Never Not Married

The gentle breeze and the little white cotton formed from the sky welcomed the beginning of winter.Winter is the best season for everyone except Helena.No season was for her a special one.The festival season was mostly always to bring new couples into town,couples that are of age.It’s been three years ago since Helena was due for marriage but she had found no suitor for her hand in marriage even the goat structured.She didn’t mind,afterall she cherishes the garden she had only be left alone to look after since she was a child. This winter was going to be good for her.One of her step sister had been asked for her hand in marriage which had become a relief of less hard breathing in the household.Of course she’s older but her illegitimacy made her less privileged in the household. It is in the morning,Helena sat by her window,facing down,staring at the couples who were about to depart in a carriage. She would rather be a garden aunt than getting married to a man of status but a empty can. Her father,Ferdinand Bridge is a man who who cares for title.He got married to Katherine Bridge for her title so she could make him more titled.He has four children with Katherine and then had an affair with a maid in his quarters who gave birth to a daughter and died immediately after the child’s delivery. His maid’s daughter is Helena,the no one in the Bridges,the stray clothed dog,the fed pig who had refused to be of no use in the family other than wetting the wet flowers over and over again. Helena got up from the window when she heard the sound of the door open.She knew who it was,her one and only committed maid from birth,the only friend she made in the Eighteen years of her life.Alice wasn’t just anyone to her,she had sworn to take her everywhere she would find herself in the future. Alice prepared her bath,undress her and led her to the bathroom. The one thing Helena would refuse to do to herself was to deny herself of the right to enjoy the little luxury they gave her. “Lady Beatrice was all smiles today,she would have collapsed if he wouldn’t come sooner”Alice gossiped “Pray tell he did”Helena said,laying her head back on the edge of the bath. Alice sat beside her,hoping for more gossip with her madam. “Only if she knew what that man is really like but perhaps she needn’t know,it wasn’t her decision to make anyways,everyone is kept for the starving moment of the butcher”Helena smiles at her own words.If she’s legally a child of the household,she would have been part of the meats due for serving but her misery had been her blessing in disguise. “Ah yes I forgot to tell you miss,there’s a strange someone who is said to be the son of the late viscount,he is said to be back in town after leaving for abroad for ages”Alice said “Is he said to be handsome”Helena asked,curious of what type the man could be for her dear maid to make mention of him.It’s either Alice is wishing to pair her together with the man or tell her a dirty story of the man but it seems it’s the first part,she smiles when she finds a man suitable for her miss. “I heard he was born with a blue eye”Alice smiles and Helena rolled her eyes. “You should find a suitor for yourself rather than for me”Helena said and got out of the water.Alice stands up too and give her a towel to wrap around her body. “I hate watching you with the flowers all day,it makes you seem old and abandoned but you are very much young and pretty and you deserve a good suitor to make you get younger with the passing seconds”Alice begins to dress her while giving her a lecture on her need to get married. “Alice,quit talking about my less favored life”Helena shut her up with that. After dressing her up,They head downstairs for breakfast.Helena is only allowed to visit the table only for announcements so it seems an announcement is going to be made sooner. Bernice sat beside her mother.She’s the last born of the family so she’s always the family’s treasure.Katherine gave birth to two boys and two girls,the boys are older,also than me and the two girls are the younger ones.One of the two younger ones is the one getting married,the little devil in the Bridges.Her childishly will at least not affect Helena anymore,a little bondage will be freed. The head maid and some other maids served food on the table.Helena’s father sat in the middle front of the large table.Old but still active. Beatrice wasn’t on the seat today so everywhere was more quite.If she would have been there,she would have said a thousand unpleasant things about Helena and the one thing she repeated mostly is her inability to find any suitor.Helena is a fair maiden who would attract a little boy of no knowledge with her beauty but due to her titled story in town,no one would dare knock on the door for her hand in marriage. The table was quiet until her father drops his spoon on the teacup,everyone else looks up at the Mr Bridge who brings less attention unless he needs something. “Helena,I found a suitor for you”Helena heard her father said and the only thought of what comes to her mind is her father marrying her off to a professional head butcher or who else would want to marry someone like her if not someone most people would never dare to mate with. “Am…………getting married?” “Soon”.