Hello to all readers,

here the second chapter of the story.
If there are any questions, opinions, etc. I am happy to read them and answer them if possible.
I wish you a lot of fun.
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Chapter 2: Le petit Prince in Le Grand Succès

Araide: "Kirika? Kirika Yuumura?"
Kirika: "Oh good afternoon, Doctor Araide. You still work here?"
Araide: "Uh, no, I now have my own practice, I only do examinations with the students here more often. But since when have you been back in Japan?"
"Now..."
"Ahem!" it came from the other two students.
Sonoko: "Doctor? Could you please introduce us first before you continue your small talk?"
Kirika: "You? Aren't you ... that daughter of a company owner or something? Back when I was here, such a rich heiress went to middle school. The others always said she was very bitchy." Sonoko's gaze twisted the last sentence strongly to the negative, while the others couldn't help but giggle."Who's bitchy here, Fraulein?", But Kirika didn't seem to pay any attention to her anymore and turned to Ran.
"I know you too! Back then in middle school you were the friend of the captain of the soccer team."
Ran's face immediately turned red and she tried to clear up the 'misunderstanding' quickly.
"No, no! We were just friends, but I wasn't 'his girlfriend' if you thought so."
"Oh? I just know that you were there at every game and in every weather and only cheered him on as often as I could watch it."
All her words were connected with this calm, as if she felt nothing about it. Then again as sad as if she just had no place for it, as if other events were in her way.
Araide: "So, to introduce: Ran, Sonoko, this is Kirika Yuumura, you are 20 now, right?
She was here at our school until four years ago ... "
Sonoko: "Now I remember! Ran did you forget that?The girl back then, about whom the high school girls said that she was always gloomy and never did anything with them. "
"Hm ... Yes, dark. Right."
Conan: 'Yes, I also remember, they called her the silent Kirika.'
Sonoko: "That was you. I saw you once on the way home and asked her."
Ran: "If I remember correctly, you left not only school four years ago, but also Japan, direction ..."
Araide: "France."
The addressed just nodded silently and Sonoko grabbed his head with both hands.
“Ah! Not French again!” She guessed that the day still had a lot in store for her. Jodie snuck past the others to finally be able to say hello to the alumni.
"Hello. I am, I mean, I'm Jodie Saintemillion. English teacher at this school."
"That surprises me."
It was actually this sudden sarcasm that surprised Jodie. But she tried to stay calm."Well, the students have to call me Miss Saintemillion, at least during class. But since you are already an alumni (" graduate ", she is not really), you can also call me Miss Jodie."
"Then I guess I'd better address her as Miss Jodie."
'Better?' it went through everyone's mind and for a moment the calmness seemed to rub off on the bystanders.
Araide broke the silence after a while, curious.
"Well, tell me now, Kirika! Why did you go away then?"
"I made a pilgrimage into the past."
"You did WHAT TO WHERE ?????????" it came from all of them at the same time. Another shy smile fell on her lips.
"Let's say I had to find out a lot about myself."
Sonoko: "And for that you had to go to France?"
"There lived the only person who could help me. And she came back with me to Japan with me. In fact, I'm waiting for her right now."Ran: "Wait a minute. Did you say you were waiting here ... for a friend ... from France? But not ..."
"Kirika!"
"Mireille!" she could not hold back her joy, forgot Ran and the others, ran past them and fell around the neck of the teacher standing at the door.
"Nice that you come to pick me up today."
An uncomfortable shiver came over the bystanders.
"Mireille ?!"
Sonoko came up to Ran.
"Do you think the two are a ...", but she nudged her lightly in the side with her elbow to make it clear to her that she shouldn't go on talking.
Jodie: “Well, you have interesting friends, Miss Bouquet.” She masked a slight discomfort with her accent, which visibly hurt Mireille's ears.
"Please, Miss Jodie! Call me by my first name as I call you. It speaks like the English words for me -" me "and ray -" ray ":" Me-ray ", Mireille."
'That conceited ... Just because she has a slightly better expression.I could do that if I hadn't played this number to the students at the time. '
Jodie's disgruntled look was countered by a barely recognizable smile that looked like she knew what Jodie was thinking.
Only then did Mireille Conan become aware, standing at the door and following the scene in silence with his arms folded behind his back. She moved back the two steps she had just taken towards her friend and leaned down to him with a happy expression:
"Salut. Je m'appelle Mireille."
(Hello. My name is Mireille.)
"... Et ... je ... AAUUUUAAHH !!!!"
His fingers were wedged in the crack in the door behind him.
Ran: "Oh my god, Conan. Has something happened to you? I'm terribly sorry! I must have leaned against the door and moved it."
She looked very worriedly at his reddened fingers.
'Since when has Ran been behind me?'
"Oh, it's not that bad."
A smile slipped across her face, Mireille twitched for a moment and then followed Ran's expression again."It's okay, kid. So your name is Conan, did I get that right?"
He just nodded in amazement. Only now did he understand what Ran meant by speaking so differently from Jodie. He always thought she would have a heavy French accent instead of the broad American accent. But no! She spoke perfect Japanese with no problems whatsoever. A slight dialect, as is common in Tokyo, even seemed to shimmer through. If you didn't know her face, you'd think she was Japanese.
She slowly leaned back up and took her watch out of her pocket. A moment of sadness overcame her as she opened it and read the time.
Conan could see the emblem on the lid: two kneeling women with swords in their hands. And he saw that the glass cover on the inside was half broken off.
Ran: "Your watch ... is broken!"
This objection caused the teacher to hold the clock open for more than a few seconds for the first time in the presence of the students, and thereby the music in it began to play.Actually, Ran and Sonoko expected that she would slam the clock and instruct her not to speak to her, but she stopped, stood still, paused until the cycle ended. Only then did she slowly close the lid and put it back without grimacing for a moment.
Conan: "That's an heirloom, isn't it?"
The other's lethargy caused by the music was suddenly interrupted.
Mireille: "How do you get that?"
"First, the look. The watch obviously reminded you of a sad event. That allows two conclusions. Either a family heirloom from a relative you were thinking of death, or a gift from an ex-friend.
But the watch looks very valuable, even though its glass is splintered. In such a state, a gift from the not too distant past is unlikely to come of it. In addition, the music doesn't seem like it was made for a young lady from today. So I'll go for the first option. "Ran: "Well, Conan, please! In both cases you shouldn't ask for something like that!"
A kind of resignation went through Mireille's eyes.
"It's okay, Ran. He's right."
'Of course he's right, Mademoiselle Bouquet, as always. As always...'
"This watch belonged to my mother, who sadly passed away when I was a child. It is the last memory I have of her."
She closed her eyes at the end of the sentence to symbolically end the conversation on the subject.
"Kirika. We should go now.
Au revoir, mes Amis.
Et ... Au revoir, ... mon petit prince! "
This last turn, at which both had already left the auditorium and only briefly turned around, was clearly for Conan.
Sonoko: "... mon ... petit ... prince ??? My little prince ???"
Ran: "Isn't that the name of this children's book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery? What else was it about?"
Araide: "To a little boy, out of this world, who traveled through space.
He met the adults and through his apparent naivety, his childishness, he uncovered their weaknesses, their mistakes.There's a famous quote from this book:

'On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. '
'One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.'"

Sonoko: "Aaaahhhh! Can't it finally be good with French for today?"
Jodie: "Oh, you don't seem to be in the mood for French culture, eh Sonoko? That would be sad!"
She rummaged in her pocket and pulled out a long, white piece of paper.
"That was in my mail this morning. A voucher for four people for a free evening menu in a very fine restaurant for French cuisine: the" Le Grand Succes "."
Ran: "Wow, as far as I know this is not just a fine, but a really fine restaurant and correspondingly expensive. For four people!
Conan: 'Luck? Funny, it's actually her turn to live alone. Also, it can be seen from her name that she is not Japanese.So you didn't know whether she would understand Japanese well. Then a promotional voucher for a French restaurant? And a voucher for four? '
"So you wouldn't feel like going there with Ran, Conan and me tonight, Sonoko?"
Ran: "What, you want to invite us there? Oh, Sonoko! You have been there with your family from time to time and you always say that the food is great there." She looked at her friend enthusiastically, but only got one drooped face as an answer.
"Miss Jodie, wouldn't you prefer to go with Dr. Araide? It really is a very nice restaurant in the Haido Tower. With a great view and an interesting decoration."
She looked at her watch.
"Tell me, are you doing anything else, Sonoko?"
Their only reaction was to change their minds.
"Well, well,