Chapter 3: 'Flowers Bloom'

A week had gone by now and I had fell into a routine. I managed to get the job at the florist shop who was Cass's friend, her name was Tessa-Rose Harrison but she was called Tessa for short. She was a soft looking woman with fair skin who was in her mid-twenties and had long copper red hair and startling blue-green eyes so in certain light they looked deep turquoise. As soon as we met we hit it off immediately and l loved working there, she was teaching me flower arrangements and bossed me about most of the time and told me things she needed to order and where the flowers were going to go. Her shop wasn't massive but was well known, it was called 'Flower's Bloom.'

The reason why Tessa needed help was because she was too stressed and the doctor told her she needed to hire someone soon or she would end up having a heart attack. Lucy hadn't come in for a while so I was hoping to see her again just to make sure she couldn't remember anything about last week.

'Would you like a coffee?' Tessa called through from the back room while I was wrapping some flowers for a customer who was going to pick them up later.

'No thanks,' I replied. 'Hey Tess?'

'Yeah.'

'Do you mind if I pop over to the book shop for a minute?' I asked.

'Go ahead, knock yourself out.' I finished with the flowers, grabbed my jacket and walked outside into the sun. I located the book store fairly quickly and I was in book heaven when I walked inside. There were rows and rows and rows and rows and rows and rows of books. I managed to stop myself from screaming like a little girl jumping up and down clapping her hands.

I headed straight for the dark fantasy section looking for any new books. I know you'd think I wouldn't be interested in reading paranormal things seeing as I was a supernatural creature but I absolutely loved them, I couldn't get enough of them. I just loved the idea of hot sexy guys saving the main girl. Why are authors annoyingly good at being able to create what seemed the perfect males? It's just too bad they didn't exist. I picked one up at random 'Abandon' by Meg Cabot. It cost fifteen dollars and seventy cent which I paid and then returned to the shop.

It amazed me how time flew by when you were busy concentrating on work, it was almost half six which meant I had half an hour left before my shift was over and it was starting to turn dark as I could see the blood red sun hitting the horizon.

When I got back I found Tess drinking a cup of coffee and munching on some biscuits. I took a biscuit as I reached the counter and ate it before I put my new book under the counter.

'I knew he'd be late, again.' She muttered to herself as she looked over some paperwork.

'What?' I said.

'Oh, just muttering to myself,' she laughed. 'My regular customer, Duncan.'

'Who's that?' I asked.

' I'm surprised you haven't heard of the famous Drake boys.' She said as I sat on the top of the counter-top. 'Especially the single ones left.'

' I've heard a tiny bit from Lucy, all I know is that there are loads of them.' I giggled eating another biscuit. Tess pulled herself on the counter opposite me.

'Well every girl in Violet Hill who knows of them and is between sixteen to twenty eight wants one of the yummy Drake boys. Even some of the older ones what to get their wrinkly hands on them, that's how hot they are.' She smiled. 'I'm a close friend of the family so I get the pleasure of seeing them regularly.'

'Ah, so what's so special about them?' I asked a bit bemused.

'They are such good young gentleman as well as being drop dead gorgeous of course.' Tess said sipping her tea.

'This is a total guess, but are you dating one of them by any chance?' I said with my left eyebrow raised, smiling at her.

She blushed a tiny bit but because of her fair skin it looked even more prominent but nodded. 'Yeah, I'm one of the lucky ones. Unfortunately, they're running out though, so you better get in quick.'

'How many are there?' I asked laughing.

'Well there are seven Drake brothers but Logan, Conner, Quinn and Nicholas are in a relationship and I'm with Sebastian so that leaves two, Marcus and Duncan.' She ticked them off with her fingers.

'Wow, that's a lot.' I said. 'So. This Sebastian, huh?' I asked wiggling my eyebrows.

'He has the most unbelievable honey brown eyes ever, god they make me melt just thinking about them.' I thought she was actually going to start physically dribbling. 'Anyway aside from his looks, he's likes to read and he travels a lot so I don't get to see much of him but sometimes he takes me with him. I've been to France, Germany and England with him so far.'

'Sounds like a keeper.' I smiled she nodded happily clearly still thinking about him.

'Anyway, Duncan is my most regular customer because he and his brothers are constantly breaking things around the house and to make it up to their mother they send Duncan to get flowers for her.'

I scoffed. 'Do they really think buying a woman flowers and saying sorry is going to earn them instant forgiveness?'

'Apparently so but Helena makes them suffer for a while before forgiving them.'

'Good.' I said. 'I accidently broke a very valuable vase which my aunts, I spent months earning my forgiveness back.' I smiled at the memory. Tess looked at me knowingly.

'You miss your family don't you?' she asked quietly.

I shrugged looking away, suddenly finding the flower next to me very interesting.

'Why did you leave?' she asked.

I sighed placing the tulip down beside me and looked at Tess. 'Things happened, I began to find things out, things that were kept hidden from me so I decided that it would be best to leave.'

'Would you go back?'

'No.' I didn't even need to hesitate about it, even if I had left my aunt. She understood though when I told her, she helped me escape. I jumped down from the counter and grabbed my things. 'Do you mind if I leave early?' I asked.

'Go ahead; it's not going to get any busier.'

'Thanks.' I was out the door before she could respond.

(A/N: I'm really, really sorry that I have updated what seems forever but I had to through this chapter which felt like billions of times before posting it. Hope you enjoy. Read and review!)