Epilogue
Miss Informed
By Miss Informed
Staff Writer, Gi Gi Gazette
Engaged, Enraged, and Bi-Zip Coded: Frankie Peterson Says Yes (Eventually)
Well, well, well. Put down your lattes and clutch your pearls, because the most delicious spectacle Gi Gi’s Crossing has seen since the Great Bake Sale Brawl of ’09 unfolded right in the middle of town square.
Six months after their rooftop reconciliation, Marcus D Grant, yes, our grumpy-glorious renovator, dropped to one knee in that suit.
You know the one. Tailored within an inch of its life and personally responsible for at least three swoons and one fender-bender.
Francesca B Peterson (Frankie to her fans, “Absolutely Not Her” to her critics) let him stew long enough for Harriet the Spy to adjust her binoculars before finally saying yes.
But darlings, matrimony isn’t the only scandal.
The happy couple has set tongues wagging with their decidedly modern living arrangement: three days in Gi Gi’s Crossing, four days in Manhattan.
Bi-zip code romances, it seems, are the new black.
Half the town calls it glamorous. The other half mutters darkly about “young people these days” and their shocking lack of commitment to a single zip code.
And let’s not forget Ziggy. Our town’s most glamorous import has officially joined the school faculty, though only for one exclusive class.
Tuesdays at 10:00, he teaches physical education for the sweat-adverse students desperate for a P.E.
credit. His curriculum? Runway walking. Posture.
Presence. In other words, a lifeline for those who break into hives at the thought of dodgeball. Never has gym class looked so fierce.
Meanwhile, Operation Small-Town Chic Club has gone full monarchy, complete with Main Street “corrections.” Commit the crime of showing up in cargo shorts, and you’ll be handed a scarf and a polite-but-pointed Do Better card.
This town might serve small-town charm with its coffee, but now it expects couture too.
And finally, the juiciest whisper: a sexy new stranger has been spotted near the river warehouse. Rugged. Reclusive. Entirely too handsome to be wandering unsupervised. Who is he? Why is he here? And what, pray tell, does he plan to do in Gi Gi’s Crossing?
That’s the tea. Steep accordingly.
Miss Informed