How To Build A Flower Shop

Chapter THIRTY FOUR

Christmas is the same as every other. Owen is visiting until the end of January. In the morning they exchange gifts and then go to church. Arriving home around one p.m. they cook Christmas dinner together with festive songs playing in the background. Jamelia visits later on for their gift exchange but is soon distracted when she sees Lilly the bunny.

'Oh my Gosh! She's so cute!' She gushes, running to the hutch and watching the blondish-brown furred rabbit run around inside. 'Can I hold her?' she begs, and when Bobbi nods her head she excitedly opens the hutch door and holds the little animal to her chest. 'Oh my God...' she gushes again but with her teeth gritted, looking like she wants to squeeze the rabbit from her cuteness. In fact, she has a tear of happiness in her eye as Lilly sniffs her lips, and she holds her like a baby, kissing her. 'She's so adorable! I love her.'

'Do you want me to open your present if you're busy with Lilly?' Bobbi smirks, ecstatic to see Jamelia love Lilly.

Bobbi relates to Jamelia's mood as she was immensely excited this morning when she saw the hutch and bunny after she rushed downstairs. She woke up at five a.m. – she was that excited. She jumped up and down and shed one or two tears as she ran to the hutch and took Lilly in her arms. She felt like she was falling in love with the pet again, and Lilly loved her. Her heart was full of joy and love. Instant love is true under certain cases. They played together all morning, bonding and building trust.

When the girls exchange gifts, they snuggle up on the couch with a fluffy blanket, drinking hot chocolate with whipped cream and mini marsh mellows and watching Christmas movies. Both girls are happy with each other's presents; Jamelia's gift to Bobbi is a designer handbag, which is leather blue with gold studs underneath, and Bobbi bought Jamelia a Pandora bracelet. It's a silver charm bracelet with a heart clasp, along with it a feather charm and a purple-pink orchard flower charm. She loves it as she adores the Pandora collection.

Jamelia updates Bobbi on her mother's pregnancy, saying she wishes she was due soon to buy the baby gifts for Christmas, as she walked through baby stores and found the cutest and adorable clothes and toys, but her mother won't be due for another couple of months.

New Years Day, Lucas, Owen, and Bobbi go out for a fancy dinner and come back home with full, satisfied stomachs. The moment Lucas and Owen plop down onto the couch, there's a knock on the door. Bobbi wonders who it could be as she lays on the living room floor, petting Lilly whilst she rests on her stomach. She doesn't think she can ever get over her. Gets up and puts her back in her hutch, seeing her dad nor uncle is getting the door. They reach out for the Vinyl record player on the coffee table and head for the kitchen. Owen bought it for Bobbi for Christmas. She loves it, but maybe Lucas and Owen love it more as Lucas took out old records from the attic and they reminisce -again- whilst playing old classics, nostalgic.

At the door, she swings it open and she's quite startled to see Roberto, snow falling around him. His hands are shoved in his navy blue coat, his nose and cheeks are red, and his eyes water from the wind. All in all he looks rather adorable. Bobbi gushes at the sight. She immediately notices his hair cut; it's still the same style but shorter. At this moment, she believes it when people say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

'Miss me?' A cheeky, boyish grin spreads on his face.

Her heart pounds rapidly in her chest that she can hear it in her ears, but she rolls her eyes at him. Of course those would be the first words to say instead of a greeting. 'Yeah,' she says with sarcasm, but it's absolutely undeniably true. She longs to jump in his arms and kiss him whilst running her hands through his cut hair and stay in his embrace. Like a girlfriend would. She genuinely wonders how long her feelings will last, if she'll always feel this way or if she'll get over it.