A routine makeout-adjacent moment is derailed by furniture, physics, and Penelope being forced into some very ugly self-knowledge.
Dignity takes a light beating.
A routine makeout-adjacent moment is derailed by furniture, physics, and Penelope being forced into some very ugly self-knowledge.
Dignity takes a light beating.
A man makes an extremely poor choice in a taco line.
Jack handles it.
Penelope, unfortunately, has a full event about it.
Penelope’s family attempts a normal evening.
This condition is not maintained.
Standards collapse almost immediately.
Jack is made complicit.
A title is bestowed.
Jack becomes insufferably aristocratic.
Penelope learns too late that this was tailored to her weaknesses.
Penelope is given a partial data set and reacts like a woman with absolutely no history of self-soothing.
A misunderstanding occurs.
There is spiraling.
There is flooring.
Things get very specific, very quickly.
This is Chapter 7 of Long Term! Emergencies and emotions...
I’ll be on vacation next week, and probably the week after as well. I’ll update as soon as I’m back.
Cheers,
Lovis
Chapter 19 - One hardware store, one deeply inconvenient amount of chemistry, and a truly irresponsible level of enthusiasm for household maintenance.