19 – Ariel Loveheim (4)
The reason Ariel fell in love with the stars was simple.
It was a story about when I was younger than now, when my mother’s skirt width was the most comfortable.
Her mother, Helen, often looked up at the night sky from her terrace or balcony.
At first, I thought I was just looking at the stars, but after witnessing such a sight often, I suddenly became curious.
‘Why does mom look at the sky so often?’
To young Ariel, the night sky was always the same.
It’s just that on a snowy day or a cloudy day, there are fewer stars in the sky.
What kind of fun is there in such an unchanging night sky, so I’m always looking at it with a smile like that.
Ariel had an irresistible personality, so she ran straight to her mother’s arms and was hugged by the width of her skirt.
Helene seemed a little startled for a moment, but soon greeted her with a friendly hand as usual.
Mom’s arms always smelled good.
Does it smell good because she is a pretty and kind mother? So what about me
Ariel casually buried her nose in her shoulder and sniffed like a puppy.
It didn’t smell anything special.
It was her dream to become a person like her mother, but it must mean that it is still far away.
“Whoops, it’s not a dog. Why does it smell like that?”
“My mom smells good, so I thought it smelled good too.”
“yes? Mom, my daughter smells good.”
Helen lifted Ariel up and kissed her on the cheek.
Then, the wind outside was quite chilly, so I put the coat I was wearing over my daughter’s body in case my precious daughter would catch a cold.
“Isn’t Mom cold?”
“Yeah, mom is fine.”
“hehehe, as expected, Mom is amazing.”
For Ariel, Helen was the object of longing.
He was always dignified, his appearance was more beautiful than anyone Ariel had ever seen, he had a good heart, and he did anything.
I didn’t know that Ariel, who was so single, listened to her mother’s words, and that it was a natural phenomenon because she made her his target.
Helene asked cautiously, stroking the head of her lovely daughter, who was looking up at her with twinkling eyes.
“Is Ariel a good mother?”
Anxieties that every mother in the world, even if they are all different sizes, will have.
Even Helene was no exception.
Is it right that he is really doing the right thing for his daughter?
Was there anything wrong with your education?
As long as she didn’t know her daughter’s intentions, it was a worry and a kind of desire to improve as a mother.
“of course!”
As if to put an end to this mother’s anxiety, Ariel answered at once with an ideally bright face.
A smile of relief appeared on Helene’s lips as well.
I thought it was a good thing because it was a car that I was curious about how much my daughter’s love for me was.
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Let me ask you a little bit of a dirty question.
“Then who do you like better, mom or dad?”
“mom!”
“Huh, Dad will be sad if he hears it.”
But to some extent, it was to be expected.
Her husband was by no means a bad person, but he was a man whose educational policies and values were quite rigid.
From the young Ariel’s point of view, it was natural to feel repulsed by him.
It was for this reason that Helene dared to keep her two two-year-old children as friends, and that it was for this reason that she raised Ariel more freely than other young ladies of the same age.
If there is still one person who is holding on to her, and even a small child called her mother helps her, who will listen to this child’s voice?
“By the way, why did my daughter come to visit her mother?”
“I was curious because my mom was looking at the night sky every day.”
At Ariel’s answer, Helene opened her eyes wide for a moment, then smiled benevolently and gently pinched her daughter’s cheek.
No matter what, it seems that only the daughter takes care of the mother.
“Does Ariel hate stars?”
“Okay, I don’t hate it. I just don’t like it very much.”
“Huh, you look exactly like your mother. My mom used to be like that too.”
“Mom?”
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Looking at it now, I couldn’t imagine it.
But Ariel didn’t have any doubts because it was what her mother said.
That’s also true, because Mom had never lied to her.
This was the strength of the trust built up over the years.
“then. Perhaps Ariel will like stars if she listens to what her mother tells her.”
“Is this a funny story?”
“Well? Give it a listen and let us know what you think of Ariel. Because my mother is also very curious.”
Ariel had a lot of inquisitive mind, so she immediately nodded vigorously with her eyes shining when she heard the story for the first time.
Helene noticed that her daughter’s hair was blowing in the cold wind, and after tidying it up, she slowly opened her mouth.
“This is a story told by my mother’s mother, that is, Ariel’s grandmother.”
“Yes.”
Ariel’s maternal grandmother had already passed away when she was born.
That’s why I always heard about my grandmother’s story through Helene, but I was even more curious when I heard that the story was told by her grandmother.
“The title is said to be ‘The Story of a Star’. A long time ago… … .”
Hearing her voice in the cold air outside somehow made Ariel’s heart warm.
It was very interesting to read ‘The Story of a Star’, which was recited while adjusting the pitch of the voice so that it was relaxed and comfortable, but not boring enough to fall asleep.
Ariel had thought that the stars were just unknown objects floating in the sky.
I never really put any meaning into it, and I never made a wish by looking at the stars like children my age.
‘The Story of the Star’ was a content that changed the existence of the star that was imprinted in Ariel’s mind quite differently.
To summarize, it was this.
Each star has its own story, its own face, and its own color.
And when it’s a quiet dawn when everyone in the world is asleep, the stars briefly appear and share ‘stories of stars’ among themselves.
However, as usual, the dawn piled up in silence where I thought no one would be.
While the stars reappeared and talked, a girl who had been confined in a tall tower witnessed it.
There was an unwritten rule that people should not be found out, so they decided to erase the girl’s memory in exchange for granting one wish by gathering the power of the stars.
When I asked the girl what she wished for, she said that she wanted to ask about the whereabouts of a boy who came to this tower when she was young.
The boy always told him stories from the outside world and promised to take her from this tower without fail, but at some point he stopped looking for it.
I don’t want him to come back, so please let me know if he’s alive or dead.
The stars gathered their strength to find the boy’s whereabouts, but the boy had already died at the hands of the bandits.
However, the stars came up with a trick, thinking that they might get hurt if they told the story as it is to the girl.
The boy said he couldn’t come to the tower right now, but if the boy’s story was good, they would tell it. I will leave your memory as it is.
The girl responded, and the stars told the girl every night, adapting little by little the stories of various people they had seen hiding in the night sky.
Decades later, the day the girl met her last night.
She told the stars what she had been hiding until now.
– Actually, I knew he was dead. I will not forget your hard work for me, even in death, stars.
And she writes ‘the story of the star’ on an old notebook in her room and tells the story so that others can see it.
However, in order to keep the secrets of the stars, with the addition of a request to pass it on to only two people in a lifetime.
“Aren’t you curious?”
“Yeah, it’s amazing.”
Then, even now, at dawn, the stars secretly appear and talk.
Ariel tilted her head, and Helen opened her mouth with a chuckle, as if guessing her thoughts.
“Actually, the reason my mom looks at the night sky every day is because she wants to see the stars talking.”
“You haven’t seen your mother yet?”
“That’s right. You probably never saw your maternal grandmother.”
It’s really hard to see.
Well, that’s why it’s only going to be told like this.
Ariel nodded in agreement and raised her hand confidently.
“don’t worry! I will definitely listen to the story of the star and tell it to my mother!”
“so? Thank you, my daughter.”
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Kissing her cheek once more, Helen entered the castle holding Ariel in her arms.
The days were gradually getting colder, so I couldn’t leave a child who was weak against the cold outside forever.
“Mom, but do I have to tell this story only to two people for the rest of my life?”
“yes. It is a promise that has been handed down from generation to generation.”
“Then, who did you tell other than me?”
“Whoops, well. Who is it? Can Ariel guess?”
If there are only two people in your life, you must be as precious as that.
Even young Ariel could have guessed that much.
‘A person dear to my mother… … .’
Wringing her hair, she seemed to have come up with the correct answer, but opened her eyes wide and exclaimed triumphantly.
“Dad! Are you the father?”
“That is correct. Are you our daughter?”
“lol.”
Excited, Ariel jumped up and down in place, and, wondering if she realized something in an instant, clung to Helene and asked again.
“Mom, then who should I listen to?”
“That’s Ariel’s job. One day, someone like that will surely appear.”
“How do you know?”
“Even if Ariel doesn’t know, the child sleeping inside will definitely let you know when the time is right. So don’t worry.”
Ariel’s eyes blinked at her mother’s actions as she pointed to the area around her pituitary gland.
Is someone asleep in here? So why not tell me now?
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Lay in bed and think to yourself.
Ariel ran straight to her room.
There was a face that came to mind along the way, but it quickly disappeared from my mind, so I tilted my head.
I don’t know why, but it was a night that reminded me of a friend’s face for some reason.