Place: A vacation house, Isle of Water, Isles of Mystery
Time: Ten years after Circus of Ghosts
Charlie Bucket was lying on his beach chair to avoid the squabbling inside his vacation house about wedding details. Two months after proposing he quickly learned that his opinion meant nothing to the girls involved in the preparation. So he was lying back when he saw that Veruca Salt had emerged. He asked, "How are they doing?"
Veruca said, "Their is a debate between mother and daughter on whether the choice of wedding dress shows off too much chest."
Charlie then asked, "Veruca, you've been somewhat off since we've arrived. Is something the matter?"
Veruca sat down on one of the beach chairs and said, "My daddy recently held a conference. He said he was turning over controlling interest in Salt Nuts over to the Vice President of the company."
Charlie found it odd that Veruca was upset at this, since she showed no interest in her fathers company before. "Is he unqualified or something?"
Veruca shook her head and said, "No one is more qualified. I just look at the other girls in my social circle, and then I look at Violet and Angie. All of the girls in my social circle are defined by who their daddy is, or who their husband is. Violet meanwhile is soon going to marry into a fortune, but will be remembered because of her gold medal, and she's soon going to star in a series of fitness videos right?"
"That's right."
Veruca continued, "And Angela's doing well for herself. I meanwhile am skilled for nothing. Am I destined to be a person who never does anything with her life?"
Charlie smirked and said, "Veruca, With all my money I have socialized a lot among the upper class, and I found a lot of them to be snobs, once I get to know them. I found a trait that shows goodness among rich people, which I share."
"What's that?"
Charlie took her hand and said, "I can say truthfully say I have enough for my life. I have become totally indifferent to the idea of having more money and assets than I allready have. I have enough to provide myself and Vi a comfortable lifestyle for the rest of our lives, and give a healthy upbringing and education to any kids we have along the way. Now I ask you, Veruca, do you have enough?"
Veruca took a few second to think, and finally said, "Yeah, I think so."
Charlie than said, "Do you have more than enough?"
"Yeah."
"Then do this, spend the money you don't need to create generel improvements for the world. I spend my excess building improvements to my town."
Veruca perked at this, and said, "Like what?"
Charlie said, "I'm refurbishing downtown, adding a couple of fountains, and construction of the George Bucket Memorial Homeless Shelter begins a week after the wedding. I have other plans too."
Veruca smiled and said excitedly, "That's a great idea! I swear, people in my town will remember me now as a fine humanitarian, after I use the bathroom."
After a few seconds after Veruca went inside, Charlie heard, "Great! You want to have children!"
Charlie turned around, and saw that Violet was listening. He said, "I thought you were fighting over a wedding dress."
Violet came up to him and said, "Angie and Mom were the ones fighting. I was sitting back staring dumbly. Really If Mom wanted me to change it, I would have been fine, but Angie really liked it. Changing the subject, I heard what you said to Veruca. You know why I fell for you?"
Charlie said, "I remember you telling me, You think I'm the nicest person in the world."
Violet continued, "And now you've convinced Veruca to be a nicer person. Veruca. What this all leads to is the fact that I am so hot for you right now. Will you come up with me to the bedroom?"
Charlie wasn't going to argue with that.