Three Week Holiday
Chapter 1: Correspondence
T:
You need to get over whoever he is and leave the house. I'm bored. Blaise and I are going to the Oiled Broomstick for a pint. You should join us.
-D
Dear Theodore,
I haven't heard from you in a long time. I'm beginning to worry about you. I tried to come by your flat today. I know you were home because I could hear the record player. I understand you're still feeling down about your breakup with Tristan, but really, don't you think two weeks is a long enough mourning period? Please let me cheer you up. At least, let me in to your flat. I bet you haven't cleaned or eaten properly in days. I could help you tidy up and make you a decent meal. I'll come by later tonight and bring your favourite chocolate croissants from the French bakery on Oxford Street.
Love,
Pansy
xoxo
Theo,
Draco and I missed you at the pub last night. We saw Tristan there. He seems to be completely over you. Don't you think you should be too? Come out to dinner with us tonight. I know this Asian-fusion place in Southend that's frequented by pretty things. Pick you up at 8. Wear something nice.
Blaise
Dearest Theodore,
We are slipping this note under your door because we know you're in there. We can hear you blasting that Merlin-forsaken depressing muggle rock music.
This is an intervention. You have been moping around for weeks. Tristan is not worth it. He is a two-timing slut and you deserve better. Please let us in, if not to let us help you, then at least to let us know you're not dead.
PS Draco brought a carton of cigarettes, I (Pansy) brought chocolate croissants, and Blaise has a bottle of firewhiskey. LET US IN.
Your best friends who love you dearly,
Pansy, Draco, and Blaise
FAX
To: Meredith Rodriguez, Altavista Agency, London
From: Theodore Nott
RE: Advance on new book from Harbinger-Bryce
Meri,
I would like an advance from Harbinger-Bryce Publishers to go on a three-week holiday. I'm going to bring two of my best mates and I'm hoping to write about the experience. Could you put a clever spin on this idea and run it by the powers that be over there? Let me know ASAP so that I can make travel plans. I'm thinking Costa Rica, Venice, and Paris.
Let's have lunch soon and we can talk about the book-signing tour in the States.
Thanks,
Theo
FAX
To: Theodore Nott
From: Meredith Rodriguez
RE: Advance from HB
Theo,
I have secured you an advance with the pretense that you are doing research for your book. Judging from the last book, I'm sure you and your mates will get up to all sorts of shenanigans that will make for good reading. Yes, let's have lunch before you embark on your holiday. I'd like to start booking you for signings very soon. Would you be opposed to speaking at a few LGBT-lit events at universities?
Meri
Author's Note: Thank you to Bex, Shannon, and Ashley for inspiring this story. We had been role-playing it on Twitter for several months and got as far as Venice. Each chapter was a piece I had posted on Live Journal to set-up the story line in the role-play, with the exception of the chapter on Paris.
