Wilhelm Darcy sat with his phone, absentmindingly scrolling through tumblr, when the message came.
"Excuse me, but who are you? "he replied, without much second thought. Usually when he received a message from an unknown source it didn't end up well. It was better to know beforehand than to be hurt later. His defence mechanics ran on autopilot nowadays.
"Someone concerned" came the answer. The message signal startled him. It was best to not do a silent activity while waiting for them. "I know that u also care about Charlies happiness"
"What do you want from me?" He wasn't really sure that the person contacting him was concerned, really. It seemed more like they wanted something from him. Actually, it seemed a lot more like blackmail than anything else.
"To get him away from that Jeanne girl" Well, he did not oppose to that.
"What do you suggest we do? "He had no idea how to separate the couple, except from forcing Charlie elsewhere physically. He stared at the three dots at the message screen before the reply came. It seemed like an hour.
"Don't really have to spend the holiday season here, u know. Could go directly to your place in Aspen after mid-terms". It was a matter of seconds for the reply to arrive, even though it almost seemed as if it had been rewritten several times. Wilhelm shook his head in awe of the shortened language and bad grammar.
They were right, though. There was nothing that held him and Charlie back here. In fact, flight tickets were much cheaper the further away from Christmas you got. Still Wilhelm wasn't sure. It might have been related to a spirit with a slight French accent. And the smell of her hair.
"How are we supposed to convince Charlie to go there? There's no way he'll be parted from her earlier than planned." He wasn't sure he wanted to be parted from Jeanne's sister either, but that was none of the "concerned person's" business.
"Don't know. You're his best friend. I'm just his sister." Wait. Was Caroline the one behind this? Wilhelm started to suspect another motivation to go to a cramped ski cabin for three weeks. Definitively blackmailing.
"Make something up. Just DO something." Reluctantly, he agreed that something had to be done and promised the "concerned friend" that he would try to convince Charlie. He did not yet know how, but was positive that it would include research of Jeanne's dating history.
To be continued