"And while they were out Sally phoned Sean and asked him to go and see her. He refused, she was pressing and in the end he did as she asked, at lunchtime. They didn’t so much as touch, although he would have liked to comfort her. And she didn’t apologise, as he had expected she might. Neither told their spouses of the meeting, because each was smarting from one or more of their misunderstandings."
Now these chickens have come home to roost - now Sally's husband is demanding that Sean tell him what Sally said. Whatever it was had the effect of making Sean really bad-tempered and I have already delayed the explanation once, with a few pints, a walk along a river, a confession of something completely different, but I can delay no longer ... and I don't have anything in the way of a convincing explanation of what she could possibly have said to him that was so inflammatory!
BUT I could no more plot this than fly - for me plotting would take the heart out of what I write. Fingers crossed that the answer will come - it almost always has in the past, even though it sometimes takes a couple of weeks. In the meantime I write elsewhere on other subjects ...
She's having an affair. She's pregnant. She is planning to go to university at the ripe old age of (how old is she? No idea!). She wants a sex change. She's developed kleptomania and has hidden everything she stole in his (Sean's) attic. She's planning to emigrate. She wrecked the car (husband's). She saw his wife (Sean's)kissing someone else. She's always fancied him (Sean) and married the wrong man. She's always hated him (husband) and he's a mean, cruel, stupid .... etc etc. She's quitting her job to be a writer and her first book is going to be about him (either of them). (Possibly already has a publisher and she's told the 'truth' about something so now the world will know.) She's the real reason why something in his life (Sean's)didn't go acording to plan - could be anything that you've had happen to him in the previous books. She's joining the army. She's running away to be a Mormon's second wife. (or even fourth or fifth) She's sold her mum's jewellery and given the money to the cats' home. She's offered his (Sean's)services as a strippergram in a forthcoming charity auction. She's secretly been taking photographs of him (Sean) for years and is staging a one-woman exhibition at the town hall next week. (At least three of the photos show him naked.)
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how liberated you can be when you don't actually have a plot to fit in with. It's also amazing where your mind can take you when you have a real face attached to a fictional character.
Strippergram........Three photos of him naked............ I probably need to go and have a lie down somewhere! :)
I've already written:
ReplyDelete1) She was trying to seduce him the previous week when her husband (his brother) walked in.
2) She already suspects her husband of having an affair with Sean's wife
Currently I'm toying with baby isn't her husband's ... and/or she's also had other affairs ...
but I wish you hadn't mentioned the naked photos ...
What about there is something hidden in her husband's past that she has found out about, but she couldn't talk about it with him because it means that she has been snooping where she shouldn't be. I.E. she would have a lot of explaining to do. The brother knows about it but he can't tell his sister in law another he will betray his brother and he can't explain what happened or was said otherwise he is betraying Sally and he cares about her too much.
ReplyDeleteDoes that help?
Her husband having an affair with Sean's wife could give you ALL kinds of potential story lines.......
ReplyDeleteThank you Jamara ... that sounds a well worth idea, and Morning AJ it already HAS given a whole load of story lines ... BUT, I think I've found out what's been going on - discovered what she's told Sean (who has now told her husband) and I'm about to find out what he thinks about it. Must dash.
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