Marry, Murder, Mystery

Adeline

Adeline was as we know, a poor farm girl. She grew up on a farm with her family, and their livestock.
She would tend to the animals every day in the glowing heat of the sun.
Though poor, she was very pretty, blonde hair, sun kissed skin, beautiful blue eyes and a figure to die for. Of course growing up on a farm she couldn't wear a corset like most middle class girls of her age when she was 15 and she couldn't attend school, so she couldn't read or write.
Being lower class was a hard life but she enjoyed it. Every day she would hum tunes while tending to the chickens, a beautiful tune of course and she would hum it whenever she had the rare chance to go to the butchers for Christmas.
She was humming that same tune while in the butchers one Christmas Eve while waiting for her cheap beef cut, kind of in her own world.
"Excuse me, do you work here?" A fine gentleman no younger than 19 asked her, bringing her out of her daze. He was handsome, bright white hair and a pale complexion, naturally Adeline was taken aback from someone so attractive talking to her.
"Uh... no" she whispered, admiring the mystery man.
"Ah my apologies! You have a lovely tone for your humming" the man smiled.
He was well dressed, clearly a higher class citizen.
"Thanks..." she replied as the butcher came back with her cut. She snatched it before rushing out of there and leaned against the wall outside to catch her previously lost breath from the shock of seeing such a man.
The next day she was sitting at the table with her mother and father, pushing her food around her plate in silence, her parents staring at her like she'd grown two heads.
"What you lookin' at" she snarled.
"Who's the fella then Addy" her dad chortled as Adeline went scarlet.
"I reckon it's some fancy man ay love" her mother chimes in sarcastically "get your food down yer neck before I scoff it meself! 'Bout hard to get that 'ere meat I won't have it going to waste!"
That night Adeline lay in her box room on the cold floor with her dusty blanket, wondering about the man she'd seen. Would she ever see him again? He was so handsome what was he doing down this end at this butchers?
She tossed and turned all night unable to sleep with these thoughts swimming through her mind.

"Addy! Come 'ere" her father beckoned from the barn. "I need you to take this here milk to the market today to sell, I'm too busy with the 'orses" he demanded
She sighed heavily as she picked up the crate of glass bottles to walk to the village.
"Three bits a bottle this milk love" she said to a possible buyer. The buyer paid and she slumped back while she waited, humming her usual tune.
Something, or well, someone caught her eye.
There was the man, strolling down the street towards her stall, she scrambled to sit up incase he came to say hello.
"How much for the milk dear" he asks her in a posh accent.
"Three bits a bottle." Adeline said bluntly.
"Ah. Such a cheap price!" He smiled a dashing grin before shoving some paper money into her hand and strolling off with his single bottle of milk.
Adeline had never seen so much money in her life!
"Ay! Yev payed me too much!" She called but the man simply brushed her a little wave and carried on strolling.
She sat taken aback, sold the last bottles of her milk and sprinted home to her family, beaming.
"Mum, dad!" She screamed excitedly "paper money! Paper money!!"
Her mother and dad came sprinting into the room as they all gazed at the cash before hugging each other. They could eat like kings for a month!
"Who gave ye that then addy?" Her father asked suspicious of it.
"A very well dressed gentleman! He had a golden raven head necklace on."
Her mother and father exchanged glances.
"Did he have white hair?" They asked in unison tilting their heads.
Adeline nodded slowly.
"That was the son of the richest family in the estate!" They cried.
"He's from the Green family! How did ye pull that baggage when we're nothing but a poor farm family?" Her mother quizzed, clearly excited about this mystery man.
"Addy, you're the one who will sell the eggs at the market tomorrow, maybe he will come back, find out his name!" She squealed delighted that her daughter had enticed a rich man.

And so she did, she practically skipped to the market the next morning with her basket of eggs wearing one of her mothers dresses to try and show off her figure. And so she set up her stall, and she waited.
"How much for the eggs" a grim old man asked.
Adeline looked at him "10 bits a dozen, 6 bits for 6 eggs" she snuffed, holding out her hand. Her mind was elsewhere, waiting for her new crush to appear. She took the old man's money and he was on her way.
So she kept waiting.
She waited all day until it was time to close up.
He never turned up all day, she was so let down and upset. As she sadly hummed her little tune she felt a tap on her shoulder.
It made her jump and she turned around to be met face to face with the man.
"Sorry to appear so late dear, hope I'm not too late to buy some eggs? How much" he grinned.
She was head over heals for that grin.
"On the... on the house for you... Mister?" She stuttered.
He chuckled "Apollo, Mr Apollo Green" and he picked up a case of a dozen eggs. "This should cover it?" As he hands her two notes of paper money. "I could never have anything for free from such a pretty face, miss?" He said smoothly.
"Addy.." she coughed "Adeline.. it's Adeline" she corrected herself. Smiling.
"And does such a pretty name have a second name darling?"
"No. I'm a farm girl much too poor for fancy second names" she snorted, turning scarlet.
"Ah. Well I hope to see you again, Adeline" he smiled again before heading off.