Most Wonderful by Bryce Oakley

Author:Bryce Oakley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Cody

Cody pulled up in the thrift shop parking lot.

Emilia turned to her, her brows furrowing together. “We’re… thrifting? That was the big secret date you have planned?”

Cody grinned. “Not all of it,” she said. She didn’t dare let Emilia in on too much of the plan. Keeping secrets from a person who obsessively needed details was almost as fun as what she had planned.

Emilia blinked, tilting her head. “Care to explain?”

Cody turned off the car and hopped out. “Not at all," she said with a laugh.

They walked into the store hand in hand, and Emilia shoved her free hand in her pocket as though she was afraid to touch anything.

There were racks stuffed to the brim with clothing in every direction. It was just as perfect as she remembered.

"This is a goldmine,” Cody said, rubbing her hands together.

“For what?” Emilia said, clearly trying to be polite and hide the grimace on her face.

“Oh, come on, you never thrifted as a teen? I can so see you going through an emo phase,” Cody said with a laugh.

“My parents loved these shops,” Emilia said, and Cody nodded in understanding.

“Well, it’s time to take back the thrifting experience, then,” Cody said.

“What are we looking for?” Emilia said, steeling her expression as if she was preparing for battle.

“Ugly Christmas sweaters,” Cody said, pointing to the rack of sweaters.

Emilia balked in surprise. “Seriously? Our date is looking for ugly Christmas sweaters?”

“Oh, ye of little faith, Emilia Marin,” Cody said, shaking her head. “Just try to find an uglier sweater than me. Try it.”

Emilia’s brow quirked. Ah, that was the trick. Cody just had to make it competitive.

Twenty minutes later, they were standing in front of a mirror laughing as they tried on different sweaters. Emilia found one with pom-pommed reindeer, but Cody definitely had her beat with glittery elves.

Emilia stared at the sweater in the mirror, giggling. “This is so bad,” she said.

“So bad it’s good?” Cody asked, wrapping her arms around Emilia and kissing her cheek.

Emilia caught her eye in the mirror. “Almost. Almost there. But I think I can find better.”

In the end, Emilia settled on a sweater so heinous that Cody could barely look at her with a straight face. It had tinsel, a fake fireplace, puffy embroidered presents… it was truly horrible.

Cody decided on a sweater with puffy sleeves full of neon snowflakes with the words JOY and NOEL stitched across the front in bright pink.

As they climbed back in the car with their treasure, Emilia turned in her seat. “I always hated thrift stores,” she admitted.

Cody raised her eyebrows. “I would have never guessed by the very casual way you entered that one, though,” she teased.

Emilia rolled her eyes. “They just remind me of my parents, but I guess that doesn’t always have to be a bad thing.”

Cody reached across the center console and took Emilia’s hand, giving it a squeeze. She didn’t dare say anything to make Emilia self-conscious, but it meant a lot to her that Emilia was able to talk about painful things in front of her.

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