Camilla: Violetta and the Pearl 14

She did wake up from the horror. The glass around her heart was shattered and all the love that she was liberated, emanating widely, withholding nothing. All the conditioning about what love should look like and how it should be given and received, shattered with the glass. She was free. The young Muriel died and Auntie Mumu was born. From now on she was forever free.

Her brother…the glass around his heart fell inwards when shattered. He was severely injured, at the very core of his being. Slowly bled to death. He found the liberation he longed for in a heroic war death. He had to pass to feel the light that never once left his side. In fact it shone from within his very being.

-        - Ok so you add the clementines to the cake batter and just a drop of bitter almond extract. Then you get this divine panettone cake that is just to die for.

Mumu was showing me her new Christmas cake recipe. She was folding ingredients into the batter with precision and tenderness. 

-        - Are you really not going to ask me anything about Ruben stepping into our café? It’s not really like you.

     Mumu was pouring the batter into three buttered cake forms, carefully making sure they were evenly filled. Distributing the peeled clementine slices that had sunk to the bottom of the bowl evenly as well. They looked like golden shards that slowly sunk into the almond scenting liquid.

-        - That’s correct my love, I am not going to ask you anything about Ruben.

-        - Well, I just want you to know that I am not…romantically interesting in him. That is not what this is about. We’re just going to try to find out if we can be friends. But people so quickly judge, it just has to be all about love when two young persons hook up.

-        - So explain this to me, darling. If you assume what I am thinking about you and Ruben, aren’t you the one being judgemental?

-        - Oh. Well, maybe.

-        - Honey, I know you’re not into boys. 

-        - Oh?

-        - I also know that you two just might become important for one another. Now, you want to taste the batter?