Jun 02, 2004 15:17
Amelie follows the two clients to the door, seeing them out.
Two gluttons who bought about everything she has in the shop. She cannot decide who's worse. The ones who step in wearing a scarf and dark glasses, as if they were entering a sex shop and didn't want to be recognized - rabid dieters, or the ones who are grossly overweight and still working on increasing. None of the two categories seems happy with its lot in life, still they pursue it relentlessy.
She thinks of a debate that was going on between the two clients.. creating a new holiday of your own choosing..
She takes a deep breath of the breeze coming in from the sea and listens to the slow, regular creaking in the wind of the sign Vianne hung above the shop.
Amelie smiles at the ugly face of Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, the God who first brought the cocoa beans to the Aztecs.
They already have their sacred day, he and her, every time someone puts a chocolate in his or her mouth and waits that breathless, eager moment while it melts.
She nods to the God and steps back into the shop to create more chocolate worship.