Unsuited to Each Other

by ProLiferChelle

Winifred Seerie causes trouble between Bruce and Stacy in this AU story set during the "Katie Rose and Stacy Belford" books. All chapters will be written as double-drabbles. Characters not invented by me were created by Lenora Mattingly Weber. The "Katie Rose and Stacy Belford" books were originally published by Thomas Y. Crowell, and are now owned by Image Cascade.

2. Chapter 2

Winifred decided to try another tactic. She and Eustace Belford both belonged to the English Tea and Literature Society, which, fortuitously, was meeting the next afternoon at Eustace's house. They were reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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Winifred arrived fifteen minutes early for the meeting.

"It's good to see you, Winifred," Eustace greeted her. "You're the first one to arrive."

"I'm enjoying Pride and Prejudice more than I did in high school."

"So am I. My niece Stacy calls it Pride and Perjurious."

Winifred was grateful for the unexpected opening.

"Speaking of Stacy, I'd like to discuss something with you."

"Oh?"

"Yes. I feel that... now how can I put this delicately... that she and Bruce are, well, unsuited to each other."

"May I remind you that you are speaking to me about my niece... and namesake?" Eustace asked, with a hint of frost.

"I realize that, and the problem isn't Stacy so much as her mother."

"What do you have against Rose?"

"Please don't take this personally," Winifred said, "but I don't think my son should be dating a girl whose mother plays
the piano at Guido's Gay Nineties."