Nicholas fell silent for a moment, as Richard asked him a nonsensical question.
"Huh, what do you mean?" Nicholas asked Richard confusedly While trying to lift his left arm. He squinted his eyes to see the wound on his left arm. But by the time I saw it, the wound was already on his arm.
It was as if the wound would go away on its own. How could that be?.
Because it is impossible if the wound suddenly disappeared from his arm, while Nicholas saw it clearly, that this morning he saw it in the mirror, and he also put a bandage on his wound.
The expression on Richard's face also looked confused, when he held the bandage in his left hand it was still covered with blood but it had dried. But the wound disappeared from Nicholas's left arm.
"Seriously, I put the bandage on myself this morning. There's no way my wound would suddenly disappear," Nicholas said in a confused tone while looking at his left arm, trying to find the wound that was there earlier.
But Richard just kept quiet and looked at Nicholas strangely, as if they look Richard was giving him was made-up disbelief.
"Come on, how could I lie to you, there's no way I can suddenly heal myself..."
Nicholas froze for a moment when he said that sentence, it felt like the sentence, he said was starting to stray and not as usual. How could he not, why was Nicholas suddenly thinking about healing himself.
Nicholas is number one for distrusting myths. But instead, he gave an unreasonable reason, which made Richard's gaze even more intense.
His gaze this time signaled a thousand questions Nicholas had to answer at once, and when he didn't answer, Richard could kill his best friend with his piercing gaze.
"Hey, Richard what are you thinking? You don't mess around!" Nicholas said while shaking Richard's shoulder. Trying to get him to come back to his senses.
"Hah, I guess you don't mess with me!" He answered while widening his eyes, and then returned to his sitting position. He looked ahead with a blank stare, without speaking he was just silent.
His shaking hands could not be hidden by him, the cold sweat began to drip slowly from the forehead of the man who was now sitting next to Nicholas.
What's wrong with him? Did I do something wrong?. Nicholas inner grumbling.
It feels like this time Nicholas has done something, to make it so.
Nicholas reached into his phone in his front pocket and checked it, there was still a battery left.
"Richard, it's 2:20 pm. I'm working at Aunt Lauren in ten minutes." Nicholas said to him a bit panicked because the trip to the flower shop was quite time-consuming.
Without Richard speaking or answering what Nicholas said to him, he suddenly started his Jeep and drove away fast.
And both of them have now left the gas station. The path he took was indeed the right one, it led to the place where Nicholas worked part-time. At his aunt's flower shop.
During the journey that took almost ten minutes long, the two of them were silent and didn't say a word. And that's what makes Nicholas wonder to himself, right now.
Thousands of questions popped into his head because suddenly Richard's behavior changed. He was never like this before. But this time behaving so strangely, that it managed to confuse about that.
The two of them stopped at the flower shop where Nicholas worked, he looked at Richard, but Richard didn't look at him, his gaze was still on the front, and it was as if Richard didn't want to look at him.
"Hey, thanks for the ride, see you tomorrow," Nicholas said as he got out of Richard's car, then closed the door of his Jeep slowly, Nicholas could see Richard just nodded his head slowly. Without looking back at Nicholas.
And after that, Richard immediately stepped on the gas and left in front of Nicholas.
What's wrong with him? Why is he being weird like that? Maybe something happened to him, that made him like that. That's enough. Surely tomorrow will also be back in his usual self. Nicholas mumbles.
Nicholas turned and walked towards the flower shop in front of him. This shop is quite big, said Aunt Lauren, that this shop has been around for so long, now it's 2022 while she said that this building has been around since 1902, so this building has been around for 120 years.
Nicholas shook his head when he found out that this modern-looking old building, was indeed very old.
He went inside and put the bag he was carrying on the usual shelf, then he put on the apron he usually uses when he's guarding the shop.
This flower shop provides various types of flowers, without fear of wilting.
His aunt has a potion that she says can preserve flowers in her shop.
Nicholas didn't believe it, but only to support her, so he agreed with whatever she said.
"Hey, Nicholas, I'm going home first, please make an order for a chrysanthemum bouquet, to be picked up..." Stefanie said while looking at the clock on her left wrist.
"In ten minutes, I'll put the list on the shelf, bye, thank you!"
Nicholas hasn't had a chance to curse at her yet, but she's already run away from the shop. Stefanie is always like that, she is Nicholas's work partner here, she is the daughter of Aunt Lauren, the owner of this shop.
they're are both almost the same age, only one difference, she is older than Nicholas. But what Nicholas is confused about is a girl as beautiful as her but doesn't have a boyfriend yet. Her straight blonde hair is beautifully loose, her blue eyes make her even more attractive to men, especially with a nose that can be used as a surfer, and her sexy lips make me fall in love with her sometimes.
"Shit, I need to wrap it up immediately. Damn, Stefanie."
Nicholas immediately looked for the list on the ordering shelf, after he saw it, he quickly wrapped it up.
[A bouquet of chrysanthemums, mixed in purple and white. In the shape of a heart in the middle, 02.40 pm]
Nicholas watched with a strange look while holding the strange order. But without wasting my time, He immediately took purple and white chrysanthemums and he formed them according to what was requested in the writing.
Because I've been working here for a year, he can easily finish it, and he thinks this bouquet that he made is the best.
"I think the one who ordered it, is an old woman," Nicholas said with a chuckle.
"Is that the bouquet I ordered?"
Nicholas's eyes widened when he heard the voice coming behind him, and he slowly turned his head towards her and was about to give her the bouquet of chrysanthemums he had just finished making.
The moment Nicholas faced her, his eyes widened even more, his hands were shaking violently, and his heart suddenly felt like it was going to burst when he saw that this woman in front of him was,
"Emily..."