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“Read the note,” Luna encourages
“It’s justit I- IGranny was supposed to go to and then bowed out at the last second because she ended up being busy, but it was a charity thing, so she ether Uh- I-a break I swear It wasn’t about that”
“But this…” Luna holds up the earring The sapphire winks in the light overhead “Isn’t this part of the set? The set The cursed set?” She practically yells it and I grab the earring away fro that no one heard that from the back
“Yes,” I hiss “It’s the cursed set Granny bought e dress I couldn’t just wear shit jewelry with it I didn’t have anything as nice as them They’re- I- they just screa to ht thing and it shouldn’t go further than that”
“But you wore them And you met someone”
“I did, but he returned it, so what does it matter”
Luna gapes at ot stuck on her finger, and with o all wonky and it burned all hot when Toren touched it With Trent, it was his crazy cursed necklace that glowed and with Taylen his broach kept disappearing and appearing in funny spots”
“Nothing happened” I lean hard against the counter, the earring in h that I wasn’t daring fate or the curse or whatever, and that I’ht be true
“But he sent you flowers What does the note say?”
“It just says that he hopes I enjoy the bouquet and the book, and he wanted to return ned his name That’s it”
I don’t tell Luna that just seeing his nah h to make me want to hue na like that It sounds rather irresponsible when I put it like that, when I shed the light of day on a night of passion That’s why nights of passion are called nights of passion, not days of passion The blissful stuff froht
“Do you think the bouquet ? Like, do the flowers correspond to that book?” Luna is grabbing the book before I can protest She starts thu froe contains different flowers, their nas “Ooooooh!” She squeals “I don’t care what you say about this being a one-night thing This is roood while That ball was howrubbed off on him”
“Dear god, I hope not”
That’s not the truth I’e book and the flowers that now I’ain Would he have sent flowers if he didn’t want to see ain? No I
“I don’t knohat half of these are” Luna exaet these? Some of them look like weeds”
It’s true It’s a strange looking bouquet with a bunch of flowers I can’t name
Luna pulls out her phone, ever practical like her husband, and flicks open an app “This is a flower identifier I downloaded it because there’s this crap that keeps growing in s up out of nowhere I was sure it was a weed, and yup, I was right An invasive one too I had to deal with that… Uh- but never mind Let’s scan some of these and see if it comes up with names”
Suddenly I don’t want to do this I feel strange, like I’ too full of air, ready to burst I hate balloons, and I hate thatthis in private, finding out the e, writing down narabbed fro
She doesn’t stop until she has everything written down, then she picks up the book, which she uses like a dictionary, and starts ear oes, the more her nose wrinkles up