NaNoWriMo day 8

Today was a good day, it wasn't my best word count day but I banged out six paragraphs, and I went over the word count that I wanted to hit today. Today's word count total written was 2,080 and I'm really proud of that, The Total word count for the novel so far is 18,627 when it should have about 13,313 today in order to do 50k by the end of the month. The funny thing was that I was not planning on writing that much for chapter 7, the one that I'm currently working on and will finish tomorrow  but I decided as I was writing that I wanted to write up Scarlett's parents and I wanted to give her some interaction. Today's paragraphs are Scarlett and her mother getting coffee.

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Scarlett and her mother were going to meet at a cafe, because she wanted to try and make it as casual as she could here because what she wanted was going to be intense enough she could feel it. “Mom hello thanks for meeting me here,” Scarlett said as she walked into the cafe and saw that her mother was already there and that she had gotten a table for the two of them. “ Scarlett hello it was my pleasure to meet you here,” today was one of the days when her mother was going to be nice to her but she could be cold to her tomorrow, her parents were odd like that with her. “Okay so should we order or should we just start and then order as the two of us are talking,” as she was saying this they had both ordered coffee it would make things easier this way. “ The funny thing is that I’m wondering why now that you want to make a peace treaty Scarlett, we’ve known you all of your life and you’ve never wanted this why now?” There it was this was very much what she was terrified of what she was going to experience today, and this was it” I would like it now because for to long I feel that I’ve been out of your lives. At that her mother had nodded, the funny thing was that this is what her mother was expecting to happen today, yes she was wanting her daughter in her life, but she didn’t want to force it “ I was hoping that you would say this because I’ve wanted you say this for a long time.” This was not the way that Scarlett was thinking today was going to go with her mother, and honestly she could say that she was shocked at the way it was going.

“This is not the way that I thought things were going to go today, and because you guys are my family I guess I’m stuck with you” Scarlett looked at her mother still in awe. “Yeah Scarlett we were never really treating you right and so it’s a good thing that you called this meeting here today.” More thing that Scarlett was not expecting to hear today, and the crazy thing was that she was still not sure why her mother was acting so nice or if she was always, well always just meaner in her head than she was being to her right now either way it was a win. “So does this mean that we can meet for coffee like this like every week, or every other week or whenever we want to talk,” Scarlett looked at her mother just to make sure that she was hearing what her mother was saying correctly and understanding what her mother was saying. “Yes that’s what I’m saying and I’m hoping that your father tells you the same thing when you see him at dinner later,” it wasn’t any wonder that her mother knew that she was having dinner with her father later. “ I love that we could do this today, and that you’re saying that I can come to you guys and talk if I ever need to talk, and also I feel that you guys are really understanding me” how crazy was it that her parents were understanding her now? Much progress was made with the coffee today, but they both had to get back to work but the fact that her mother was being so open with her was an unbelievable moment. “So in a few days do you want to meet back here, and talk about what else is going on in our lives,” at that Scarlett looked at her mother and her mother nodded in agreement that thye would meet back there in a few days.