short stories

competition - romance story (Chosen_one)

well here's my story, it's probably really bad but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway :)

 ‘can you take that vase to the back Victoria?’ a small girl in the back of the flower shop quickly moved towards the vase and carefully held it in her hands knowing she wasn’t the most elegant person walking around. Her eyes were fixated on the very fragile thing in her hands and everyone saw it coming. A costumer took a step back while looking at the beautiful white roses and bumped into her. She let out a tiny squeal and then she crashed to the ground throwing the vase up in the air trying to protect it, but she failed to catch it since the costumer fell on top of her ‘No!’ . she didn’t even look at the vase the sound was enough, instead she looked towards the back of the shop where her mother stood. Her hands were in the air as if she wanted to catch it herself and her face was already changing to disappointment. ‘oh Vikki’ the costumer slowly crawled up, an old man who went to the flower shop very regularly buying white roses for his dead wife. She knew he wasn’t mad, the man knew how she was. And just like everybody else he felt bad for her. ‘I’m so sorry mom I was really trying to- and I just-‘ she bowed her head in shame ‘sorry’ her mother was already ordering someone to clean up the mess and then walked towards her helping her up ‘Victoria why don’t you go home and relax for a while you’ve worked hard and you have to think about school too’ she could see her mother felt bad too, she was ashamed of her clumsy daughter who broke everything that touched her. She nodded and quickly stood up fixing her tight knot and dusting the sand from her clothes. Then she managed to walk out but once she was on the streets she immediately began running.

She was so angry, this time she really couldn’t do anything about it. But it still happened to her, and only her. This must’ve been the fifth vase this week, and still her mom kept paying her to work in the shop. Not because she liked to have her daughter with her but because she felt bad for her daughter. She angrily kicked against a stone laying on the pavement. But the bad luck wasn’t over yet and it bounced against a motor. ‘hey you dumbass watch where you kick your shit!’ she stopped in her tracks frightened by the angry voice ‘I-I’m sorry I really didn’t mean to and-‘ she didn’t dare turn around ‘yeah right but you did hit my fucking motor’ for some reason tears started forming in her eyes, she was quick to wipe them away but the person had already snatched her arm away and turned her around, Victoria didn’t even notice until now that the voice was female and was stunned by the cool and confident girl in front of her. She had beautiful brown curls that hung lose combed by the wind, her eyes were a chocolate brown colour with golden sparks in them. She wore leather pants and a plain white top with a red leather jacket over it. She looked like everything she was not. ‘do you see that scratch- hey’ the girl her face softened and worry flashed for a moment ‘hey hey why are you crying honey?’ the sudden change from anger to care didn’t really help and she only started crying more ‘I really didn’t mean to’ the girl was already forgetting about the scratch on her motor and suddenly wanted nothing more than to make the fragile girl in front of her stop crying and make her laugh. She was curious about that, she wanted to see the piercing grey eyes sparkle with happiness and the little pink lips form into a smile that she knew for sure would brighten everyone’s day. So she hugged her, she wrapped her arms around the girl and whispered softly in her ear ‘it’s okay I’m not mad please tell me what’s wrong’ Victoria was surprised by the sudden hug and the sweet words, the girl was a complete stranger for god’s sake! How could she trust a girl that she’d never seen before and just go get a drink with her. ‘I-I don’t drink’ there was some truth in that, she liked to drink but the fright of losing control always stopped her. ‘well I didn’t really mean a drink like that but that’s a good idea’ the girl started laughing once Victoria got even more nervous ‘you can trust me, come I’ll take you to my place and make you a cup of tea’ the small girl nervously fidgeted with her arms trying to make up her mind but then decided that it was ok. She felt comfortable in the hug and the girl was seemed really cool and she wanted nothing more than to be like her, so confident. ‘alright then c’mon hop up’ the girl pointed towards her motor and was already climbing on it herself. ‘uh don’t you have like uh maybe a helmet?’ she climbed on the motor to careful not to make another scratch. The girl laughed and started the motor, then she turned around and suddenly took the elastic from Victoria her knot, her long blonde hair fell down her shoulders and already started to move with the wind. ‘it’s so much more fun without hold on!’ Victoria was just quick enough the grip the girl’s waist and then they drove away. She had to admit the feeling of her hair waving with the wind was amazing, she wasn’t so sure about breaking the law and drive without her helmet but the adrenaline won. she let out a little scream and closed her eyes, the brown haired girl felt the small girl behind her shake with laughter and adrenaline and she wanted to see the smile she knew was on her face so bad.