Perky Goth and the Court Composer

chapter 2

After the party when the villagers went to their respective homes away from the castle, Forte sat on his bed. He watched the sun go down and it was getting dark now. He decided to leave now. If he left and told everyone about his leaving, the others would no doubt would be relieved for him to leave. 

He didn't think of anything he could take with him so he just left his music room and sanctured down the stairs and went to the front door of the castle. He opened the doors and heard a dog yipping and looked down to see his master's loyal brown and white pooch. 

"I'm sorry, Sultan," Forte got down on one knee, lowering down to the dog the Master considered his best friend and playmate, dogs were naturally born and raised to be as such, he gently stroked the fur of the canine. "But I cannot stay here for much longer... I must find where I belong..." he whispered before hugging the dog, he then stood back up on his feet, opened the doors and shut them behind him and decided to set off.

Forte loved Sultan himself as anyone could be attached to a dog as a non-human companion. He had always wanted a dog when he was growing up, but he couldn't have one, not any pet. His mother couldn't afford it and they were dirt poor. Madame Felicity Forte had to raise three children on her own with no father figure, it was such a problem, he remembered that she had to send them away to live with a family friend and his young daughter. The family was not as rich as the castle was, but they were richer than the Forte clan.

That's all he was, just someone destined to be alone for all eternity. He wondered if Cherry would still accept him after all these years, he had to wonder what she was up to these days. She was a mere 10-year-old little girl when they first met, will she had grown up? He found her to be very sweet and innocent, he was never drawn to children before, except of course for his niece that was born from his sister, Angelina. 

Angelina was being forced to marry someone she didn't know or loved at the time, but Angelina, she determined to be a mature young woman, went along with it and allowed herself to marry the suitor. However, when she did, they gave birth to their first and onyl child and the man known as Pierre became very abusive towards her, because he, like many men at this time, wanted a boy and only boys. 

After Chantal's birth, Pierre would beat Angelina almost all the time, but about a year or two after, he finally accepted it and Chantal was allowed to visit her uncle. Braxton was too busy with his own private business in which he never saw the family again after, so Forte was Angelina's only hesitant and reluctant offer. Before Chantal died from the snowstorm and Forte was blamed for the death of his sister's only child, Angelina and Pierre made it clear that they never wanted to see him again, and so they didn't, they both died of natural causes about 20 or 30 years after the incident. 

So many years... Speaking of so many years, Forte had realized that Cherry was from the 21st century and somehow stumbled into the 18th century. Could he still find her after 300 years? Yes, he could. You see, Forte had a reason he survived from his crash when he tried to destroy the castle since Belle and Adam brought Christmas back to the castle and he was distracted by his own greed, he didn't realize what he was doing. He was bitten... 

He wasn't a mortal anymore long before he accepted the job of becoming a private tutor and musician for the castle back when the King and Queen were still alive, a vampiress named Mavis had bitten him, she claimed that she was in love with him, but she only wanted his blood. Not the first time he had his heart broken... He remembered when he had fallen in love with his former mentor's visiting granddaughter, but he never had the courage to come clean about it and she fell in love with some stranger... It wouldn't be until he met Belle that that very woman, was Belle's future mother. 

Those many things haunted Forte's mind and made him believe in love and romance being a sham. For who could ever love someone such as him? After long years and centuries passing by him and he didn't pay attention to a lot of things happening, Forte had come to the future and was about to give up. He saw a house far from across the yard of a church and decided to settle into it. The church was nearly abandoned, there were cobwebs everywhere and possibly collecting dust for many decades.

He decided to change it up a little and make the place more of his own into a custom living area. There was even a kitchen in the back and even if it wasn't a pipe organ, there was a piano in the other room where there were seats to listen and join in prayer, but since this church was nearly abandoned, he could probably convert it into a bed of some type. He nearly gave up looking for that girl Cherry, but perhaps he could start a new life for himself around this smallish neighborhood. He heard what sounded like a van pass by and he looked out the window on the back door and looked across the street.

There was a moving van going to the brick house across the street. There was a gorgeous couple, the man looked a lot older than the woman, but they still seemed so happy together. There came out what looked like a high school student female. She had a black-hooded jacket with sweatpants, and sneakers and she had glasses. Forte blinked at the student in particular. It had to be, but it couldn't be...

"Cerise...?" Forte whispered under his breath.