Find A Way

Plot Twist

"I think we'd love to stay and help you out." She said smiling, although her heart was paining.

"Are you sure?" Dahlia whispered to her.

Mira nodded.

Every day, they used to bake things in the morning and then start selling them. By the evening, everything used to vanish from the shelves. At first, Mira was terrified at the sight of the oven and everything related to baking but after some days she finally started feeling what she felt when she was younger. Her long-lost passion was back and then she started inventing new things.

Dahlia's father was so impressed with her work that he wanted her to stay there and bake with him.

After they'd finish their work Dahlia and Mira would go out every evening for sightseeing. The city was absolutely beautiful and filled with amazing stores and bakeries. Mira's mind suddenly got a weird idea but she didn't share that with Dahlia. It was to open her own bakery but she shrugged those thoughts off.

One day, Dahlia screamed, "Tom Holland is in the city, we've got to go!"

"It is going to be crowded, no" Mira said.

"Please come on, you know he is my favorite." She argued.

"Alright, alright" Mira nodded.

"Papa can we go?" Dahlia asked her father. She started calling him papa after a week of bonding and that filled Mira's heart with joy, she even shed a tear.

"Of course, you can go but be back soon and be safe." He said with a smile.

Dahlia was dressing up like it was a date she couldn't choose which dress to wear and kept complaining that she should've brought more clothes with her. Mira just chuckled.

"Come on now, Dahlia, just wear that floral dress, it is not a date, he wouldn't probably see you."

"Stop kicking my hopes down, girl" Dahlia said.

"Alright, I'm going to change too then."

"There he is, there he is!" Dahlia screamed with hundred others. Tom was coming out of this coffee shop and there were almost hundred people waiting to get a glimpse of him. Mira was already annoyed as it was drizzling and her hair was getting wet and she hated when her hair got wet. Just then Mira got face to face with her brother's best friend, Terry. He was right behind her and they both recognized each other in a glance. He motioned her to get to the side, so, they could talk.

"How have you been?" He asked. Terry left town right after he helped Mira get into college and everything. He said he needed to get out. Him and her brother use to work together as firefighters but that awful day, he didn't go to his job as his mother was not well.

How can he be here in this dream/fantasy or whatever this is, Mira thought.

"What are you doing here?" Mira asked him.

"I am on my book tour." He said. Yeah, he is a famous writer now, and Mira reads all of his books.

"And you?"

"Just visiting." She said.

"Well, I was thinking of going back to town and settle there, I have been out of there for a long time and I miss everyone." He said.

"Sure, I'll see you around." And she left.

"Who was that?" Dahlia asked as soon as she met her, all chirpy.

"My brother's best friend" She said calmly, she doesn't need to tell her what she felt for that guy, the liking seemed to come back again now that he said he is coming back.

"You like him, don't you?"

"No." Mira denied.

"Your voice was too calm." Dahlia said.

    It was almost at the end of two weeks; they had already packed everything.

"These weeks have been amazing papa." Dahlia said to her father.

"Yes, thank you for having us sir." Mira thanked him.

"It was my honor; hope I see you guys here soon." He said smiling.

     The day of their departure arrived rather quickly and all of them were a sad.

"Here, I got these bracelets for both of you girls." John handed them two bracelets.

"These are wonderful, papa." Dahlia said.

The bracelets were silver in color and had charms dangling and the charms were all baked goods.

"I want you both to remember me with something." He said teary eyed.

"We'll come back soon, papa." Dahlia said.

In the plane ride back home, Mira played with her bracelet, they talked their entire way back and didn't get any sleep.

 When Mira finally reached Gwen's house, she was exhausted and right after taking a warm shower she fell asleep.

      The sound of the birds chirping woke Mira up and she sighed a sigh of relief when she saw her surroundings. She was back in her tent and she believed it was all a dream. She rubbed her eyes with her hand and then she saw the bracelet.

She jolted up and finally registered that everything happened for real and it was not a dream.

She found her novel lying out there with its last page opened, and Mira's face had a soft smile. She realized it was not a dream, after all.

      Now, twenty years later, sitting at her own bakery and writing everything in the book she was going to publish with her husband she revived all of these memories. Her husband on the other hand, had no clue that all these things were true, but he could definitely recall their meeting.

Whenever he asked about this, Mira replied, "A story for another time." And smiled.

Her bakery was a small cozy one and it is almost like John's. 

She named it "Mira's World of Baked Goods."

She was almost finished when her husband called from inside the house and Sheila came barking with him.

"Mira, dinner's ready come on." Terry called.

Yes, she married him when  one day, Terry very politely asked her to marry him when they were sitting in the park, a month after he came back home.

Mira smiled and gave a kiss on his forehead and Sheila her belly rubs.

Mira closed the notebook and looked at her bracelet. She still had it as it is something precious and unreal to her, a lifechanging souvenir.