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

Ch. 28 (PG-13): Wakeforest Baby's Nursery Planning

"Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 28 (PG-13): Wakeforest Baby's Nursery Planning, 
March 21, 2016 by Gratiana Lovelace(Post #889)

(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 Wakeforest, 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, the late Polly Holliday as the Waitress Madge, Donald Sutherland as Aldus Warren, Teri Polo as Lillian Warren, and Ewan McGregor as David Warren, 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: Now that Olivia Delaney Wakeforest is past her morning sickness with her being well into her fourth month, she is ravenous—to the point of eating everything on her plate, and then sampling/stealing food from her husband Sam's plate. But he is sanguine about it—and he realizes that she is eating for two. After sharing a lovely Saturday April 23, 1956 morning breakfast with his wife Olivia—and even though Sam was vexed by what he felt was the cheeky attitude of their waitress, whom Olivia viewed as merely being humorous—Sam and Olivia enjoyed a lovely nap--that wasn't a nap--back at home.

"Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 28 (PG-13): Wakeforest Baby's Nursery Planning

Though Tessa Wakeforest Shoop Delaney has three other sisters-in-law from her younger brothers Kevin, William, and Todd, it is her eldest brother Sam Wakeforest's wife Olivia Delaney Wakeforest with whom Tessa has keenly bonded the last three years of her courtship and marriage to Olivia's elder brother Roger Delaney. And Olivia delighted in her brother Roger's choice for his second wife in his marrying his high school sweetheart Tessa--after he was widowed for five years from a woman who was cold emotionally, but who performed her wifely hostessing duties well. And Olivia had always wanted an older sister—someone less overbearing than her brother Roger—and Tessa had always wanted a little sister, whom she could coddle and trade girl secrets with. And though Tessa and Olivia are fifteen years apart in age, they are dear friends and bosom buddies.

So it is quite the norm for Tessa to either see or to phone Olivia almost daily—partially because Olivia's leg injury is still healing and Tessa runs little errands for her to the market and such, and most especially because Olivia is now truly four months pregnant at the end of the month, Saturday April 30th, 1956. Since Olivia's injury occurred early with the avalanche on the mountain on January 2nd, the best guess is that Sam's and Olivia's three days of wedded bliss from Dec. 30th to January 1st created their little bun in the oven [(2)] So not only is Olivia a blushing bride, but a well loved bride—which increases her husband Sam's manly pride.

So on this Monday, May 2nd, 1956--also four months after Olivia's avalanche caused leg injury--she is healing enough to allow for longer periods of mobility and activity. So Tessa picks up Olivia and they drive out of town to the slightly larger city of Valley View an hour away to look at baby clothes and furniture at their larger department stores. Around 9am, Olivia and Tessa enter the largest furniture store known as Warren's, with six floors of furniture in any style and period imaginable. Some of the more American styles of colonial and mid century modern furniture even being reproduced in the local area. But French, English, and Spanish furniture styles popular among more wealthy customers can also be found through Warren Furniture Store's large import showrooms.