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Alas I must inform you of a terribly unfortunate event, you have stumbled blindly into my woeful story of the Baudelaire parents chapter four. Please kick your computer off and hide under your bed to prevent yourself from anymore sadness you may experience while reading this story.
Woohoo chapter four it's summer and I have more time to work on it! I don't own them but I do enjoy writing about them
Let us depart from the day at Briny Beach and go forward to the finished home of an aspiring herpetologist and his nervous wife to be.
"Here it is, the finished home isn't it lovely? Quiet a nice home hmm?" Montgomery Montgomery open the front door, letting his fiancée in, her thick blonde hair was pinned up in a tight bun and her blue eyes widened at the aspect of living in such a reptile themed home. "It's well um…" Monty walked around the living room, "See over here is the hallway to the storage rooms and up stairs is our rooms" "It" She clamped her purse to her chest a worried look caking her fragile face. "So many reptiles Monty…I'm not so sure…I mean it's lovely" Monty ignored her quivering lips and gently guided her into the Reptile Room. "See what I've been trying to build! My own lab to keep exotic lizards!" They rounded the glass room, "Giant tortoises," The more Monty spoke, his eyes alive with excitement, "Poisonous toads" the more his wife to be whimpered, finally he paused back at the entrance doors with its giant snake slicked over the arch. "Are you well my dear?"
She carefully fixed her glasses peering anxiously around the lab. "Lots of reptiles Montgomery" Monty slipped his hands into his lime green pockets, "Yes well I love reptiles" She nodded her hand curling up over her lips, "Yes I know it is marvelous but do you not feel you could maybe put up some verdant fury dogs" "Green dogs?" Monty broke into a warm smile, "Yes well I'm not very found of green dogs." They waltzed back into the living room, "You like green"
"Yes but I like reptiles more"
His fiancée inspected with trembling hands a lizard shaped wall lamp with light flooding out its glass yellow eyes and open mouth, "But reptiles are so risky and poisonous reptiles are deadly" Monty titled his head the green and gold curtains shimmered in the tall silver leaf encrusted windows.
"My dear you built our other home on-" Montgomery the home is lovely! With lacy pillows, a vase of flowers with two reasonably sized beds; everything we would ever need,"
"Minus land," "Yes" she walked around Monty holding a tree embroider pillow she quickly sat it down on a sharp looking corner of the bay window "Realtors sell land right?" Monty sucked in a deep breath, "Yes dear but" "No land no Realtors Montgomery it is a well built home-" Suddenly his fiancée recoiled onto the bay seat, pulling up her tiny feet shrieking in terror, Monty swung around to see what had scared her.
It was a long rather thick yellow baby snake wiggling out of the kitchen. "Nancy!" "It has a name!" Her hands had fully covered her pale face, Monty picked up Nancy letting her curl up around his neck underneath his flamboyant hair. "Nancy" "It could have killed me I saw it looking my way!" She wiggled out of the seat and darted out the front door into the garden. "Dear! My My calm down my sweet all is well" Monty walked out into the garden filled with young flowers and shiny mosaic snakes, "Oh...I do not mean to be testy or rude Montgomery we can spend most the year at my pick of a home until you mellow out this one" "At lake Lachrymose?" "Yes dear" She reached out to touch his arm but reconsidered at the sight of the yellow body.
"Are you leaving?" Monty questioned with distaste, he noted her putting back on her black hat and fixing her purse, "Yes Ike is planning to come get me for some cold soup and to look in on the new home, make sure they have not installed a stove," Monty sucked in a deep breath pushing it out through his nose slowly not to scare his love. "Good bye Montgomery I shall send a letter to you care of the very fast delivery service!" "Why not call me?" "Oh no you know how I feel about phones," She gathered up enough courage to give him a timid kiss on the cheek before carefully existing the garden and moving down the street. Monty had little time to reflect on the moment before a scratchy voice interrupted his thoughts.
"I saw that!" Once in a while everyone gets a pesky neighbor, that doesn't like you from day one and Montgomery like everyone else had just encountered his first one. A rather pretty faced, dark harried woman of 30 with sharp almond shaped watery blue eyes and pink prim lips. Monty always responded pleasantly to her no matter what she said, "Saw what madam?" Linda Luckett was leaning over the stone wall eyeing Monty suspiciously. "That touching! Do you live here?" Monty nodded walking over to her with an out held hand. "Montgomery Montgomery! I'm a scientist" "No don't you dare! I saw all those ugly creatures being touted into that abomination of a home the other day!" " Abomination? I hardly think so! They are rather friendly, you should come over madam" "Linda and no! I don't want to be anywhere near those evil things! I hate to think what creepy crawly monsters are gliding around in your backyard! If my baby is hurt by" "Baby?" Monty cut in with an inquisitive face, "I'm expecting a bouncing baby girl very soon" "How nice I wish you the best of luck, children are the building blocks of life and they are just beautiful!" The woman frowned, "Just stay away with those creatures!" She waged her finger at Nancy. "Her name is Nancy, Linda" Linda made a gruff noise before jumping off the wall to go back inside her home.
At that very moment a large pure white stork swooped down to Linda Luckett's front porch leaving a pink bundle on the steps. "How very soon" Monty nodded, he turned and began his quest back to his home. "Nancy my sweet! Josephine is having an affair with Ike." Monty smiled, he gingerly rubbed Nancy's skin as the glided down the Reptile Room stairs to her cage. Nancy rolled back into her room hissing with sympathy for her woeful owner. "Yes I know, she builds our winter home on stilts but is afraid of me and you!" The snake lazily perched its self on a large twig. "I must talk with her later on the subject." Monty's face didn't twitch or flinch from its eerie blissful smile. If anyone had peeked in on him standing in his new home they would have hardly thought that though his sparkling eyes, and satisfied smile his world was crashing down around him. Montgomery would become very good at hiding his feelings in years to come.
Secrets are often the downfall of a wonderful life.