Olive and Willow
At the end of Dead End Lane there was a scary looking brick house built in a Spanish style. The Muendas had lived there for two generations now. Peponi and Lerato Muenda had mysteriously disappeared one year ago and their two young adult daughters had taken over the house. They didn't have too much money and they were not used to provide for themselves.
Willow, the youngest one had always been the smart, reserved one who said very little and had her head in the books. She had taken a job as a pre-school assistant to sustain her and her sister. Olive on the other hand was extrovert and popular. She felt too young to start working. She wanted to be young forever and her head was filled with thoughts about Hugh, her fiancé.
Hugh Thanasia had propsed to her one week ago and they had planned to get married very soon. Olive loved this man. He had proposed right outside the house and afterward he had carried her into the bedroom and they had made love.
Hugh was very sensual and romantic, Olive thought. She had not known him for too long but she wanted to marry him so badly. Olive dreamed of a bigger house built in the same Spanish style, a big garden and loads of friends who came and saw how happy they were. "You need to come back to earth", her sister Willow said to her all the time. Olive wanted so much. She wanted to be rich. Hugh was not rich. He lived in a small bedsit and he did not have a job. Willow always told her sister that she had heard rumours about Hugh seeing other girls but Olive thought it was all nonsense Willow had made up because of jealousy. Olive knew that Willow was not like her. She wasn't as popular, good looking and fashionable as her and Olive knew that she wanted the same "fame" in Strangetown.
Willow didn't have many friends or any at all. She said that she didn't have time because she needed to work to provide for her childish two year older sister. In her free time Willow read a lot. If she did not read she was either working, preparing meals or cleaning the house. Olive didn't do any other things than spending time with Hugh, throwing parties or .......
thinking.
There was no big garden like she dreamed about but there was a green, empty yard outside the house. She and Willow used to play there when they were young. She did not remember what had been there. Maybe there had been a swing? Maybe an apple tree? Olive used to sit in an old chair she had placed at the end of the yard and she could sit there for hours. Sometimes her sister thought she was crazy and sometimes she asked if there was a little philosophical mind inside her sister. At times Olive couldn't stand Willow. Especially not when Willow tried to get Olive's mind away from Hugh. Yes, Willow had tried that. Olive thought Willow could be too judgemental at times. She acted like she knew everything. But she did know everything! At least Olive felt like that. She often wished she could be just like her sister. If she wasn't as naive as she was she could have saved herself from lots of trouble. But it didn't take long until Olive started to think about wedding planning again. Her thoughts fell upon Hugh's brother, Lou Thanasia.
Lou was a florist and he often came home to the sisters and taught them how to make flower upsets. He also promised to make flower upsets for the wedding. Life couldn't be any better.
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