- FLOWER -
"Gabriella!"
Gabriella was curled up on her dorm room bed with a reading assignment when she was startled by a giant bouquet of cardinal red roses walking through the door.
"Gabriella, help!"
And the voice coming from somewhere within the petals and leaves sounded suspiciously like her roommate, Elizabeth.
Gabriella bounced off her bed and helped Elizabeth set the bouquet in a vase on her desk.
"Wow, who are these for?"
"You."
"Me?" Gabriella squeaked.
"Special delivery. I'd say the guy who sent them sounds pretty devoted to you." Elizabeth handed her the card written in flowing cursive script: You are the music in me.
Gabriella smiled and her eyes crinkled with happiness as she brought one of the flowers to her nose and inhaled deeply.
"You have that faraway look in your eyes," Elizabeth informed her.
"What look?"
"The look that says 'my boyfriend is an incredibly romantic theater geek.'"
"Elizabeth!" Gabriella couldn't help but blush.
"Oh, sorry, I meant to say 'incredibly romantic, handsome, gorgeous, athletic jock theater geek."
Gabriella giggled. She tucked the single rose back into the bouquet and reached for her phone to text her theater geek who was probably just getting ready to leave for basketball practice.