Wedding Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories by Lisa Scott

Author:Lisa Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: short stories, love story, chick lit, contemporary romance, happy ending, sweet romance, funny romance, long lost love, bridezilla, high school crush, lisa scott, wedding bride
Publisher: Lisa Scott

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Miranda knew she should just go home. Say goodbye and good luck. But she just wasn’t ready to leave him yet. This was probably the last day she’d ever see him and something still felt unsettled.

“Where should we go?” he asked.

She thought about suggesting Forest Park. That had been their place. They’d taken picnics there, snuck in at night and laid out a blanket to watch the stars. They’d lost their virginity together there. No, that would be a very dangerous place to visit. Instead she said, “Have you see how big the roses are you planted at my old house?”

“I haven’t driven by in a while. How is your mom?”

“She’s good. She’s in an apartment now. We were just renting that house, but the roses are still there. I can’t believe it.”

“Let’s go look.” He turned down Main Street and still knew exactly where he was going.

How many times had he made that trip to her house from his across town? Hundreds? They’d been together over a year, and saw each other nearly every day, even if for only a few minutes after her chorus practice or his job at his grandmother’s greenhouse.

He parked across the street from their old house. The paint was peeling off the tiny ranch and the porch sagged, but bright, coral-pink roses crawled up the side of the house where Kevin had made a trellis for her eighteenth birthday. “You should always have roses,” he’d told her back then.

Staring out the window at them now, she set her hand on his shoulder. “The Dream Weaver.”

He placed his hand on top of hers. “You remember?” Grinning, he shook his head. “Wow. It’s still one of my favorite climbing roses to plant.”

“Look at how big it is, and it’s loaded with flowers.” She sighed, thinking how much their relationship would’ve grown, too, if they’d stayed together. Surely they’d be married. And they’d probably have their own house with their own Dream Weavers climbing up the side. When he’d planted it, he’d promised her there’d be enough to make a bouquet for their wedding.

She pulled her hand away and looked down at her lap. She didn’t want to see if Kevin looked as disappointed as she was feeling.

He opened the car door.

“Where are you going?”

“I meant what I said all those years ago. You should always have roses.” He dashed across the street and knocked on the front door. When no one answered, he darted around to the side of the house and picked a few blossoms.

Her heart trembled. Luke had sent her vases filled with 365 roses to celebrate their one-year anniversary. He always liked to include the final price tag of the flower bill when he told the story.

But watching Kevin walk toward the car with a fistful of roses touched her more than all those vases. He got back in the car and handed them to her, the sweet scent flooding the space between them. “To think that was just a scraggly little bush when we put it in ten years ago,” he said.

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