Reader in the Park by Rachel Maldonado

Author:Rachel Maldonado [Maldonado, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

“How about breakfast?” inquired Anna taking another drink of her grape Sportspro.

“I thought you'd never ask. I'm starving. What are you making?” Nikki grinned.

Anna licked her lips as she smirked. “How about yogurt?” She put the Jeep in gear and turned back onto the road to get to the main highway.

“You know how to make yogurt?” inquired Nikki as she narrowed her eyes.

Anna shook her head, then laughed. “No, but I can buy us some from the Yogurt Bar Car. There's one up the road from here.”

“How about you make me some silver dollar pancakes?”

“With bacon?”

“Ooooh, that sounds delish.” Nikki was so hungry, her stomach grumbled at the thought.

“I don't eat bacon.” Anna laughed.

“Then why did you offer me bacon?”

“I didn't. You're the one that suggested silver dollar pancakes.” Anna smiled smugly.

“Ugh. You're impossible.”

Anna laughed. “How about we go to the grocery store, pick up some breakfast foods, and I make you breakfast?”

“You would really do that for me?” inquired Nikki. Her eyes were large and rounded. She was almost pouting, and her big doe expression was nearly in full puppy-dog eyes mode.

Anna giggled at Nikki's cute expression. She loved bringing the silly playful side out of her. It was an entirely different side to her than most people saw. Most of her esteemed colleagues knew her as serious, goal-oriented, and always living for her career. There were many nights that Nikki slept at the hospital. It was where she had felt more at home.

With Anna, however, it was almost as if she was a different person altogether. She was fun and almost had a child-like innocence.

“Of course I would,” stated Anna. “There's a Shop-n-Stop on the way to my place. We'll stop there.”

Nikki was the first to grab a shopping cart and begin to start placing things in it. She put milk, orange juice, eggs, pancake mix, sausage links, a few cartons of yogurt, and a case of grape Sportspro.

Anna walked along beside her in the store grinning every time she tossed something into the grocery cart. Nikki even tossed in some ground turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickle slices, hamburger buns, mayonnaise, mustard, pancake syrup, ketchup, and a frozen bag of tater tots from the freezer aisle.

“I think you're ready to check out now.” Nikki pushed her cart toward the store entrance to the first available cashier.

“Me?” Anna shook her head. “Oh, no. I'm not buying all that. This was your idea, Martha Stewart.”

Nikki laughed. “Why am I Martha Stewart? You're the one that's going to be doing the cooking.”

“Okay, fine. I'll attempt to make breakfast. But don't be mad if it doesn't come out quite the way you want it to look.” Anna pushed the cart into the lane and began to unload her groceries. “I see you're making us hamburgers?”

Nikki giggled. “No, I thought you might make those later.”

“Later? As in, you're staying over for lunch?”

“Is that okay?”

Anna smirked. “Do I have time to think about it?”

“What!?” exclaimed Nikki. “Well, if you don't want me to stay for lunch, I can just go home early.

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