| Fan Fiction |
by SeventhStar
After an exhausted testing, I sat on the garage while all the crews prepared to go home. Most of the crews already got a family. So I knew they must be exciting to go home. Even this is an Asia Team with Petronas and Honda as the main sponsor here, but most of the crews still from Europe. There are just Ella and some of the mechanics from Bridgestone that come from Asia countries.
Then Hana suddenly sat on my lap while asked me “Prince, I’m so bored.”
“Why?”
“Mommy is so busy with her works.”
I lifted here up and turned her body so her face faced me. “Your mother is an excellent race engineer. Of course what made her become an excellent one because she doing a hard work. Don’t you proud with it?”
Suddenly I realized, Hana was just 4 years old little girl. Perhaps she didn’t understand about her mother’s occupation. Sometimes I felt Hana more matured than 4 years old. From the way she speak, she definitely a very smart child.
“I know my mother is an excellent race engineer. I’m so proud with her. But sometimes I feel jealous with my friends. They seems always have a mother that accompany them to the school everyday.”
“You don’t go to school?”
“No I don’t. I just don’t want to live far from Mommy. Beside if I go to school I will live with Grandma in Taiwan and I will not able to see the world again with Mommy. I will miss Mommy.”
“Don’t you want able to read and write?”
She smiled happily. “I can read and write. Do you want to see it?”
I nodded and Hana immediately rushed to the back of garage and brought a book in her hand when she returned.
I lifted her up so she could sit on my lap. I opened the book with her. The title of the book is “Beauty and The Beast”.
Then she started to read the book to me. I enjoyed her adorable voice when she read the book I felt so close to her. It seemed like I knew her for a long time. Sometimes I gave my comment about what she read and we discussed the story. She loved to make a joke and it really made me relax. She was just a pure, innocent and smart little girl.
Finally she finished read the book and said. “This story is Mommy’s favorite story.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. She said this story give so many lesson. For example, we couldn’t judge someone just by his or her look. Their heart is the most important thing.”
“What’s your favorite one?”
“Cinderella but Mommy doesn’t like it. She said everything in the world just could be get if we struggled for it. If we just wait and wait like Cinderella we will just end up in home with the real mice.”
I surprised with it. Definitely Ella was not a person that live based on day dreaming, I thought she perhaps hate it.
Just in time after that, Hana ran from my lap and ended up in her father’s arm. Without I noticed, Baron Chen came on our garage. I stood to give my respect to him but he immediately left with Hana hold his hands. Then… I saw Ella cried. I couldn’t see it because I just able to see her back but I knew she cried because her body just shaken.
At that moment I just felt this woman in front of me was not the same woman that gave me a couple of instructions and suggestions. This woman was not the strong race engineer. She was just a mom.
Without thought twice I invited her to have a dinner. I just wanted to comfort her because I didn’t want to see he vulnerable side of my boss. Of my race engineer. I couldn’t just stand there and see her cried. I just couldn’t.
“Uhmm… how about a dinner as a treat for my first race engineer? “
She saw me on a surprised expression. She must be thought why I suddenly invited her to have a dinner. She kept silent for a moment. “But I’m not hungry. I didn’t have any eager to eat.”
Damn. She rejected my invitation. That was not a good sign for our future work.
“But I love to eat an ice cream.” She added.
I smiled and felt so relieved. “Sure, I know a good place to eat ice cream. We even didn’t need car to go there. Just walk.”
“That’s pretty good.”
Then we walked through the Sepang Gate. I giggled when I remembered she said wanted to eat ice cream. Her expression was more like Hana than Ella. I thought that kind of reaction just could come from a 5 years old little girl.
“Hey what are you laughing at?” She scolded me.
“Nothing. I just remembered when you said you want an ice cream. It was like a little girl begged an ice cream to her daddy.”
She kicked my leg
“Ouch!.” I screamed.
“Oww…. At least I’m better than you. You screamed like a little girl even you are a fully grown up man. Or… it just your appearance?”
“How old are you Mam? You still play a silly game like that?”
“27 years old Sir. And still feel young. Growing old is mandatory, Growing mature is an option” She laughed. Finally.
I laughed with her. I thought the woman beside me was unreachable person because she always acts formal in front of me. Glad to see her laugh because I even didn’t dare to see her sad expression when Hana left her.
Then we arrived on the restaurant that I knew clearly served great ice creams. Why ice creams here special because it has fruit taste in it.
She looked at the menu and she ordered. “I wanted a Melon Ice Cream.”
“I want a Strawberry Ice Cream.”
“Why you choose a Strawberry Ice Cream? I never like strawberry. Sometimes it feels so sour.”
I answered her. “You never heard a Philosophy of an Ice Cream don’t you?”
“I even don’t know it exists.”
“Ha ha. I made it by my own.”
“You know what, I expected it.”
“Wanna heard or not?”
“Sure.” Ella replaced her hand in the table. Ready to hear my explanation.
“Well…. eating ice cream like the journey of our life. Because we eat not in one swallow, but we taste it first then we swallow it. Bit by bit. Just like when we do our life. Everything not just comes in one round. I always hope my life like a strawberry ice cream. Sometimes it will taste sweet but in other time it will feel sour. But even sometimes it tastes sour but I will always think the strawberry ice cream is a beautiful thing. Strawberry just like the most beautiful fruit ever. I want to do my life like that. I want always see my life as a beautiful life although I know sometimes I get a bitter and sour moments in it.” I explained to her.
She smiled and said. “Wow… what a nice philosophy! Waiter! I want to change my choice. I want a Strawberry Ice Cream too!”
I laughed when she did that. “Ha ha… You changed your ice cream!”
She shook her head. “No no… I didn’t just change my ice cream. I also change my life philosophy. Now I realizing. How our life looks like depends on how we treat our life isn’t it? If we think our life full of sourness then that will appear on. If we see our life just with a optimistic thinking, even we know the taste of life it self not only contain with a sweet experience, we will stay strong because we enjoy the view of our life it self.”
“Bingo!” I clapped my hands.
“Don’t be too loud!”.
We talked so many things when we enjoyed the ice creams. But it’s more about me. She still didn’t want to open her self. She mostly talked about Hana.
“And you know what Wu Ji Zun! Even Hana born in the mobile clinic!” She told me while laughed.
“Impossible!” I didn’t believe what I heard.
“Yes that’s true. I still remember, that was when Baron got his first point in the competition. After the previous year we finished with zero point. At the moment when everyone celebrate it, I couldn’t hold Hana anymore. I just ran into the mobile clinic and give a birth to Hana.”
“Hana spend most of her life in the circuit I think.”
“Yes. Because she is the special one.” She smiled when she said that. But after that she started to keep quiet. I knew she must be remembered about Hana again.
After we finished the ice creams, we backed to the hotel. As one team, our hotel was same. When we reached the hotel lobby, surprisingly there was Baron hold Hana that slept in his arms.
He looked into Ella with an angry expression then slapped her face.
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[Author’s Note]: I broke my promise. I said I will update this story everyday but I missed one chapter yesterday. No, that was not because I’m still sad. But yesterday I was going to buy a new laptop but bring a zero result because I don’t know what laptop I should choose. Ha ha. I will back again to the mall in Sunday lol. But after I got my new “baby” I’m afraid I will break the promise again because I will play with my new baby. Ha ha. I just want to say… I know you will love me because sooo much CE moments here. Ha ha. But I miss my F1 baby… lol. I just hope I could read comments from you and please don’t laugh in strawberry philosophy. That’s actually I made it by my own….. LOL.
[Comment’s Reply]:
Jasmine: Yeah…. and now I lose everything lol. I will root for german too… Ha ha. Since my schumi will be happy if german win. You like Schumi too? LOL. Schumi is my idol. Because of him I fall in love with ferrari and F1. He is just too great as driver and also as a father. Erm… is it quite obvious? Ha ha ha. I’m moving on ^^
jowyn: Actually I’m not a moody person. But…. ha ha. Never mind its already over. Thanks for your concern dearie. Actually I wonder… are you also a CEFC member? LOL
Valentina: Aduuuh val… sadis amat, mana gw habis nonton Pathology lagi… ha ha. Yayang gw yang lain Milo Ventimiglia main di sana :P
Lindy: Ahh.... new reader in this FF! Although I knew you read my other FF. Thanks dearie.
ixie1504:Love you too because you love this story!! LOL.
Xue: kalo komen lu gak usah gw jawab disini… dah puas kan lewat sms? bwa ha ha ha ^^
If I have silent readers (LOL>>>) I hope you can open your silent mask and say hi to me even just once LOL…
Tika (28 June 2008)