"Love in the Great Pine Woods" by Gratiana Lovelace (2015-2016) (Completed)

Ch. 14 (PG-13,S): Navigating to Their Honeymoon

"Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 14 (PG-13,S): Navigating to Their Honeymoon,
January 02, 2016 by Gratiana Lovelace (Post #854)

(An original story copyrighted by Gratiana Lovelace; all rights reserved) [(1) story cover, left]

[From time to time, I will illustrate my story characters with: Richard Armitage as Sam Wakeforest, Marcia Gay Harden as Sam's older sister Tessa Wakeforest Shoop Delaney, and Emily Deschanel as Tessa's sister-in-law Olivia Delaney, Viola Davis as Pauletta Perkins, Cicely Tyson as Nellie Newton, Anna Sophia Robb as Alice Trent, Kevin Spacey as Roger Delaney, Sam Heughan as Todd Wakeforest, Idris Elba as Dominic Perkins and others as noted.]

Authors Content Note: "Love in the Great Pine Woods" is a mature love story with dramatic themes of love and relationships. It will mostly be at the PG and PG-13 movie levels. Specific chapters or passages may have a further rating of: L for language, D for dramatic emotions, and S for sensual themes. And I will rate the chapters accordingly. If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide for a chapter, then please do not read that chapter. This is my disclaimer. And as is my habit, I will summarize the previous chapter's events at the beginning of the next chapter.

Authors Recap from the Previous Chapter: Sam Wakeforest and Olivia Delaney share a lovely wedding ceremony with their closest family and friends on Wednesday, December 30th. After having cake and punch at their church wedding reception, they head back to Delaney Manor for a private family dinner wedding celebration before the happy couple heads off to their honeymoon destination. And Sam still has one more sentimental heirloom belated Christmas gift for Olivia--but she will have to wait to receive it on their wedding night.

"Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 14 (PG-13, S): Navigating to Their Honeymoon

Sam had a surprise waiting for his new wife Olivia when they exited the church around 3:00pm after their wedding and wedding reception on Wednesday, December 30th. Sam's middle younger brother William Wakeforest has horses and gives sleigh rides at their Wakeforest Family XMAS Tree Farm. But today, William is all decked in Victorian carriage driver finery--including top hat--with the carriage festively decorated, to take Sam and Olivia on a leisurely open carriage ride back to Delaney Manor for their private family dinner and wedding celebration.

And owing to the thankfully above freezing but still cold weather conditions, William supplied the newlyweds with several heavy blankets, a fur rug blanket, and a hot brick--which is period accurate for Victorian [era] comfort. However, the newlyweds are so engrossed in kissing each other that William thinks that they are probably creating their own heat. And the nieces and nephews--including foster niece Alice--had supplied the hand made with crayons Just Married sign and tin cans on ropes hanging behind the carriage and dragging the ground with a clatter as they ride the five miles out of the town of Wakeforest to the Delaney Manor estate.

Once inside Delaney Manor--where their family in motor powered vehicles had naturally beaten them to it--Sam, to his chagrin, gets separated from Olivia as his sister Tessa whisks her upstairs to her old room to shower and change into her traveling clothes.

After Olivia showers--including washing her hair since it had been pinned and hair sprayed to within an inch of its life--Tessa tries to have a much delayed womanly chat with Olivia as she dries her shoulder length hair and puts on her makeup. At first, the loud hair dryer makes hearing difficult.

Tessa: "You looked so beautiful today, Olivia." Tessa [(2) right] begins gently, a little uncertain as to how much information she will need to convey to Olivia--so that Olivia is not caught unawares as her wedding night unfolds.