He was still talking to her portrait, like a lunatic. Or at very least a drunk. Julianna turned at the waist to spy the bottle of liquor still perched unceremoniously upon her piano. If he left it there for too long, she would knock it off, and let a bout of cleaning up broken glass and mopping up whisky show him what she really thought of his indefinite stay in her home.
Julianna followed Owen into the kitchen, because she had nothing better to do. Scaring him off was quite obviously her singular goal. She wanted him out as soon as possible. A Hart didn’t belong here. She stood next to him at the window. Arms crossed, glaring at the side of his head. Her curiosity in his features had been sated and now that nose and those lips only served to make her angry. He sighed, and there was something sad in it. She turned her body to look out the window. The tobacco fields had long since been mowed down, and there was nothing left but seemingly endless green grass. Well kept, but not nearly as profitable.
Layers of skirts twirled around her ankles as she shifted to follow him out of the kitchen. Of all the markings on the door frame he picked hers. Why? Apparently, because she hadn’t gotten as tall as her brothers. She huffed and stomped her foot on the wooden floors. The knock of it echoed through the kitchen.
“I was ten,” she complained to no one. She still couldn’t be heard. “What are you doing,” she wondered as he rifled through a cabinet. “You better not!” She warned as he lined himself up with the door frame. Words falling on ears deaf to the dead. She muffled a scream behind closed lips as he marked himself above all the others, decorating his vandalism with a crooked O.
Oh, she could have slapped him.
A loud series of knocks on the front door, signaled that Owen had a visitor. A pretty blonde woman stood on the wraparound porch, waiting for the door to be answered. She’d heard that someone had moved into the Old Haven House, and as gossipy as she was, she wanted to meet them of course. Her hands were full with a bottle of rum and a pack of cigarillos in a tin case. The traditional housewarming gifts of a town built by tobacco farmers and bootleggers. No apples pies here.
Julianna followed Owen into the kitchen, because she had nothing better to do. Scaring him off was quite obviously her singular goal. She wanted him out as soon as possible. A Hart didn’t belong here. She stood next to him at the window. Arms crossed, glaring at the side of his head. Her curiosity in his features had been sated and now that nose and those lips only served to make her angry. He sighed, and there was something sad in it. She turned her body to look out the window. The tobacco fields had long since been mowed down, and there was nothing left but seemingly endless green grass. Well kept, but not nearly as profitable.
Layers of skirts twirled around her ankles as she shifted to follow him out of the kitchen. Of all the markings on the door frame he picked hers. Why? Apparently, because she hadn’t gotten as tall as her brothers. She huffed and stomped her foot on the wooden floors. The knock of it echoed through the kitchen.
“I was ten,” she complained to no one. She still couldn’t be heard. “What are you doing,” she wondered as he rifled through a cabinet. “You better not!” She warned as he lined himself up with the door frame. Words falling on ears deaf to the dead. She muffled a scream behind closed lips as he marked himself above all the others, decorating his vandalism with a crooked O.
Oh, she could have slapped him.
A loud series of knocks on the front door, signaled that Owen had a visitor. A pretty blonde woman stood on the wraparound porch, waiting for the door to be answered. She’d heard that someone had moved into the Old Haven House, and as gossipy as she was, she wanted to meet them of course. Her hands were full with a bottle of rum and a pack of cigarillos in a tin case. The traditional housewarming gifts of a town built by tobacco farmers and bootleggers. No apples pies here.
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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