Love is in the air
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estdeus_innobisSunday, February 14th
Valentine's Day
I sit on my bed with my legs crossed, writing real careful in my notebook. MRS CLARA GRANGER I write, all tidy, then underneath I practice my signature. Clara Granger. That nice man at the market swore it wouldn't take too long for him to propose after he drank the potion. After I practice my signature a few times I write our names together. PETER AND CLARA, and I put them inside a nice big heart.
I hear Momma shouting for me and I sigh. I know she won't approve when Peter and I get together, cos he is a bunch older than me and she says seventeen is way too young to settle down. But I know she married Pop at nineteen, so she's just a hypocrite. And Peter's a real good catch - got his own job, his own place. There's that Maya of course to worry about, I think, and I push my pencil a bit too hard into the page and the point breaks. But once Peter's had the potion he won't remember that he likes her. I just need to work out how to get it to him.
Momma shouts again.
"Coming!" I shout. I know she wants me to go to that dumb Valentine's market and help her sell quilts. Ugh. But Peter might be around town, so I check my hair is nice before I go down.
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This punch just don't look too appetising. I sigh and shout for Clara again. What is that girl doing? Probably dreaming about that barman. She thinks I don't know she's moony about him. I'm just glad he's got a sweetheart, or else he might go for my Clara - she's real pretty and men like adoring girls. He's much too old for her. I taste the punch and it's real nice, course it is, made from our fruits, but the colour just don't pop. Feeling a bit guilty, I get out some food colourant and drop it in, and it goes a nice reddish colour. That's about right for Valentine's, ain't it? I stopper up the barrel. Clara comes down.
"Get those quilts in the cart, will you?" I say, hustling her out and then getting the punch on the wagon. Roads are clear, so we get set up easy. Just a few stalls for this - jewellery, flowers, all kinds of novelties. I put out the prettiest quilts - maybe some guy'll think one'd make a nice present for his wife, and more practical than earbobs - and set up the punch.
"Free punch, sir?" I say, holding out a cup. After a bit of prodding I get Clara dishing up punch too. Hopefully it'll be a good day.
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Valentine's Day
I sit on my bed with my legs crossed, writing real careful in my notebook. MRS CLARA GRANGER I write, all tidy, then underneath I practice my signature. Clara Granger. That nice man at the market swore it wouldn't take too long for him to propose after he drank the potion. After I practice my signature a few times I write our names together. PETER AND CLARA, and I put them inside a nice big heart.
I hear Momma shouting for me and I sigh. I know she won't approve when Peter and I get together, cos he is a bunch older than me and she says seventeen is way too young to settle down. But I know she married Pop at nineteen, so she's just a hypocrite. And Peter's a real good catch - got his own job, his own place. There's that Maya of course to worry about, I think, and I push my pencil a bit too hard into the page and the point breaks. But once Peter's had the potion he won't remember that he likes her. I just need to work out how to get it to him.
Momma shouts again.
"Coming!" I shout. I know she wants me to go to that dumb Valentine's market and help her sell quilts. Ugh. But Peter might be around town, so I check my hair is nice before I go down.
This punch just don't look too appetising. I sigh and shout for Clara again. What is that girl doing? Probably dreaming about that barman. She thinks I don't know she's moony about him. I'm just glad he's got a sweetheart, or else he might go for my Clara - she's real pretty and men like adoring girls. He's much too old for her. I taste the punch and it's real nice, course it is, made from our fruits, but the colour just don't pop. Feeling a bit guilty, I get out some food colourant and drop it in, and it goes a nice reddish colour. That's about right for Valentine's, ain't it? I stopper up the barrel. Clara comes down.
"Get those quilts in the cart, will you?" I say, hustling her out and then getting the punch on the wagon. Roads are clear, so we get set up easy. Just a few stalls for this - jewellery, flowers, all kinds of novelties. I put out the prettiest quilts - maybe some guy'll think one'd make a nice present for his wife, and more practical than earbobs - and set up the punch.
"Free punch, sir?" I say, holding out a cup. After a bit of prodding I get Clara dishing up punch too. Hopefully it'll be a good day.
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Date: 2010-09-28 02:46 pm (UTC)Glass is blushing, but I suppose she's thinking about how she liked Dorian and wasn't sure what to do about it.
"I think he's used to doing what he likes," I agree. "I think... there was also a time that wasn't so."
Glass turns the matter to Iago.
"He used-- would've called him closer to desperate, once. He's rather settling in himself,"
"I'm glad," I say, but I'm thinking of what Lannie called him, and how jokes often hide truth. Is Verdandi making Iago mad? "Marriage suits him," I say, and I smile at her.
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Date: 2010-09-28 05:01 pm (UTC)"Before he was as he is... think you've the right of it," I say, shaking my head a little, and thinking of old words and paper like weak tea. "At least tries for kindness sometimes, though, even when he's tangled in himself..." Smile faint and exasperated, thinking of my clothes. Burnt them, and them yet perfectly sound, the idiot.
And of Iago Kate says "I'm glad," and if there's some caution there I think she's yet speaking truth. "Marriage suits him."
"We're matched, in that regard," I say, and the dragonfly weight of the ring on my hand... faint bittersweet, now, in this strange mood I'm of, but always a surety at the heart of it, steady touchstone for what's meant. And a fine thing to sit here talking of such matters. "Tell me how things've been with you and Tess, though?" I add. Know the strangeness that can come of living with another, and as we're both here and those we keep house with aren't, 'd be a fool or worse to take this for time t'speak only of matters of mine.
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Date: 2010-09-29 08:10 pm (UTC)"Tell me how things've been with you and Tess, though?"
"Very well," I say. "It suits me," I say, "living with someone. With her. Now I can't imagine the place without her," I say, and though I blush there's no pain in it. "Stay for lunch?" I suggest. "There's soup," and I'm getting up and the afternoon goes on, and all's well.