Hi :) sorry i didn't update sooner! i've been soooo busy. however- chapter 2 has arrived. review review review!
Sarah Banks was a firm friend of Mary and even though she had only just moved to Meryton a month back the two girls had struck up an immediate friendship. At first glance they seemed complete opposites, Mary being very shy and favouring the study of piano, sewing and reading whereas Sarah grew up in a more rural area and was used to bashing about playfully with her three older brothers. However in such cases you often find that opposites attract, for Sarah- Mary was knowledgeable and dedicated and for Mary herself she admired Sarah's openness, kindness and love of life.
The two girls often went walking together through the woods surrounding Meryton and they never seemed to run out of topics of conversation, Mary taught Sarah the names of all the tree's and Sarah could easily recognize any bird simply by it's song. It was on such a day that they were walking through the woods and discussing neighbourhood gossip. They strolled gaily through and chatted until at last they reached a large stream they had never come across before, the first suggestion from Mary was that they turn back but Sarah would not condone such a failure of character and wheedled Mary into crossing the stream with her. Several large stones protruded out of the water forming a very precarious path and it was onto the first one that Sarah hopped onto, pulling Mary by the arm with her. Warily Mary followed her dainty friend, for she knew full well that she was not nearly as agile or balanced as her friend. It was doomed to end in disaster, and so it did for they had not yet reached the middle of the stream before Mary lost her footing, grabbed onto Sarah for balance and the two came tumbling down into the stream.
It was at least two minutes before they both surfaced and Sarah had dragged Mary onto the banks. They were both soaked through and what was worse, their thin white gowns were now entirely see-through. After several minutes of panting and wiping hair out of their eyes, Mary started to laugh hysterically. Never in her life had she ever done something like this and getting up she pulled Sarah into a very wet hug, then they both subsided into helpless laughter.
Hoping that the sun would dry them off they took off their walking boots and shoes, instead preferring to go in bare feet and continued onwards. Ten minutes had barely passed when the sound of hooves startled them out of their talking and they turned to see a horse in the distance, it could only be a man riding and so the two became conspicuously aware that they were soaked through and might as well be walking in there undergarments for all the good their dresses did at covering them. Hastily they hurried behind a large oak tree and stood very silently, waiting for the horse to pass, as it did Mary peeked round the corner and saw that it was Captain Thomas once again out and about. She drew her head back swiftly, praying that he did not find them. Indeed he didn't, and what a shock it would have been to him if he had found them I do not know.
As soon as he had passed the girls subsided into fresh fits of giggles, and gasping Mary told Sarah who the man had been, which only heightened her laughter.