Chapter 88 - The Weird Balloon

The moon goddess hid her face into the clouds out of shyness and as the day dawned she bid farewell to Apollo, taking her leave.

"SWEEEE!"

The sun rays were invading the room through the pathway of the maroon curtains, which were slightly split apart, rubbing his eyes the man woke up with a familiar yet strange voice.

He looked at the alarm clock placed nearby on the side table, for time and saw the needles strike, it was about twelve noon, they had slept for long, maybe after such a vigorous exercise it was obvious. But the man had a big sack of responsibilities on his shoulders, which was waiting for him to attend and to look after. 

But it didn't matter that day because of a few reasons, firstly it was a weekend after all, so he had hours to sleep with his wife whom he just married, without any worry. Secondly his pal, Lorenzo was arriving after two days of a hectic meeting with investors, who were willing to invest their money in the orphanage construction and the education of the children. 

It was a shared deal, although that was complicated to understand and the conditions were strict. A few business men proposed deals and investment for publicity stunt which Lorenzo rejected at once, he wanted to give the kids a future, not using their miserable state for personal gain. 

Many wealthy people donated money as a charity and a few did investments. Lorenzo was a gifted man and acknowledged the tactics of these elite businessmen, the strong headed man dealt with him tactfully. 

Nevertheless, the man didn't have to worry about the things, he sat up and tucked his head with the back of the king sized bed and raked through his black hair while he watched his beloved wife sleeping soundly with a satisfactory smile, besides him in a red lingerie. 

He turned to the side and hugged her from the back, with a raspy whisper.

"Good morning, Mrs benz. It's time to get up now."

Benz, was also in his twenties and recently married to the love of his life. Lorenzo wanted to send his friend on a honeymoon but Benz refused, that they needed to give more time to the orphanage rather enjoying their time. 

"Honey, please check on the princess."

She murmured with closed lids, as she requested to Benz. Syna became the apple of the eye of that couple too along with Lorenzo, they all began to love her unconditionally and used to pamper the little lady.

The Benz couple knew about the deadly curse and how much authentic and valid it was, although they never feared and resented the little princess. Mrs Benz was a charming lady like Mrs Lorenzo, who left right after Syna' arrival in the orphanage, both women were gorgeous rather opposite in nature. One left fearing the consequences other was determined to face the storm.

Mrs Benz was light headed and knew how that things said with love works effectively rather the one imposed, and at that moment she also tricked her husband into creeping out of the bed. Though her husband also tried that and at those times she submitted herself too. They kept everything in balance by not dominating on each other completely, that was how their perfect life was going on.

Benz crawled out of his bed wearing only blue ripped jeans, slipped his feet into the slippers and walked towards Syna' room, which was the last one towards the second corridor. 

"My little princess?"

He called out to her with love while opening the door as at noon she mostly preferred to sleep but to his surprise the little lady was not there.

A certain noise pricked his ears and following another 'SWEEE' sound he glided downstairs through the spiral staircase and found two old men cooking and fighting over something, the new cooks were hired as Mrs Lorenzo had already left years ago and Benz couple was newlywed, so it was necessary to hire cooks now. Moreover, the kids were tired of the sickening cooking of both men and wanted to eat something 'eatable' and delectable. 

But where was that little devil right now? Benz called out her name in a worrisome tone, he became panicked because Syna was nowhere in his sight, as everyone was quite protective of her, that in the morning he joined Syna on breakfast with his half opened eyes and dizzy silhouette. When he had fed her, and made sure that Syna was safe within the boundary walls of the orphanage, he went to sleep again.

Benz yelled loudly as the man's condition was becoming weary by now, maybe he shouldn't have left her alone in the morning.

"Syna? Where are you Syna?"

And within a few seconds she came running towards him, a six year old, chubby little beautiful creature with blonde hair that were tied into two tails, dressed in snow pink short frock, ran into him.

As a kid pranked both men with that addressing, every other kid in the orphanage started to call both the young men 'grandpa'.

"Grandpa! Here see my balloon!" 

She was holding something which at first Benz didn't notice before unless she pointed her finger at it.

"Where did you find it sweety?"

The young man became flushed at once, sweat was popping out of his forehead, he felt as if he had been caught guilty of such a shameful crime.

"In your room grandpa, there are so many balloons in the drawer."

Syna told him and left for the front garden, leaving Benz in a daze. It was impossible to take that back from her as she inherited anger from her mother, Queen Agnes and stubbornness from her father, King Dimitri, the former ruling royalty of Rosario kingdom. They were her parents in her previous life, dead and long gone.

"Who the hell put that

'C thing' into the drawer!"

Benz murmured to himself, half yelling in agitation but of course it was certainly his mistake to do that. Syna had sneaked into his room earlier in the morning, tiptoed. 

Before he could ask that thing back from her she had run towards the front garden with an angry expression because Benz showed disliking towards her balloon, and bumped into Lorenzo in the front lawn, who had just arrived with a fellowship. 

"Slow down Syna, or else you will end up breaking your cute little nose."

Lorenzo scooped her in his strong arms and kissed her forehead.

"Ow! Grandpa, I am a big girl now."

She hugged him back tightly wrapping her little arms around his neck as she giggled and both joined their noses together afterwards, that was their specific style to greet each other, no matter how many times they meet in a day.

"I know Princess ."

Lorenzo chuckled on her comment that she made while giving him fake angry expressions as the little lady pouted, she was still in his embrace when that little princess stretched out her hand with something filled with water and dangling out of her small fist.

"You know Grandpa Lorenzo, I showed this to Grandpa Benz and he got scared of my balloon. See, it is not horrible, I am angry with him."

She raised her arm a little higher in an attempt to show him the condom which was filled with water. Benz who had run out by now, bare foot, wanted the ground to split up into two so that he could jump into it out of embarrassment.

Lorenzo coughed gazing at him and then stared at the innocent beaming face of naive Syna.

"O-h! yeah sweety, it's....it's good."

He settled her on the ground after giving remarks to her balloon and Syna ran off to the swing area, where other children were playing. 

"Looks like you have been caught red handed, Benz."

Lorenzo chuckled mockingly while Benz became extremely flustered with embarrassment. 

"Don't worry I will talk to her. Oh! By the way here meet Mr ludovico."

They all nearly neglected the presence of the businessman, whose face was red after witnessing that embarrassing scenario. 

Benz flung his hand out for a handshake, while apologizing to the new investor.

"Apologies, Mr Ludovico, that you had to witness such an awkward scenario.  Moreover, I'm really ashamed of not being properly dressed to greet you."

"It is completely okay, Mr Benz. Such incidents happen and these children are innocent and doesn't know anything about what they are saying or doing."

The investor's comments relieved both the men as they strode inside and Lorenzo led him towards the office, while Benz rushed to his room for a quick changing.

Meanwhile a man standing on the roof of the white orphanage building, completely invisible to every human eye, was laughing wholeheartedly at Syna' activity which he witnessed earlier. He became amused with her as the man grinned while his golden eyes were still following Syna, who was playing a see-saw with a skinny little boy, in the ground.