Love is a Sweet Poison

Gabriel shook his head no, "Not at all. You have every right to make it there and I know that you will do a good job. As I said you are important to her so I will not complain." He turned and walked away when he saw that she was bowing to him and gave a little wave. "Guard my angel well."

"I will and thank you again." Sachi stood up and wiped a tear that was threatening to leak out of her eyes. She went into the room and Ami was bugging Amelia. "Ami just what are you doing?"

"Sachiiiiii, help me convince Amelia to change she is still wearing her arranged meeting yukata." Ami was staring at Amelia and holding a nighttime yukata.

Sachi let out a sigh and walked back to the girls. "Ami, let Amelia relax for a moment and then we will be able to convince her to change out of the yukata." She pinches the bridge of her nose and sighs. 

Amelia sticks her tongue out at Ami then starts to giggle. "You both are worrying too much I know that I am unwell but at the same time I am still here and I will be the first to admit just how happy I am. Gabriel spoils me." She blushes and looks down at the yukata.

Miyuki comes into the room carrying her bedding and sets it up at the end. "You may want to change Amelia. That yukata will get wrinkled and you do not want it to rip… do you?" 

Amelia slowly sits up and shakes her head slowly before she looks at everyone in the room. "I will need some help." Amelia slowly stands up, her body is shaking and if she gets up too fast the whole thing will be pointless.

Sachi walks over and starts to untie the obi. "If you start to feel dizzy just let us know. We will not let you fall." She works quickly in removing the purple yukata and hands it to Miyuki. She takes the nighttime yukata from Ami and loosely ties it before helping Amelia lay down.

Ami helps as well as Amelia lays down. "You do not look too good right now. Is there anything that could help you?" Her face is full of concern.

Miyuki hangs the yukata up. She smoothed the creases making sure that it looked perfect before walking over the medication and grabbing what Amelia needed to take. "Here, you need to take this and then we can all gossip in bed."

"Gossip! Speaking of gossip I have some good stuff." Ami rubs her hands together and looks like she is about to cause some trouble. 

Amelia takes all but the sleeping powder with some water and then lays back down. "Since Ami is so full of gossip I will let her go first." 

Sachi giggles while shaking her head. "You do not need the last one?" She immediately noticed that one of the powders was not taken.

"I feel like you have some gossip of your own." Ami wiggles her eyebrows, " but that can wait a moment. You know that the tea ceremony club was supposed to go on the trip to the inn this year right?" She sees her friends nodding their heads, "Weeeeellllllll since Amelia is not able to go, the inn cancelled. I guess when you went last time you made quite the impression. Miyuki, Amelia is the queen at the tea ceremony. There are a lot of offers for her to become the next head of paces." 

"That is quite true. Amelia is beautiful and the way she makes tea is so elegant and perfect even the teacher is amazed but she can't do it very often." Sachi smiles and thinks back to 0when she saw Amelia making tea for the first time. 

"That is too bad for the other girls. They should still be able to go. Maybe if I spoke up they might change their minds? I do not want to be the cause of discord." Amelia looks worried at Sachi. 

Pulled from her memories she looks at Amelia. "No one is blaming you. Most of the girls had made the call that if you couldn't go then they would rather not. You know how they feel about you."

"I truly wish that they did not. I barely attend and when I do it is like I have a fanbase. I do not need that kind of stress." Amelia laid there shaking her head. 

"A fanbase? Isn't that a good thing Amelia?" Miyuki tilts her head to the side as she sits on her bedding next to Ami. 

Sachi and Ami burst into giggles, "Yes and no. These girls place Amelia on a pedestal and treat her like some goddess. That is one of the many reasons we keep track at her at school. They will leave us alone and admire from afar but once Amelia starts to talk to them it will never end." Sachi says this while watching Amelia's facial expression. 

Ami laughs harder at Amelia as she makes a disgusted face, "It got so bad one day that Amelia was going to go lay down that girls kept stopping her on her way to rest. I had to step in and scare them a little bit. I also knew that since it was lunchtime she would need her medication." 

"It was an issue as the girls would come to the nurse's office. Aunt Yoko eventually had enough and snapped. She was not very impressed. If you are well enough to be flocking here then you need to go back to your respective classrooms. My office is not a playground, now get out, all of you!" Amelia giggles again.

"It sounds like you almost got exposed but it is good that you have some people protecting you. I have not experienced school so I do not know what it is like but I am happy and content with my life. When my mother passed away I was able to work here. Mistress treated me well and Kuma took good care of me. I was trained to take of things slowly but it was very satisfying and I know I said that I was hired to take over the next bride but I was selected because of how hard I worked." Miyuki smiles at the group.

"Thank you for sharing. I wanted to learn more about you and you just told me something personal and I will keep it in my heart. I trust you." Amelia smiled sweetly and held out her hand. "I do consider you as a good friend, Miyuki." 

Ami smiled and patted Miyuki on the back. "Welcome to the club! We will now be the protectors of Amelia together. You can care for us here when we can't and that is a huge relief." She looks down at Amelia smirking, "Now that is out of the way. What is your gossip?" 

Amelia blushed and looked away. "I have had my first... Kiss." She covered her face with one hand as She was holding Miyuki's hand. 

"WHHHHHHAAAAATTTTT!! This is world-changing! How was it and where did it happen?" Ami nearly jumps out of bed but before she can Sachi pounces on Ami and covers her mouth. 

"We are guests here and there are bound to be people sleeping. Keep it down." Sachi chastises Ami before uncovering her mouth after seeing the fear in Ami's eyes.

"Ummmm, it happened at the hospital." Amelia starts to fidget. "It was sweet and tender."

"Was it as soft as they say?" Ami goes into the I need to know mode. 

"Gabriel is very gentle with his kisses. I cannot even think of what kit feels like other than it feels right to be kissing him." Amelia covers her cheeks completely blushing.

"Kisses? As in plural? As in you have had many kisses now?" Ami sits up straight and leans closer to Amelia. 

Sachi pulls Ami back and gives her a look. "If you are so curious maybe you should kiss someone and find out for yourself instead of troubling Amelia."

"You talk as if you have kissed before?" Ami raises an eyebrow and waits for a reply.

"I do not kiss and tell but if you have to know I am engaged and I have kissed my berthold." Sachi shrugs and looks at the girls. "It is starting to get late so let's call it a night and we can continue this discussion in the morning." She gets up and walks to her bedding but she opens the door a little more. "I know that you like to look out as you sleep." 

"Thank you, Sachi." Amelia smiles as the rest get settled in. She waits about an hour before she gets up and knocks on Gabriel's door. She slides the door open and sees that Gabriel is hard at work on the painting and that he has a spot of paint on his cheek. "You need to get some sleep."