The bell hanging outside the curiosity shop knew the human was trouble from the way he moved through the door.
Bells have excellent hearing, but this little chime didn't need any particular skill to catch the crude jangle of the gaudy pocket-watch chain at this young man's hip, or the rough scrape of his boots as he attempted a swagger but only succeeded in scuffing the floor of Maximilian's Curiosities, Whimsies & Other Oddities.
This young man was going to ruin the girl that worked inside the shop.
The bell had tried to warn her. A full two seconds before the boy opened the door, the bell rang its clapper.
Unlike most humans, this shopgirl had grown up around oddities-and the bell had long suspected she was a curiosity as well, though it couldn't figure out exactly what sort.
The girl knew that many objects were more than they appeared and that bells possessed a sixth sense that humans ..lacked.
Unfortunately, this girl, who believed in hope and fairytales and love at first sight, often misinterpreted the bell's chimes.
Today the bell was fairly certain that she had heard its cautionary ring.
But, from the way her voice affected an excited edge as she spoke to the young man, it seemed as if the girl had taken the bell's early toll as a serendipitous sign instead of as a ...warning.
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Once Upon A Broken Heart
Romance'ᴵᴰᴼᴺ'ᵀ ᴷᴺᴼᵂ ᴵᶠ ᴵ ᶜᴬᴺ ᶠᴵˣ ᵞᴼᵁᴿ ᴮᴿᴼᴷᴱᴺ ᴴᴱᴬᴿᵀ, ᴮᵁᵀ ᵞᴼᵁ ᶜᴬᴺ ᵀᴬᴷᴱ ᴹᴵᴺᴱ ᴮᴱᶜᴬᵁˢᴱ ᴵᵀ'ˢ ᴬᴸᴿᴱᴬᴰᵞ ᵞᴼᵁᴿˢ.'♡♡♡.... Once upon a broken heart, lived inside a hopeful girl named Evangeline Fox. She was always the one to believe in fairytales, And happily ever afte...
