Amy rushes in, excited, to Aunt March taking her tea "Hello Aunt March!" "The Laurence girl was just here." "She was?" Amy asked puzzled. "What a disappointment she's turn out to be, must be the Italian in her." Amy ignores her Aunt and sits down "when will she be back?" "She's gone, to London. Why? What do you need to discuss with her?" Amy pauses her heart is at the bottom of her stomach " I've just told Fred Vaughn I wouldn't marry him!" Feeling her heart sink Amy stands up and leaves the room.

MARCH HOUSE. SPRING 1865

It's a beautiful spring day, full of flowers and sunlight. Out side Beth and Amy are arranging decorations as Lottie sits on the fence laughing. Inside, Meg prepares for her wedding with Jo helping her putting flowers in her hair. Lottie sits on the fence admiring Amy and laughing with the two youngest Marches "Beth do you think you will ever get married?" Beth looked up from the flowers in her hand and laughed " No most definitely not boys scare me your brother is the only one that doesn't scare me." Amy smiled "Well I'm going to have a big wedding and it will be in a castle in Europe and Lottie you can be my head bridesmaid and father will walk me down a big long isle and then me and my husband will honeymoon in Europe and we will have two kids and they will be absolutely perfect." Lottie smiled sadly, she would be Amy's bridesmaid not the person she would be marrying, Lottie expected this but it didn't make her feel any less sad "What about you Lottie ?" "Me no I don't think so the person I want to love me simply can not love me back and well I can't see myself marrying anyone else other than them, I want to marry them love them live a long and happy life with them. I want loads of kids with them or as many as they want and I want to wake up in their arms and the both of us remind each other how much we love one another. I want a love like my mother and father I want to dance in the halls of our house with them have them spin me around and me spin them around, I want to cook with them make Christmas dinners for the whole family with them, I want them to chase me around the house and finally catch me and grab me and kiss me and tell me I am the only thing holding them to this earth not gravity me and only me!" Lottie pauses admiring Amy as she counties as Beth watches the youngest Laurence admire her little sister her heart fills with joy knowing now that Lottie wants Amy and is willing to look after her little sister "sadly though that will not happen for they do not love me back and I don't think they ever will so no disrespect to your Aunt March but I will probably end up like her old and grumpy and hating my brother and his family." This caused all of the girls to burst out laughing as Lottie screams falling off the fence which makes her laugh even harder. The girls laughed as Amy helped her up she was happy to here Lottie talk about someone so fondly but saddened by the fact it was not her Lottie was talking about she was happy to here the small girl talk about her mother and father something that the Laurence siblings seemed to never do it was nearly like they had forgotten about their parents but to hear Lottie talk about them so lovingly and to here how in love they seemed it was no wonder Lottie's father chose being disowned and a disappointment to his father than leave the love of his life.

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