Made up fic- Happy accidents
So here is my idea...
It’s hard rubbish week, and Elaine is in spring cleaning mode at the Peck family home.
Over the course of the day, Gail is inundated with text messages from her mother asking if she can rid of “this and that”. One of the items is the swing set Gail’s grandfather had built for her when she was a little girl. Apparently it is taking up too much space in Elaine’s ever-expanding garden.
For sentimental reasons, Gail asks her mother to store it in the back shed for her, and when Elaine protests, Gail, only half-joking, says she imagined her own kids playing on it one day. Because this is the first time Gail has ever alluded to wanting kids, Elaine seems more than happy to oblige.
That evening, after a busy day at work, Gail gets a call from her mother with some upsetting news. Because of a miscommunication with Gail’s father, the swing set was accidentally put out on the curb with the rest of the hard rubbish and had now moved on to a new family.
Elaine promises she will hunt down the new owner and get it back for Gail, but after a week of reviewing various security camera footage and interviewing neighbors, Elaine concedes she has no leads.
Jump to two years later, when Gail is invited to dinner for the first time at the house of her relatively new friend Holly, who Gail is low-key in love with.
They are sitting out on the back porch sharing a laugh and a glass of wine when something catches Gail’s eye through the trees in Holly’s back yard. Gail immediately gets up and starts running towards it, with a worried Holly trailing close behind her.
Gail is sure it’s the swing set her grandfather had built for her all those years ago.
As Gail turns over the wooden plank seat to confirm it, Holly explains that her mother Nora had come across it and restored it for her a few years ago.
With tears streaming down her face, Gail quickly gets out her phone and takes a picture of the hand carved engraving that reads “For my Gail” and sends it to her mother.
When Elaine replies a few minutes later asking who had it, interrupting Gail and Holly’s first kiss as they sit together on the swing, Gail simply replies, “The woman I’m going to marry.”










