As Queen Riza walked toward the square the two men sitting in one of the cement seats saw her. There are no other people in the square, just them drinking beer. The two men were homeless and because it's summer, they just stay in the square, they do not go to a shelter house as the temperature was tolerable.
"Look, Andre, what a strange woman, look at her clothing." One man exclaimed upon seeing Queen Riza.
"She has a crown on her head!" the other man that was called Andre said and laughed.
"What is she doing in the middle of the night?"
"I do not know, Kees." Tipsy Andre answered and he stood up. He walked toward Queen Riza who was approaching them.
"Hello?" he greeted Queen Riza who answered him with a smile. Andre saw through the light that he was in front of a pretty woman. "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
"If you come with me in there, I will tell you why." Queen Riza answered Andre, pointing thick bushes of rhododendron planted in both sides of the small path within the square.
Andre and Queen Riza went in there and Kees who was already drunk mumbled. "Why he always has luck in women than me?"
Kees stayed seated where he sat, and he heard sounds like, 'Oh, 'Ah', which he thought were sounds of love from Andre. While waiting he fell asleep because of too much alcohol intake.
Rosalie had already the food and was driving the same way back. By the square, she stopped to picked Queen Riza who was already waiting along the road.
Driving back home, Rosalie noticed that Queen Riza was relaxed. She did not breathe heavily anymore but Queen Riza once for a while giggled for no reason at all. And she has hiccups.
When they were inside the house, Rosalie put the paper bag on the table.
"Hamburgers, fries, and cola!" Rosalie said to Queen Riza as she opened the paper bag where the foods she bought were. Queen Riza was just calmly sitting and watching her.
"Now we can eat!"
"I am happy you brought me outside your house. It is a very satisfying night. I feel much better." Queen Riza with a smile on her face said to Rosalie.
"No problem," Rosalie answered Queen Riza and put a Frites to her mouth. She pushed to Queen Riza her share of the food. "Eat. You were hungry you said, that's why we come out the house to buy these foods."
"Moment." Queen Riza said and she stood up and walked into the room of Rosalie.
"Where are you going?" but Queen Riza did not answer. She continued walking and entered the room of Rosalie.
Rosalie thought that Queen Riza would come back so she just stayed sitting and eat her hamburger but after five minutes that Queen Riza did not come back, she entered her room. She saw no Queen Riza inside.
"Where are you?" Rosalie asked while seeking Queen Riza. "Riza where are you?"
When there's no answer, Rosalie faced the mirror and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, where is Riza, my sister?"
Rosalie thought that Queen Riza will show thru her reflection in the mirror but no. Rosalie stood there for a while but she only saw herself as she was.
"If you just go without saying a goodbye it's okay" and Rosalie turn her back to the mirror as she's planning to finish her food when she heard a voice. The voice of Queen Riza.
"Go to sleep, Rosalie! 'Till next time."
THE next day, Sunday. Rosalie just woke up by her biorhythm even though she went to sleep late. She stayed for a while in her bed and tried to recollect in her mind about Queen Riza and her going outside the house in the middle of the night. About Queen Riza's hunger but did not eat the food she bought. Strange woman, she thought as she really believed that Queen Riza was another person.
She did her household chores as she always does every Sunday. She also emptied the Wash dryer and folded her clothes, then when everything was done, she took out from the refrigerator the foods she bought last night. She put in the magnetron the hamburger and fries that were for Queen Riza but went away without eating it.
After eating her lunch, she sat in the living room, pick her mobile phone, and began scrolling her emails, then went to the page of FB, scrolling and read things that interest her. Then she opened the news site to read the news until she came to an article of news about what happened last night in Noordplein, the square that Queen Riza stepped out of the car to have a fresh breath of air.
The news had it about a homeless man murdered in the square. The man was decapitated and the police arrested another homeless man as he was found sleeping of drunkenness on a cement bank, on his body the head of the decapitated man.
Rosalie quickly opened her TV to look if there's news about it. A local TV Station in Rotterdam always ran complete details of special news. She's right. The local TV Station had about it, and they were talking about a horrible crime, the first time that happened in Noordplein.
After Rosalie saw the news coverage about the death of a homeless man in the Noordplein, the square where Queen Riza was out for fresh air, she thought Queen Riza was lucky that she was not victimized as the crime happened according to the police around midnight. Yet, Rosalie wants to ask Queen Riza about it if she noticed something in the square that night.
Rosalie entered her room and stand in front of the mirror, motionless to see if her reflection will move or talk to denote the presence of Queen Riza but nothing strange happened so she talks to the mirror.
*to be continued* Remy Dorio