CHARLES

Anastasiia de Franckelle attempts to send a coded message to Charles Rothschild, a boy that she likes. For some bloody reason.

[This is another chapter of ALPHABET, a novel that I am publishing via newsletter for the time being. Nothing bad has ever happened to me, Rhiannon Lazarus McGavin, throughout my entire life. Enjoy!]

I AM NOT SURE THE QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS POINT

SO I AM JUST THINKING ALOUD IN THE HOPES THAT I WILL HIT A WINNER

REACHING FOR THE BULL’S GOLDEN RING

HAHA HAHA

HOW IS THE WEATHER WHEREVER YOU ARE

IF WE WERE TOGETHER RIGHT NOW

WOULD IT BE WARM AND WET OR BRISK AND DRY OR DRAFTY AND HOT OR COLD AND STILL

SOMEHOW WITH YOU IT IS ALWAYS

ALL OF THE ABOVE

AND SOMETHING ELSE UNNAMEABLE

UNSPEAKABLE

UNDERSTANDABLE

HAHA

WISH WE HAD GROWN UP TOGETHER

I MEAN

WISH WE HAD THE SAME RULES GROWING UP

WAS A REALLY NICE LITTLE GIRL

I THINK

YOU WOULD REMEMBER BETTER THAN ME

I HOPE

NOW THAT IS A WORD I HAVE NOT USED IN A WHILE

HAHA

DO YOUR PEOPLE STILL HAVE ME WIRETAPPED OR

ACH AT LEAST YOU ARE TAPPING SOMETHING RIGHT

HAHA

KEEP THINKING ABOUT DUBLIN

CHARLES

IT HAS BEEN OVER THREE YEARS

I THINK

IT FEELS LIKE MUCH LONGER

DON’T KNOW

TIME KIND OF STOPPED MATTERING IN THE SAFE HOUSE

AT THE AULD DE FRANCKELLE ESTATE

LONG MAY IT REIGN

ANYA IS DEAD LONG LIVE ANYA

COULDN’T TELL YOU AT WHAT POINT IT STOPPED MATTERING

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE ISSUE BUT

SO HAVE BEEN REWATCHING THAT KID SHOW YOU LIKE

ABOUT THE TRAVELLING DOCTOR

HAHA IF YOU ONLY COULD MAKE A HOUSE CALL NOW

MY LICKLE TRAVELLER EH

REMEMBER WHEN YOU CAME FOR THE INDEPENDENCE DAY BALL

YOU AND YOUR PARENTS AND YOUR FOUR SWEETHEART SISTERS

YOU’RE LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF THE ROMANOVS

BETTER LUCK TOO

ESPECIALLY NOW THAT YOU’VE FORBIDDEN YOUR SISTERS FROM RESPONDING TO MY ASSORTED PLEAS AND INQUIRIES HAHA

NO HARD FEELINGS

ACTUALLY DON’T FEEL ANYTHING ANYMORE

LIKE MOST OF THE TIME

IT’S JUST KIND OF

I GUESS NUMB

QUIET

AM CALLING THIS SEASON

MARSHMALLOW TIME

SOFT AND PLIABLE AND VAGUELY SWEET

ESPECIALLY IN THAT I TRULY DO NOT HAVE TO INTERACT WITH IDIOTS ANYMORE

OR IDJITS AS YOUR FATHER WOULD SAY

I MISS YOUR PARENTS ALSO

IS THAT ALRIGHT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

HAHA THERE GOES HALF A FEELING

THE SHADOW OF AN EMOTION

ANYWAY

INDEPENDENCE DAY

YOU IN YOUR BIG BOY TUXEDO

SO POLITE

MR SOLICITOR MR HEAD BOY THE YOUNG LORD YES SO MANY TITLES

WANT TO EAT YOU ALIVE

DO NOT REMEMBER WHAT COLOR GOWN I WAS ENVELOPED WITHIN

BUT REMEMBER YOUR FAVOURITE SHADE BEING PERIWINKLE

THUS

I WAS IN A PERIWINKLE SATIN SITUATION

AND YOU DID NOT STUTTER THAT “TIME” WHEN YOU FINALLY SAW ME IN THE FLESH BUT THE TIPS OF YOUR EARS WENT HOT PINK WHICH IS MY ACTUAL FAVORITE PART OF YOU HAHA HAHA HAHA

I HOPE THAT WHEREVER YOU ARE THAT YOUR EARS ARE WARM AND SAFE BECAUSE

WHEN YOUR EARS GO ALL ROSY

IT MAKES THEM LOOK VERY KISSABLE

AND I KNOW YOU LOVE YOUR LITTLE SHY GEE WHIZ SHOW OF HUMILITY

BUT YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE

AND IF THERE IS SOME TK MAXXXX KNOCKOFF BLONDE KISSING YOUR LITTLE FAE EARS WARM

THEN I WILL JOIN A REAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

CHARLES

DO NOT

THINK

THAT

I

WOULD NOT

I HAVE MAYBE THREE THINGS LEFT TO LIVE FOR

ROTHSCHILD

TWO OF THEM ARE YOUR STUPID EARS

ANYWAY

I LIKE THINKING ABOUT YOU IN THE DOORWAY OF MY HAUNTED FAMILY HOME

BLOOMSBURY

DIPLOMATIC DISTRICT ET CETERA ET CETERA

WANT TO TAKE YOU OUT INTO THE GARDENS

TO THE SWING SET

AND WE CAN CLIMB UP INTO SASHA’S OLD TREEHOUSE

BOY I SURE HOPE HE IS ALSO ALIVE STILL HAHA

IF YOU SEE HIM

PLEASE HIT HIM ONCE REALLY GOOD FOR ME

THANKS BABY

PLEASE BLINK ONCE IF I AM STILL ALLOWED TO CALL YOU THAT

OR IF THAT CURSED HENDERSON GIRL IS SOMEHOW

MAKING YOU HAPPY NOW

I STILL HAVE CONNECTIONS IN DUNDEE

DO NOT FORGET HAHA

SORRY THAT THIS IS IN ALL CAPS

MORSE DOES NOT REALLY HAVE A LOWERCASE

PLUS YOU KNOW

I AM RUSSIAN

HALF-EVIL HALF-MAD ET CETERA AD INFINITUM

BROKEN-HEARTED AND SILVER-LINED

IT IS MAYBE YOUR FAVOURITE THING ABOUT ME

AFTER MY LITTLE WITCHY BEAK OF A NOSE AND MASSIVE PLUMP

HEART

I AM ALWAYS SHOUTING IN MY HEAD

MOSTLY SHOUTING AT YOU EVER SINCE I HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF MAKING YOUR ACQUAINTANCE HAHA

I WAS BETROTHED TO A KENNEDY

YOU PRICK

I WOULD HAVE BEEN RICH FOR THE NEXT SEVEN LIFETIMES

NOW I REFRESH THE “LABOUR” HASHTAG

AS THOUGH I AM PRAYING THE BLOODY ROSARY

WHAT DID YOU DO

TO ME

TO MY PLANS AND SCHEMES

RUINING MY LIFE WITH YOUR GLEN HEXES

SNEAK IN AGAIN

COME TALK THROUGH THE MIRRORS OR WALK THROUGH THE WALLS

PLEASE

SIR

O MOI TSAR O MOI SOVEREIGNYI O MOI LYUBOV O

DO YOU STILL LIKE ME BEGGING

ALL ON MY RED BALLERINA KNEES

COME CROSS MY PALMS WITH SILVER THEN

TELL ME I AM SAFE FOREVER PLEASE

SWEAR IT ON OUR FOOL HEARTS

CHARLIE