The Larson Legacy

     When Charlotte first met Marius Showers-Bagley, she did not know her love at first sight was to become such a pit-falled path.  That her romance would soon become a tragedy.
     The drama began in 9th grade of her prestigious music school, when Charlotte discovered that Marius had acquired a girlfriend.  At the time she had thought she and Marius had been dating, even though they had never voiced that assumption.  The discovery was a blow to Charlotte's self-esteem, but she retained her good-standing and continued life undeterred.  Friends of hers brought it up every once in a while, but she never let it unhinge her.  The alleged girlfriend was a rude Swedish girl named Patricia Starley.  Patricia was unbelievably hebetudinous and actually quite ugly.  No one knew what Marius saw in her.  Through all of this, Charlotte went on wishing she could have Marius, hating him and loving him at the same time.  Many times, she attempted to remove Patricia from the picture.  Slander and rumours were spread, but nothing ever tarnished Patricia's spotless name.

Eventually, Charlotte resorted to a strange girl named Sofirra Pazaak.  Sofirra was supposedly a master of the dark arts and had many powers.  She cursed Patricia, but to no avail.  It was supposed to prevent her from speaking with Marius by turning her into feces if she spoke to him.  Instead of that happening ,they continued dating through high school and Marius' college years.  Patricia never attended college even though she could have easily afforded it.  Charlotte stayed in touch with Marius, but they slowly grew apart.  When he had his first child, a girl, their friendship's deterioration sped up, and with the birth of his second child it was nearly severed completely.

     Charlotte went in and out of relationships, but never found anyone she loved.  Though she would not admit it, she still loved Marius.  Facebook was a constant reminder of how close and yet so far away he was.  There she could speak to him, but at the same time would see pictures of he and his family.  They spoke every once in a while but he was always called away for something else.  Marius' children were demanding and he hardly had any free time between them and his work, a boring office job.  He had surprised everyone by getting that job instead of following his musical dreams.
   
 One fateful day, the universe seemed to smile down upon Charlotte and eliminate her world's only issue.  A runaway waste truck crashed into a shop selling strangely combustible machines.  As Patricia was walking to her crappy day job as a waitress at Denny's from the daycare where she left her children, the waste truck exploded.  The truck was completely filled at the time and human feces were flung all over the surrounding area.  Patricia was smothered by the excrement, literally buried against a building under about a foot of it.  Her every sense was overwhelmed by the sewage and she died in agony, nearly all of her bones broken when still conscious.  As if the curse had come late, Patricia had been saying 'hello' to Marius as it had happened.

     Charlotte was given the hilarious experience of watching the event occur.  She had been rounding the corner, heading to her day job running the most popular coffee shop in the area, when she saw the truck explode down the street.  Patricia had been hurriedly walking, and had just put her phone to her head when she was hit by the brown wave of Charlotte's revenge.  Charlotte had begun laughing at the comical quality of the disaster and had quickly left, taking a different route to her store.  The accident was discovered soon after she left and Charlotte got to hear about it again later on the evening news.  No one else saw what happened and no other victims were claimed.  No one ever discovered how the truck had rolled down the hill, as it had been parked in an enclosed stone courtyard and there were no signs of it ever leaving.

     After Patricia was buried long enough, Marius began to speak to Charlotte more.  They got together a couple of times, and their friendship slowly built back up.  A year later they began dating and were married the year after.  With her new found happiness Charlotte launched her music career as a singer.  She quickly topped the charts and her cafe which, Marius began running, became incredibly popular.  Charlotte ended up hiring a nanny to take care of Marius' irritating children that looked disturbingly like their late mother....

They moved to Paris, France and opened up a branch of her cafe there.  Others were built across the United States, Canada and Europe.  They became increasingly popular for their delicious cupcakes of Charlotte's design.  Charlotte got pregnant, finding out on one of her tours.  To celebrate she went with her new greatest friends: her childhood rockstar idols, who afterwards went on a boat tour.  There was an strange accident and they all died horribly.

Charlotte was mortified and felt that if she had invited them to her home as planned instead of leaving (feeling sick) as she had.  When her first child, a boy, was born, she named him Jordan after one of the dead idols.  She had another child soon after, a girl named Hayley.  Soon after Hayley, she had a child named Christofer.  About a year later she adopted three more children named Christian, Kitty and Cat.  After this adopting, Marius was mad.  He was angry that he had no say in anything.  Charlotte agreed and then went out and adopted eight cats.  That is when the issues began.

     Marius began seeing other women behind Charlotte's back.  She quickly found out, thanks to the paparazzi.  He stopped his weekend affairs then, and they lived together for about a month, always debating divorce.  Then, one day, an old friend of Charlotte's from middle-school arrived.  She had not seen him for ages.  He arrived in a majestic dirigible, landing in the front yard of her mansion, almost silently.  He invited them to go on a month-long romantic rendezvous in the Swiss Alps in a blimp.  They packed their things and left the next morning.  The children and cats came, too, and were to be staying in a different part of the air-ship. Charlotte's friend had a stretch limousine get them and take them to the dirigible station.  They boarded an enormous blimp with 656 other passengers, including the crew-members.

     The journey turned out to be very romantic until Marius' annoying children found them.  Their messing with the original plans caused more arguments.  They tried to enjoy the rest of the ride, however irritating those two girls were.  On the third week of the trip, disaster struck.  Two of the engines blew out, obliterated by an evil force.  It knocked the airship off-course and out of control; they were quickly losing altitude.  The Dark Force turned out to be Sofirra Pazaak, whom Charlotte had not seen for years.  Last she heard, Sofirra had moved to Canada and called once to tell her she had found the man of her dreams and that they once went to school with him.  She was now enacting her epic ploy that she had started years ago and was just completing.  She summoned a demon using the blood of 666 of the passengers and crew.  The demon over-powered Sofirra and instead of saving Marius for Sofirra, he set fire to the blimp and pushed it in the direction of the Matterhorn.  Sofirra used the last of her strength to push the blimp lower.  It crashed into a snowdrift instead of the enormous mountain.

     Half of it was in flames and almost no one escaped.  The entire crew, most of the passengers and Marius' daughters, died in the crash.  Charlotte, Marius, their children, the adopted children and several of the other passengers escaped the blimp before it exploded.  Together they traversed the beautiful landscape, seeing no signs of civilization.  Charlotte's cats had perished on the blimp and so they did not even have them as a food option.  The other passengers, Christofer and Christian died before they were found.  When they were saved, Marius was missing his arms and passed out from shock.  They had all been huddling around his body.  Charlotte claimed that Sofirra had come and taken them.  However, Sofirra had been long-since institutionalized at an insane asylum in Colorado, so it is speculated that Charlotte took the limbs of her husband for food.  The children never remembered where their mother got the meat they needed.  Marius died shortly after they were saved of blood loss in the rescue helicopter.

     Charlotte returned home, heartbroken with her four remaining children.  She adopted 12 cats, as if to compensate for what she lost.  She adopted one dog, too.  When her remaining children left, she adopted four more cats and became the epitome of 'the crazy cat lady.'  She made one more album after the Accident but it was never released.  They say it was called 'Kill Me Now.'  Charlotte was murdered at age 73 by the known, yet elusive, serial killer Nikolai Baxter.

     Sofirra had been put in the asylum after her 'dream man' was executed for murdering and eating several people.  She had gone insane and supposedly fell further into her delusion that she was a powerful witch.  Later, she escaped the asylum and disappeared and she nor her body was ever found.

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