Christmas Advent
Chapter 21-December 21st
Mike rushed home after another long day. There were two boxes waiting on his porch. He opened the first one and found his dinner; which he began heating up. The second box had a glass pan, eggs, a bag of bread, blueberries, bananas, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, oatmeal and various other baking items. It was an odd box full of things and thankfully a note.
"I intend on baking a casserole Christmas morning. Leave bananas out so they are plenty ripe. The other stuff can be put away where it needs to go. The bread will be stale-which is what I need, but watch it for mold. If it gets moldy; I might need you to pick up a loaf of day-old."
Mike smiled at the note because it reminded him of Christine. She had been so feisty, bossy and sweet-natured when she wasn't sassing him. He missed having someone who wasn't intimidated by his rank or personality. Andrea was tough, like Christine but it wasn't the same. He really wondered more and more who it was.