Flora still spends days at a time sitting at the typewriter typing away, creating and completing her various different stories. Most of them usually end up being picked up and printed in some magazine or newspaper but nothing’s amounted to any new big success yet.

The bad news was that Flora had walked that moment and saw the pair of them kissing. The sight left her dumbfounded for a moment but then it inflamed her and she stormed off upstairs. Evelyn tried to follow after her to explain what had happened but Flora wouldn’t face her and locked herself in her room for the night. David felt embarrassed that his plan had failed so miserably so he ended up just leaving and going to the lodge. Evelyn was also feeling embarrassed but for the fact that she couldn’t decided for herself whether she had actually been kissing her daughter’s best friend back or not.

Evelyn didn’t tell Arley about what happened with her and David. She honestly didn’t see what good it would do for their already complicated relationship.

I’m not sure if it’s Alzheimer’s or just forgetfulness, but Cecilia’s memory seems to be deteriorating. Whether it’s daily tasks like getting dressed in the morning or something like remembering her father’s name, fragments of thought in her mind seem to be disappearing.

Although Arley’s recent spontaneous and compulsive behavior has been worrying Evelyn, she believed that he would settle back down to normal eventually. But, one night, Arley took Evelyn into their room to have a talk with her. He told her that his heart has been aching to travel again and that he’s felt that living in the same place all these years has recently made him feel like he’s suffocating. To say that Evelyn was hurt by those words would be an understatement, but she wanted to hear him out and let him finish his piece. He then asked her if she would be alright with him taking a few months to go and visit some of the places around the world that he’d been to before in the hopes that it would help ease his overwhelming unsettled feeling. Evelyn didn’t want him to go but she also didn’t want to keep him home to further despise it either, so she told him that it would be alright with her if he wanted to go. He thanked her and kissed her goodbye and told her that he was already packed and the car was ready for him to leave right away.

Just to rub salt on the wounds, the next day was Love Day, so that didn’t make Evelyn feel any better about the whole situation.

This summer’s headlines have overwhelmingly been about Europe and the overwhelming possibility that war could break out at any moment. If even the newspapers over here can foresee a war coming, then people are beginning to think that it must be inevitable.

It’s a little annoying that Evelyn is irresistible because that means literally every man in town finds her attractive – and age doesn’t seem to make a difference in the matter. I’m specifically looking at David here because ever since he turned 18 he’s been a little too interested in Flora’s mother and it’s a little weird, to be honest.

Ben just got a promotion today which puts him at the top of the journalism career! He’s not even 30 yet and he already owns his own newspaper – that’s quiet the achievement, or so he’s been told. Even the rainy day decided to sprout a rainbow after work in honor of his success. When he went home and told Amanda his good news, she was almost more excited about it than he was. She’s always wanted to be a powerful, important, influential person and what better way to get there than through her husband?

1912

This morning Amanda walked into the kitchen to find Jo. When she found her making breakfast she asked her what it was that she was saving up all her money for. Jo was a little taken aback by this question, but told her that she was saving to buy a guitar. Really, the guitar is only a small part of what she’s actually saving up for but she didn’t really want to get into her entire dream plan. Amanda didn’t have any idea what a guitar actually was, though, so Jo had to explain that it was like a banjo but closer to the size of a base. Amanda couldn’t visualize it in her mind 100% correctly but she had a basic idea of what it was.