Snippet #1809602

Driving down the dusty road to Bedford Falls, Sebastian was on his way home from a business meeting, after his father's death he had to provide for his mother. She was comfortable enough to live like she was use, but she wasn't use to living alone. She didn't want him to return to school but he had to if he was going to keep providing for her. Then after that he had been trying to earn the same respect that his father had in all his years of running a business.

The silver car he was driving use to be his dad's bought just before his death 6 years previous. Sebastian yawned as it had been a long trip back from New York City. The car had broken down twice, much to his chagrin. It gave him an excuse though to drop in on a old college friend in Virginia, that was when it hit him, the stupid man had joined up...and the navy to boot and was on his way to be stationed somewhere in Hawaii. What on earth could that fool been thinking, the country was trying to stay out of the war as best it could, let it be fought over there in Europe. Even if there was wishful thinking that America could stay neutral Sebastian fully realized that was all it was...wishful thinking.

On the outskirts of town he could see the ammunition plant stacks steaming away, money could be made in the course of a war, but in all his hand-shaking and bullshiting he hadn't come up with a way to do so. Truth be told, maybe he just wasn't his father. Before he made his way home he decided to stop in town, he wanted some food and just to look to see how things were. His family may not have been one of the super rich who lived behind gates, but they were well-respected. He parked the car near Fontaines, and got out to stretch his legs, someone shouted his name from across the street and he waved recognizing someone he had gone to high school with. The restaurant wasn't open with a sign that simply stated "closed for private occasion," and he simply shook his head. The place looked like it had a new paint job, as did so many of the other places in town. The town had grown it seemed overnight, which made Sebastian smile, because his father would have been proud of the place. Sebastian walked down the sidewalk, greeting people he knew and talking in short casual conversations that happen here and there. Acquires about his mother and her health, acquires about this and that.

It was still a small town, where everyone almost knew everyone else and he actually loved it.