With the new crammed living conditions, Lou’s heartache flared up again. He is head over heels in love with Skeleton and doesn’t know what to do. Skeleton on the other hand finds his attention extremely scary and doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. She is in a steady relationship with Monster and has no intention of leaving him. Young Lou is quite depressed about it all and lies around a lot, doing nothing but staring into space.
This of course affects all the Dedes in a way and everybody has an opinion. I had to think long and hard about how to deal with it, and finally made up my mind last night: I am going to write a follow-up book to ‘Hermit’s Web’ in which Lou’s sufferings of unrequited love are recounted. A book just gives me that much more space to characterise everybody involved in more detail. I am really excited about sitting down and writing a longer story again and of course taking all the pictures to go with it. And don’t worry, the reports of daily life will continue on the blog.
When I told Lou about my plans, he just shrugged his shoulders and said: “Who cares, she still won’t love me”, but I thought I could detect a slight smile around the corner of his mouth. I think he might be just a smidgen pleased that somebody finally takes his pain seriously, even though he would never admit it.
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Lou needs to understand that Skeleton’s heart belongs to another. Perhaps if he comes off as less of a stalker…then he won’t be as scary. Has Monster noticed anything yet?
I think Skeleton will always be a bit wary, it is ingrained in a Skeleton’s psyche. She has seen to many dogs with bones. Monster is suspicious, this makes it even worse, he suspects Skeleton secretly enjoys the attention. This doesn’t speak of trust, does it! If he doesn’t watch out, he might lose her, but certainly not to Lou. It’s all very complicated :)