Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Planted Seedling: Day 12

Word Count: 72,004

Summary of Events:
While baking Lark explored potential gift ideas for Brandt, but wasn't sure if she could justify spending as much as $30 more on him than she had everyone else. Brandt woke up in the middle of the night after having gone out with a different girl and felt rather distressed. While Lark was getting ready for church Brandt came to the door to apologise about what he'd done, which took a rather long time. Brandt came to the church the week after and was invited by Lark to come to their Christmas Eve gathering before he took her home to get lunch ready; when her dad got home Brandt took him aside to ask some questions . . .

Excerpt of the Day:
"So she hasn't realised she's in love with me yet?" Brandt asked.
"That's what I'd say," Mr. Szekely replied. "And with what I've heard about you I can see why she'd be in love with you. She's a sensitive individual who sometimes feels badly about stepping outside because of all of the snowflakes she's going to destroy without being able to appreciate their individual beauty, and above all she feels it's her personal duty to make everyone happy to the best of her abilities. You have lived a somewhat unhappy existence, therefore she's taking it upon herself to do everything she can to make you happy."
"And so that's why she'll kind of cry quickly and unpredictably?" Brandt asked.
"Yes," Mr. Szekely replied.
"Although, I mean, the time with Old Winterholt I wasn't exactly surprised." Brandt said.
"With whom?" Mr. Szekely asked.
"Mrs. Winterholt," Brandt replied. "She makes biannual visits to the staging area to complain about the noise. When we went out snowmobiling in November she came out and actually brought the cops with her, and they did a licensing and registration sting, but let us be otherwise. Anyways, the cops had asked for Lark's license even though she didn't have a vehicle and she took off her helmet to help them identify her face and Mrs. Winterholt recognised her and made a comment, I don't remember what it was, and then I think Lark was the one who said her mom had died when she was young and then Mrs. Winterholt said good riddance."
"About Harriette?" Mr. Szekely asked.
"Yeah," Brandt replied. "There's no love lost toward the Kemsleys with Mrs. Winterholt. She wants to ride them all out of town apparently. So then Lark started crying, but I wasn't surprised, I was about ready to give Mrs. Winterholt my fist, but she's an old lady, and we were in front of the cops, so I didn't, I just gave her my best evil eye."
Mr. Szekely sighed, a sad expression coming over his face.
Brandt waited for Mr. Szekely to make further comment, but he didn't. Reverend Joseph and his wife showed up shortly thereafter anyways, effectively ending the conversation as Mr. Szekely moved off to take his parent's coats.
As much as his questions about Lark had been answered, Brandt still felt no closer to getting answers about what had happened between his dad and Lark's mom, but Brandt wasn't sure it was the traffic accident that Lark thought it was. But then again, Mrs. Winterholt could've just been biased against Lark's mom because she'd been born a Kemsley and Mrs. Winterholt seemed to have issues with them as a family.
Regardless of what it was, there was also Mr. Szekely's own comments the week before about how his dad's selfishness had broken up his marriage, and would've broken it up no matter who was involved that also left Brandt wondering."

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