This day was both exciting and a nightmare for Margaret. Being forced to make a basket, or rather let her dear maids make one for her that she will have to put amongst other baskets was not something she wanted to do. Going on a date and wasting her time with someone just to appear as if she was taking this season seriously was not in her plans but… well, here we are. On the other hand, Margaret was more than thrilled to be the one to help everyone get their horses ready for the race. To get her horse ready for the race. While never before participating in such an event, she couldn’t wait to see how things would play out. She couldn’t wait to see her horse running down those tracks.
This train of thoughts brought her to another memory that was troubling her - her last encounter with Augustus. Not having stables, Margaret had to keep Regal Rose at the Hatcherman estate which was never a problem. August was a dear… friend of hers but things have been more tense. After she… Turned him down, as one might say, she did not know how to act around him. For many reasons, but one simply being that that was not her intention. Maybe things came out in the wrong way but Margaret had never said that she didn’t want anything between them to happen. She was just not… Ready in this moment, and she knew her family would have a thing or two to say about her possible future with Augustus. It was a very dangerous territory that she didn’t know how to navigate it.
Oh but how the troubles never end. While snooping around Archie’s boxing basement room, she accidentally found a stack of something. It probably sounds wrong but it’s not, well, in Margaret’s eyes it was. It was a stack of letters all addressed to the same person and Margaret feared what would happen if one day he decided to send them or if someone else found them and the word got out. You see, for some reason, Margaret was never a fan of Adeline. She could never understand how her brother had such a strong bond with that girl when she was… Nothing but trouble. She was not deserving of the love her brother could give her. Sneaking out of the room and running back to her bedroom, she hid them until she got an idea of what to do.
If she speaks out about it, if she warns her brother about the girl Adeline really is he would never believe her. So on this day, after checking up on her horse for a bit before making her way towards the basket-bidding place just to make her mother and sister happy, she made sure to find someone who would know what to do. Trying to hide those letters under her arm, she looked around for a face she admired, the better Delaney sibling - Atlas. If someone shared the same opinion it was him. Archie and Atlas were best friends after all, and Archie should keep his promise of not being involved with Atlas’ sister.
Spotting Atlas in the crowd, Margaret seized the opportunity. She approached him, trying to get his attention. [color=“#e9a189”]”Pstt,“[/color] she whispered, hoping to draw him aside from the bustling crowd while also not drawing the attention of anyone else which… Might be the way to draw that attention but it was too late to approach him differently. [color=”#e9a189”]”Atlas,“[/color] she began, her voice lowered to ensure privacy. [color="#e9a189”]”I need your advice on something… delicate. It’s about Archie and Adeline.“[/color] Margaret hesitated, glancing around to ensure no prying eyes were within earshot. ”I found … I found a stack of letters in Archie’s boxing room addressed to Adeline, I think you should see them.“ A sigh escaped her lips while she subtly suggested that she was holding those letters. Sorry, dear reader, but you are not going to find out what was in those letters…
Not yet, at least…
Ah, okay, only one now. That first one was quite sweet.
Letter 1
𝑴𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆,
𝑨𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒚. 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒇 – 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑, 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕.
𝑺𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆, 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒂𝒎, 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓. 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖.
𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆
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@sunflowerjm - hi Atlas
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