Noelle's Rock: A BWWM Holiday Romance by Theresa Hodge

Author:Theresa Hodge [Hodge, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Shani Greene-Dowdell
Published: 2015-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Noelle

Bah, Humbug

It’s Black Friday, and a mob of people run around snatching items off of shelves like there is no tomorrow. It is only one day after Thanksgiving, and it has already been forgotten, along with the leftover stuffing. I should have come out earlier instead of waiting until noon to get some shopping done. Then again, maybe it wouldn’t have made a difference from the look of things.

The Christmas music follows me from store to store. Christmas trees are fully displayed with beautiful lights, and garlands are strung up in great supply, making the shopping mall one gigantic winter wonderland scene. Someone bumps into me, which causes me to bump into someone else.

“Excuse me.” The words barely past my lips before the woman in front of me turns to glare in my direction.

“Watch where you are going,” she says in a not-so-friendly tone.

“It wasn’t my fault, ma’am. Someone pushed me into you,” I reply looking behind me, but whoever pushed me is long gone.

The mean lady peers over my shoulder and gives me a pinched-face expression. I glare back at her before she rolls her eyes and marches onward without saying another word. “Scrooge!” I say to her back but not loud enough for her to hear me.

I shrug off the attitude from the disgruntled shopper and continue to peruse the items throughout the stores. Hmm, shall I get a live tree this year? I ponder the question in my head before walking towards Shelby’s and my favorite shoe store. Well, one of our favorite shoe stores.

Now why did I come out in this mess? I guess I just needed to get out and do something to keep from missing Beau. I silently answer my own question truthfully.

Maybe I will stop by my favorite Chinese restaurant and get me an order of egg rolls and some egg drop soup to go with it when I finish shopping. I wait my turn in line to pay for this pair of boots that Shelby was admiring the last time we were together. I want to get them for her Christmas gift, along with her favorite fragrance.

I have absolutely no idea what I will get Beau for Christmas. I smile from the inside out every time I think of Beau. I feel like a high school girl with her first crush. After paying for my purchases, I stop off at a maternity department store called Mommy’s Maternity. I need to get a starter set of maternity clothes so I can get prepared for my changing body shape.

My hand splays over my belly as I think about the tiny life growing inside of me, as I take the escalator to the second level in the mall. My stomach grumbles aloud. I look at the time on my thin, wristband watch. It is almost three thirty in the afternoon and a whole seven hours since I ate breakfast.

I am starving, but I join a group of people watching skaters that are skating on an ice rink located in the center of the second level.

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