile chair, a computer with its corresponding CD-ROM files, hard drives and a large number of medals and cups, with all kinds of trophies and diplomas.

- Wow! - She commented with pleasure. - Your brother likes sports as much as I do, and he must be very good.

- Yes, he definitely is, I have already told you that he is the eighth wonder of the world in almost everything. - Her hostess affirmed without giving much importance, even sounding almost parody. - Come on, let's go to my room.

So the two entered the girl's room, Amethyst was pleased to see the amount of stuffed animals Kerria had. She also liked them, there was a very feminine touch in the decoration and everything was also neat. Kerria invited her to sit on the bed.

- Is not that a Haruka Tenou poster? The motorcycles champion? - The guest inquired, fixing her eyes on the wall in front of the head of the bed. -

- Yes, I admire her a lot. - Admitted Kerria who revealed her. - And she's a friend of my parents, when I was little I think she was here at least once.

- Really? - Amethyst exclaimed without being able to avoid it. - It's great! You're right, I love her sports performances too, lucky you to have seen her in person! - Confessed praising without reservations, strange thing about her. - She is a woman so sure of herself and so strong, I would like to be like that too. How do you say here? – She meditated a few moments and illuminated her face as he remembered.- She is like the wind!

- Yes, - Kerria agreed with a big smile - it's true. The truth is that I remember little of her but I thought she was very nice. She came with a friend of hers and they both told very interesting stories. And the truth is that even today is not bad. - She added almost with complicity, although she hastened to nuance it immediately. - I mean, she does not look like a girl like other elite athletes. And she is very well preserved. I do not know how old she will be.

- Yes, - Amethyst replied now with gossip. - But you will not believe it, I heard she likes women! I cannot believe it! It is rumored that she lives with Michiru Kaioh, the violinist. Not what I understand She has everything to  attract any man. She's beautiful, famous, independent, anyway. -She sighed to sentence almost with resignation. – You cannot have everything in life

Kerria froze at that comment. It sounded pretty homophobic, but she knew how to disguise her shock.

- And that seems wrong to you? - She asked to her new friend who shrugged her shoulders with studied indifference. -

- I do not care, I admire her for her talent in sports. What she does in her private life does not matter to me.- Amethyst replied with certain coldness.-

Now the young woman did not want to seem inconsiderate although of course it was something she did not admit and that raised in her numerous wounds that she wanted to heal.

- Yes, of course, you're right. - Kerria murmured with an insecure voice, however, she immediately changed the subject to the relief of both. - In a way I envy her. Sometimes I would like to be as free and sure of myself as she is. She does not care what others think or say.

- I understand, the same thing happens to me, my mother is determined to make out of me a model like her. Many times that overwhelms me. In Paris she always told me that I should be very careful with what I said or did, that high society gossiped a lot. As if that mattered to me!

- It's the same with me! - Kerria laughed agreeing with sympathy. -We have many things in common.

- Your mother wants you to be a model? - Amethyst asked surprised. -

Although thinking that her new friend had plenty of beauty and body for it, really that girl was a little shorter than her, but almost all the girls were. The Malden's daughter must have been around  one meter seventy five by her estimates. To corroborate it, Amethyst asked her almost with the same accent that her own mother would use in a preselection of candidates

 -How tall are you?

Kerria looked at her in astonishment, although she answered immediately, trying to remember.

- I think about five feet with nine inches or so.

But to Amethyst, that sounded like Chinese. Those Americans used very strange measurement units.

- I do not know your equivalences to the decimal metric system.- She replied confused as she pulled out her mobile phone. - I'm going to look for equivalence ... Aja, almost one meter seventy-six. That is funny!  You are same height as my mother.

- Anyway, what does that matter? - The other girl commented without understanding the reason for the question. -

- As your told me  your mother also wants you to be a model ... - Her interlocutor replied. -

 The aforementioned looked at her astonished, but suddenly smiled when she understood the confusion.

-No, I meant that it also overwhelms me a lot, and my father is even worse. Always telling me. Kerria studies, Kerria do not be late.

-All the parents are the same! – Amethyst laughed amused by the confusion and exemplifying the thread of the previous. - Imagine, my mother insists on dressing me in a long skirt and putting on high heels, to me, that I'm almost un meter eighty and I'm still growing! What boy on Earth was going to want to go out with me? I would towered everyone in a head !

-It happens to me as well. - Kerria declared in solidarity - they do not let you to be yourself. But being the daughter of celebrities, you know. They want you to follow in their footsteps. And you, how are you doing?

Amethyst looked around to see what her talk was about, she didn’t do anything maybe look at a dress or maybe something from there, until she understood that phrase and answered.

- Well, my mother has always known how to stay away from the gossip magazines, but occasionally the "paparazzi" would bother her, that happened when I was little. Many times I had to go to my boarding school incognito, others in disguise. And sometimes my father would come looking for me. But you also have a famous father, do not you? I think he plays basketball.

- Yes, you are well informed. - Her speaker agreed. - My father was a professional basketball player, now he is manager and coach. Or I think it's called like that.

- Then you'll know what it's like to have to put up with the photographers sometimes.- Amethyst said sympathetically-

- Do not believe so. - Rebuked Kerria. - As my father was a sportsman, he was interviewed only after the games or some other time very late in the afternoon. Neither has he ever liked to go out in any medium. Not my mother. The truth is that we have not even hired service. My parents have never wanted strangers to enter the house. They have always said that intimacy is very important to them.

How curious was that, thought the Frenchwoman, in her case it was exactly the same. She was going to tell her friend when Beruche's voice interrupted them.

- Girls! - They heard Kerria's mother calling them from the stairs - can you come down, please?

-Come on, I'm sure my brother and my father are back! - Bertie's daughter indicated her guest, eager to introduced her to them. -

So the two came down again and indeed Roy who had already arrived, greeted Amethyst affectionately.

- What a beautiful girl! last time I saw you, you did not lift four feet off the ground and you went with a balloon tied to your wrist, how you have grown up and how beautiful you are, like your mother!

- Thank you very much, sir.- The astonished young woman replied.-

The girl thought in turn that Kerria's father was not bad for his years either. She would also swear to have seen his face before, apart from the videos of old basketball games, at least it was familiar to her, but where?

- Hey Roy! - Diamond intervened with chants. - That the girl has also come out to me, I had something to do with it.

- Come on, you're going to compare! – His friend joked, exclaiming - She is much prettier than you!

-That I'm not going to deny.- His comrade agreed with good humor.-

Both pushed each other and laughed funny, before the faces of rejoicing the rest.

-Well, look at the little prince! Finally, one thing you've done very well - Roy laughed patting the back of his friend who was laughing with him. -

            Amethyst looked at them in surprise, although she did not give it more importance, surely it was a joke from her parents and Kerria's father. However, it was Bertie herself who intervened, as if she wanted to confirm that, as she directed a look of circumstances at her husband.

-Roy is always putting nicknames to everyone. He calls me “cubito”, which in Spanish means, little cube.

-It is true. I'm sorry, friend. You already know how big mouth I have. - Roy apologized. -

-Never mind.-  Emerald smiled, still noticing her daughter and her friends out of the corner of their eyes. - Our jokes are strange sometimes ...

  But none of the girls seemed to have given any importance to that, rather they laughed. At that moment there was a knock at the door and Beruche went to open it, they heard her addressing someone with an admonitory tone of mild impatience.

- Come on son, we have guests at home, it was time for you to come back!

- Sorry mom, I forgot it with the trainings. - A voice that belonged to a boy sounding closer and closer to the dining room, answered. -

As soon as Bertie and her son shown at the dining room, Amethyst was petrified.

-Mon Dieu! Earth swallow me! - She thought getting flushed at times. -Ce n'est pas possible !!

- This is Leval, my eldest son. - In the meantime, Beruche introduced him with visible pride, as he was dressed in a tight white polo shirt and navy blue pants that made him look like an unbeatable plant. - He just came from training ...

Leval greeted everyone with a lot of courtesy and as soon as she arrived with Amethyst, she timidly gave him her hand and almost felt a tingling sensation all over her body when she did (there were things that kept going through the girl's head). She was more than flushed and just smiled stupidly. Emerald looked at her strangely.

-But what's wrong, daughter? Why are you so shy? - She asked looking at the others while explaining surprised. - I do not understand, she's usually very outgoing.

- It will be that Leval is a very handsome boy! - Diamond laugh embarrassing his daughter even more and even putting the boy himself red. -

- Dad. S'il te plait.-The poor Amethyst whispered in a hurry. -

Everyone else laughed. Kerria was beginning to understand what boy her new friend had referred to, it was enough to look her in the face.

- Nice to meet you. - Leval greeted adding with kindness. - I think we're going to the same institute, right? I hope to see you there.

- Yes, yes- Amethyst babbled, almost without finding words until she could compose a - .Me too, .. I hope so too. See you more. Well, well ... Je veux dire ... I mean ... over there. Ravie d'avoir faire ta connaissance.

-Tout le plaisir est pour moi. - He smiled widely, leaving the girl perplexed, he had an excellent pronunciation.-

Roy interjected lightly as always, to joke.

- I also know some French, as Annie would say. Ma mére n'est pas mon pére! Parapí parapa ...

Except for Leval, Kerria and of course Amethyst, who looked at him with wide eyes, without understanding anything, the others cut themselves off remembering that joke. It was this originating from an old anecdote that Usagi and Ann told them, when both met in class, without knowing their respective identities. They still laughed a little more until Bertie spoke and she explained with visible pride and even funny gesture, seeing the astonished face of the poor daughter of her friends.

- Leval comes from winning the interstate swimming championship and that tour has taken him for some weeks also through Quebec and Montreal. The Canadians were impressed. They said he is a great athlete.

-Of course he is! - Roy joked, putting a proud arm on his son's right shoulder. - Like father like son, and also those from up there, we always beat them in everything!

The boy was embarrassed, he did not like too much that he was given so many compliments, especially his parents, he was going to look like a nursery boy! Although luckily for Leval, the mother of that lovely and shy girl (at least that's what he thought), took the word referring precisely to her daughter.

- As Amethyst also does a lot of sport and like Leval is very good, how good! sure they will get on together.-

Everyone nodded, sure that it would be. Especially the French girl who really wanted it. Then, in an aside, Emerald whispered to Beruche taking advantage of Diamond commenting something with the boys.

- It's the same boy, he is as we saw him almost twenty years ago. You must be very happy.

- Yes, for me it is a great pride, he is a very good boy. -  Her hostess acknowledged who addressed the three young people proposing them with ease. - Hey guys! Why do not you go out there for a ride and leave the old folks here? ...

-I also sign up! - Diamond commented jokingly - I prefer youth!

- You're worth a grandfather! - Roy said jokingly. -

- Hey, I'm in a very good shape. - The aforementioned responded adding in what sounded like a confident challenge-, whenever you want, I'll show you.

-Oh, it seems to me that you and I are going to train tomorrow! Where you know.- His friend replied picking up the glove. -

- Done - Granted the aforementioned while adding funny. - We'll see who is older of the two, ha, ha!

The two patted each other on the back. The boys, leaving them to their own devices, left. However, shortly after that, Kerria excused herself with her brother and her guest, saying that she had and date, and that way she left the French camp free. This at first blushed a lot with the idea of ​​being alone with Leval, but accepted enchanted. Both walked around the urbanization. They chatted for a long time, even changing language regularly.

- So you also practice swimming? - The boy asked in order to break the ice.-

-Yes, - She could reply with visible blush even .- In my Lyceum I had the female record.

-And what more sports do you do? - He was interested, a little to talk about some topic.-

- Monter á cheval.- She answered something nervous, and it came out in her native language.- Et vous?

-Je ne monte pas. Mais je faire du karate - He smiled.-

-Moi aussi! - She smiled now, with visible interest.- Quelle ceinture aves-tu?

-Noir.- The boy replied.-

-C'est impressionnant! Je seulement suis brun ... Sorry. - She recalled, embarrassed to explain. - It's just that my parents told me to speak in English ...

-Don't worry, if you feel more comfortable in your mother language we can speak in French. Si tu préférés. – He answer.-

-No, thank you, but I better speak English now ... - Amethyst said something hesitantly, while she looked at her own hands entwined with patent flush.-

-Very well, as you want. Tell me what would you like to do?

- Do? - repeated the girl looking at him without understanding. It almost seemed like he was proposing to go somewhere else. -

-I mean, you would like to study in the future.- The boy clarified.-

-I do not know yet.- She admitted, that she feared to look something silly to that boy.-

But he did not imply such a thing, he have simply smiled declaring in turn.

-I want to be a pilot. I would like to enter the air forces and one day travel to space. I have that dream since I was very small.

-That's very nice.- His interlocutor affirmed.-

-My mother and my godmother Ami have always told me that I should pursue my dreams and that if I work hard and make the necessary efforts it will come true. - He said flatly. -

Amethyst watched him really impressed. Her heart also beat faster than normal. It must be because of the tension. Sometimes the memory of the wardrobe came to her head and she was filled with terror and shame. As if the boy could read her mind at that moment. However, after talking to him, the simple image of physical attractiveness vanished. It's not that she did not like him. Au contraire! That boy was really very good. However, many boys who were so attractive, proved to be real cretins afterwards. One out two, they were obsessed with taking her to bed or  really in love with themselves. And sometimes even both at the same time! Although in this case it was nice to discover that Leval did not have that defects at all. What was more, he was too modest and even seemed to be lost on many more mundane issues. He really gave the impression of being a dreamer, of pursuing a goal and putting in it all his desires and effort. Maybe his dream of being a pilot absorbed him. But she could see him now as a person with hopes and she even came to feel bad for having spied on him in that way. In addition, he was very kind and offered to help her if she had any problem understanding something. Amethyst smiled at him with sincere gratitude. She have liked that. Surely she would have it easier to know him well before thinking about other things. To Leval, on the other hand, the daughter of the friends of their parents seemed to him a very pleasant girl, and graceful. Ideal to be friends with Kerria, he thought. They could talk about their second-class girls things. She was cute too, sure the boys would be happy with her. But at no time did it occur to him to include himself among them. In summary, the two had in common their love of sports and some other things and also differed in some tastes. Leval, for example, liked girls to wear more classic. Luckily Amethyst had gone very discreetly to the visit, agreeing to wear more conventional clothes at the suggestion of her mother. She was never happier to have listened to her.

Meanwhile her parents spent a very pleasant evening and in one of the moments of his talk Diamond, more seriously, commented.

- Then your children do not know anything about what happened years ago.

- Nothing. - Roy assured as if he had notarized the fulfillment of an agreed fact, and remarked that aspect to want to know in turn. - And your daughter?

- Absolutely not. - His interlocutor asserted with the same tone. Adding with a mixture of rotundity and hope in it. - And We wish she did not have to ever know.

-Yes, it is true. - Emerald agreed - We wish her a normal life, full of happiness. With no problems like the ones we had to face.

- We understand, that is our greatest desire too.- Beruche affirmed with the accomplice agreement of her husband. -

Then there was more news and news of the others, which also had not been seen for a long time. Roy contributed something more about Tom and Cooan. Above all, he told them some anecdotes from when he went to play with his team in Portland a couple of months ago. There he invited his friend to the party and then they had stayed for dinner. They did not know much about Tom's brother, Daniel, or his wife, Mimet. Although there was Diamond who could tell them something. They also had a daughter and the wife of Tom's brother was as crazy as usual. Maybe a little less over the years, but she was still very fun. Tomoe and his wife Kaori seemed to be fine with their daughters, one of whom was Sailor Saturn. The other, Keiko, a normal girl, without any relationship with the sailors. In turn, Diamond, now with his wife, also told them something more about Nephrite and Amanda, whose two children did not detract from the previous ones either. Emerald repeated more or less to Roy what she already told Beruche. As for Petz and Sapphire, both married couples knew about them because they had a direct family relationship. The Otafukuya-Beauty Quartete cosmetics shop that the sisters had been buying for so many years now was still working wonders with Petz in the management. That made Bertie smile, that brought her many beautiful memories. About the children on the other hand they knew little, simply that they were two good boys, with the minor, Granate, provoking some mess from time to time. About Ail and Ann, unfortunately they knew nothing after a few years and as for Lornd and Setsuna, there was little Roy could tell them. His brother had not visited them for years neither, and that saddened everyone a little. They had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Karaberasu neither. And that's how the hours went by. Finally Leval and Amethyst returned and the Lassart family said goodbye thanking their hosts that great evening and talking about repeating it soon. This time with them offering their new home. Thus, when they returned to their house, the young French girl asked her mother with visible interest, since, to her surprise, she had discovered that she had Coraíon and Granate as cousins ​​in common with Leval and Kerria.

- Hey mom. Are you relatives of the Malden or just good friends?

- As relatives, we are not. - Republished Emerald being not sure enough - Diamond is that right? ...

- Yes it is - he whispered to his wife explaining. - We were from the same world as Bertie, but that does not mean being relatives. No, daughter - He added aloud before the girl was interested in those murmurs. - We are only good friends, but our families, although they have known each other for years, have nothing to do with it. Why? – He asked curious in turn. -

Amethyst just jumped with arms outstretched, before the face of amazement of her parents who looked at each other without understanding.

- C'est magnifique! - She thought enchanted - Alors, Leval Malden,  tu seras pour moi! - And she reflected, this time in English. - I do not care about what it might cost me. I know that one day I will get you!

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