Living in an idea
Penelope felt the bright shining light in her eyes, blinding her the second she opened her eyes. She growled and covered her face. She was about to start nagging to Oliver just as he put his hand over her mouth.
“I haven’t been able to reach her. She needs to look over the London Proposal. Tell her to call me if you are able to reach her. I will keep trying her. Tell her I need her to have a decision before Friday.”
“Don’t worry Nic. I will let her know If I can reach her.” Oliver hung up on Penelope’s Uncle or as he should say, the president of Park Industries as he is on his 8-5 schedule right now.
“The party never stops does it”
“Now that you are awake. I am starving. And lucky for us there’s a breakfast place up ahead.”
“Yay,’ Penelope said so bluntly. She knew she was being a downer. Wanting to be in mystic falls for so long now that she was almost there it was the last place she wanted to be. She wanted to be home, yeah she had responsibilities but at least she was being useful. Now it's all about board meetings and the teenage experience of high school. A boarding school nonetheless. Penelope was less than excited to have to actually be in class. The only positive was her reunion with her siblings.
“Suck it up buttercup And buy me breakfast.”
“Why are you being mean to me? I pay you to be nice.”
“Clearly not enough”
“Whatever ollie. You love my company. You're only being pissy because you’ll miss me. I know it, you know it.”
“I come back. To check in.”
I know. I expect it. Pancakes or waffles?”
“Is that even a question? You will be splurging for the Belgium waffles”
Their breakfast was a well-needed catching up. Penelope knows the limit of those who she can trust. Even within her limited circle, she's been betrayed, never harshly to the point where she can no longer forgive, not to till now.
The whole point of coming to mystic falls was to leave all that behind for the time being. She knew eventually she would have go back to her duties. To pick up the mess left behind. She was never one to leave things unfinished.
But Oliver was always someone she could be confined in. Keeping her darkest and greatest secrets. Not only her family’s, but her secrets. Oliver also needed to ‘blow steam off’ as he called it. Penelope called it bitching. When Penelope goes off on her little adventures, Oliver is left protecting the other council member’s children. ‘ Little brats they are’
Once they finished they drove off into the woods of mystic falls, making it the house Mrs. and Mr. Park left her. Barely any one was around the house was boarding the town. Oliver hurried over to open Penelope’s door.
“Thank you, Oliver”
“Doing my driver duties. Have fun at school. I know you will"
“Ha. Ha.”
Oliver brought all her stuff out and into the house.
“I wish I could stay with you longer. But the council will be mad if I am gone any longer and you can’t keep pissing them off. And don’t forget the London Proposal. Or you’ll piss off Nic too.”
“But you know that’s one of my favorite actives.”
“I know. Be careful Miss.Park.” Penelope knew Oliver’s advice was more of a warning for the council than it was for her being alone somewhere new.
"I love you too ollie.”
Oliver drove off. Leaving Penelope all alone in a big house. Growing up with practically absent parents she got used to being alone. She learn to love it even but then one day she wasn’t. A council members son, and two orphans came along and she was never alone again. How could she go back to it?