Well, this is part 2 of the long-ish update from the Enthycia-Gale household. This one continues more or less from the point where the first part ended (in other words, we’re not suddenly jumping from summer to winter).

It didn’t take very long before Celia too became a frequent visitor to the Enthycia-Gale household, one can wonder if she visited because she actually liked Poppy and Pomona or if she simply dropped by in the hopes that she’d pick up juicy gossip. At either rate it seemed like there was something going on in the house these days. Whenever Celia got there Pomona would follow Poppy around, trying to talk to her, talking about love and all the difficulties that came along with it.

For the most part Poppy would reply with: “Why ‘Mona, if I didn’t know any better I’d think you were changing your spots”. Though sometimes she’d indulge Pomona and discuss love and its difficulties. “Friendship over love?” Poppy says, “hm, I don’t know… Love is grand… And friendship doesn’t give you a ring on your finger…”

“So… How serious are these engagement things?” Pomona asked Poppy one day. “Well, an engagement is half-way to marriage, and marriage is supposed to last forever, isn’t it?” Poppy replied. “So what you’re saying is that engagement are like… Super-serious stuff?” Poppy nodded quickly. “Very,” she looked stunned for a moment, “you’re not engaged are you?” Pomona looked horrified and shook her head. “Oh no!”

The entire evening Celia listened as Pomona made varied attempts at telling Poppy whatever big secret she was hiding. “You know how you’ve said that people should be allow to woohoo freely?” Pomona started. “I’ve never said that,” Poppy shook her head and looked away. “That must have been Clary…”

Ceilia watched Pomona and arched a slight brow, thorn between being amused and feeling pity for Poppy. Well, he can’t complain that nothing interesting ever happens around Harrington anymore… she thought to herself as she watched Pomona. She should probably stay out of it, but it really was quite amusing…

A little later that evening Baptista Savage, Clary’s husband, called Pomona for a chat. “Best friends are forever, aren’t they?” Pomona asked. “Well, unless something happens, yes…” Pomona sighed. “I’ve got to go, Arthur wants me to hang out…”

Of course, if Pomona didn’t know any better she’d have thought that Arthur was trying to mess with her plans. “I’d never sleep with anyone who’s engaged,” was Arthurs opening sentence when he started the conversation. Pomona stiffened and grabbed his arm, giving him a warning glance from the corner of her eye.

For a minute there was nothing but silence, and Celia found herself smiling for a minute before looking at Poppy who looked both confused and somewhat disgusted. Clearly, Poppy had thought that all people who were engaged were off limits by default.

“What’s the point of getting engaged if you’re going to sleep with someone else anyhow? Hardly proper I’d say…” Celia ventured, looking from Pomona to Poppy. If she was understanding this correctly, and she very much thought so, she was starting to get an image of what was going on.

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2 Responses to “Rocking the Boat pt. 2”

1. Carla says:

   June 28, 2009 at 1:06 am

   I’m glad you included that little rundown at the end because I was getting a *touch* confused!

   Poor Poppy. She’s caught in the middle of all this and it seems like she might know something is up but she isn’t sure what.

   

   Valneanne Reply:
   June 28th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

   I figured that if I started to find things a little confusing, someone else was bound to be even more confused I have a note with the exact same thing on it next to my computer, though I’m starting to get it now ^^

   Yeah, I feel bad for Poppy, but I feel even worse for Baptista who’s completely innocent (he’s never been involved with either Poppy or Pomona). But Poppy is clearly sensing that something is up yes.