Page 13 of Adventures in Spring

“Wow,” she whispers.

“That’s exactly what I was thinking.” I smile at her.

We spend the rest of the day talking and arranging her room. I love listening to her talk about how excited she is to meet her students. We even made plans to go to dinner with her family and mine.

ChapterSeven

Rhett

It’s been a week since our picnic and I’ve seen Emiko every day. Either she comes to the store or I drive to the school to see her. Seeing her smile makes my day better. She’s opened up to me about Seth and their love story. He sounds like the kind of guy I would’ve liked. It makes me sad for her and the twins that they lost him so soon. I told her that I’ll never take the place of Seth. But I hope that I can be her future. I already know I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I’m just waiting for her to catch up to me.

“Why does it feel like you’re planning something and not telling me about it?” I frown at Felicity.

She blinks at me. “I’m not planning anything. I don’t know why you think I’m doing something. I mean to be honest, I’m offended.”

“Now Iknowyou’re up to something.” I squint at her.

The look she’s giving me is the look she used to give us since we were kids. The only hard part is she’s good at keeping her secrets. It’s always driven us all crazy and still does.

“I’m up to nothing. We should get to the store, Lukas said he and Emma are finishing up a batch of popcorn. And Pax said he’s at a job till lunch.”

“Okay. Are we riding together?”

“Yes, please.” She grins at me.

My baby sister is driving me nuts. She’s smiling and she keeps looking at me as we drive to the store. I wish she was the type that couldn’t keep secrets.

* * *

“Hey, gorgeous.” I smile as I see Emiko.

I hop over the counter and pull her to me to give her a kiss.

“I didn’t know you were coming by today. I planned to come see you for lunch.”

“We only had school for half a day, so I thought I’d come and see you. I don’t have to pick the kids up for a few hours.”

“Did you want to hang out here with me?”

“Sure, you can finally show me what you do here,” she says as she hugs me.

I spend the next few hours showing her what I do all day. Which isn’t really all that exciting, but I still love it.

“I’m sorry this is kind of boring.” I chuckle.

“It’s not. I like seeing what you do when I’m at school.” She smiles.

“Excuse me. I need to get my pills!” Sabrina yells from the counter.

“Sorry, I’ll be right with you.”

I give Emiko a kiss and head over to grab the meds and help Sabrina. When I walk over to her, she’s glaring at me. Which isn’t something new, but I see her glaring between me and Emiko.

“Who’s the girl?” Sabrina frowns.

“My girlfriend, Emiko.”

“You mean the new high school teacher? Doesn’t she have kids? I heard she was married.”

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