Hello Stranger: Contemporary Fantasy Romance (Gifted-Book 1) by Skylar Layzer

Author:Skylar Layzer [Layzer, Skylar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Dear Maren, you are my sunshine, my blossom, my life—even after nine years, seven months, and six days. I’m certain that we will be happy forever. Yours, Scrooge."

"That almost sounds like a threat," I remarked to Buffy as I stood in the flower shop in the afternoon sorting the cut flowers.

"Who is named Scrooge anyway, except for a duck?" Buffy said derisively and swung her legs up and down from the worktop while reading the greeting cards.

I shrugged my shoulders. "At least it's more unusual than Tim, Dennis, or Patrick. I'm sure he was the only one with that name in his class."

"I am, too. Except for the Vampire Slayer, I don't know anybody named Buffy." She pouted and looked at me reproachfully. "You are to blame for my name."

I smiled. " Our parents are to blame for that."

"But you suggested the name!"

"Maybe."

"I would much rather be called Uhura or Kira," she said.

I wiped the worktop with the palm of my hand and swept the cut stems together.

"Mama and Papa wouldn't have named you after any Star Trek character."

Buffy defiantly turned her chin toward me. "Who knows? I guess we'll never find out now." She played around with her plait and sighed. "Jakob and Amelie will certainly give their children boring names."

I didn’t reply, though I knew she was probably right.

" 'Dear Gisela,' " she read the next card. " 'All I wish is for you to finally forgive me and speak to me again. Words cannot express how much I miss you. I didn't want to destroy Leonard, I really didn’t. Yours, Nicole.' "

My sister looked irritated. "Who is Leonard? And how did she destroy him?"

"Maybe Leonard is the name of a book that Nicole lost? Or a car that she drove to a scrapyard?" I offered.

Buffy smiled. "Or the canary she fed the wrong food?"

I wiped my hands on my green apron.

"Or the guinea pig she sat on?"

Buffy winced. "Ugh! If she did that, a bouquet of flowers wouldn't be enough to apologize." Then she shook her head. "I can't believe that Welkenbach will never send a greeting card again."

"I know." I took a deep breath and decided to change the subject. "How was your theater rehearsal?"

She sighed. "Terrible. No, way more terrible than terrible."

"Why?" I went to a shelf and picked out some colorful vases that I put on the countertop.

"Because Michael always grins at me stupidly."

I smiled. "Isn't he the one you fortunately don't have to kiss?"

Buffy nodded and scowled.

"Maybe he likes you. A lot."

"I don't know." Buffy puffed and jumped off the worktop. "Have you seen Gandalf?" she asked abruptly and looked out through the big window into the garden.

I smiled inwardly at Buffy's quick change of subject. She clearly had some kind of crush on Michael.

"Unfortunately, no," I replied. "Didn't he run to greet you after school?"

Buffy shook her head. "No. I'd rather go for a walk outside and see where he is, and then stay with him forever, so I don't have to go to the next rehearsal.

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