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“Sorry,” she said. “This is awkward.”
“No reason it has to be,” he said.
She nodded her head, picked up her glass and moved away. Guess that didn’t go nearly as well as he hoped it would have.
Then he wondered what he hoped to accomplish anyway. Someone like her wouldn’t want anything more than a night or two with him.
3
Meant To Deliver
“Merry Christmas,” Daisy said to Heather the next morning.
This was her first Christmas not spent with her parents. Last year she’d taken the three-hour drive to go home and stayed for the weekend. Her parents had been upset she’d moved away, but she’d promised to return for the holidays. Both Thanksgiving and Christmas back then.
This year though, she wasn’t going home.
First off, Daisy was alone, as it was just she and her mother, and her mother wasn’t around this year for Daisy to visit and Heather didn’t want to leave her friend by herself.
Second, her brothers, Noah who was a fireman, and Gavin who was a sergeant on the police force, both had to work.
Her brothers were single and didn’t care much if they worked the holidays. But the last thing she wanted was to be stuck alone with her overbearing parents who loved her to death but in their polite way made her feel like a disappointment to them.
Not only that, she didn’t want to miss the first big Christmas party that Blossoms was having, but after running into Luke last night, she kind of wished she did.
No, it wouldn’t have been worth going home for. It was best she knew Luke was back and now going to be living close by.
“You too,” she said to Daisy. “What time did you wake up?”
It was seven thirty right now. Earlier than she wanted to get up, but it’s not like she drank all that much last night. Not as much as Lily’s wedding.
There was part of her that didn’t want to be tempted by Luke again. She didn’t think she’d be weak enough though because she couldn’t get away without people knowing this time. Daisy being the first since they went to the party together.
“I was up at seven,” Daisy said. “It’s my first Christmas not with my mother, though you are family.”
“Same here,” she said.
“You could have gone home,” Daisy said. “Want coffee?”
“Coffee sounds great,” she said. “And no. I wouldn’t leave you alone. Plus, you know my brothers are working.”
“You love your brothers,” Daisy said.
“I do. They are overly protective of me, but that is what makes them great and annoying at the same time.” And they stuck up for her when her parents gently brought up how they’d thought she’d be a doctor.
She’d never wanted to be a doctor. Ever.
She loved science and said she was going into that field. Her parents were the ones that jumped on the medical bandwagon.
Then when she was firm she had no intention of doing that, it turned into her finding the next cure for cancer. Working in a lab to save the world. She had a few years of that in the hospital and was done.
She was in a lab and saving her sanity now. That was how she liked to think of it. What her grandmother would have encouraged her to do.
“What do you want for breakfast?” Daisy asked her once she handed over the cup of coffee. She could have gotten it herself, but Daisy was just so thankful to not be alone. Her roommate was an only child who’d moved around a lot with her mother.
She liked having someone she could consider a sister now.
“Why don’t I cook breakfast,” Heather said. “Or we can do it together? I’m dying for carbs. Chocolate chip pancakes.”
