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Twenty minutes had passed and the twins had gone their separate ways. Lucas was often seen glaring at Lowell with piercing eyes and stern talks masked in laughter by the tall, well-trimmed bushes, or being cornered by Faith and Fiona Chattaway, the twins attempting to confuse poor Lucas' mind while he played with their with a jumble of odd riddles and phrases, to where the twins looked at him with a look of oddity before going to bother Alice.
"She is quite the lady isn't she?" Hamish arrived at Lucas' side, his nose up in his regular snobbish fashion.
"She is, she is my sister, as with Margaret, and my mother. I believe there is no other woman greater than them." Lucas smiled, in joy of his sisters and mother.
"My mother is." Hamish said, unaware of the rudeness he portrayed.
Lucas held in his anger for a moment to smile and laugh goodheartedly.
"Do you think she'll say yes?" Hamish asked.
"Of course. After all, who wouldn't want to not marry a man like Hamish Ascot?" Lucas said his voice thick with sarcasm.
"I know that already. I didn't need confirmation. Who wouldn't want to marry me?" Hamish said arrogant, obviously missing Lucas' sarcasm.
"What if the women wore trousers and the men wore dresses?" Alice said to Hamish as they danced.
"When in doubt remain silent." Hamish replied to Alice as they danced.
Lucas danced nearby, as he handed off his partner to Hamish, before claiming her again, in the same routine fashion like every jig and dance they had been taught.
"Alice, meet me under the gazebo in precisely ten minutes."
Hamish said suddenly to Alice before walking away.
Alice went to talk to her brother for a moment in order to see what Hamish had talked to him about previously as she had seen.
Lucas however saw Alice heading toward him and he disappeared into the crowd just as suddenly as Hamish's mother fetched Alice and headed toward the rosebushes.
Lucas smiled, knowing full well what Alice's intentions had been.
"Hello Lucas, nice to see you again." Came a soft voice from behind Lucas.
Lucas turned to see Veronica Brithers, the woman he was supposed to marry.
"Well hello Veronica. I did not plan on seeing you on such an event. I'm sorry for my actions last time we parted." Lucas lied through his teeth as he smiled.
Veronica smiled at Lucas. "It is quite alright, Lucas. I can understand how confusing and sudden our parents came together for you to force you to marry me."
The way Veronica said her words made a tangent of guilt hit Lucas' heart.
"Again, I am sorry for my actions, I had just thought of us as longtime friends, and as nothing more. I was perhaps overreacting, that day. Shall we forget the past, for old times' sake?"
Lucas said smiling in hopes of forgiveness.
"Of course Mr. Kingsleigh. I can understand how a coward would be afraid of marriage." Veronica huffed as she trotted away.
Lucas watched her walk away before dismissing her altogether.
"Doesn't matter you had the ears of a rabbit and the mouth of a horse." Lucas muttered under his breath as he walked away, putting a hand in his pocket…
Alice and Hamish stood under the white gazebo at exactly ten minutes.
Even after Hamish had reverted to one knee, and after Alice had plucked a blue caterpillar off of his shoulder, Alice still appeared to be clueless.
"Alice Kingsleigh, will you be my wife?" Hamish said on one knee looking expectantly up at Alice.
Lucas grimaced at Hamish, but wasn't going to object; after all it was her surprise wedding engagement.
Lucas hated not telling his sister.
Lucas stood in the front of the crowd of people trying no to glare daggers at the boy attempting to marry his younger sister.
"Well this is awfully sudden…" Lucas had managed to hear Alice say.
Alice said easing away from Hamish looking at Lucas, then to the crowd.
"I think I need a moment."
Alice ran off from the gazebo, much in the same fashion ironically as Lucas had.
"Lucas, please go get your sister." Helen whispered into Lucas' ear as he ran after Alice.
Lucas had found Alice looking quite peculiar staring at a stop of grass when he had arrived at her side
"Did you see it?" Alice said still staring at the spot.
"See what? Grass? Mother wants you to come back; I think you ought to keep running. You can keep Hamish waiting with a ridiculous grin on his face." Lucas said grinning.
"Never mind that! The white rabbit in the waistcoat with the pocket watch! Did you see it?"
"Maybe you are a bit mad." Lucas joked, not taking her seriously.
"Then again, Dr. Edmund says you're the saner of the two of us…"
Alice sighed and ran off after the White Rabbit she knew she saw.
"Wait Alice! Oh will you just slow down and talk to me!" Lucas said exasperated giving chase to his wayward sister in his worn boots.
After searching again for his wayward sister, he found her peering down a Rabbit hole at the base of a gnarly tree.
Lucas crouched down beside her.
"Alice stop peering down there before something rabid bites you. Alice, now you've got the blue dress dirty, mind I thought it was one of the more beautiful things you owned. And now I'm starting to sound like moth-"Lucas stopped mid-sentence from his rambling as dirt crumbled from under Alice's palm as she dove forward.
Lucas grabbing the hem of her dress in efforts to pull her back, but failing as he fell with her.
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