Despite that her dress was torn in places, Belle got up from the Gusot blankets and started her way to the pinagmulan of the smell. Adam quickly followed her, but she was going very quickly.
"How can you be sure that what you're smelling is real?" Adam asked.
"Trust me, Adam, I know exactly what it is." Belle said, "I may not have had it for so long, but I know it's what I smell."
"What is it?" Adam urged. Suddenly, Belle stopped and turned around.
"Mother's bahaghari Cake." She whispered, " I haven't had it since mother passed, nobody could beat her cooking or baking."
"Wait," Adam said, he sniffed the air again, "I smell something too, but I don't think it's that cake you're talking about." He sniffed again, "Wait, I remember this smell."
"Let's go find out if our thoughts are correct." Belle said, both of them continued to 'follow their noses'.
When they thought they found the pinagmulan of the smells, they saw that they were in front of the kusina door. There was light coming from the bottom of the door and there was very little sound coming from the kitchen.
"It's coming from in here." Adam whispered, Belle looked through the little window on the door. Her face dropped and she ducked down, Adam could see that Belle was surprised and shocked. "Belle, what is it?" he asked.
"Take...a look...for...yourself." Belle slowly said, she just couldn't believe what her eyes were telling her. Adam looked through the little window himself, he saw a woman dressed in robes that were in every color of the rainbow, even her hair was in different mga kulay of the rainbow. The woman's back was to the door as she was opening the stove door. "It's her." Belle whispered, Adam looked back at Belle, still looking pretty shocked.
"Why am I getting the feeling that you know her?" Adam said, Belle quickly threw her hand over his mouth.
"Keep it down!" Belle whispered, "Do you really want to attract attention!" Adam gently grabbed Belle's hand and moved it off his mouth.
"Belle, you know her, don't you?" Adam whispered, he could see that Belle did know who that woman was.
"That woman is..." Belle was stalling, she still couldn't believe it. "...my mother." Adam looked back through the little window, he couldn't believe the woman was Belle's mother, Veronica Arc-en-ceil.
"But...how can you tell?" he asked.
"Nobody has eyes as green as my mother." Belle explained, "That's her."
Belle was right, the woman in the kusina was Veronica. While Belle and Adam were talking outside the kusina door, Veronica was minding her own business in the kusina until she heard a door open. There was another door that led into the kitchen, Veronica looked over to the door and saw a woman with hair as red as blood and wearing dark purple robes.
"Is it finished?" the woman asked.
"Just about done...Lydia." Veronica said, Adam and Belle saw and heard what had happened. Adam couldn't believe that it was his mother that walked in on Veronica.
"Lovely, I can't wait for Adam to have these again." Lydia sinabi as she walked over to the stove.
"You know I may have to take it back," Veronica said, "I think they are done. bahaghari Mitts!" Magic swirled around Veronica's hands, then hurno mitts, that were in every color you can imagine, appeared on her hands. She then opened the stove, reached in and pulled out a large white cake. "My cake is done!" she said.
"I can also see that my cookies are done as well." Lydia sinabi as magic swirled around her hands, black and white hurno mitts appeared on her hands. Lydia reached in the hurno and pulled out two platters filled with cookies. "Adam hasn't had my double tsokolate chunk cookies or my sweet sugar cookies since...since I was around." Veronica can see on her friend's face how upset she was.
"I don't blame you for what you're feeling, Lydia." Veronica sinabi as she frosted her cake, "It wasn't fair that we killed the way we were, it was madami unfair that Lady Temps brought us back from the grave like that."
"She erased our memories of our families as well." Lydia sinabi as she grasped the counter top's edge, "If she wasn't the empress, I would pound her to the ground." Lydia then punched the counter as tears fell from her eyes.
"I feel the same way you do," Veronica said, "I was never ibingiay the chance to tell Belle about me, but even if I did, I don't think she would still feel the same about me."
"This is why we're friends," Lydia sinabi as she placed her cookies onto plates, "We know how each other is feeling. If you want my opinion, I don't think Adam would want me around if found out the truth as well. The least we can do is make sure that their lives are somewhat easier."
"True," Veronica said, "at least it will prove that we're doing our jobs as mothers."
As Veronica and Lydia talked with each other, Adam and Belle listened to their words. They couldn't believe that their mothers would think that they didn't want to accept them as magical beings.
"I can't believe that they would think that." Belle said.
"Neither can I." Adam sinabi as he looked at Belle, "Just because they are different from everyone doesn't mean that we shouldn't accept them!"
"Uh...Adam, are you okay?" she asked.
"Fine, why do you ask?" he said.
"You are foaming at the mouth!" Belle pointed out, Adam didn't realize that he was.
"Sorry Belle." Adam sinabi as he tried to clean up his mouth, "My mother's cookies have that effect on me. I haven't had them since she was gone, nobody could make them because the recipe was all in her head."
"Just like my mother's bahaghari Cake." she said, "Her recipe was also locked in her head, she never did like to write her ingredients down."
"What do you think we should do?" he asked.
"Meaning?"
"Should we go in there and have them see us with their own eyes?"
Belle didn't say anything when Adam asked that, even she didn't know what they should do.
"I...I...I don't know what to do." was all Belle could say. Nobody could really blame her or Adam, they've been thinking that their mothers have been dead only to find out that they were brought back from the dead.
"Belle, I do know this," Adam softly said, Belle looked straight into his eyes, "no matter what happens in the future, I'll always pag-ibig you and nothing will be able to change that, not even them." Belle didn't blink when Adam sinabi that to her, but tears formed in her eyes and slid down her cheek. He raised his right hand and placed it on her left cheek; using his thumb to wipe her tears away. Belle felt the same tightness in her puso whenever Adam was near her. She closed her eyes and held his forearm.
Suddenly, Belle's eyes snapped open! Adam could see that they were full of pain. Her hands quickly moved from his forearm to her mouth. She was also making muffled squeals.
"Belle, what's wrong?" Adam asked worried. Belle wouldn't say anything, he could tell that she was in a lot of pain as she continued to make those muffled squeals and grabbed a hold of the kusina door handle. Just then, the door was yanked open with Belle still holding the handle!
As for Veronica and Lydia, they were busy talking to each other while Veronica was still frosting her cake and Lydia was putting a cover over her pinggan of cookies.
Lydia looked over at Veronica, her eyes were changing into different mga kulay of the rainbow.
"You sense something, don't you?" Lydia asked.
"Do you?" Veronica asked.
"Yes," Lydia answered as purple and blue quills spiked out of her red hair, "and whoever it is that we're sensing, he or she is behind that door." Lydia pointed at the door where Belle and Adam were hiding behind.
"Then let's find out who it is." Veronica sinabi as she sat the frosting kutsilyo down on the counter. Lydia wasn't known for being patient, she went over to the door quicker than Veronica sat her kutsilyo down. "Wait Lydia! You don't know who's...!"
Too late, as soon as Lydia got to the door, spikes and quills came out of her hand and she punched the door. There were muffled squeals coming from the other side of the door. When she pulled her hand out, there were six quills stuck through the door.
"Lydia! You dummy!" Veronica almost shouted, she had a hard time trying to keep her voice down because of Lydia, but she had to in order to keep the servants waking up in the middle of the night. Veronica quickly went over to the door and opened it. When she did, she couldn't believe what her eyes were telling her.
When Veronica opened the door, Belle was standing against the door with her hand over her mouth and her other hand grasping the door handle. Her face was full of pain at first, then it was shock when Belle saw her mother. When Veronica saw that it was her own daughter that was against the door, her eyes wandered down to where the quills punctured the kusina door. It turns out the purple and blue quills went through the door and stuck themselves into Belle's right hip. Veronica covered her mouth, with both hands, in shock!
"Belle?" Veronica said, Belle still didn't say anything, she wouldn't even move. All she could think about was the pain of the quills in her hip. When Veronica sinabi her daughter's name, Lydia knew that Veronica was going to be angry with her.
"Veronica, I-I-I didn't mean...it was..." Before Lydia could say anything else, Veronica turned around and punched Lydia in the mouth so hard that she stumbled backwards and fell. Adam saw and heard everything, he wasn't sure whether to go to his mother than he hadn't see in so long or go over to Belle was in pain sa pamamagitan ng the quills his mother put in the door.
"You...'spiked' my baby!" Veronica sinabi angrily to Lydia; she quickly turned her attention to Belle, not realizing that it's been many years since Belle had seen her. "Belle, are you in any pain?" All Belle did was raise her hand when her mother was trying to get close to her. That's when Veronica remembered that Belle thought she was dead and haven't seen her in years.
"Seems like Lady Temps was telling you the truth, Adam." Belle sinabi with pain in her voice.
"Adam?" Lydia asked holding her jaw from Veronica hitting her. Adam knew he couldn't hide behind the door anymore; he came out from behind the other kusina door. When Lydia saw her son, she couldn't believe how much he had grown. As for Adam, he didn't know what to think, Lydia wasn't like the mother than Adam remembered. "You've grown." Lydia said, still holding her jaw.
"I'm not the only one who's changed." Adam sinabi as he got closer to Belle.
"I know," she said, "I have some explaining to do."
"Both of you." Belle said, still in pain, "But first, you need to help me get off the door."
"You're going to help me, Lydia!" Veronica sinabi angrily.
"I will!" Lydia sinabi as she went around the other side of the door. "We need something slippery in order to get Belle out of this mess, These quills are stuck in the door."
"Will this work?" Veronica sinabi as she pulled a red bottle out of her robes.
"Veronica, that's your special forest soap!" Lydia said.
"I would rather give up my special soap than see my little girl in pain!" Veronica urged, Adam could see how nervous or scared his mother was while talking with Veronica. He couldn't blame her after she accidentally put her quills in Belle and got her stuck on the door. Veronica poured a green liquid out of the bottle and onto her hands. She rubbed it on both sides the door, where the quills went in and out the door. Veronica also placed some on her daughter's hip, just in case.
"I think this is enough," Lydia said, "Veronica, you and Adam help pull Belle out of the door. I'll hold onto the door to make sure she'll come out."
"Wait." Belle sinabi painfully, "What if I scream when pulling me off? The servants will hear what's going on."
"Put this in your mouth." Adam sinabi as he pulled out a handkerchief, "With something in your mouth, you'll be able to muffle the screams. Once you're in less pain or when you're off the door, we'll...or you can remove it." Veronica could sense the kindness in Adam's words, but she could also sense the pag-ibig between him and her daughter. She made a small smile about it, but she quickly put her attention back on the situation.
"Are we ready?" Lydia asked. Belle took the handkerchief, wrapped it into a ball and put it in her mouth. Belle nodded her head to ipakita that she was ready. Veronica wrapped her arms around Belle's waist and Adam just held Belle like he would usually would...when they were hugging each other. Belle just laid her hands on his chest and held onto his white shirt. Lydia could see that her best friend's daughter was holding onto her son's shirt. She didn't know what to think about that, she'll take care of it when she get's Belle off the door. Lydia spoke;
"Okay...one,...two,...three!"
"How can you be sure that what you're smelling is real?" Adam asked.
"Trust me, Adam, I know exactly what it is." Belle said, "I may not have had it for so long, but I know it's what I smell."
"What is it?" Adam urged. Suddenly, Belle stopped and turned around.
"Mother's bahaghari Cake." She whispered, " I haven't had it since mother passed, nobody could beat her cooking or baking."
"Wait," Adam said, he sniffed the air again, "I smell something too, but I don't think it's that cake you're talking about." He sniffed again, "Wait, I remember this smell."
"Let's go find out if our thoughts are correct." Belle said, both of them continued to 'follow their noses'.
When they thought they found the pinagmulan of the smells, they saw that they were in front of the kusina door. There was light coming from the bottom of the door and there was very little sound coming from the kitchen.
"It's coming from in here." Adam whispered, Belle looked through the little window on the door. Her face dropped and she ducked down, Adam could see that Belle was surprised and shocked. "Belle, what is it?" he asked.
"Take...a look...for...yourself." Belle slowly said, she just couldn't believe what her eyes were telling her. Adam looked through the little window himself, he saw a woman dressed in robes that were in every color of the rainbow, even her hair was in different mga kulay of the rainbow. The woman's back was to the door as she was opening the stove door. "It's her." Belle whispered, Adam looked back at Belle, still looking pretty shocked.
"Why am I getting the feeling that you know her?" Adam said, Belle quickly threw her hand over his mouth.
"Keep it down!" Belle whispered, "Do you really want to attract attention!" Adam gently grabbed Belle's hand and moved it off his mouth.
"Belle, you know her, don't you?" Adam whispered, he could see that Belle did know who that woman was.
"That woman is..." Belle was stalling, she still couldn't believe it. "...my mother." Adam looked back through the little window, he couldn't believe the woman was Belle's mother, Veronica Arc-en-ceil.
"But...how can you tell?" he asked.
"Nobody has eyes as green as my mother." Belle explained, "That's her."
Belle was right, the woman in the kusina was Veronica. While Belle and Adam were talking outside the kusina door, Veronica was minding her own business in the kusina until she heard a door open. There was another door that led into the kitchen, Veronica looked over to the door and saw a woman with hair as red as blood and wearing dark purple robes.
"Is it finished?" the woman asked.
"Just about done...Lydia." Veronica said, Adam and Belle saw and heard what had happened. Adam couldn't believe that it was his mother that walked in on Veronica.
"Lovely, I can't wait for Adam to have these again." Lydia sinabi as she walked over to the stove.
"You know I may have to take it back," Veronica said, "I think they are done. bahaghari Mitts!" Magic swirled around Veronica's hands, then hurno mitts, that were in every color you can imagine, appeared on her hands. She then opened the stove, reached in and pulled out a large white cake. "My cake is done!" she said.
"I can also see that my cookies are done as well." Lydia sinabi as magic swirled around her hands, black and white hurno mitts appeared on her hands. Lydia reached in the hurno and pulled out two platters filled with cookies. "Adam hasn't had my double tsokolate chunk cookies or my sweet sugar cookies since...since I was around." Veronica can see on her friend's face how upset she was.
"I don't blame you for what you're feeling, Lydia." Veronica sinabi as she frosted her cake, "It wasn't fair that we killed the way we were, it was madami unfair that Lady Temps brought us back from the grave like that."
"She erased our memories of our families as well." Lydia sinabi as she grasped the counter top's edge, "If she wasn't the empress, I would pound her to the ground." Lydia then punched the counter as tears fell from her eyes.
"I feel the same way you do," Veronica said, "I was never ibingiay the chance to tell Belle about me, but even if I did, I don't think she would still feel the same about me."
"This is why we're friends," Lydia sinabi as she placed her cookies onto plates, "We know how each other is feeling. If you want my opinion, I don't think Adam would want me around if found out the truth as well. The least we can do is make sure that their lives are somewhat easier."
"True," Veronica said, "at least it will prove that we're doing our jobs as mothers."
As Veronica and Lydia talked with each other, Adam and Belle listened to their words. They couldn't believe that their mothers would think that they didn't want to accept them as magical beings.
"I can't believe that they would think that." Belle said.
"Neither can I." Adam sinabi as he looked at Belle, "Just because they are different from everyone doesn't mean that we shouldn't accept them!"
"Uh...Adam, are you okay?" she asked.
"Fine, why do you ask?" he said.
"You are foaming at the mouth!" Belle pointed out, Adam didn't realize that he was.
"Sorry Belle." Adam sinabi as he tried to clean up his mouth, "My mother's cookies have that effect on me. I haven't had them since she was gone, nobody could make them because the recipe was all in her head."
"Just like my mother's bahaghari Cake." she said, "Her recipe was also locked in her head, she never did like to write her ingredients down."
"What do you think we should do?" he asked.
"Meaning?"
"Should we go in there and have them see us with their own eyes?"
Belle didn't say anything when Adam asked that, even she didn't know what they should do.
"I...I...I don't know what to do." was all Belle could say. Nobody could really blame her or Adam, they've been thinking that their mothers have been dead only to find out that they were brought back from the dead.
"Belle, I do know this," Adam softly said, Belle looked straight into his eyes, "no matter what happens in the future, I'll always pag-ibig you and nothing will be able to change that, not even them." Belle didn't blink when Adam sinabi that to her, but tears formed in her eyes and slid down her cheek. He raised his right hand and placed it on her left cheek; using his thumb to wipe her tears away. Belle felt the same tightness in her puso whenever Adam was near her. She closed her eyes and held his forearm.
Suddenly, Belle's eyes snapped open! Adam could see that they were full of pain. Her hands quickly moved from his forearm to her mouth. She was also making muffled squeals.
"Belle, what's wrong?" Adam asked worried. Belle wouldn't say anything, he could tell that she was in a lot of pain as she continued to make those muffled squeals and grabbed a hold of the kusina door handle. Just then, the door was yanked open with Belle still holding the handle!
As for Veronica and Lydia, they were busy talking to each other while Veronica was still frosting her cake and Lydia was putting a cover over her pinggan of cookies.
Lydia looked over at Veronica, her eyes were changing into different mga kulay of the rainbow.
"You sense something, don't you?" Lydia asked.
"Do you?" Veronica asked.
"Yes," Lydia answered as purple and blue quills spiked out of her red hair, "and whoever it is that we're sensing, he or she is behind that door." Lydia pointed at the door where Belle and Adam were hiding behind.
"Then let's find out who it is." Veronica sinabi as she sat the frosting kutsilyo down on the counter. Lydia wasn't known for being patient, she went over to the door quicker than Veronica sat her kutsilyo down. "Wait Lydia! You don't know who's...!"
Too late, as soon as Lydia got to the door, spikes and quills came out of her hand and she punched the door. There were muffled squeals coming from the other side of the door. When she pulled her hand out, there were six quills stuck through the door.
"Lydia! You dummy!" Veronica almost shouted, she had a hard time trying to keep her voice down because of Lydia, but she had to in order to keep the servants waking up in the middle of the night. Veronica quickly went over to the door and opened it. When she did, she couldn't believe what her eyes were telling her.
When Veronica opened the door, Belle was standing against the door with her hand over her mouth and her other hand grasping the door handle. Her face was full of pain at first, then it was shock when Belle saw her mother. When Veronica saw that it was her own daughter that was against the door, her eyes wandered down to where the quills punctured the kusina door. It turns out the purple and blue quills went through the door and stuck themselves into Belle's right hip. Veronica covered her mouth, with both hands, in shock!
"Belle?" Veronica said, Belle still didn't say anything, she wouldn't even move. All she could think about was the pain of the quills in her hip. When Veronica sinabi her daughter's name, Lydia knew that Veronica was going to be angry with her.
"Veronica, I-I-I didn't mean...it was..." Before Lydia could say anything else, Veronica turned around and punched Lydia in the mouth so hard that she stumbled backwards and fell. Adam saw and heard everything, he wasn't sure whether to go to his mother than he hadn't see in so long or go over to Belle was in pain sa pamamagitan ng the quills his mother put in the door.
"You...'spiked' my baby!" Veronica sinabi angrily to Lydia; she quickly turned her attention to Belle, not realizing that it's been many years since Belle had seen her. "Belle, are you in any pain?" All Belle did was raise her hand when her mother was trying to get close to her. That's when Veronica remembered that Belle thought she was dead and haven't seen her in years.
"Seems like Lady Temps was telling you the truth, Adam." Belle sinabi with pain in her voice.
"Adam?" Lydia asked holding her jaw from Veronica hitting her. Adam knew he couldn't hide behind the door anymore; he came out from behind the other kusina door. When Lydia saw her son, she couldn't believe how much he had grown. As for Adam, he didn't know what to think, Lydia wasn't like the mother than Adam remembered. "You've grown." Lydia said, still holding her jaw.
"I'm not the only one who's changed." Adam sinabi as he got closer to Belle.
"I know," she said, "I have some explaining to do."
"Both of you." Belle said, still in pain, "But first, you need to help me get off the door."
"You're going to help me, Lydia!" Veronica sinabi angrily.
"I will!" Lydia sinabi as she went around the other side of the door. "We need something slippery in order to get Belle out of this mess, These quills are stuck in the door."
"Will this work?" Veronica sinabi as she pulled a red bottle out of her robes.
"Veronica, that's your special forest soap!" Lydia said.
"I would rather give up my special soap than see my little girl in pain!" Veronica urged, Adam could see how nervous or scared his mother was while talking with Veronica. He couldn't blame her after she accidentally put her quills in Belle and got her stuck on the door. Veronica poured a green liquid out of the bottle and onto her hands. She rubbed it on both sides the door, where the quills went in and out the door. Veronica also placed some on her daughter's hip, just in case.
"I think this is enough," Lydia said, "Veronica, you and Adam help pull Belle out of the door. I'll hold onto the door to make sure she'll come out."
"Wait." Belle sinabi painfully, "What if I scream when pulling me off? The servants will hear what's going on."
"Put this in your mouth." Adam sinabi as he pulled out a handkerchief, "With something in your mouth, you'll be able to muffle the screams. Once you're in less pain or when you're off the door, we'll...or you can remove it." Veronica could sense the kindness in Adam's words, but she could also sense the pag-ibig between him and her daughter. She made a small smile about it, but she quickly put her attention back on the situation.
"Are we ready?" Lydia asked. Belle took the handkerchief, wrapped it into a ball and put it in her mouth. Belle nodded her head to ipakita that she was ready. Veronica wrapped her arms around Belle's waist and Adam just held Belle like he would usually would...when they were hugging each other. Belle just laid her hands on his chest and held onto his white shirt. Lydia could see that her best friend's daughter was holding onto her son's shirt. She didn't know what to think about that, she'll take care of it when she get's Belle off the door. Lydia spoke;
"Okay...one,...two,...three!"
