Percival Ignatius Weasley has discovered sarcasm. (analretentive) wrote in vagabondwriters, @ 2008-01-22 01:10:00 |
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Title Money
Author Frost
Theme Percy Weasley
Prompt Word Money
Percy had learned early in his life that money was not something to be taken lightly. It ran the way everyone lived. Some lived well from what they made, while others just only managed.
The Weasley’s were the sort who just barely managed. Everything was used and passed down among the family. No one’s clothing fit right when they were growing up, and they had all learned to keep silent about it. Their dad was doing the best he could, and their mother was trying even harder.
When Percy had gotten his first paycheck, he had a certain twinge of guilt about it. Of course, he had given some money to his mother to help with the family, but some he had kept for himself. He saved up for a suit, dark with thin stripes down it. Nice shoes, a tie that matched his eyes and was made of silk.
This money could have helped the family more. It could have given his father a much-deserved day off, or his little sister a new dress, because she shouldn’t have had to wear Ron’s old t-shirts.
But the suit did look good on him, he conceded as he looked into the mirror and adjusted his tie.