Here is a little Valentine story from me.
Rating: K
A Somewhat
Unusual Valentine Meeting by Anne
The children
were in school and Martha was with Ed
Peevey on a little
shopping trip to Keystone.
Carolyn and the Captain were alone in
the house.
Carolyn was in the living room
when a knock came at the front door. She
got up
and went to see who was there.
She opened the door and in front of her
stood a
young lady. Mrs. Muir was
shocked, because the young woman looked
like her.
How was that possible?
"Who are
you?" Carolyn wanted to know.
"My name is
Helena, you don't know me. You are Mrs.
Muir, right?" the
young lady answered politely.
"Yes, I'm
Carolyn Muir. What do you want from me? I
don't understand, you
look like me. But how is this
possible?"
"Don't worry,
Mrs. Muir, I wouldn't want to hurt
you, if that's what you
believe." Helena calmed her
because she knew exactly what Carolyn
thought just
at this moment. "May I come in,
first? Then I will tell you why I'm
here,
please."
Carolyn
didn't know why but she knew she could trust
the lady. "Yes,
please come in." and she
thought, 'Where is Daniel? He must heard
the door
too!'
Helena came
in and both went into the living room
where they made
themselves comfortable. And
Helena began to talk. "First, I'm
going to
apologize for my unexpected
approach. But I had to come here on this
Valentine's Day."
Carolyn was
curious now. "May I ask you a question,
before you continue
your story?"
"Of course,
you can ask me anything but..." Helena
didn't finish because
she couldn't tell Mrs. Muir the
real reason why she was there. She
couldn't
tell her that Carolyn and she
had the same ancestor.
"You look
like me. Could you tell me how that's
possible? Are you a...?"
Carolyn didn't continue.
"No, Mrs.
Muir, I'm not a ghost. I am a real
flesh and blood person."
Mrs. Muir
winced as Helena mentioned that. This
expression was only too
well known to her.
The young
lady noticed it. "May I tell you now why
I'm here?"
"Of course."
And Helena
began to tell the Valentine's story about
her ancestor. Carolyn
listened spellbound to her
story. When the female had finished, Carolyn
thought. 'Poor girl!' and said,
"That's terrible, Ms. Helena, but I
still don't
understood what the whole thing
has to do with me."
"Please,
Carolyn, it has something to doing with
you. That's all I can
say to you. And now, if you will
excuse me, I must go. But before
I leave, I
have something for you." Helena
reached into her coat pocket and got
out two
lockets. She gave both to
Carolyn. "Here, take these, it's one for you
and one
for Captain Gregg. I got both
lockets from my ancestor and now I give
them to
you and the Captain. It's a
Valentine's gift from me to you
both."
Mrs. Muir was
perplexed. 'How did Helena know about
Daniel?' She wanted to
ask her but then she decided not
to do it. She took the lockets and
thanked
Helena. Carolyn said
goodbye to Helena at the door. Just as she
was about to
close the door behind her, the
school bus stopped and her children got
out.
Candy and
Jonathan were on their way to the house
when they noticed the
young lady who climbed into her
car.
"Candy, did
you see what I saw?" the boy asked,
curiously.
"Yes,
Jonathan. That lady looked like our
mother. I wonder what she
wanted here? Look, there's
Mom."
Both were
completely confused. They hurried to
their mother. "Mom, Mom!"
they called in their excitement.
"Who was that?" Candy continued.
Carolyn was
about to answer when Daniel appeared by
her side. "A
remarkable young lady, my dear.
She had a striking similarity to you."
Carolyn
turned around and faced him. She saw a
grinning Daniel. "How did
you know that?" Then it
became clear to her that he had been in
the living
room all the time and had
overheard every word that had been spoken. "Oh
you...!" She turned
to her kids. "Come in, children, it's a
little chilly out
here."
All four were
now in the living room and Candy was
curious again. "Mom,
you haven't told us who that
female was!"
Suddenly
Jonathan remembered his strange meeting in
school this morning.
But he didn't say a word about
that contact. That's where he had seen
this
female before.
"Please,
we'll talk it about later, kids, okay?"
"Okay, Mom!"
both said. The discussion was
ended with that for now.
"Happy
Valentine's Day, Captain, Mom!" and with
that, both were out of the
room.
Daniel and Carolyn
were alone in the room now. "Oh, I
have something for
you, Captain!" and she handed
him the locket which Helena had given her
for him.
Daniel
accepted the present and both opened their
lockets at the same
time. Daniel and Carolyn could
hardly believe it but in the two lockets
was the
same picture. It showed Carolyn
and Daniel united. Both looked at
the other,
taken aback. It became
clear to them that they both had something
definitely
in common with that young lady.
They put the
lockets aside and went into each
other's arms and it ended in
a long lasting kiss.