It's been one week since Olive Snook, the girl in love with Ned the Pie-maker, watched Digby, the Pie-maker's dog. Rather she was one of two girls in love with him. Another girl, a girl named Chuck was now in the mix.
"How does he not know or see me the way I see him?" Olive wondered out loud while she poured herself a glass of orange juice. She began to drink it down with the dedication that she wished she could show the pie-maker that she had for him. Finishing the glass of juice she heading to the door to go downstairs to the Pie Hole, the place she spent the most time with who she thought was the love of her life, who didn't know he was that love for her.
As she got out of the door into the hallway, Ned himself was leaving as well. The two stood there staring at each other, neither one saying anything. It was the kind of silence ones avoids in day to day life. Awkward silence.
"Um…hey Oli.." He could barely finish.
"Hey there Ned!" She said cheerfully.
They basically spoke at the same time, making an already awkward situation even more awkward. There they stood again before Ned made a movement.
"After you." He gestured to be polite towards the stairs.
"Thanks." Olive replied to return the politeness.
"Going down to the shop?" Ned asked with embarrassment. He knew she was to the Pie Hole, they do so every morning. He was just anxious.
"Nope, going to see a man about a horse." She sarcastically answered.
"Oh…well…"
"No you silly, of course I'm coming to the shop."
They continued down the stair in silence again.
While Olive walked down the stairs she smiled. Smiling because today was going to be different. Different because she had a plan. A plan to show Ned how she felt. How her heart yearned for his touch, his love and his acknowledgment.
They both made it down to the shop and Olive began brewing the morning coffee. As she did that Ned started on bringing the dead fruits he had stored away back to life again, to use for the pies he was going to make today.
Olive got a cup of coffee ready for Ned. Cream and two sugars. Just the way he likes it. On the plate under the cup she left a note.
"Here ya go Ned." She smiled at the angelic face before her, he smiled back. She walked away and around the corner to hide under the window into the kitchen from the main shop to watch and wait.
It was several minutes before Ned picked up the cup and saw the piece of folded paper.
"Hello, what's this?" He asked he inanimate object under his cup.
I Love You.
Was all it said and all he read before the girl named Chuck walked in and greeted him with a smile. They smiled at each other, the smile radiated with love.
"I love you too." He told her, somehow forgetting that is was the paper under the cup that Olive put there for him that said I love you.
"Well, I love you too." She said slightly confused. Did she say something first? She couldn't remember. Being dead and alive again can have that affect on someones memory.
They continued smiling at each other.
"No! Ned, I love you!" Olive whispered loudly to herself. "Not you!" She glared at Chuck.
"She is always ruining things." She thought.
"That won't stop me today, I've got to keep trying."
Olive couldn't give up now, there were plenty of hours left in the day and plenty of ideas rolling around in her head.