Finch Holland "Foxface" | The Hunger Games (foxfaced) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2016-10-20 15:08:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log, !open, ~2016 october, ~40 points, ~~finch holland (foxfaced), ~~~sonja belikova (belikovas) |
WHO: Finch Holland and OPEN
WHAT: Shopping without Katie
WHEN: Thursday afternoon
WHERE: Kroger
WARNINGS: TBD
STATUS: Open/Ongoing
Finch was only a few months shy of being in Madison Valley for three years. It was hard to believe, although at the same time it felt far longer than that. Her whole life had been reshaped since she arrived here, and she often thought of that other girl almost as if she were someone else...a girl she'd known once but with whom she'd grown apart. That wasn't her life anymore. Her life was here, juggling being a young mother, a wife, and a student.
It wasn't a perfect life. She and Adam argued sometimes. Their finances were tight and a lot of months they ended up in the red. Things could be hard. But at the end, she and Adam had each other, and they had Katie, and those were the things that really mattered. Love could make up for arguments. It could make up for not having all the things they wanted, or all the things that they wanted to give to their daughter. It could make up for a lot, and it did. Finch was happier here than she'd ever been back home.
Today was Adam's day with Katie, and Finch was using it to get some of the shopping done. Katie was old enough now that taking her to the grocery store was a stressful experience, and she liked being able to take her time, browse the aisles, and come up with the best way to spend the small amount of money that they had.
Coming around the corner in the crowded store, she nearly ran her cart into someone she hadn't seen.
"Oh! I'm sorry," she said, flushing a little. She'd gotten a lot more outgoing since she'd first arrived, but at times like this, she still felt that terror and fight and flight reflex kick in.