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 Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 10:28 pm
Only the most hard core of gardeners went to home depot in high heels. White high heels at that. At least that is what Evalia believed, with all of her heart. Unless she was literally digging around in the dirt, there was no reason not to wear flattering foot-wear. With a sway of her skirt she turned, eyeballing the other flat of flowers, turning her hand so she could bite her thumbnail in contemplation. She was a science major, sure it was botanical sciences, but science none the less. She shouldn't have forgotten a simple math problem. Two full flats of flowers, would not fit in the compartment of one little white vespa.
Why on earth did she even take her vespa to home depot? Well foolishly she thought this would be a simple operation. Pick up another gardening trowel, as her last one has simply snapped in half after many years of use and a little bit to much rust. But no... It was flower season, which meant she had embarked on a fools errand. And now she simply stood there. Her vespa parked in the loading zone of the garden area, her flat bottom cargo cart beside her... she looking quizzically between the two as if a solution would magically appear. And the worst part? She hadn't even grabbed her damn shovel. She had been so blindsided by the beautiful wall of colorful plantlife that her whole train of purpose had derailed. Derailed and caught fire. Derailed and caught fire and exploded.
It happened sometimes.
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:51 pm
Flynn was passing by, walking down the avenue and forgetting just where he was going. It was early morning and he was not a morning person, his head fogged when he was awake early after sleeping, not so much when he had yet to go to bed but hell, c'est la vie! He was trying to whistle a tune but it came out discordant and shrill and he left off.
That's when he spotted the girl struggling with a lot more than he imagined could fit on her little scooter. His sense of chivalry kicked in and he rushed to her aid, steadying the flats and plucking them from her hands entirely to consider the options. He smiled a charming smile, looking her over subtly.
"Need some help?" He eyed the other things she needed to move. "I'm happy to."
It wouldn't take him long at all to get this sorted out, provided she wanted the help and wasn't some angry nazi feminist that thought he was insulting her equality of sex by offering to be a gentleman. He'd had that happen before and it was very awkward because he simply could not hit, push, or otherwise touch a girl in any harmful or potentially harming manner. Those were just the rules and though Pappy was dead (may he rest in peace) Flynn learned his lessons well.
"I'm Donovan but most everyone calls me Flynn." He looked at the little vespa and the flats she'd purchased. "Seems you've got quite the conundrum here. I'm almost certain these won't fit on that without crushing eachother."
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Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:29 pm
Evalia was still frowning down at her happy little scooter when someone plucked the flowers right out of her hands. A little " oh " of surprised escaped her mouth before she realized she hadn't dropped them, but someone was indeed trying to help her out. " Or thank you! " She said, beaming at him. Unlike Flynn, she definitely was a morning person, and it showed in a disposition that even at the crack of dawn, was already exuberant and joyfull.
" Pleasure to meet you Flynn. My name is Evalia, but you can call me Eva if you would like. " She smiled again, turning pale green eyes back to the flowers " Yes I am realizing that now. I sometimes get a little carried away at hardware stores... ' It just sounded like such an odd thing to be coming out of the willowy, lace covered, high heel wearing, girl who rode a little white vespa.
" I just gave here to pick up one thing, so I just rode the scooter. I have a truck that I normally bring, but I haden't intended to buy anything other then the little tiny shovel. " She plucked up the little trowel from the trunk of the vespa, frowning at it as if this whole situation was ITS fault.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:56 am
When she gave her name he smiled and took her hand, kissing it lightly like a gentleman should. Pappy taught him very well how to treat a lady.
"It is always a pleasure to meet a beautiful young woman like you, Eva, even under these circumstances." He turned back to their problem, considering it. "This is quite the predicament, isn't it?"
Flynn studied the situation happy to have a problem to solve when he wasn't in his night time knight costume. It felt a little good to go back to being a regular joe doing a regular good deed...if he could come up with a solution. It wasn't that he didn't like his new calling but there was just something about being able to rescue a damsel in his own name that made him feel more accomplished than doing it in disguise.
"How far away do you live, Miss Evalia? I'm happy to help you carry them home if it isn't too far away. I'm used to walking places."
Cars, he found, took care and cost and ownership. He did not like owning cars. Walking was good enough for him - or the occasional cab. Cabs were wonderful chariots when he was too schnockered to make his way home of his own power. Convenient things, too. Just toss money at them and they will take you wherever you want to go.
"However I can be of assistance to you, simply ask."
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 4:22 pm
She grinned as he took her hand and kissed it ( apparently unfazed by the smudges of gardening soil ) " The pleasure is mine Flynn, it's always nice to meet someone else who enjoys the morning sun " Sweet girl did not get that her charming assistant was not a morning person, she simply assumed he was enjoying an early morning walk!
" Hmm... probably a couple of miles... you think you can deal with a walk that far carrying so much? " Not that she would make him carry all of it, there really was just no way to carry it all unless you were as large as that sweet giant of a man she met at the Eclipse viewing party that seemed like ages ago.
" Oh! I have an idea! " She squeaked with excitement, and picked up the two little plants that were sitting half haphazardly in the trunk of her vespa, slammed the trunk shut, grabbed her purse, and scampered back into the hardware store with a cacophony of clicks from her high heels. " Wait right there!!!! " Her voice called at him as she disappeared into the gardening section gate.
After what was probably an alarming amount of time for Flynn ( And a sure sign that Eva was a trusting fool to leave a straonger alone with her purchased items just standing in the parking lot ) the clicking of high heels was heard from the gardening section, before she came back around the corner, a huge grin on her face, pulling behind her two large gardening wagons.
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 11:53 am
Donovan wasn't well known for patience but for a pretty girl he could certainly concentrate on the effort. He was trustworthy, though, and stayed just in place while he waited for Eva's return. People passed and gave him looks and he remained oblivious, holding flats of flowers in front of a white vespa.
When she returned he grinned.
"Ah, lass, you are a wonder. I believe this solves our problem perfectly!"
He loaded the supplies into the two wagons and took up his without a problem, believing this would be much more comfortable for the walk home than toting things manually.
"You must have a green thumb, lass, to need so many flowers."
He was usually not in one place long enough to be able to garden and had never developed a taste for it. He could appreciate it, though, for people that could coax things to grow and did so
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:32 am
Eva laughed a little bit " Well, I have always wanted one, I have just never had an excuse to get one. " They weren't exactly a small purchase, and while Eva was in no way hurting for cash, she was a very frugal person and she had just never gotten the the courage to plunk down such a large portion of money. She had no qualms about spending globs of money on flowers, because she could almost always turn around and either split, seed, or clip new plants from the ones she bought, making her money back, but you couldn't exactly grow a baby wagon from a parent wagon.
" Thank you again for helping me, I think I have learned my lesson to always take the truck when coming here. " Eva popped her little white helmet into the storage compartment of her vespa, before closing it up and locking it, tucking the keys away in her purse and tossing it into the wagon. She would just have to come back and get it later.
She smiled at his green thumb comment, taking the handle of her wagon which he had loaded for her " Ah, well, some of them are for the community garden in my neighborhood.You just cant pass up a good sale when it comes to plants for kids. It doesn't make much sense to pay full price for something that is honestly probably going to be smushed by tiny leaning hands. Bulbs and cheap annuals are the way to go. Just poke'em in the ground types and hope they live. "
She started walking in the direction of her home, leading him away from the commercial area over-run with stores to the quaint little residential district so popular with young families, as almost all houses had nice fenced backyards. It was early, so she would offer the nice young man some food - because that's what she always did with people she meets. She feeds them. And hopefully it would repay the kindness he showed be helping a complete stranger haul a bunch of plants home.
The End
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