Category: advent stories ’22
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#15- OH JORJA
‘JJ.’ ‘Get out.’ ‘JJ.’ Rocco tries to step in. ‘Get. Out.’ JJ’s eyes never left her mother’s. ‘Don’t go.’ Rocco says to Gyll. ‘I will.’ JJ makes to step back into the waiting elevator. ‘JJ come on.’ ‘Come on? Just in case you don’t know, I am mad at you that you would let her…
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#14- Three Months And A Baby
Rocco has never really seen JJ lose her composure the way she is about to now, they argue, have fights, but the last time she lost her mind during a fight was three months into their relationship… … All week JJ had been feeling queasy and waspish, the shop was busier than normal, word had…
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#13- CRASH
‘What are you doing here?’ There were a lot of things JJ expected when she walked into her home after a long day at the shop; dinner either cooked by Rocco or their chef, excited children as normal or quiet ones as they did their homework, some friends over, Rocco watching a basketball game, at…
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#12 – SECRETS
Bottom of the ninth behind by two. Rossi is the winning run at the plate. Strike one. Ball. Ball. Strike two. Rossi looks hard to Coach Bramer to give him some instructions. The Third basmeman looks decisive as he digs back in at the plate. Game ball come on… PUCK. The ball collides decisively with…
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#11- Peace Talks Of The Sort
‘We need to talk Dad.’ Jason, Thomas and Fen let themselves into their childhood home where their father still lives, even if it is too big for him. They all moved away from home and did not come back after University. All except Cleo. She clamoured for her father’s affection and she eventually got it,…
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#10- All In.
‘I’d love to see you again.’ 3am in London in a room filled with flowers and balloons, over plates of cake and glasses of champagne, JJ and Rocco sit to their first “date”. Rocco was smitten by her, absolutely head over heels. ‘I’d love to as well.’ JJ corks her head to the side a…
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#9- Oh Cleo
‘I don’t care I don’t want to go to her stupid Christmas holiday.’ Cleo fumes from the hundredth time to her mother. Today is her turn for tea, and they go to her favourite place for it, Fortnum and Mason. She’d been going on and on about JJ’s holiday invitations that was not extended to…
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#8- Daddy’s Girl
‘You need to refute the story I have just been told.’ Martin says through clenched teeth over the phone to JJ. There was a time JJ would have cowered at that tone of voice from her father, literally hide behind Fenmore shaking. But something about being far away from home and an apprentice in a…
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#7 A Darkness
The smell of pancakes wafting through the house wakes JJ up this chilly Saturday morning, Rocco is in the kitchen presumably, with the girls still in their PJs watching cartoons on the kitchen flatscreen whilst he makes their pancakes of choice, blueberry for Roma and chocolate chip for Bella. She stretches like a cat that…