So many, many thanks as always to the multi-talented and wonderful, Rochelle, for providing us with Friday Fictioneers!
Evolution
I have made sure all elements of the evening are perfect, as Wyatt requested. Tastefully decorated tree. Choral music. Pomegranate martinis.
Air kisses abound.
Ed pats my arm. “Another virtuoso celebration.”
I smile into my glass; that’s when I see her, scarlet nails caressing Wyatt’s forearm, him leaning to whisper, but lips on lobe instead. Straightening, my stomach becomes a glass Vesuvius.
Who is she? Colleague? The late-night explanation?
The scarlet-nailed hand slides to his posterior.
In another life, I’d rampage. In this one, I flee toward a drenching night where sad-eyed, old friend Ed waits, umbrella aloft.
end
Sascha Darlington
addendum: I am trying to catch up on/keep up with everything, which means that I’m struggling with writing as well as offering feedback and I apologize for that. So know that if I haven’t visited you, it’s not a purposeful omission. As the road to parts other suggests, I have the best of intentions.
Kudos to her for not making a scene… but as it is left for us to determine, we must wonder just what their relationship truly is…
I really enjoyed this, Sascha.
I suspect that she might also be wondering what their relationship truly is.
Thank you, Dale.
Hmmm… indeed.
“sad-eyed, old friend Ed” adds a whole new layer to this. Well done!
Thank you so very much, Neil! 🙂
Safe Ed, but I wonder how she is connected to Wyatt? Her love unrequited?
She’s definitely in love with Wyatt, may have thought he felt the same, until this show.
Many thanks! 🙂
If only she stayed to fight, but then that would be weakness her rival would exploit. Interesting dilemma.
It’s funny, you’ve made me think. Fighting between men is all punching and swearing. Fighting between women is frequently tears and hair pulling, which is never pretty…not that the men’s is either. But women come out vulnerable. Something to explore, perhaps.
Thanks so much for reading, James!
An intriguing tale which leaves much to the imagination!
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Thank you so much, Keith! 🙂
Dear Sascha,
It sounds like she’s carrying the torch for Wyatt, while, perhaps, Ed carries the torch for her. Lovely, descriptive piece. I love “glass Vesuvius.”
Shalom,
Rochelle
You’ve got it exactly right (as always), Rochelle. Thank you so much.
Hand on the tush. Yup. Good old Ed, to pick up the pieces.
🙂 Thank you so much for reading!
Aha! Love, lust, betrayal, and loads of houghmagandie in the offing. Just a normal evening chez Darlington, perhaps?
You’ve taught me a new word, which I must remember to use at some point because indeed it would be a fitting word for Chez Darlington!
Thank you so much, CE! 🙂
I think, sweet Sascha, this is way too much information!
When I looked up ‘houghmagandie’, this is part of what I found. It must rank as put-down of the week!
“Liz Lochhead’s Scots adaptation of Tartuffe, a French theatrical comedy by Moliere, is one of the finest recent uses:
If you were barescud-nakit, aye and geared
Up guid and proaper, staunin’ hoat for houghmagandie
I could lukk and lukk ett you, and no get randy.”
Lol yes, I agree!
I came away from this really liking good old Ed. Good on him for being there and understanding.
Yes, thanks, Iain. I think good old Ed reads situations far better than the narrator.
Lover’s triangle, unrequited love, 100 words cover a lot of territory. Nicely done.
Thank you so much! (Love your pic!)
Very well done, I agree with JoHawk.
Thank you so much, Phyllis! 🙂
Always. It was really awesome. I as where you were going. I liked the cliffhanger.
Somehow I feel sorry for Ed. His being there when she needed him didn’t seem coincidental.
I think Ed might be savvier than one would think. He managed to be in the right place at the right time. I doubt that would be forgotten.
Thanks so much, Dawn! 🙂
I hope the two under the umbrella just keep right on going, no looking back.
“Glass Vesuvius” – wonderful – and she has given her time and devotion to Wyatt only to see the scarlet-fingernailed one come along and metaphorically shove her aside. That’s when you need an Ed, of course.
She has indeed evolved! Very nicely crafted Sascha 🙂
Lovely writing, Sascha. I admire the way you use description and detail to tell the story. Every word does double duty. There’s plenty of back-story too, that peeps out into the action.
Adding sad-eyed Ed, who knew all the time what was going on, is a brilliant twist 🙂
Somehow I was feeling even more for Ed… but maybe there will be a love growing even if he’s just a safe old friend.
My feeling is that Ed pays attention and will therefore persevere.
Thank you, Bjorn! 🙂