Not exactly the garden party I was prepped for but good all the same.
I hope Rhett does tell on Virgie! Taking that amount of responsibility for his totally-not-stepdaughter might help him keep the age difference in mind next time he sees Ginger. And if Sandy does try to approach Virgie about it herself (Sandy has done far more stupidly hopeless things), knowing about Dixie and Rhett gives Virgie a reason to talk to her and altogether that is a conversation I would love to see happen.
Junior, on the other hand, I want to slap. Speaking of spoiled brats.
Much as catching up with the news dismayed her, I bet reverting to "mother hen" with Dixie was a big help in getting Virgie's keel even again. She's out of her depth with Ginger and home is crazy but Dix is still Dix and at least one of her relationships hasn't changed.
Poor Rocky. Is he running in the red? It wouldn't surprise me. He's not got much in the way of satisfaction happening around him right now.
Gavin is probably better qualified to deal with truckers in a lot of ways than most of the adults in Widespot; on the other hand, dealing with them could also put him in the way of temptations. I don't mean the easy availability of beer, but of "business opportunities" along the lines of things that fall off the backs of trucks and so on. The desire to be respectable enough to fit into the new environment is a new and fragile protection from the habits of a lifetime necessity of hustling to get along. It's not as if any amount of respectability will ever make him feel safe, not like having cash would.
Daytona's quite right not hiring Dixie for it, though. Being paid to host a permanent party? She'd be so down with that!
I'm afraid the next part (which is up, by the way) isn't the garden party, either. But that, at least, was as planned as soon as I started re-sorting pics. I had no intention of resorting to another A and B deal so the whole thing was written together and functions as one unit, to me anyway. But that's also why the next part was ready to be posted so quickly.
Virgie isn't quite done trying on different roles, or rather different aspects, as you'll see. In some ways, she's fairly begging for a motherly intervention but in any case, she and Sandy really, really need one another although one of them is still dead set on not admitting it.
Oh Junior. To be the one making Rhett look good. There is more of this scene to come, from their perspective of how the night went down. Not in B but when I get back to the Harts.
Dixie is taller, yes, and has gotten a bit more experience under her belt (which may subtly function as a goad or a sanction, in some senses) but she's not any wiser yet. Nothing whatever has changed in their bff dynamic, so that is something for Virgie to hold on to. Bumping heads with her dad, ironically, is another. It's not familiar in the same way, she's very much a daddy's girl so that was never their dynamic, but it is one way of holding onto her childhood (and mediated consequences) while she can.
I don't think Rocky dropped quite into the red but he was on thin ice there. He actually rolled a want to torment Virgie, very out of character, which was easy enough and warranted enough to fulfill.
Gavin is far and away the best choice for working at the truckers' stop. We'll just have to see if, in a general way, he's able to stay on the up and up. :-)
I hope Rhett does tell on Virgie! Taking that amount of responsibility for his totally-not-stepdaughter might help him keep the age difference in mind next time he sees Ginger. And if Sandy does try to approach Virgie about it herself (Sandy has done far more stupidly hopeless things), knowing about Dixie and Rhett gives Virgie a reason to talk to her and altogether that is a conversation I would love to see happen.
Junior, on the other hand, I want to slap. Speaking of spoiled brats.
Much as catching up with the news dismayed her, I bet reverting to "mother hen" with Dixie was a big help in getting Virgie's keel even again. She's out of her depth with Ginger and home is crazy but Dix is still Dix and at least one of her relationships hasn't changed.
Poor Rocky. Is he running in the red? It wouldn't surprise me. He's not got much in the way of satisfaction happening around him right now.
Gavin is probably better qualified to deal with truckers in a lot of ways than most of the adults in Widespot; on the other hand, dealing with them could also put him in the way of temptations. I don't mean the easy availability of beer, but of "business opportunities" along the lines of things that fall off the backs of trucks and so on. The desire to be respectable enough to fit into the new environment is a new and fragile protection from the habits of a lifetime necessity of hustling to get along. It's not as if any amount of respectability will ever make him feel safe, not like having cash would.
Daytona's quite right not hiring Dixie for it, though. Being paid to host a permanent party? She'd be so down with that!
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Virgie isn't quite done trying on different roles, or rather different aspects, as you'll see. In some ways, she's fairly begging for a motherly intervention but in any case, she and Sandy really, really need one another although one of them is still dead set on not admitting it.
Oh Junior. To be the one making Rhett look good. There is more of this scene to come, from their perspective of how the night went down. Not in B but when I get back to the Harts.
Dixie is taller, yes, and has gotten a bit more experience under her belt (which may subtly function as a goad or a sanction, in some senses) but she's not any wiser yet. Nothing whatever has changed in their bff dynamic, so that is something for Virgie to hold on to. Bumping heads with her dad, ironically, is another. It's not familiar in the same way, she's very much a daddy's girl so that was never their dynamic, but it is one way of holding onto her childhood (and mediated consequences) while she can.
I don't think Rocky dropped quite into the red but he was on thin ice there. He actually rolled a want to torment Virgie, very out of character, which was easy enough and warranted enough to fulfill.
Gavin is far and away the best choice for working at the truckers' stop. We'll just have to see if, in a general way, he's able to stay on the up and up. :-)
(edited the 'y' back onto Rocky's name)
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