Chapter 11 lessons
Once breakfast was over ciel went to his study and Amalia followed him along with sebastian, once they were in Amalia sat down on a chair and ciel sat behind his desk ciel then looked at sebastian and said "what's my schedule for today?" sebastian took out a piece of paper and read out his list sebastian said "it seems that you have lessons until 1, and after that lady elizabeth should be coming for a visit"
When ciel heard that he said "isn't there anything else sebastian, and why is Elizabeth coming over?" sebastian said "master you know that I am responsible for your education, and lady elizabeth is coming over to see how Amalia is, as she has been wondering who she as and if she has woken up" Amalia was smiling and taught 'it's just the same'
Ciel then said "fine but what about her?" Sebastian looked at Amalia and said "I have an idea how about you join the master for his lessons Amalia" Amalia nodded and said "I don't mind, I think I had some homework that I needed to do"
Sebastian smiled and said "wonderful, now Amalia why don't you see if you have got any homework, then come back here and we can begin" Amalia nodded and left once Amalia had gone ciel said "why is she having lessons as well sebastian?"
Sebastian looked at ciel and said "well for one master it stops her from having nothing to do, and also I want to see what her skills are like with other lessons seeing as I have assessed her dancing and music skills" ciel sighed and said "very well then"
Amalia went back to her room and looked through her rucksack she found her sketch book and pencil case and then pulled out a stack of books she sighed Amalia said "it's worse than I taught, now let's see which ones do I take?" Amalia set out each book and said "right I better not take my science book, geography and re book but the rest I better take"
Amalia picked all of them up and put them in her shoulder bag and went back to the study when she entered it seems sebastian had put a small table and a chalk board out, he turned to the door way to see Amalia standing there he smiled and said "why don't you sit down and we can get started"
Amalia nodded and placed her bag on the table and looked at Sebastian he said "is there something wrong Amalia?" Amalia shook her head she taught 'he's in tutor mode now, I better make sure I don't make a mistake'
Sebastian smiled and "said wonderful now master 1st we have literature, Amalia what is your homework?" Amalia said "a book report on any from this list" Amalia passed the list to Sebastian she had made sure to cross off any book that he wouldn't know
Sebastian read the list and said "how about one of the Charles dickens books" Amalia nodded and said "which one should I use?" Sebastian said "master what is the one you are currently reading?" ciel taught for a moment and said "I believe a Christmas carol"
Sebastian nodded and said "why don't you use that one to do your report" Amalia nodded and said "ok is there a copy of the book I can borrow?" Sebastian nodded and walked over to the book shelf and took down a book and passed it to Amalia, she thanked him and started to read and make notes
Sebastian said "ok master while Amalia is doing that lets start on your lessons shall we" ciel said "very well" so for the next hour Amalia worked on her report and ciel was busy reading a book
Sebastian clapped his hands and said "ok master time for your next lesson" he walked over to Amalia and said "how are you getting on?" Amalia looked up and said "I've just finished"
Sebastian smiled and said "wonderful, do you want me to have a read of it?" Amalia shook her head and said "it's fine I can always get you to check it when I get back" sebastian said "very well now master your next lesson is maths"
Ciel sighed and said "fine" he didn't want to do maths Amalia took out her maths work book and opened it to the page she needed Sebastian said "what's that book Amalia?" Amalia looked up and said "it's a workbook full of problems for me to solve" sebastian said "may I take a look at it?"
Amalia nodded and passed it to him sebastian said "interesting" and started to write down some of the problems on the chalk board once he had done that he passed the book back to Amalia sebastian then said "right master Amalia let's see if you can solve these problems"
Amalia checked the board against her book sebastian had wrote down the two pages of problems she needed to solve for homework, ciel sighed and said "very well" then and stared at the board and started to write the answers down as ciel was doing that Amalia was working the problems out on a scrap bit of paper, once she was finished she looked up to see if ciel had solved them
Sebastian went over to Amalia and said "are you finished?" Amalia nodded and said "would you check them?" Sebastian nodded and said "I will" so Sebastian picked the book up and went over to the board to compare answers
Sebastian then said "Amalia how did you get the answer to this problem?" Amalia got up and went over to Sebastian and said "which one?" Sebastian pointed and said "this one"
Amalia went over to fetch her piece of paper and said "this is how" Sebastian looked nodded and said "ok I see it now" sebastian then turned to ciel and said "master it seems you have got one wrong" ciel said "what! I'm sure that every single one is correct"
Sebastian said "I'm sorry but it's wrong, from looking at how Amalia got the answer her way gives the correct answer every time" after that ciel said "ok so what's my next lesson then" sebastian said "master next is dance practice now shall we start?"
Ciel said "I don't need any dance lessons" Sebastian said "master remember I am in charge of you education, and I set the lessons so it's time for dance lessons" ciel sighed and said "very well then"
Sebastian smiled and said "wonderful now for today Amalia will be your partner" Amalia just remained silent ciel went over to Amalia and stood next to her with small heals on Amalia was almost the same height as ciel sebastian then said "now shall we begin, today we will dance the waltz I'm sure you will have no trouble with this master as it is only the basics" and put on some music
ciel put his hand on Amalia's waist and took her left hand and Amalia put her right hand on ciels shoulder and started to dance, sebastian was watching them dance and said "master remember to smile and look at your partner and not at your feet, you must lead the lady when dancing" ciel remained silent but followed sebastian's instructions Amalia just stayed quiet she had her eyes closed and was listening to the music, it was then sebastian clapped his hands Amalia opened her eyes ciel had a painful look on his face
Amalia said "is something wrong ciel?" sebastian said "oh it's nothing it's just the master hates to dance, but how does he expect to entertain lady elizabeth when she asks him to dance at parties such as the one tomorrow"
Ciel said "I know, so what's my next class Sebastian" Sebastian smiled and said "music master, shall we go to the piano" ciel said "why there Sebastian?" Sebastian said "I make the rules, so if you two would follow me please"
Amalia just silently followed sebastian when they entered the drawing room sebastian set up a stand for sheet music for ciel and placed another sheet on the piano for Amalia sebastian then said "Amalia if you would, and master if you would do the same" Amalia and ciel made their way over Amalia sat at the piano and ciel stood behind the stand ciel said "what am I planning today sebastian?"
Sebastian said "I want you and Amalia to play a violin and piano duet, seeing as how Amalia's skill is the same as yours on the piano" ciel looked at his sheet and said "very well who starts first?" sebastian said "that would be Amalia so Amalia when you're ready"
Amalia nodded and looked at the music sheet and read it she then took a deep breath in and started, after a few minutes sebastian tapped ciels stand as if to say now you start ciel nodded and started, after a few minutes the music stopped sebastian smiled and said "very good master" he then turned to Amalia and said "is there another instrument you can play"
Amalia got off the bench and walked over to ciel and said "can I borrow this please?" ciel handed her his violin to her, he was confused Amalia turned to sebastian and said "is there something you want me to play?" ciel then said "sebastian what about that piece"
Sebastian nodded and said "very well then" he looked at Amalia and said "how about this" and placed the music sheet on the stand, Amalia looked at the music sheet and nodded and said "are you sure about this piece, I don't think you've ever considered letting me attempting to play this" sebastian smiled and said "just try it, so when you're ready"
Amalia closed her eyes and started to play she opened her eyes every so often but for the majority of the performance kept them closed, after a few minutes silence filled the room ciel and sebastian just stared ciel said "I didn't think she would be able to play that it seems it was effortless for her, and yet she said she'd never played this piece before" sebastian went over to Amalia and said "well done it seems you have met the masters challenge"
Amalia smiled and said "really that was the first time I've played that and I got it perfect" ciel said "what! that was the first time you played that?" Amalia nodded and said "it took me a few months of practice I've been practicing it, and every time I make a tone of mistakes and this is the first time I've ever played it in front of someone and I got it perfect"
Ciel said "it seems like she really is a demons daughter to be able to play that perfectly" sebastian nodded and said "yes it seems that way, now Amalia how is your singing?" Amalia looked at sebastian and said "why do you ask?"
Sebastian smiled and said "if you can play music that lovely I'm sure your singing is just as good" Amalia said "do I have to sing?" sebastian said "why is there a problem?" Amalia shook her head and said "it's just that I've never really sung in front of anyone besides you, and I'm not that good of a singer I'm terrible"
Sebastian smiled and said "don't worry I'm sure you will be fine and singing in front of the master will help you overcome your stage fright of singing in front of others" Amalia said "do I have to sing?" sebastian said "yes but I'm sure you are a good singer, now will you sing for me just close your eyes and think it's just me and you in the room and no one else"
Amalia nodded and said "ok what should I sing then?" sebastian looked at her and said "anything you like, don't be afraid if it's a song we don't know just sing whatever you want, remember just think that's it's just me and you" Amalia nodded she taught for a moment and said "I'm ready she closed her eyes and started to sing"
A few minutes later Amalia opened her eyes and said "I'm done" Amalia just looked at her feet and said "it was bad wasn't it, I told you I wasn't a good singer" Sebastian said Amalia "look at me" he was smiling and said "well done kitten" Amalia said "really! But I'm sure it was terrible, I'm not a good singer" ciel walked over to Amalia and said "sebastian's right it was very good, you have a beautiful singing voice"
Amalia shook her head and said "even though dad always tells me that, I know I'm not a good singer" Sebastian said "who told you that you went a good singer?" Amalia said "some girls at school who heard you giving me extra music lessons and singing lessons, they said I wasn't a good singer and that's why I needed lessons" she was holding her tears back she remembered all the horrible things they had said and done
sebastian bent down to Amalia's level and put his hands on her shoulders and said "who ever said that to you wrong, there probably jealous of you and the fact that you're so good, now I'm sure if you tell me this when you get back I can help you out" Amalia nodded and said "do you really think I'm a good singer?" both sebastian and ciel nodded ciel said "why don't you ask those three what they think"
Amalia looked behind ciel to see mey rin, brad and finny standing there sebastian said "and what are you three doing here?" finny said "well we heard someone singing, and we wanted to see who it was?" brad nodded and said "yeah we also heard someone playing the piano and a hard piece on the violin" mey rin then said "we never expected it to be miss Amalia she's so good at the violin and piano"
Brad and finny nodded finny then said "was it miss Amalia who was singing?" sebastian said "yes it was" they looked at each other stunned finny said "wow it sounded like an angel was singing" mey rin nodded and said "it sounded like a professional was singing"
Sebastian then whispered to Amalia "now it seems that others think you are a good singer, doesn't that tell you more than what those girls said to you" Amalia nodded and said "you right I just hope they don't ask what the song was called, because I don't think they will understand" sebastian nodded and said "yes you are right" he then turned to them and said "will that be all" the others nodded sebastian said "if so isn't there something you can be doing?" with that said they left
Sebastian looked at his watch and said "well now it seems lady Elizabeth will be here soon, and it's almost lunch time I think we should stop with the lessons for today"
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