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Jan. 2nd, 2010 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiery_ringIt's Half Term, and Carlotta greets her father warmly, and his new lady politely. Mary appears to be on her best behaviour, and Carlotta can't see any signs of suspicious activity. But Mary would have no reason to suspect she'd been foiled.
She lures the couple out into the gardens, ready for Beatrice and Marigold. But her father stops her before she was ready.
"Carlotta... Mary and I are going to marry."
Carlotta stops and stares at him. That wasn't supposed to happen yet. Not only that, but she can see Beatrice leading her father and Marigold to the agreed spot. Before she can have the chance to stop the ambush, Beatrice comes running up to Mary.
"Mother!" Beatrice cries, flinging her arms around Mary, who is wearing a horrified expression.
Half an hour later, Carlotta sits on the chair outside the headmistress's office. As Miss Theobald calls her in, she enters with some trepidation.
"Am I to understand that you and Beatrice engineered this collision?"
Carlotta nods.
"Well I do think you ought to have sought advice. Your father was very upset. However, he has decided to go ahead with the wedding. How do you feel about that?"
"I want him to be happy." Carlotta says. "So as long as she behaves, I don't mind."
"Well if you want to talk about it, you know where I am."
Carlotta leaves the office, preparing for a rather dull rest of half term, given her father and step-mother-to-be have gone, and bumps into her cousins down the corridor, having an argument. She winces.
"Violet, Marigold wasn't responsible for this, you're not rowing her are you?"
The younger cousin, Marigold, turns to Carlotta.
"No, it's not that. Vi wants to try out for the Women's England Cricket team this year, but father won't take her. So she's planning to go off on her own!"
Carlotta hesitates. She wants to tell her cousin to shoot for her dreams. But a pang of conscience tells her this is a Bad Idea.
"Maybe you can get Miss Theobald's permission." she says. "But if you go without permission, you'll be expelled, and you might not make the team! Why not wait for next year? You're only sixteen."
"Yes, but I'll miss a whole year of training." Violet says. "And you taught me to follow my dreams!"
"I want you to follow your dreams, but sometimes we have to be patient." Carlotta says. "Look, I'll come with you to see the head, but I can't right now, sorry."
She goes to the school office to sign out - as a fifth former, she is allowed to go out of the school within reason alone, providing she makes a note of it in the book - then makes her way to the local stables in search of Will.
She lures the couple out into the gardens, ready for Beatrice and Marigold. But her father stops her before she was ready.
"Carlotta... Mary and I are going to marry."
Carlotta stops and stares at him. That wasn't supposed to happen yet. Not only that, but she can see Beatrice leading her father and Marigold to the agreed spot. Before she can have the chance to stop the ambush, Beatrice comes running up to Mary.
"Mother!" Beatrice cries, flinging her arms around Mary, who is wearing a horrified expression.
Half an hour later, Carlotta sits on the chair outside the headmistress's office. As Miss Theobald calls her in, she enters with some trepidation.
"Am I to understand that you and Beatrice engineered this collision?"
Carlotta nods.
"Well I do think you ought to have sought advice. Your father was very upset. However, he has decided to go ahead with the wedding. How do you feel about that?"
"I want him to be happy." Carlotta says. "So as long as she behaves, I don't mind."
"Well if you want to talk about it, you know where I am."
Carlotta leaves the office, preparing for a rather dull rest of half term, given her father and step-mother-to-be have gone, and bumps into her cousins down the corridor, having an argument. She winces.
"Violet, Marigold wasn't responsible for this, you're not rowing her are you?"
The younger cousin, Marigold, turns to Carlotta.
"No, it's not that. Vi wants to try out for the Women's England Cricket team this year, but father won't take her. So she's planning to go off on her own!"
Carlotta hesitates. She wants to tell her cousin to shoot for her dreams. But a pang of conscience tells her this is a Bad Idea.
"Maybe you can get Miss Theobald's permission." she says. "But if you go without permission, you'll be expelled, and you might not make the team! Why not wait for next year? You're only sixteen."
"Yes, but I'll miss a whole year of training." Violet says. "And you taught me to follow my dreams!"
"I want you to follow your dreams, but sometimes we have to be patient." Carlotta says. "Look, I'll come with you to see the head, but I can't right now, sorry."
She goes to the school office to sign out - as a fifth former, she is allowed to go out of the school within reason alone, providing she makes a note of it in the book - then makes her way to the local stables in search of Will.
