The Joker And The Fool

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Young love would almost always lead to disappointment. It was something Diana was yet to find out. But until that time, she found herself madly in love with this almost-adult man. George studied indeed at Oxford and was forced to return to school after they had spent time together over a short period of time. However, they would remain to have some sort of contact over the phone and through emails. She liked him very much because he was much more mature than other boys. He was a college student; he lived a different life.

During the time she grew to like George very much, her relationship to her parents somewhat changed. It was as if they had granted her much more freedom all of a sudden. Thomas was happy to see that Diana liked George, he knew him as a very pleasant, very polite young man. Jane cared not so much; she was simply happy that Diana spent less time with her family. Her mother always carried the opinion that her daughter was the cause of trouble in her life, she never once questioned her own parenting. But if an outsider ever knew in what way Jane dared to compete and to fight with her own daughter, they would see very swiftly that Diana's childhood was unhealthy, and that the cause of it was her mother. Jane was unhappy about the fact that Thomas and Diana spent much alone-time together and the fact that Thomas remained to spoil her very much. Thomas and Jane had fought about it many times as Diana would sit at the end of the stairs listening to her mother screaming at Thomas and calling him the dirtiest names she could think of.

Diana often spoke to Thomas about it and explained that she sympathised with him. Something that she did not do much, even when she was younger. It was unnatural that Thomas agreed with her and allowed his daughter to side with him. Together they often spoke lowly of her mother. They had even discussed a supposed divorce, which Diana supported thoroughly. But then again Thomas would always think of his firm, his pride and of Tommy, who he deemed too young to understand things such as divorce. Diana could not care very much for she did not like her brother, and she did not necessarily want her brother (and/or mother) as part of her family.

Diana, George, her father, and George's uncle would sometimes agree to meet, they would play golf or have lunch. However, for a very long while this was the only means of rendezvous she would have with her supposed lover. They had only went on a few dates, for which he had all paid. He had also bought her some gifts, as he knew that Diana was accustomed to being gifted little things. It took not a few weeks before Diana came to see their relationship as lasting. And they would soon become an official couple at the request of her father.

But it was not always like a dream come true. They fought sometimes, even on the phone. She did not know exactly why they fought. Mostly because she often felt as if George did not truly care much for her. And she wanted his attention, she wanted to be loved and adored. But after the fights they had she would always compensate those dark moments with happy moments. And she ignored often that both of them really did not know nor understand one another. Their short and lively relationship would come to an abrupt stop at a time. At the hands of one grave disappointment, one she could not overcompensate with gifts or dinners or any other happy thoughts. One she would very much keep to herself, if only she had the time.

They were together for four months when she had gone to Oxford to be with him for the weekend. He had promised to take her out on a date for a certain evening, she had dressed up accordingly. She had even packed lingerie for the weekend as she wanted to be prepared to do 'the deed' with him. She had shaved her body from her eyebrows to her toes, she had searched on the internet what things a man appeared to like during sex, for she had not so many female friends to speak with about such matters. She had gone to the store especially for that weekend to buy herself a small flask of perfume, which she kept with her at all times and more than often dabbed onto her neck and wrists and to buy a pack of rubbers. All of that, without her parents knowing so. If Thomas did know so, he would possibly have stopped Diana from meeting George ever again. There was nothing but a little sexuality to cross a father's trust and jealousy.