•It Started With A Flower•

~Nora~

I just got a new friend!

*Play: The Perfect Pair By Beabadoobee*

Waking up this morning was hard. After last night, all I wanted to do was to stay in my bed snuggled up in my blanket.
I shift my body to the left and look at the time. The clocks reads 8 am. I have two hours left before I have to open my shop.

I really love my store, it's like my inner peace. My mother used to love it before she passed away. She gave it to me and I gladly took it.
It's such a beautiful memory of her. She used to love flowers and it got passed onto me. I could write a whole book talking about how amazing my mother was.
But not the same for my father. He made my poor mother suffer along with me and my sister. I'll never forgive him.

I get up and go to the bathroom, I brush my teeth and take a cold shower. I didn't have a choice, I'm not rich neither poor. I'm surviving.
I live in a tiny apartment, my kitchen is my living room.
Making money is hard.
Some days I go without eating, not like I'm not used to it.

I snap out of my thoughts and head towards my closet and pick out a lovely yellow dress with white tinny flowers prints on it. It had a cut on the bottom showing my thigh.
Today is gonna be sunny, so it would the perfect day to wear a dress.

I brush my slightly wavy hair and apply a little of makeup. I naturally had curly hair but I damaged it so much that it's now wavy. I'm too broke to buy the right products. I spray some strawberry scented perfume.
I grab my stuff and head out the door, I'll grab something to eat on the way there.

I look at the time and it's 9:28 am. I have time to go to my favourite coffee shop. Yayy!

I arrive to the coffee shop called 'Vinnies house'.
I enter the place and the strong scent of sweet coffee hits my nose.
Yumm

I walk to the cashier and order a cup of coffee with sugar and a tiny croissant.

"Great, your total comes up to 5.68$"
I look in my wallet and realize I'm 0.68 cents short.
"It's fine, don't worry" The cashier says
"Really? Thank you"
She smiles at me and goes to make my order.
I sit on a empty table and wait.

While waiting I get lost into my thoughts.

What if I was sitting here with a friend of mine and we were having a nice conversation. Maybe we had a couple of laughs here and there. But what really sucks is that it's never gonna happen. I've tried for many years but people are just mean these days.

"Here you go!" The worker hands me my food.
"Thank you again."
"Anytime" she then walks away.

She's very sweet, she must be new.
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I arrived to Vintage Blooms aka my shop.
I open the door and flip the closed sign to open.
I go in the back and drop my bags to the floor and put a my black apron for gardening. I walk back to my shop and examine if my plants are still doing good.

As I'm examining my plants the phone rings.

What? I barely get calls this early.

I pick up the phone.
"Hello you've called Vintage Blooms, how may I assist you today?"

"Hey, I just wanted to know if it was possible to get a bunch of roses in different colours ready at 1 pm?"
The voice sounded so familiar, I swear I heard it somewhere.

"Yes, of course. I'm just gonna have to ask a couple of questions for it to turn out perfect."
....

10 minutes later

I'm finally done taking the order and placing the material needed. I look at the time and see it's 10:30.
I start by counting the roses and realize that im missing a couple of white roses.

Time to go to the garden!

I exit my store and lock it. I head behind my store where there is my moms old garden. It's such a beautiful place.

(Imagine this but it's filled with flowers instead of plants)

30 minutes later

I'm finally done. I picked out the flowers and I got lost of time and fixed the garden a bit.

My hair is in a messy bun and dirt is all over me. A shower sounds great to me.
I head back to the store and continue the bouquet of roses.
After an hour I'm finally done!
It's so beautiful, I'm proud of myself.
It's currently 12:30 am, I decided to clean the place a bit. I sweep the floor while listening to Frank Sinatra on a old radio.

The front door opens after a couple minutes and the girl I saw at the coffee shop enters.
"Hello!" She says happily
"Oh hello, weren't you the one at the coffee shop?"
"Yup, are the flowers I ordered ready?" She ask
Ohh that's why her voice sounded so similar

"Yes! Just wait here while I bring them out" I got in the back where I left them and grab them carefully.
I bring them out.
"Oh my gosh they are so pretty." She says happily.
"Thank you, what is the occasion?" I ask
"Umm. I'm visiting a friend who just got back from vacation" she says nervously.

"Oh that's so nice of you" I smile at her
"What's your name?" She asks me
"I'm Nora!"

I'm so happy right now, I'm gonna make a new friend. I've been waiting for so long!!

"I an skyler but people usually call me sky."

Skyler has gorgeous long blonde hair, which was so shiny. She was taller then me, she's probably 5'5. He beautiful long legs suit her so much.
She has some soft hazel eyes that reminds me of coffee. She wearing some short ripped jeans with a cute low cut white shirt.
She is truly stunning.

"It's super nice to meet you."
"So how much is it gonna be?"  She ask while searching money in her purse
"Your total is gonna be 20$"
"What?! That's so cheap. No way you did an amazing job." She looks at me shocked.
"Thank you! But you can always leave me a tip if you want to."

"Duhh." She pulls out a 50 dollar bill and hands it to me.
"Noo, that's too much."
"I insiste" she pushes the dollar into my hand.
"Thank you so much" I say very grateful.

I need this money so bad

I hand her flowers.
"By the way, can I work here?" She asks
"I'm sorry I can't because I don't have a lot of money, I'm not able to pay you." I tell her sadly
"Don't worry about it, it's such a lovely place. I'm willing to work here." She says and pulls out a pen along with paper.

"Are you sure?"
"Don't be ridiculous, I would love to. Here is my number just send me the information and call me"
She hands me a piece of paper with a phone number on it.
"Okay perfect" I smile at her
"I have to go now, bye!"
"Bye, it was lovely to meet you." I wave at her goodbye as she heads to the door.

When she leave I break out into a tiny break dance.
"I just got a new friend!" I yell while dancing. I was truly happy.
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