Ah the smell of Friday. You can practically sense the weekend lurking not too far off. Lets see what we can do with the last prompt of the week shall we? Timer set and off we go.
I really want everything to be left to Luke and no one realizes it. I think that would be fun. Especially as they are so worried about Helen.
Friday, March 1st: It was a Wednesday.
“It was a Wednesday,” Luke said. The others looked at him and he realized it didn’t matter what day of the week it was. Already he could see the rolled eyes and smirks.
“That would be mildly helpful if we knew the actual date,” Simone said. “A Wednesday sometime doesn’t really help us narrow it down much.”
Luke thought they could flip through the calendar and look at the Wednesdays, eliminating the other days from consideration, but he didn’t mention it. Instead he wracked his brain for more details.
“I think the Christmas decorations were up,” he added.
“As they go up in November and no one bothered to take them down until Valentines day this year, again, not helpful,” Harvey added.
Again Luke thought that even with the late November to mid-February block, they could eliminate a chunk of the year. ‘Especially if we stick to Wednesdays.’
No further details came to mind and John decided that he would leave them to search on their own. He turned away.
“Where are you going?” Simone demanded. “We still haven’t figured out what day Grandfather went to the lawyer’s office.”
Luke turned back. “I was going to check my calendar and see if anything jumps out,” he told them.
“That’s at least useful,” Simone said. She and Harvey turned back to the calendar and began slowly flipping through the pages. Knowing he was dismissed, Luke took the opportunity to leave.
Personally, he didn’t actually care when their grandfather went to the lawyers office. He knew his cousins would disagree. They all wanted to make certain the will was not changed, that the will they knew to be the one in force still remained. Simone and Harvey knew the date on the will they saw and wanted to make sure a new one had not been made.
Luke knew that their grandfather would divide his estate how he wished and thought that was that. He would wither get something or he wouldn’t. ‘And that is that,’ he thought as he made his way up to his room. He decided he had better pull his calendar out just in case someone came looking for him even if he planned to do something else. He knew it was better to look like he was occupied in the search should anyone think to check back with him.
‘Not that it is likely,’ Luke thought. Everyone was obsessed with the will and the thought that the old man might have changed it to favor his new bride before he died. That was the key element everyone was questioning. The marriage had been a surprise three years prior and most of the family was still stunned.
‘Even after grandfather’s death,’ Luke thought. The family thought she was too young and too likely to take what they considered theirs. Luke knew Helen was only about ten years younger than their grandfather, putting her in her late seventies rather than the ‘child bride’ many of the family liked to consider her. Luke also knew that she had her own fortune and hadn’t needed the old man’s money. He suspected that even if the others knew that, they would still think she was after funds they thought to inherit.
Luke liked Helen and stopped by routinely to check on her. He never told the others. ‘But then I never told them I went to Grandpa’s house once a week instead of only at family gatherings either,’ Luke decided.
Ten til Midnight 