14. Chapter 14 (1/2)

chapter xiv

dear diary,

school has just started (exactly three days ago) and i couldn't be more pleased about my new class. most of the class are girls and the girls with really interesting names at that. there's verona, dominica, tamsin, morgan and sayler, i remember their names but for the life of me i can't remember the faces of those girls yet.

although i really enjoyed the summer holidays, reading new books, taking walks across the rainbow valley and the very wonderful week in august when robert came to glen and surprised me… i will miss all of this, but i can't wait for this new school-year as i have a feeling that it will be just perfect.

i still can't quite believe that i'm engaged! to robert! and that i will become mrs keats next july. that's why i'm excited for this new school-year as it willl be my last here at glen's school with my queen's class. but nevertheless, i am very happy and this week spent with robert was simply beautiful. i don't think we've ever been so happy together than during that week in august.

robert is excited for our wedding too even in his last letter he sent me he wrote that he already started looking for our new home but i told him not to hurry, we still have ten more months! but i must say that the very thought of me and robert living together in our own sweet home in ottawa makes my head fill up with such darling dreams!

there, i need to go now, i can hear rilla's voice downstairs and i can see a knitting set at the corner of my eye. i really have to go!

yours,

di blythe

"i'm so glad that i could take a walk with just you today, di." una said quietly to her friend as the two of them walked side by side across the woods "i love the farm house and spending time with my cilia but today is the day which i want to spend just with you." she smiled at di who squeezed her hand gently.

"i'm glad that you could make it." she replied "i always used to walk alone in silence on this day, but i think that i prefer to have you with me. especially now that i know that both of us loved walter equally much." di grinned warmly at una who put her arm in di's arm.

"it's been eight years already." una murmured, her steadfast blue eyes following the red path in front of her "and it feels as if it happened just yesterday."

di looked in una's pale face and she felt as if the whole world didn't exist, that it was just the two them, two friends walking together surrounded by the orange and red leaves of autumn, with the soft wind blowing in their faces, as if the walter's soul was somewhere next to them too, listening and smiling at them. "he watches over us." di said suddenly "i always only thought that he is, but just now i really believe in it, i can feel that he's near us."

una looked at di and smiled with her eyes full of warm tears "i always knew that he is watching over each of us. that's who walter was, the protective wonderful man with dreamy gray eyes, which i can clearly see in your own eyes, di." she said and patted di's hand tenderly.

"i never thought about both walter and i having similar colour of eyes." di confessed and then grinned again "but i know that he's happy, up there in heaven." she smiled through the tears in her eyes and looked up at the clear blue sky with

ight white clouds racing each other over it.

"yes, i think he is too." una said with warmness spreading across her face.

"i wonder what he thinks about all of the children in our family." di sighed softly.

una chuckled lightly "i think that he would like merry and gilly. they truly can make everyone happy even if just for one second." she said and di also chuckled.

"to think about it, walter actually has much more entertainment in heaven than we do; he's watching us, what we do, what we think, what decisions we make." di said with a funny smile and a twinkle in her eyes "but still, i will always miss him and i would much prefer him to be here with us today." she sighed deeply and looked back at una as she saw how her friend shook her hand and looked at her seriously.

"di, don't tell me that you lost faith. you musn't. promise me that you never will." she said passionately, just as passionately as she told di her secret story a few months earlier.

di kissed una's cheek gently and smiled at her assuringly "i promise, dear una. i will never loose faith." she said and the two friends continued on walking through the woods and somewhere out of their reach the black-haired boy of gray poetic eyes was smiling at them and his eyes weren't just dreamy but they were also very proud.

dear diary,