Will You Keep The Secret

"Uh yeah, yeah going to do something sounds nice - do you have anything in particular in mind?"

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"The park? Sure." She hummed. "That'll be fun, I'll message your uncle and see if he'll meet us there with Ariel, yeah?"

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"I came over to go to the musuem, there are a couple of things in it that aren't coming to my area."

"Not really?" she laughed. "I was sort of hoping you would have an idea of what to do around here?"

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"Okay!" she grinned widely.

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"Oh? Have you gone yet?"

"I mean, honestly, there isn't much. Rural is never overly exciting."

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"No, no not yet." He hummed.

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"Okay, go and grab your coat just in case the wind picks up. OK?"

"A walk then? Or something in the town over maybe?"

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"No? So a blind date comes before visiting the museum that brought you to this town in the first place?"

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Ripley nodded, grabbing her jacket from the closet by the front door.

"No, no I only got into town today so I'm a bit too tired to really take in a museum trip," He chuckled.

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Persephone watched her with a grin.

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"A walk sounds nice,"

"Oh," she laughed. "Persephone really wasn't joking when she said you only just arrived.

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Ripley bounced from foot to foot by the front door, waiting.

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She smiled, getting to her feet. "Lead the way."

"Straight off the bus and she shoves a sticky name label in my hand and tells me to get here." He laughed. "I had the same amount of warning as you."

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She grabbed her phone and headed over, opening the front door.

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Apollo wandered out then, following the river up stream.

Delaney shook her head, trying not to laugh. "She's insane. Did she at least tell you anything at all about me?"

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Ripley bounded outside the moment she could.

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Evangeline grabbed her coffee and followed him.

"Your name, that your little girl was Ariel's cousin." He shrugged, "Uh, thats all I managed to get before she pushed me along."

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"You don't mind mud, do you?"

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"Don't go too far ahead, ok?" Persephone hummed

"Yes, they're cousins. My daughter is Ripley. I was married to Persephone's brother."

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"Nope. Mud can be washed off."

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"Kay"!" She called over her shoulder.

"Yeah, how's that work out for you?"

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"Good," Apollo grinned.

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Persephone smiled.

"Um, not well? We're divorced.."

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"Where are we going?"

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She skipped along.

"I guessed that much. What happened?"

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"Just walking,"

"Then why ask about mud?" She cast a quick look his way.

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"I messed things because that's what I do. I didn't tell him that Persephone was alive and she was in town... I didn't tell him that our daughters newest bestfriend was actually his niece..."

"We're walking in a forest, there is going to be mud."

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"Ah, yeah, that'd do it."

"Mm, a little mud, a lot of mud... I'll be alright."

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"That isn't even half of it but that's what started it..."

"Good,"

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"Ah well," He shrugged. "Things happen, right? Some things aren't meant to last forever. Sometimes they shouldn't,"

She nodded.

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Laney sighed, taking a sip of her ice coffee. "Mm, I suppose."

"Same reason I think people die young; some things are just too good to last forever."

"And some people are just stupid and mess up the good things they had."

"Everything happens for a reason,"

"You sound like Persephone."

"Mm, she always likes to steal my sayings." He laughed

"You know he pretty well then too, hm?"

Wren nodded