WT - Holidays and Reflection about the Characters

 

    Yellow bread, snowy cookies, and fudge brownies are missing.  Sparkly, cheerful friends for psychological health are absent too.  Stress and worry about disappearing looks and dwindling bank account shuffle into the room like bullies.  But a chilled, pink fizzy drink comes into view.  It is the last one.

    “Can I have that?”

    “Sure.”

    Thinking about what characters from the Grove would be in this tiny story.  It reminds me most of Ally and Don.  Many people filter in through their house during the day, even during a pandemic.  Ally’s son, Thom, is still in elementary school and most likely home a few days a week. Though he should be in junior high, if I aged him properly with the length of the blog.  Emily might be in the house too; she dies and comes back to life depending on the story.  And Emily has been known to drink.  There’s also Grizzly (Emily’s mom) she’s gone through the beer chilling in the refrigerator.

    Vanessa lives on the block and likes to sneak inside Ally and Don’s in a couple of stories.  Perhaps she has stolen their hard alcohol.  

    Ally hopes if it was Vanessa, she wore a mask to protect them from Covid.  She’s been reading the virus hangs around in the air from an infected person.  And if they don’t wear a mask, well, you know the rest.  You might get sick and die.  

    Ally considers her mortality a lot.  Maybe why she ate most of the baked goods in the house and had such a sugar rush, she can’t remember it?  I don’t know.  But Don letting her have the last of the hard seltzer is his style.