In the big hall, Flora was also having the time of her life. Like Mirabel, she had gotten a helicopter ride with Mauricio and Ryan to Trimshaw Manor, the first in her life, and she still felt lightheaded in a good way from that.
She had hardly gotten any sleep the night before because she had been too giddy. Everything had felt too good to be true.
In Flora's life, she had had countless date requests from admirers; I mean, who wouldn't want a cute smallish dark-blond blue-eyed girl? But despite the advances and flattery,
Flora had always held back for various reasons. Initially, she had not been interested at all, then when she was, Mirabel's experiences had turned her off as she never wanted to experience that which her friend had gone through, and then later, it was because she had to take care of Collin.
