Chapter Thirty Seven

It took until the reception was almost over and the toasts to be done until Fara plucked up enough courage to finally reveal herself. With shaking legs she walked up to Urs, coughed slightly and tapped him on his shoulder then removed her blonde wig, revealing her long dark curly hair.
Urs, who had been about to tell this strange blonde haired lady to politely go away, or something along those lines, but not as nicely, he was fed up with strange woman trying to come onto him when he wasn’t in the mood for it, stared at her. He blinked. ‘Fara…’ he finally said as if in a daze, mumbling slightly.
‘Hello Urs’ Fara lightly smiled back at him.
‘You’re…back’ he mumbled, staring still. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Was he seeing things now? He wasn’t so sure she was real. A person he had dreamt about seeing all this time, and here she was, standing before him. She had changed he noticed. She seemed thinner somehow. Had she been sick he wondered.
‘I’m back’ Fara agreed, looking at her once lover standing before her wearing this suit. He looked handsome as ever she noticed, feeling all the old feeling coming rushing back now as she looked at him.
‘You went…’ he mumbled to her.
‘You lied’ she replied.
‘Only a little lie…’ Urs tried defending himself.
‘It still hurt me’ replied Fara.
‘I never meant to hurt you…’ Urs told her truthfully.
‘Oh no?’ Fara challenged him now.
‘No’ came the answer she wasn’t really expecting to get.
‘Sausage roll? Swiss roll?’ a waiter, walked up to Fara and Urs and asked them.
‘Already had one of those’ Fara whispered.
‘Not lately you haven’t’ Urs heard her and replied, resisting the temptation to wink at her.
Fara blushed. Beetroot in colour.
‘Mummy!’ a little girl then rushed up to Fara and flung herself into Fara’s welcoming arms.
‘Darling’ Fara picked her daughter up in her arms and held her close.
‘You’ve a child…a girl’ Urs realised.
‘Yes’ Fara nodded, holding her daughter close, hiding her face.
‘Cute curls…’ Urs reached out a hand and touched Fara’s daughters head gently. Stroking a curl as he spoke. Her daughter had the same colour hair, brown. Like Fara’s hair colour and Urs’.
‘Fara? Is that you?’ called Rowi, rushing up with Seb in tow now.
‘Its me’ Fara smiled at her friend.
‘Honey!’ Rowi hugged Fara and her daughter, ‘your child?’ she asked.
‘My daughter’ Fara smiled, kissing her daughters head.
‘She’s beautiful’ Rowi smiled at her friends child.
‘Cute’ Seb nodded, gazing at her too.
‘Fara!’ the bride, Dany then noticed her friend. She ran up to her, ‘you’re back!’ she exclaimed.


Hi Dany’ Fara smiled.
Then David appeared. ‘Fara!’ he smiled, ‘Amelia?’ he then asked, noticing the cute little girl in the pink flowery dress in Fara‘s arms.
‘Yes’ Fara nodded.
Amelia looked at them all. She was a little scared seeing all these strange faces looking at her.
‘Hi Amelia. I’m your uncle David’ David smiled gently at Amelia.
‘Uncle…David’ Amelia smiled a toothless grin. She smiled at David because he had a friendly face and pulled a funny face at her, making her smile at him.
‘I’m aunty Dany’ said Dany, next in line to introduce herself to this cute little girl.
‘Princess Bride!’ Amelia laughed, clapping her hands in excitement. Amelia had enjoyed watching the wedding and had loved seeing Dany dressed in her dress, walking down the aisle.
‘Seb’ Seb held out his hand to Amelia.
Amelia looked at it, not knowing what she should be doing with it.
‘Hello sweetie. I’m aunty Rowi’ Rowi smiled now at her.
‘Ro-Ro!’ Amelia laughed. She found Rowi’s name rather difficult to pronounce.
‘That’s right honey’ Rowi agreed.
Then Cydalia and Carlos and Colby appeared.
‘Fara!’ Cydalia hugged her.
‘Hello Miss’ Carlos smiled at Fara.


Fara smiled shyly at them both.
‘Meet Amelia’ David introduced Fara’s daughter to them.
‘You are beautiful’ Carlos told Amelia, wiggling his eyebrows at her, making her laugh.
Amelia giggled and tried to wiggle hers back.
‘This, is Colby’ Cydalia introduced her son to Fara and Amelia. Colby and Amelia looked at each other. Colby poked his tongue out at Amelia. She just looked coolly back at him, ignoring him.
‘He looks like Carlos’ Fara noticed the difference between father and son.
‘I was just about to say the same, about Amelia and Urs I mean’ Cydalia replied.
Urs, staring at Fara and Amelia coughed.
‘My…my daughter?’ he finally asked Fara.
Fara sighed, ‘Yes Urs’ she looking anywhere but at him now, afraid to what she would see in his eyes when she finally did look at him.
‘Daddy?’ Amelia asked, gazing at Urs. Her father.
‘Sweetie, meet your daddy’ Fara said to her daughter, making herself finally look Urs in the eye.
‘Hello’ Urs smiled at Amelia.
She shyly smiled back at her father.
‘Amelia Jane Taylor’ said David.
‘The author…?’ Seb gasped.
‘Fara’s alter ego’ David agreed.
‘You’re…married?’ Urs then asked.
‘No’ replied Fara.
‘Then…?’ he asked.
‘Amelia is Amelia Jane Hollinshead. I just borrowed Taylor’ Fara partly lied.
‘Buhler’ Urs corrected.
‘Hollinshead’ said Fara.
‘Buhler. Amelia Jane Buhler’
‘You may be her father but she’s not having your surname’
‘Because of Elsa?’ Urs asked.
‘Partly’ Fara admitted.
‘And?’ Urs then asked.
‘We’re not married’ replied Fara.
‘Then marry me’ said Urs.
‘No’
‘I love you. You love me’
‘No I don’t’ Fara lied again.
‘If you didn’t love me…then Amelia wouldn’t be here’ Urs whispered the last part so Amelia couldn’t hear.
He had her at that.
‘What made you come back?’ Seb then asked Fara.
‘I knew Rowi wouldn’t get married until I did’ Fara replied.


‘So…you didn’t come back for us?’ Urs asked her.
‘I….no’ Fara sighed.
‘Right’ Urs nodded.
‘Sorry’ Fara found herself apologising for some reason.
‘No. Don’t’ Urs muttered before stalking away.
‘Urs!’ David called to him. But Urs didn’t listen.
‘You could have lied to him!’ Rowi hissed to Fara under her breathe.
‘Believe me, I just have’ Fara sighed in reply.