closed starter for: @cleonburkes
virginia had been excited, for a few months her mother barely brought up the subject of marriage and she assumed that finally her parents recognized she had value outside of a marriage alliance. she now realized she had been an idiot. being told that cleon burke was being seriously considered as her betrothed shocked her dumb that night. it wasn’t that the idea of marrying cleon specifically was that horrible, but really the idea of marrying any man sounded terrible. she didn’t want to have anyone expecting things from her, she wanted to go on spontaneous research trips across the world for who knows how long. she didn’t want some man needing her at home sitting around waisting her mind. she had hoped the party could distract her, and if not then her book but she felt as if she carried the weight of the world on her shoulders. she was tired and for the first time in a long time she decided to drink. she generally didn’t like drinking, she enjoyed being in control of herself. she needed a break though and the only thing she thought could provide that was alcohol. she grabbed an expensive looking bottle of white wine (her personal drink of choice if she was drinking) and found somewhere to sit not paying attention to who was sitting there at first. after taking a sip straight from the bottle she finally looked over to see who it was, much to her dismay. “well, speak of the devil.”