Introducing Bingley: Day Four, and 8,017 words

This view is what I was enjoying today as I was writing. It's pretty inspirational! Although I have to say that what I wrote today wasn't as inspired as yesterday's writing. My goal was to introduce more characters today, and I did so. I introduced the Bingley character, who is named Noah Williams, and the Jane character, who is Shalini Patel. She is an assistant professor of chemistry at U of T.

Yesterday Manta asked me who I would envision playing these characters in a movie. I'm still not totally sure! I am going to keep thinking about it.

Here is part of the scene where the different new characters come together:

Much to Nora’s chagrin, the subject of their conversation walked in through the door as they were laughing at his expense. He walked in with another man that Nora didn’t know, which wasn’t a surprising development since she didn’t know him at all.

The air that Nora let out as she loudly sighed could have fed brian j. Pickles for a year.

“Is there only one bar in Toronto? What is going on?” Nora complained. She pointed to the two men who had just entered the bar so as to explain to her friends why she was suddenly so agitated. As she did so, the two men saw her. It was embarrassing for Nora, as she had wanted to cultivate an air of disinterest. Pointing at someone and obviously talking about them is not the way to cultivate an air of disinterest.

Nora observed an entire narrative arc of emotions cross over Oliver Goldstein’s face. He seemed surprised to spot Nora, and did an obvious double-take. There was a moment where he was working out in his head where he knew her from. When he realized who she was, there was the internal struggle as to whether or not he should go over and talk to her. It was only polite, he reasoned.

He pointed to her and her friends and said something to his friend, and they began crossing the room towards their table.

Nora was stunned that he even possessed the capacity to be polite.

Oliver Goldstein and his friend were approaching the table with vastly different expressions on their faces. Oliver looked disdainful and slightly embarrassed that he had to see Nora for a second time that day, especially since their first encounter did not go very well. He was holding that same goddamned tweed blazer with elbow patches over his shoulder, and a white V-neck t-shirt, a pair of olive green chinos, and Wayfarer sunglasses on top of his head. Apparently he had only realized recently that July is not the month for tweed blazers. No month was an appropriate one for a tweed blazer with elbow patches, if you had asked Nora. No one had, though.

Nora looked at the second man with interest. He had dark blonde and curly hair that looked about two weeks past the ideal time for a haircut. He was wearing jeans and a navy blue spotted short-sleeve button-up. If you had asked Nora, she would have said that they looked like two pretentious white guys who spend too much money on their clothes. If you had asked anyone else, they likely would have said that they were two attractive young men who took pride in their appearance. Nora just might have been a little prejudiced.

“Nice to see you, Nora,” he said as he stretched out his hand towards her. She accepted it and shook it quickly but forcefully, from her seat.

“Indeed,” she replied, but in a way that she was sure would communicate to him that it wasn’t nice at all to see him. “And just in case you are confused, despite the fact that there are three other women at this table, none of them are assistants.”

Oliver blushed slightly, but was committed maintaining the calm and aloof demeanor that he had worked so hard to cultivate over the years.

“I’m happy to hear it,” he responded. “Well, not happy. Just, uh…” he trailed off.

The second man piped up when it became clear that Oliver was not going to help this social situation along in any way.

“I’m Noah Williams, nice to meet you,” the second man said as he offered his hand to Nora. He shook Nora’s hand and went around to Nora’s three friends, introducing himself and warmly shaking each of their hands. Oliver, true to form, stood back coolly.

Before anyone could stop him, a waiter came over and hurriedly shoved two more menus and two more waters in front of them. It appeared as if this waiter was under the very incorrect assumption that the six of them were somehow friends, and that they would be sitting at the same table because they wanted to spend time together. Nora was ready to disabuse this poor man of this notion, and it appeared as if Oliver was as well.

“We don’t want to intrude on your evening,” Oliver was quick to say, grabbing his friend’s shoulder.

A quick look around the wine bar, however, told all of them that there were no other tables and that the two men would probably have no choice but to stay.

“Please join us,” Nora said through gritted teeth.

Noah slid into the booth beside Shalini on the end, and Oliver had no choice but to sit beside Nora. Zoe and Odette continued talking amongst themselves, now that the group had expanded in a way that made it hard for everyone to hear each other in a loud room.

“How do you two know each other?” Noah said kindly, gesturing towards Nora.

“We share a book agent. We met today, actually,” Nora replied.

“How excellent! You’re an author!” Noah said with very genuine enthusiasm.

“She is,” Shalini added. “And she’s writing a screenplay of one of her books for Columbia!”

“That is incredibly impressive!” Noah said. “What is it about?”

Nora shot Oliver a preemptive glare for how smug she knew he was going to be.

“It’s a book series that is based on Pride and Prejudice, although it takes place at a school of magic,” Nora explained.

“I think that Oliver’s sister reads those books! Don’t you remember her saying something about that, Oliver?”

Oliver offered something that was sort of like a reply, but closer to a grunt.

“I think that she might have said something about that.”

“She said she was looking forward to the movie! Is it true that David Boreanaz is going to play the role of the George Wickham character?” Noah queried.

“That’s the rumour!” Nora responded. “I don’t know if any decisions have been made about casting yet. I think David Boreanaz started the rumour himself, actually. He wanted to get back at Taylor Kitsch, his rival, who was rumoured to be interested in the part.”

Hopefully tomorrow will feel more inspired!