Valority of Yves

A vast area and a path leading to a stage is seen decorated in a blanket of flowers in the colours of white, rose quartz, blush hues with hints of gold-white net on the columns, chairs and tables with beautiful vases and flowers 🌸🪻🌺 in them.The surface is covered in a vibrant carpet of flowers and velvet.

Soon the venue is filled with guests arriving one after another dressed in their nines, chattering of some, laughters of others and sounds of children playing are heard.

In the midst of it, a large white rolls royce arrives, as the valet opens the door a tall, handsome man exits the car 🏎️ dressed in a classic jet-black tuxedo paired with a white shirt accompanied by a platinum brooch representing the initials Y and D adorned with glittering diamonds 💎, glossy oxford black tuxedo shoes 👞, pompadour styled black hair, his whole existence screaming that he is the groom, the man of the hour.

The groom walks to the other side of the car and opens the door revealing a breathtakingly beautiful bride, the woman of the hour. The bride is dressed in a stunning white bridal gown with a watteau- monarch train of 10 feet, cathedral veil, an illusion jewel neck style with back covered by strings of crystalline diamonds 💎 paired with jeweled white stilleto pumps 👠, carrying white roses🌹.

They both walk gracefully as the bride👰🏻‍♀️ is accompanied by the groom🤵🏻‍♀️, placing her hand on his arm taking the much needed support to walk in that dress and heels👠. As they walk, the reach the room designated for them to wait till the ceremony begins.

Haaaah! (they both let a long sigh) representing the nervousness and tiredness from the preparations and chuckle 🤭 at their mirrored feelings.

A knock is heard on the door revealing a man in his 50's dressed in a three- piece suit in brown🟤 colour, he enters the room and walks straight to the bride giving out a bright smile which holds love, warmth and a tid bit of sadness revealing his feelings apparent on his face.

Seeing the man, the bride gets up from her seat and hugs🤗 him. Then the man and the groom exit the room to greet the guests giving the bride space and time to relax.

Outside the groom and his parents with the bride's uncle greet the guests with a warm welcoming smile plastered on their faces. The guests slowly get settled in their respective seats with their children playing in the play area, anticipating the main characters to make an appearance while the event unfolds.

As the time gets going, the groom heads back to the designated room to inform the bride of the start of the event with her Uncle. They both enter the room only to find it empty without the bride in sight. Flabbergasted, they both search the room and the attached powder room to it, only to find the emptiness.

The bride is gone!

The groom panicking calls the bride on her mobile 📱, revealing the line on the other end is switched off, then he calls his parents and they all begin their search for the bride.

Half an hour passed by, as the search continues but to no avail. This created tension among the guests with whispers getting loud and loud 🔊.

The bride left the venue!

The bride fled away!

The bride doesn't want to get married!

Among the whispers and tension, the groom suddenly remembers the words spoken by the bride before.

'Whenever I feel lonely, sad or if there is something weighing on my mind, I always come here to let out everything that has been weighing me down, as I can speak my mind here without any restraints and share all my worries and secrets'. "This tree is my secret keeper and this place is my serenity."

The groom ensuring his parents and uncle rushed towards the parking area.

As his thoughts filled with certainty, he got into the car and drove past the streets and people to a place filled with silence and trees.

It was a place where people would come when they miss their dear ones, a place full of sadness, tears and pain; a place full of silence and peace, a place visited with hearts full of emotions and mind full of stories to share. A place every being shall visit.

Parking the car, he walked towards the one spot with quick paces, where a huge lush green oak tree is seen, with its branches spread wide, covered with leaves shadowing a large area.

Sitting below it, is a woman dressed in a wedding gown holding a bouquet of white roses. As he walks towards the tree, the image of the woman gets clearer and clearer, revealing his bride with a face full of tears and smiles.

As he walks nearer and nearer and stops about two steps behind the bride, she turns her at the sound of footsteps stopped. Lifting her head, she utters the words...

You found me!

With a bright smile, brighter than the sparkling of the diamonds on her clothes and beautiful than the flowers she held.

As she spoke the words, she extended her arms to her groom, and they both embraced each other in a hug full of emotions and words spoken without voice only to be heard through hearts, expressed through bodies.

After a while, time enough to get through all the emotions and gather themselves, they sat below the tree in silence, conversing through their eternal connection, built over the years together.

Few minutes later the bride finally spoke Let's go! I'm ready now.

Smiling he got up from his spot and helped her stand up and walked away from the tree. When they reached enough distance as the tree got small yet can be seen, she gave one last glance over the tree then to her groom, as she spoke the words in her mind..

Mom! Dad! This is the man I love. Watch over us!

In the lands of valor, lived an orphan by birth meaning she lost both her parents as soon as she was born. Her mother died while giving birth to her and as for her father he died long before she was born in a tragic death 💀 while working in the iron factory🏭. Henceforth, the girl was brought up in an orphanage owned by the Valor's. When she was 3 years old when she began schooling in the subsidiary of the orphanage, yes , the orphanage was a community for home, education and also employment.

There were different buildings for various purposes served accordingly; like a research facility, hospitals, schools, companies and many such establishments. Some of the children brought up there would get adopted, some moved out after becoming an independent adult and so venture into high society and establish themselves aiming for a bright future ahead or settling with getting a safe job elsewhere while, some preferred to work and live there. It isn't an understatement to say the valor estate was a mini world🌍 in itself. It was an idyllic place to live.

It served as a means of support for many lives living there with their beloved ones. Both men and women equally were given opportunities as per their strength resulting in better quality at life. The valor estate had farms, industries and services as people worked in all sectors.

Thomas Valor, the owner of the orphanage was a middle-aged man♂️. The city was named after his surname as he built it and became the owner of valor industries. He is a renowned businessman and also a philanthropist. Thomas once had a family of his own, married to the love💕 of his life🧬 and due to become father. His wife was a great lady known to be from one of the respectable families of time. She was an effulged beauty admired by many. Thomas was living his letabund life till fate decided to play its part and took away his loved ones forever.

It happened when his wife was five months pregnant🤰🏻, they decided to go camping, both Thomas and his wife were known to be adventurous but his wife was more of it than him. So they went to the mountains for a camping holiday, his wife decided to play a prank on her husband and ventured alone in the mountains they would usually. She was a few minutes into the mountains when it started raining🌧️, whining she decided to go back. As unpredictable as is the weather in mountain🏔️ regions so is the fate. When she was going back due to the rain, the soil became moist and slippery making it hard to walk and one misstep made her roll away deep into the mountains.

On the other hand, unbeknownst to Thomas, he was napping in his tent when he suddenly woke up to the sound of rain. Not finding his wife in the tent he walked out of the tent calling for her but to no avail. As panic began taking its reign, he began searching for her not finding her anywhere, soon after a few minutes he started dialing all the emergency🦺 rescue stations. The emergency team reached in about half an hour while Thomas was still calling out and searching for his wife as if he were lost in the loop of time.

Soon joined by the emergency team, they all began searching for her high and nigh for many hours into the night, when the finally found the cold and messed up body of Olivia Valor lying on the ground covered in dirt and blood🩸down the mountains. Seeing the aelita of her eyes, the dead body of his wife thomas could feel his world collapsing, the land under his feet being dragged away as he stood there soulless and lifeless.

Unable to restrain himself, he gathered his beloved wife's body in his arms as he wept silently for a long time. Exhausted he too collapsed as his physical and mental being were tired to the point of death. The funeral was held and Thomas was stuck in the grief of his wife and unborn child for days, for she was the cynosure of his life.

Years passed by, Thoma's love for his wife was so great and yet the past can't be undone. The living must live while the dead are gone, leaving behind pain for their loved ones. He always felt a sense of hiraeth, even though he was home. As it was an absquatulate parting. Thus, Thomas lived his normal life as others while carrying his share of pain.

Sometimes he would wonder what his unborn child would have looked like if he was born. For, Thomas was a blonde man with grey eyes, sharp features and of high stature and his wife was a beauty as white as the snow with pitch black hair and eyes with high stature as well. They made a beautiful couple.

They both were the best campus couple popular in their university times while being childhood sweethearts all along. Many envied their relationship yet wished for one as beautiful as theirs. Their families were friends for generations. Every now and then Thomas wished for the old days to return only for the time to move forward. Surely, time is a cruel thing yet also a healer. Such is the agony of the living, left alone by their beloved.

Painful as it may be, he accepted it and continued his life. With the resolve of remembering his wife he thus, began developing orphanages and other facilities for the poor and needy, many benefitted from his charity work. He introduced various scholarships, trusts and funds all under the name of his departed beloved wife Olivia Valor and his unborn child. It became a nepenthe way to overcome his cordolium.

Thomas hoped he could provide the orphans a family and a home, while also child, to those parents who couldn't have any through adoption, for he knew the joy of having a family and the emptiness without one.

Nothing in the world can replace a loving family and so the joy of becoming a parent. These were the pains etched in his heart never to be forgotten for as long as he lived.

Even though he was an affluent individual, Thomas loved to live a simple life which will depict his status but also showcase his love for normality. Thomas's everyday schedule included of attending meetings, signing the documents, discussing his business plans, going on trips. Apart from this, mostly he loved spending time with the children whom he sponsored and interacting with people of his estate.

Even though he was the owner, the people felt a close relationship with him due to his down-to-earth nature and benevolence. They shared their woes and happiness with him, making the estate people a one big family. He listened to their complaints, requests and ideas while sharing his thoughts to make the society a better, comfortable and happy place to live. His urbanity made him loved by all.

As a norm, every week a batch of children whom he sponsored would visit his estate for a day with their respective teachers👩🏻‍🏫, so as to have a close interaction and better understanding of children minds and needs. As such today was the turn of the youngest batch of children. Based upon the children's age the meet-up was held accordingly.

For example, Thomas discussed employment and jobs, business trends with youth adults who are ready to takeover the society; goals, directions and dreams with the teenagers; studies and sports with middle schoolers, while he played games with little kids suiting their age and read them stories. Children looked forward to this day as they could proudly present their achievements to Thomas who in return would shower them with compliments and gifts as rewards. It was set up to encourage the children all the while making them self reliant.

As usual the youngest orphans were taken to the estate for the meet-up but Yves the youngest of all children was unable to go as she came up with a high fever the night before. She was left to one of the teachers while her class teacher went with the children. Yves was very sad as she could not go with her classmates. Upset with the situation, she sat on a swing in the playground of the orphanage with her head drooped down, crying as tears rolled down her rosy cheeks with little sobs in middle.

Hearing her cry, a little boy who was the same age as her walked to her as he extended his hand with a toffee on his palm. The young boy had a beautiful face with jet black hair, black eyes sparkling like stars in the night sky, a tiny nose and lips colored in the shade of pink rose petals. He told the little girl to eat the toffee and stop crying 😭, Yves looked at the toffee then at the boy, she uttered the word STARS! as she took the toffee and popped into her mouth and stopped crying as she began to savor the taste of the sweet toffee in her mouth with sparkles in her eyes 👀 at the sweet taste, with a joyful smile playing on her lips👄. Seeing her smile, the boy smiled 😊 too and soon they both began swinging, each alternatively taking turns on the swing while the other pushed, laughing joyfully as they played.

After sometime a woman ♀️ dressed in black and white uniform designed for a nanny came looking. She whispered some words to the little boy, after she spoke the boy hugged 🫂 the little girl and bid her goodbye. Then the nanny took him in her arms, as they waved their hands 👋🏻 . A few minutes went by and Yves walked back to her room as soon as their forms were out of her sight. Yves was happy as it was the first time she had a toffee.

As the youngest of all in her batch, Yves was often bullied and isolated. Sometimes her food🍞🧃while other times, her things were often snatched and theived by the children older than her. But she never once complained to her teachers nor did she cry as she heard the orphanage children talking about the children who will not be loved and sent out of orphanage if they cried, complained or didn't behave. Little Yves having no one tell her otherwise, believed it; as such the young girl was forced to act as an adult despite being a child.

Her circumstances being such, the toffee given to her by the little boy left a deep impression on her, as he was the first child to ever offer her a toffee, having been accustomed to being taken away. Not knowing his name, she decided to name him stars as eyes sparkled like stars. Yves loved the stars that twinkled in the dark sky night, as she was told they were her parents who shine for her because they love her.

Until today, she never once felt this happy. This incident let the urge in her to never let the orphanage children ever snatch things from her. Because now that she knows the sweet taste of toffee, the child greed in her boosted her will.

Young Yves believed the brighter the star shone the more her parents loved her. The stars were her only companions who brought smile on her lips and warmed her heart. So every night, she wished looking at the stars.

Next day, she went to school and it happened to a birthday of her classmates. Chocolates were distributed per usual, Yves got one too. This time too she decided to have it after lunch.

During lunch time, she ate her food and as she was about to open the chocolate and eat, a girl sitting beside her snatched it. She remembered the girl, who was one of the girls who always took her things.

But this time, Yves resolved to not back down, she went to the teacher and complained against the girl. Though, the girl simply stated that the chocolate was hers.

Seeing the girl lie, Yves asked her what's the flavour of the chocolate? Taken aback the girl replied: strawberry! in a panic. Yves then told the teacher her chocolate was orange flavoured.

Hearing them, the teacher decided to open the chocolate to find Yves was telling the truth. The girl got punished for lying and was made to apologise Yves, returning back her chocolate. The teacher rewarded another chocolate to Yves as an encouragement for telling truth. That day marked as a happy day for her.