Day 21: Buying flowers for the other.
A/N: I kinda changed the prompt for this. Instead of one of them buying flowers for the other, I'm gonna have Logan and Keegan buying flowers for Elias's grave. Hope you enjoy!
It was the anniversary of Elias's death and Logan wanted to put flowers on his grave. He wanted to do what he, Hesh and his dad would do for their mom. How they would put flowers by her grave for her birthday and the anniversary of her death. And he now wanted to do that for his dad.
The only issue was what kind of flowers? What kind do you put on someone's grave? It would help if his dad had a favorite kind of flower but he didn't. Logan sighed and looked at the abundance of flowers surrounding him. Keegan and him stopped at a flower shop before the headed to the cemetery.
Logan was staring at some red roses. He knew they were way too formal for a grave, but they reminded him of his mom and the way her perfume smelled. His mom died when he was very young and has a hard time remembering her, but the one thing he does remember is the smell of the perfume she used to wear. How it reminded him of what it would be like if he was standing next to a rose bush when in full bloom.
He also remembered how she loved anything fruity or floral. She hated the musky smell of some perfumes and would rather smell like a fruit or a flower garden. Even though it's been over two decades now since her death, Logan could still smell the perfume from time to time. Like she was standing right next to him.
Logan was thinking about buying some for his apartment. To bring back something from his childhood. He sighed and looked around some more. He didn't realize how hard flower shopping was when you don't know the person's favorite flower.
He smiled when he came to see some lilies towards the back of the shop. His baby sis's favorite flower. He would stop to pick her up a dozen or so of them every month. And he would get the same happy reaction when he delivered them to her. Logan chuckled to himself and kept looking.
Eventually he gave up trying to figure out what to get by himself and went over to Keegan who was looking at some tulips. "Alright, I have no idea. This would be so much easier if I knew dad's favorite flower, if he even has one that is."
Keegan stopped his looking and turned his attention to Logan. "If he doesn't have a favorite flower, then why don't we put one of your mom's favorite flower on his grave?"
"Huh. Why didn't I think of that." Logan laughed to himself and shook his head. "Problem is my mom liked roses and those really aren't flowers you put of a grave."
"Then what are some of the other flowers she likes?" asked Keegan.
"She did like tulips and daisy's."
Logan looked down at the tulips Keegan was looking at. His mom would plant purple and red tulips in the spring. He can picture his mom, baby Liz, Hesh and his dad out in the yard planting. Well, his mom and dad planting while him and Hesh threw dirt at each other. Those were some of his favorite times. When both parents were still alive and the war never happened.
"I think tulips would look nice by his grave."
"Me too. Okay, tulips it is."
Logan walked away to get one of the workers and Keegan followed him. He gave him a confused look when he ordered both tulips and roses. Keegan wondered what the roses were for and wasn't about to ask something personal in a store. He watched as Logan payed for the floors and say his thanks before turning and following him out to the truck.
Logan got into the driver's seat and gently placed the floors in the middle between him and Keegan. Keegan got in and started at the roses for a moment before he finally asked. "What are the roses for?"
"I thought I'd buy some and put them in my apartment. To remind me of my mom." Logan gave him a weak smile and glanced down at the roses before he started up the truck.
It wasn't a long drive to the cemetery and Logan could see Hesh, Liz, Merrick and their kids were already there. He parked behind Hesh's car and turned off the truck. He sighed through his nose, grabbed the tulips and got out of his truck.
They quickly met with the others and Ellie threw herself into uncle Logan's arms. That seemed to ease his spirits a little. She noticed the flowers in his hand and gave him a questionable look.
"Are you gonna put flowers on grandpa's grave too?" asked Ellie
"Yes I am. Wait who else brought flowers?" Logan glanced around at everyone there and couldn't see any.
"Mommy did. She brought daisy's." said Ellie. Then she turned around and skipped back over to her parents.
Logan walked over to Liz and shook his head. "You thought of the same thing, didn't you?"
"Yeah. I thought why not? Make it a tradition again, for us and my children." She leaned into the passenger's seat and grabbed the daisy's.
"Great minds think alike."
They both laughed at that. Then Liz sighed and tugged at his shirt.
"Come on. We can't leave dad waiting."
Logan chuckled and followed Liz with the rest trailing behind them. He might have lost his dad in the war, but he gain a whole other family because of it.